OneRoof is a hyperlocal social network app that helps people living in the same apartment building connect around shared interests, organize in-person events, and exchange goods and information. The free, pre-revenue product relies on volunteer “Super Neighbors” to seed and moderate building communities and offers features including improved user profiles, a neighbor directory, event hosting, and a “grow” tool for creating communities. Since 2021 OneRoof expanded from 400 buildings to over 1,300 buildings with more than 40,000 active neighbors across New York City and Miami, and it has done a soft launch in Dallas. Engagement metrics show strong retention in Super Neighbor buildings—over 78% at 12 weeks and over 65% at 24 weeks—and a 20% month-over-month user increase, plus three times more in-person events in Q4 versus the prior quarter. The company has been scaling its team (adding four hires and recruiting two more) while remaining pre-revenue and plans to invest new capital into app development, software, sponsorships and marketing. CEO Selin Sonmez and co-founder Nikos Georgantas are focused on growing product adoption to reach more urban neighbors and build more resilient local communities. OneRoof builds a social network focused on residents of individual multi-unit buildings, offering Slack-like messaging hubs and topic-based sub-communities to help neighbors communicate and organize. The app emphasizes smaller, tighter-knit building communities rather than ZIP-code or neighborhood-level networks. It relies on volunteer "super neighbors" for onboarding and uses proprietary join codes, fliers and door hangers to enroll residents. OneRoof is live in around 400 buildings in New York City and plans to expand to Boston, Miami and Los Angeles. The company deliberately avoids deep partnerships with building management, citing past failures of manager-moderated groups. It raised a $1.25M seed to carry out this vision.

Total raised

$4M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jan 2023