Zillow

Zillow, Inc. is a leading home and real estate marketplace dedicated to helping homeowners, buyers, sellers, renters, real estate agents, mortgage professionals, landlords, and property managers find and share vital information about homes, real estate, mortgages, and home improvement. Under the Zillow brand, Zillow operates Zillow.com, Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, Zillow Mobile, Zillow Rentals, and Zillow Digs. Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink started Zillow in early 2005, and Zillow.com launched in early 2006 with data and information on millions of U.S. homes. Zillow's goal is to help people make intelligent decisions about their homes -- whether it's buying a home, selling, renting, leasing, remodeling or financing. It's all about empowering people with information and tools to make smart decisions about homes, real estate, and mortgages. Zillow is one of the most-visited U.S. real estate brands. Zillow Mobile boasts the most popular suite of real estate apps, with nearly 480 million homes viewed in May 2014. In addition to information and data on nearly all homes in the U.S. (110 million and counting), Zillow visitors can search homes for sale, homes for rent, and homes not currently on the market. Homeowners can browse remodeling ideas in Dueling Digs, or dig into the latest real estate trends in their neighborhood via Zillow's expansive local data pages. Zillow is a media business model and makes money selling targeted, relevant advertising to real estate professionals, and connecting home and mortgage shoppers with professionals who can help them. Zillow began trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market on July 20, 2011.

18 past transactions

PermitFlow

Seed Round in 2023
PermitFlow is the first construction permit application and management platform for builders and owners. The company aims to streamline and simplify construction permitting in the United States, unlocking more value in the $1.6 trillion construction market. The company's software reduces the time to allow while standardizing municipalities’ building permit submittal process in a single platform. PermitFlow supports permitting end-to-end including permit research, application preparation, submission, and monitoring. With our nationwide coverage and deep, local municipal expertise, PermitFlow helps builders permit whether in a single municipality or across multiple states. PermitFlow is a Y Combinator graduate from the YC W22 program.

MarketerHire

Seed Round in 2020
MarketerHire’s mission is to make expert marketing accessible to everyone. Our platform gives companies on-demand access to a global network of amazing, pre-vetted marketing talent and it is used by early-stage startups, billion-dollar unicorns, and Fortune 100 companies alike. By giving all companies access to amazing marketers - entrepreneurs and enterprises can focus on building great products. We are also contributing to the future of work for our talented marketers. Our platform helps them earn significant additional income while maintaining their full-time job or taking a lot of the hassle and risk out of being full-time freelance. All of our jobs are default-remote, enabling our talent to work anywhere in the world.

Mindle.ai

Grant in 2019
Mindle provides AI-enabled capital market signals for hedge funds. Hedge funds license Mindle capital market signals to improve performance by reducing return volatility, drawdown, and correlation with common factor return streams.
Mortgage Lenders of America is a financial services company that provides online mortgage lending services, headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. With in-house underwriting and funding, the MLOA team is able to provide superior and faster service to our borrowers, resulting in customer satisfaction ratings consistently over 96%. Since its inception in September of 2000, Mortgage Lenders of America has funded over 30,000 loans in the United States. The company trains its loan professionals to deliver straightforward solutions and help buyers make informed, confident decisions about their mortgage selection – whether it’s a first time home purchase, refinance or veteran product. With the ability to handle all aspects of the loan in-house, borrowers can expect a quicker, more efficient path to closing.

Hutch Interiors

Series A in 2017
Hutch Interiors is a mobile app that transforms spaces from before to after, faster than ever. Hutch gives you the opportunity to try something new without the heavy lifting, expensive designer budgets, and the hit and miss of furniture shopping. Dress up your home in a variety of different styles- anything from boho to urban industrial- before buying or rearranging any furniture. Shop with confidence and vision. Get the right pieces, delivered to your door.

Naked Apartments

Acquisition in 2016
Naked Apartments is a solution for renters, brokers and landlords, simplifying the rental process for all involved. Not only do we simplify the apartment hunt for renters, we also make it easier for landlords and brokers to fill available apartments.

dotloop

Acquisition in 2015
dotloop is the largest network in real estate, where more than 900,000 professionals come together to get work done. dotloop enables agents, brokers and other professionals to complete an entire real estate transaction from start to close, via a workspace called a ‘loop,’ which brings people, documents and tasks into one online experience. dotloop allows brokers to run a better business, by increasing visibility, retaining top talent and reducing operating costs. Agents use dotloop to provide a better experience to their clients and close more deals.

Chairish

Series A in 2014
Chairish is an online marketplace for home furniture, art, and decor. The company offers a vast assortment of vintage, antique, and contemporary pieces from designer brands, dealers, galleries, and artisans. Items listed on Chairish are pre-screened by its team of curators to be sure Chairish's inventory meets its high style standards.

Trulia

Acquisition in 2014
Trulia is a home and neighborhood site for buyers and renters to find homes and neighborhoods across the United States through recommendations, local insights, and map overlays that offer details on commute, reported crime, schools, and nearby businesses. Founded in 2005, Trulia is based in San Francisco, and owned and operated by Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z and ZG). Trulia is a registered trademark of Trulia, LLC. Trulia offers a variety of real estate and neighborhood products and services for consumers and realtors. In August of 2018, Trulia launched Trulia Neighborhoods to enable users to find information about a particular neighborhood. The feature provides original photography, drone footage, reviews from local residents and facts about each area. In March of 2018, Trulia launched What Locals Say, which allows users to find information on what local residents think about a neighborhood through polls and reviews. In February of 2018, Trulia launched a service called Local Legal Protections. It provides information on local nondiscrimination laws for housing, employment and public accommodations alongside mobile and desktop property listings based on data collected by research nonprofit Movement Advancement Project.

