[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of GEM Diamond. Today’s showcase: Notable] Notable provides a pay-at-close line of credit to home sellers, helping them prepare their homes for the market to get a higher ROI. This service allows sellers…

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: Dwellwell Analytics] An IoT monitoring and early warning maintenance platform for residential properties, Dwellwell Analytics identifies smaller, hidden concerns before the problem eventually becomes bigger, more expensive, or…

Revive, a home concierge service that identifies and executes pre-sale home improvements, has announced it’s latest product release, Vision AI, a computer vision and machine learning listing tool. On September 7th, they will be hosting a launch party with a live demo at their Irvine…

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: Plunk] While real estate is an appreciating asset, homes often have untapped equity potential. Upgrading a home’s curb appeal, features, and systems while owning the home builds its…

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: SmartRent] The idea of a Smart Home has been an awe-inspiring staple in portrayals of the future. Although we don’t have completely autonomous homes that can make a…

[Editor’s note: Originally published at Not Boring.] A couple of weeks ago, Fed Novikov, the co-founder of another Not Boring portfolio company that’s using software to streamline the traditionally heavy real estate industry, Apt, told me about a company a friend of his was starting and asked…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Jon Grishpul from GreatBuildz. Who are you, and what do you do? Jon Grishpul, co-founder of Greatbuildz. Growing up, I got to witness two sides of the construction business. My grandfather was an electrical…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Matt Parker from ZingFix. Without further ado… What do you do? I’m the Co-Founder of ZingFix… not the one with the ideas but the one who loves to make them happen. We sell time, basically,…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Teris Pantazes from EFynch. Without further ado… What do you do? I am the Co-Founder of EFynch.com, a Baltimore based Homeowner and Handyman Communication System. What problem does your product/service solve? Even with all the current…

Zillow made their first financial “investment”. $10 million in Hutch. It’s clear Zillow is a just a tad interested in the home improvement space. It seems they feel the need to make another bet other than Zillow Digs (which I’ve long been a fan of) against Houzz (and…