# Castle

> Castle is a New York-based fintech building payments infrastructure for the roughly $3 trillion Americans spend on their homes each year. Its consumer app turns the chaotic paperwork of homeownership - utility bills, property and school taxes, insurance, renovations and maintenance - into a single digital filing cabinet with automated bill pay, transaction monitoring that surfaces tax credits, rebates and overcharges, and fraud protection. Founded by Madeline Hung after a gut-renovation of a historic Hudson Valley photo studio revealed how little data homeowners have on their biggest asset, Castle says its average customer saves over $10,000.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Hudson, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Madeline Hung (Co-Founder & CEO), Hugo Van Vuuren (Co-Founder), Jordan Hayashi (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~15 employees
- **Products:** Castle Home Payments App, Digital Home Records, Savings & Transaction Monitoring, Fraud Monitoring, Close with Castle
- **Notable:** Reports that the average Castle customer saves over $10,000, Raised a $2.6M seed round (2022), Built a native iOS home-payments app with automated bill pay, savings monitoring, and fraud protection

## Products & services

- **Castle Home Payments App** — iOS app that consolidates household bills - utilities, property and school taxes, insurance, maintenance - into one place with automated, secure bill pay.
- **Digital Home Records** — A digital filing cabinet that stores and organizes all of a homeowner's records, receipts, and documents in one searchable place.
- **Savings & Transaction Monitoring** — Actively monitors transactions against a database of tax credits, rebates, exemptions and discounts to surface savings and flag overcharges; the average customer is reported to save over $10,000.
- **Fraud Monitoring** — Enhanced fraud modeling built specifically for home-related payments, an area the company says is under-served by existing tools.
- **Close with Castle** — Tools aimed at attorneys and title companies to support the home closing and payments process.

## Achievements

- Reports that the average Castle customer saves over $10,000
- Raised a $2.6M seed round (2022)
- Built a native iOS home-payments app with automated bill pay, savings monitoring, and fraud protection
- Targeting the ~$3 trillion Americans spend on their homes each year

## Latest updates

- **2022-07** — Closed a $2.6M seed round to build home-payments infrastructure.
- **2023-01** — Launched the Castle Home Payments app on iOS with bill pay, digital home records, and savings monitoring.

## Links

- Website: https://getcastle.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getcastle

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Last updated: 2026-07-06