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HomeRoom

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 ho

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Techstars, Y Combinator
competitors
6
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D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #5105

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 ho

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Techstars

techstars-portfolio #4678

Access platform-specific features and deliver delightfully unique community experiences

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High Signal interpretation

HomeRoom is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Product facets
young people
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to HomeRoom

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Green Energy Exchange

match 56

The Green Energy Exchange delivers affordable renewable energy direct to homes and businesses. The company offers the most affordable green energy plans in the market and is dedicated to increasing the demand for renewable energy by offering to clean energy at affordable prices. By removing middleman and inefficiencies we can provide lower prices to consumers, higher revenues to generators and help increase the adoption of clean energy sources. Empowering people to buy renewable energy at great

shared extracted concept terms: people; shared product terms: affordable, home, revenue, people; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Submittable

match 52

Submittable is a growing social impact platform used by thousands of companies, governments, and philanthropic organizations to manage their social impact programs and maximize their impact. Submittable has helped big and small organizations worldwide run 134,000 programs and collect nearly 22 million applications to date, and is backed by Accel-KKR, Next Coast Ventures, True Ventures, Next Frontier Capital, StepStone Group and a few other amazing investors.

shared product terms: investor, 22, capital, collect; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Bitback

match 45

Cashback rewards platform connecting young people and retailers across Africa. 3500+ waitlist. Growing 20% weekly. Former IDEO CoLab residents #Africa #Consumer #Mobile #loyalty #cashback

shared extracted concepts: young people; shared product terms: young, people, grow, 20; shared affiliation: Techstars

Caretaker

match 43

Flip simplifies the experience of renting housing by turning leases into liquid assets that people can buy and sell from one another.

shared extracted concept terms: people; shared product terms: rent, hous, people, buy; shared affiliation: Techstars

Viya

match 41

We make living in city centers affordable in LATAM. We offer room and apartment leases paired with seamless services (cleaning, maintenance, laundry, dry cleaning) to make our tenant's lives less hectic. With a current MRR at $60k growing 20% weekly for last 3 months with margins tracking 40%. Team is from MIT with background in real estate looking to improve rental experience for tenants and owners with technology.

shared product terms: affordable, tenant, room, grow; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Samaritan

match 38

Samaritan produces smart wallets specifically designed for people without a home, linking them to the social and financial capital needed to leave the streets.

shared extracted concept terms: people; shared product terms: people, home, capital; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Techstars