Real Estate and Construction Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area 2024

Today the building design process is cumbersome and expensive. Architects submit their design to structural engineers for validation. Engineers need to design all structural elements such as walls, columns, and beams to ensure the structure will not collapse and complies with regulations. The structural engineer needs four to six weeks to generate the initial solution. The engineer will submit his proposal to the architect and then engage in an extensive back and forth discussion until they agree on a satisfying solution. TANGObuilder generates the building structural design in real-time, cutting six weeks of the overall process, and reducing material usage by 30%.

Homeroom helps investors provide affordable housing while making a 22% ROI. We do this by sourcing properties, arranging capital, managing construction, vetting tenants and collecting rent by the room. To date, Homeroom has brought on 85 property investors, growing 6X annually, are bringing in 420K in annualized net-revenue How it works: We help investors buy homes in cities that are attractive to young people, but lack affordable housing options. We then renovate and after about 20 days, the home is ready and we find qualified renters by the room. We launched in 2018 in Kansas City with 1 home. We now have 105 homes in 31 cities. In 2021, we grew rental GMV to $1.8M (300% YoY growth). Our average rent across every property is $458, which is about 50% lower than market comps, and our investors see returns up to 50% higher. We are HomeRoom. Johnny is the financial analyst/domain expert. Thomas is a cereal entrepreneur with a PHD in ML, and Mike hacked growth for Airbnb and Facebook.

Trusty is an agent-to-agent matchmaking network that searches every home, regardless of whether it's on the market. This means fresh inventory for buyers, private offers for homeowners, and happy real estate agents.

Banner is the operating system for real estate teams. From building acquisition to disposition, Banner moves all communications, workflows, spreadsheets, and file-sharing into one system. With Banner, customers automate away 80%+ of their administrative work, saving up to 10% on project costs. The company is founded by Mark Murphy who formerly worked in RE finance, along with Kunal Chaudhary and Eric Gao, both UC Berkeley EECS alums.

UpCodes simplifies the compliance process for architects, engineers, and anyone involved in the design process by offering a centralized, searchable library of construction regulations. UpCodes uses NLP to parse through the various code adoptions for most major US jurisdictions and currently hosts 1400+ state and city codes. UpCodes also enables collaboration and project requirement calculation, making it a valuable tool for all professionals involved in the design process. With over 600,000 monthly active users, UpCodes has seen significant product-led growth, providing an efficient way for teams to manage construction regulations and ensure compliance.

Kopa is the marketplace for monthly rentals and compatible housemates. We believe that exploration and community make people whole. Kopa exists to inspire people to get out of their comfort zones, to form lasting relationships, and to live more fulfilled lives. Kopa enables people to browse rentals, find roommates, and book and pay for spaces all online.

Aecore is a technology-enabled commercial contractor focused on vertical integration and agile project delivery through automation. Our in-house design team, project managers and software engineers guide clients through the process from conceptual design to completion. We will ensure you are getting the best possible pricing by leveraging our network of contractors and material suppliers.

Teleo converts construction heavy equipment, like dozers and loaders, into semi-autonomous robots. This enables a single operator to remotely operate multiple machines while sitting at a remote control center, unlocking productivity gains for the General Contractor.

Intuitive workflow software that helps general contractors and developers identify the optimal permitting process and needed application forms for a particular project, and then easily fill the relevant paperwork to prepare a robust application package.

Snapdocs powers homeownership. Using technology, we’re building the connective tissue for an entire pillar of the U.S. economy: residential real estate. Today, we’re working to perfect mortgage closings, but that’s only the beginning. If we succeed, more than five million families per year will gain clarity and transparency as they make the biggest financial decision of their lives: buying a home. Before Snapdocs, no one felt responsible or empowered to solve the problems we face every day we come to the office. It's complex and difficult work, and the result is not an app we brag about at tech industry parties. 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 all our users’ lives.

Landeed is building India's (then for rest of the world) fastest and most comprehensive property title search engine. More than 84% of Indian household wealth is stored in real estate, property and land. However, with 2/3rds of all court cases in India dealing with land-related disputes, it is essential that people have accessible public records to both protect themselves against litigation and provide appropriate documentation for facilitating transactions.

