New RE Companies
TagNew RE Companies Spreadsheet – January 2018
Simon Ru, CEO for UpNest
Simon Ru
Location: San Francisco, California, United StatesTeam b..
UpNest
UpNest is a real estate agent marketplace connecting home buyers and sellers with..
Jack Ryan, CEO REX for Real Estate Exchange
Jack Ryan
Jack is a former partner at Goldman Sachs. After the firm went public,..
REX – Real Estate Exchange
Reali expands its online real-estate service to the entire Bay Area, raises $5M Series A round
Reali wants to change how people buy and sell their homes and now it has $5 million more to work o..
ListingDoor makes it easy to sell your home alone
More U.S. home sellers are entering the For Sale By Owner (FSBO) market in order to maximize their..
ListingDoor
ListingDoor is a product for the US real estate market. It implements the business idea of Lappin ..
Backed With $260M: How OfferPad Plans To Outperform OpenDoor
In 2011, the co-founders of what would become Invitation Homes came together with the plan of scal..
Why a top agent started OfferPad, an Opendoor competitor
Key Takeaways
- Brian Bair, formerly one of the most productive U.S. real estate agents, co-..
Startup OfferPad Raises $260M Debt, Equity To Upend Homes Sales Market In Competition With Opendoor
OfferPad, a startup that uses data to change the way that Americans buy and sell homes, said today..
Startup Faira is out to Disrupt Realtors
There’s a lot of anxiety around buying and selling a home, from obtaining a loan to selecting the ..
Faira: Creating Cost Efficiency
At Faira, we believe in improving the process by which homes are bought and sold. To do this, we o..
What is Faira’s business model? Why would a home buyer ever use Faira and pay the extra fee?
Faira provides its basic services free to the home-sellers and charge 0.5% from buyers. Faira serv..
Opendoor is a bigger deal than Zillow — here’s why
Key Takeaways
- Opendoor has overhauled the traditional real estate business model.
- While..
Next Billion-Dollar Startup Opendoor Raises Another $210 Million To Expand Its Homebuying Model
San Francisco-based Opendoor, which we profiled in the latest issue of the magazine (FORBES, Dec. ..
Silicon Valley Upstart Opendoor Is Changing The Way Americans Buy And Sell Their Homes
In the summer of 2015, Ranjit Bosu, a 46-year-old systems administrator at General Motors, got the..
Business model of Opendoor
Customer Segments
Opendoor has a multi-sided business model, with two interdependent customer s..
Alex Doubet, CEO for Door, Inc.
Alex Doubet
Alex began his career at US Road Sports (USRS), an endurance event company that own..
Ken Potashner, CEO for Home Bay Technologies Inc.
Ken Potashner
Ken Potashner brings a wealth of executive level management experience from t..
Takeshi Sekiguchi, Founder & Chairman of SRE
Takeshi Sekiguchi
Takeshi Sekiguchi, Founder & Chairman of SRE, has been involved in the U.S. r..
Sean Black, CEO for Knock
Sean Black
As a Trulia founding team member, Sean led the teams and initiatives to transiti..
Shelley Janes, CEO for SideDoor, Inc.
Shelley Janes
Shelley Janes, is a previous real estate agent and was voted a top Realtor in..
Amit Haller, CEO for Reali
Amit Haller
Amit Haller is living the American dream. He sold his startup for $42 million in 20..
Mark and Sissy Lappin, CEOs for ListingDoor
Mark and Sissy Lappin
This couple is a real-estate veteran for 20+ year and all-around fun-lo..
Brian Bair, CEO for OfferPad
Brian Bair
Brian Bair is co-founder and co-CEO of OfferPad. An accomplished real estate exp..
Jerry Coleman, CEO for OfferPad
Jerry Coleman
Jerry Coleman is co-founder and co-CEO of OfferPad. Coleman is a seasoned ent..
Eric Wu, CEO for Opendoor
Eric Wu
Eric’s life-obsession is to make moving simple.
Prior to founding Opendoor, Eric ..
Kamal Jain, CEO for Faira
Kamal Jain
A technologist and economist, Kamal specializes in designing business models for..