Retsly

Acquisition in 2014
Retsly is a backend as a service for the real estate industry that normalizes data from MLS providers and implements a cohesive and consistent real time API for integrating MLS data into real estate software while addressing industry compliance concerns.

Liftopia

Series D in 2013
Liftopia operates the largest online and mobile marketplace as well as the largest technology platform serving the ski and mountain activity industry. With deals up to 85% off at approximately 250 alpine resorts across North America, Liftopia allows skiers and boarders to buy date-specific lift tickets and on-mountain activities in advance via Liftopia.com and the Liftopia mobile app. Liftopia also provides resorts with software and data analytics through Cloud Store by Liftopia, a SaaS e-commerce engine, which allows resorts to leverage Liftopia’s platform tools to manage inventory, pricing, and online distribution through their own branded websites and mobile channels. Liftopia’s technology has helped evolve the ski industry to adopt more control over advance-purchase pricing, much like airlines and hotels have done for decades, to most efficiently price through periods of highly variable demand. Liftopia was co-founded in 2005 by two former Hotwire.com employees Evan Reece and Ron Schneidermann. It is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by leading institutional and angel investors.

StreetEasy

Acquisition in 2013
StreetEasy is reimagining the way people buy, sell, and rent homes across New York City and New Jersey. Used more than any other local real estate platform, StreetEasy’s website and mobile apps provide vetted and verified listings, plus intuitive search tools and data-driven guides to help people unlock the opportunity of living here. Launched in 2006 and based in NoMad, Manhattan, StreetEasy is owned and operated by Zillow Group (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) and is a registered trademark of Zillow, Inc.

HotPads

Acquisition in 2012
HotPads is a map-based housing search engine, delivering the most meaningful and interactive housing search experience online. HotPads features rentals, homes for sale, foreclosures, vacation rentals, and hotels. HotPads.com launched in November of 2005 as a map-based rental housing search engine. It quickly grew to over 500,000 active rental listings including both rental houses and apartments. In November of 2007, HotPads launched a For Sale search engine to compliment its growing rental portal. It has grown to nearly 3,500,000 active For Sale listings. In 2009, HotPads launched vacation rentals and hotels, becoming the first truly map-based vacation housing search engine. HotPads is now a Zillow, Inc. business, having been acquired by the company in 2012. HotPads works to deliver as much relevant information to housing shoppers as possible during their search. It features demographic and housing heat maps that allow users to get quick snapshots of cities or neighborhoods. HotPads also maps points of interest like schools attendance zones, public transportation stops, and enables users to mark their own points of interest like "work" and "favorite cafe". Home shoppers also have the ability to hand-draw their own search right on the map with the Lasso tool and visualize area prices with the HotSpots tool. HotPads also features the first Buy vs. Rent search portal. Housing shoppers can browse both homes for sale and for rent at the same time based on the estimated monthly cost. Users can customize the mortgage variables to meet their unique situation. This allows housing shoppers to see exactly what they can afford to buy and what they can afford to rent, allowing them to make more informed housing decisions.

Mortech

Acquisition in 2012
Mortech® supplies thousands of mortgage professionals with a number of services and tools, such as all-in-one pricing, rate notification, prospect management tools, custom rate sheets, loan product eligibility and guideline services. Founded in 1987, Mortech is based in Lincoln, Neb. and is owned and operated by Zillow Group (NASDAQ:ZG). By incorporating Mortech's suite of mortgage software offerings into your lending strategy, you'll be able to automate your day-to-day workflow - giving you more time to focus on the customer and grow your business.

Buyfolio

Acquisition in 2012
Buyfolio is a complete platform for New York City real estate brokers working with buy-side clients. Buyfolio streamlines the homebuying process with a groundbreaking lifestyle listings search that is seamlessly paired with innovative social and client management tools. Buyfolio helps brokers and clients connect, search, organize, and collaborate.

RentJuice

Acquisition in 2012
RentJuice is a community of real estate professionals who close more rental deals and offer superior service to their clients. Their technology and marketing services allow real estate agents and brokers to manage and market their inventory, communicate with their clients, and do all their paperwork (including free credit reports for tenant screening) in one simple interface. Their services incorporate over a year of user research conducted at Harvard Business School concerning how real estate professionals in the rental market use technology and communicate. Their world class team is led by David Vivero, a serial online entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in rental property management, and Kunal Shah, who was previously CTO of Connected Ventures, where he led software development on Internet successes such as CollegeHumor, BustedTees, and Vimeo. RentJuice is a privately held company based in San Francisco, California. It is financed by leading angel investors and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.

Diverse Solutions

Acquisition in 2011
A leading provider of IDX plugins, Diverse Solutions provides easy-to-implement technology to help real estate professionals manage their brands and businesses in a fast and easy way. Our products include listings-search platforms, mapping capability, and email management software to help real estate agents improve their websites and thrive in a competitive market. With existing agreements with over 600 MLS organizations across the United States, Diverse Solutions is uniquely positioned to provide technology solutions that allow agents to generate, track, report, and quantify their leads.

Postlets

Acquisition in 2011
Postlets is a web service enabling users to post rental and for sale advertisements to many different marketplaces.
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