smartzip Awarded $2.05 Million Funding
March 12, 2009 by Emma Sorensen
Venture Beat have alerted us to a mysterious new real estate website, smartzip.com, which will be offering “Real Estate Intelligence”.
smartzip.com is currently in alpha testing mode, and only available to a select few who have been issued invitations. As such, little is known about what it will eventually do, and what kind of real estate intelligence it will offer.
As Venture Beat write: “it’s still unclear what kind of real estate data it will provide — whether it will lean toward the Zillow home-appraisal model or not. The tagline for the site is simply ‘Know if a property is worth buying’.”
The Californian start-up must be planning something interesting though, as PEHUB has reported that the company has just been awarded US$2.05 million in first-round funding from Claremont Creek Ventures, Step5 Venture Partners and Northpoint Financial Group.
You can request a sign up for alpha testing at smartzip.com.
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