OpenHouse provides a lifestyle-driven home search that surfaces properties and neighborhoods based on mapped amenities (e.g., dog parks), crime and demographic data, and aggregated geotagged social-media posts. The product analyzes public Twitter and Instagram posts to give users a sense of what neighbors are interested in and whether a home fits their lifestyle (dog-friendly, solar-powered, open floor plan, pool, kid-friendly, etc.). It runs on iOS, desktop and the mobile web with listings across 14 metro areas, and the team reports relationships with more than 200 multiple listing services to expand rapidly to new regions. OpenHouse was formed by the November 2015 merger of Santa Monica’s Agent Ace and Toronto’s fypio, combining Agent Ace’s agent-ranking/connection technology with fypio’s lifestyle-driven search. The company monetizes by connecting buyers to agents and taking a cut when a referred agent completes a sale; if no sale occurs, it earns nothing. Financially, OpenHouse closed a $13.5 million Series A round in November and plans to use its MLS relationships to grow coverage and user adoption.

Total raised

$14M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Feb 2016