Mighty Buildings is an innovative construction technology company based in Oakland, CA creating beautiful, sustainable, and high-quality homes using 3d-printing, robotics, and automation. Their mission is to have a positive impact on the environment, local communities, and the housing crisis through their sustainable approach. Mighty Buildings' technology has the potential to unlock the needed productivity for large scale construction alongside the opportunity for reduced emissions, leading to a more sustainable product and future. Mighty Buildings was founded by a team of physicists and robotics engineers with extensive experience solving hard R&D problems and building successful engineering firms. They started by inventing a new material that is a 3D printing tech that enabled printing of an entire building, not just walls, in a single cycle. Unlike concrete, Mighty Buildings’ material is lighter, can be uniquely treated (trimmed and cut) by robotic arms, and features high thermal insulation properties. This allows them to produce prefab housing with up to 80% of operations automated. Mighty Buildings has a near-zero waste production process, preventing 1,100 - 2,000 kg of CO2 emission per 3D-printed home. They are committed to achieving Net-Zero by 2028 - making the company 22 years ahead of the construction industry. The company is certified under California's Factory Built Housing program to build units using 3D-printing, but they are also the first company to achieve certification under the UL 3401 standard for evaluating building structures and assemblies.

VergeSense is a Y Combinator-backed startup that develops an AI-powered sensing device for facility management. The sensor-as-a-system platform consists of sensing devices containing a series of different sensor hardware, including an image sensor, coupled with a cloud platform for pre-training machine learning models that run on the hardware, process data and report occupancy analysis back to VergeSense’s cloud.

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PadMapper is a location-based apartment rental search engine with real-time filtering. PadMapper's entire browsing interface is taken up by a full-screen map, and listings are loaded as the user moves around the map. Zooming into the map loads more listings in that area, zooming out broadens the search. Listings are filtered out or allowed back into the results as filter sliders are moved. Apartment listings from hundreds of sites are included, including Craigslist, Apartments.com, ForRent.com, and Oodle.

Movity provides location-based living facilities and neighborhood data that help home buyers make better decisions. Movity.com surfaces geodata (crime, noise, pricing, etc) to help home buyers make better decisions. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Every year $1.2 trillion in residential home sales are exchanged, however buying and selling a house is still a huge, painful process. Maybe that’s because Real Estate is the least digital industry, behind only agriculture 🐮 . Disclosures.io is on a mission to make the real estate process more transparent and efficient for everyone involved. Our product helps sellers get their home to market faster and enables buyers to make more informed offers. We believe in lean, pragmatic product development, entrepreneurship and building a business that we are proud to be a part of. We love talking to like-minded makers, drop us a line!

*Acquired by Knotel in 2018 42Floors was founded in November of 2011 with the vision of making it easy to discover and create your dream office space. Based in San Francisco, the 42Floors team is made up of experienced entrepreneurs, engineers, and real estate professionals. All with a passion for making the commercial real estate search process easier for everyone. On the site, you'll find available spaces, complete with high quality photography and all the data you need to make a decision. The site 100% free to use. 42Floors is currently in every major market in the United States, and we are still growing. We're always here to serve you.

What used to be an integral part of the American Dream, or at least a check mark on the way to adulthood, is now well beyond reach for many of us. And nobody bears the brunt of the current housing crisis more than young folks, who, compared to their parents and grandparents, find themselves saddled with more debt and in possession of fewer assets. But it doesn't have to be this way. At ZeroDown, we're driven by the radical idea that professionals with steady jobs and healthy finances should be able to afford homes - even in San Francisco. That's why we've come up with an alternative to the rent-or-own dilemma, offering the benefits of homeownership with the flexibility of renting. Here's how it works: 1. ZeroDown buys your home Choose any home on the market. We'll make an all cash offer on your behalf. 2. Build towards ownership A portion of your payment goes toward building ownership in your home. 3.You control when you buy Put the purchase-credits that you've built up towards buying your home from ZeroDown.

MyVR provides short-term rental businesses the ability to simplify and centralize the management of their marketing channels - Airbnb, HomeAway/Vrbo, TripAdvisor, Booking.com, Expedia and more - from a single dashboard, while also providing these businesses with their own online presence to grow their direct sales channel. MyVR's easy-to-use software also allows short-term rentals to streamline and automate day to day tasks, saving time and money, reducing errors, and improving the experience of travelers. MyVR's open platform also connects the MyVR core software seamlessly to other best of breed applications and services.

PlanGrid is the leader in construction productivity software, used on more than one million projects in 84 countries. PlanGrid's cloud-based platform empowers contractors and owners in commercial, heavy civil, and other industries to collaborate easily from their mobile devices and desktop, managing blueprints, specs, photos, RFIs, field reports, and punch lists. With over 100 million digital blueprints on its platform, PlanGrid is also the largest digital blueprint repository in the world. Founded in 2011, the company was part of Y Combinator in 2012, and has secured over $69 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital and several other top firms.