Top Real Estate Startups in 2024

We’re the essential technology platform used by hundreds of thousands of homebuyers and sellers to partner with top real estate agents and win at any step of the real estate journey — whether that’s finding a top agent, securing a competitive mortgage, or ensuring on-time, easy close. Every year, we facilitate billions of dollars of real estate on our platform. HomeLight empowers people to achieve better outcomes during one of life’s most important events: buying or selling their home. Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying.

Knock is a caring group of people who came together from across the industry with the belief there had to be a better way to serve people in the journey between homes. We offer a first-of-its-kind Knock Bridge Loan™ that gives everyone in the process more convenience, certainty, and competitiveness. Founded in 2015, we have earned the industry’s trust: an A+ Better Business Bureau rating and relationships with more than 120,000 real estate agents in our 75 markets across the US. Launched by founding team members of Trulia, we are funded by industry leading investors, including Foundry Group, Greycroft, RRI, Parker89, and The National Association of Realtors who serves 1.6 million members. We’re most proud of the stories from people we’ve helped get their new home, and the five star Zillow rating from over 750 reviews. To learn more, Knock.com

Today at Snapdocs, we’re working to perfect mortgage closings. If we succeed, more than five million families per year will gain simplicity and transparency as they make the biggest financial decision of their lives: buying a home. Before we existed, nobody had the unique position within the real estate space to address the problems we’re solving. It’s complex and difficult work, and we measure success by how we’re impacting the industry and not by the number of headlines we generate. Instead, we're making a difference and carefully building a team that shares our priorities—pragmatism, respect and empathy for our clients, and building honest products that improve our users’ lives. I hope you'll consider joining us on this journey.

Though the vast majority of renters live outside of New York, San Francisco, and LA, those top markets continue to be the focus of nearly all innovation in the outdated world of apartment search. ABODO changes that. ABODO creates first-of-their-kind, localized rental marketplaces for underserved, tier 2 U.S. cities. Our platform combines the largest, most accurate and up-to-date inventory of local apartments available for a given city with a mobile-first, seamless search experience. This combination of unmatched local marketplace liquidity, and a delightful search experience, has helped ABODO grow from Madison, WI to 15 additional cities in the last 18 months, and from thousands of users to millions. With millions of renters now using ABODO across the web, iOS and Android, we're obsessed with continuing to make the process of finding your next apartment effortless, especially in cities outside of New York, San Francisco and LA.

Metropolis develops advanced computer vision and machine learning technology that make mobile commerce remarkable. Our platform is already deployed in hundreds of mobility facilities and industries with billions in opportunity. We’re building the digital pipes through which the future of mobile commerce will move.

We’ve completely rebuilt the home buying process to be smarter and more joyful. We’ve transformed home buying into a customer-centric, streamlined digital experience. It’s a process that recognizes the individual, uses technology to save time and money, and brings together great mortgages with the most talented real estate agents in the industry. We’re doing it because we’ve been there and we believe home buyers deserve something better than the status quo. Tomo’s mission is to bring omotenashi to the home buying experience. Omotenashi is a Japanese principle of hospitality. It involves anticipating the customer’s needs and striving to meet them before the customer is even aware that they exist. It holds that service is a noble profession and that we should take pride in delivering it. As such, we strive to provide a once-in-a-lifetime experience to our customers, where we go to great lengths to ensure that every detail is memorable.

Culdesac Tempe — the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the U.S. — will be home to over 1,000 people. We’ve pulled out the parking lots to make room for acres of greenspace, friendly courtyards, and shops right at your doorstep. We’re bringing together services like ridesharing, bikes, scooters, and same-day grocery delivery, so zero private cars means zero hassle. Plus, an on-site light rail stop makes it a breeze to get downtown for work.

Qualia is a new class of real estate and mortgage technology that makes buying and selling a home a quick, easy, and understandable process. Over half a million real estate and mortgage professionals use Qualia to power their real estate closings, and we currently process transactions for millions of consumers every year. Our suite of products brings together homebuyers and sellers, mortgage lenders, title and escrow agents, and real estate agents onto a single shared platform, simplifying how homes are bought and sold. We believe real estate is an engine of economic growth in the United States, and that technology is the key to building healthy homeownership. Through our software, we work on improving how real estate is transacted in order to ensure a more understandable, secure, seamless home buying experience for all.

Homeward is a modern home finance company that helps real estate agents and their clients overcome the limitations of traditional mortgages. The Homeward Cash Offer eliminates the finance, home sale, and appraisal contingencies, enabling homebuyers to win with cash and, when necessary, to buy their new home before they sell their old one. Homeward has an office in Austin, TX, but operates with a fully remote workforce.

Kasa Living, Inc. is a real estate technology company that is building a global accommodations brand. The company partners with owners of multifamily and boutique hospitality properties, transforming underutilized real estate into stylishly-furnished, professionally managed units that cater to business and leisure travelers seeking trustworthy and comfortable accommodations. Kasa was founded in 2016 by a team that includes technology and real estate professionals who previously drove growth at firms, including Airbnb, KKR, and Apollo. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.