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Sutton Quebec Let Brokers Keep 100% - Then Built a 1,500-Agent Network
The Montreal franchise network made a blunt bargain with real-estate agents: keep the commission, pay for the platform. Three decades later, its real product is not a listing - it is broker independence with a safety net.
Tomo Cut Mortgage Fees to Zero - Then the Rate Shock Tested the Whole Bet
Two former Zillow executives raised a startling $70 million before proving their digital lender at scale. A brutal mortgage winter forced the sharper idea: use software to strip cost from the loan, show the price upfront, and make trust the product.
The Quiet Business of Making Sure You Actually Own Your House
The Talon Group built a title and escrow operation on a strange promise - that the most important day of your financial life should be completely uneventful.
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Trusty
Trusty is an agent-to-agent matchmaking network for residential real estate that surfaces homes whether or not they are officially listed. Founded by Tim Hyer and Nicholas Meyers and part of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, the company lets agents share off-market intent, gives buyers access to hidden inventory, and lets homeowners field private offers - all outside the traditional MLS. By 2022 it had onboarded roughly 350 agents covering about 80% of California.
Huspy
Huspy is a Dubai-based proptech and fintech company that runs a digital platform for buying and financing homes. It connects home buyers, real estate agents and banks in one place, offering online mortgage comparison and pre-approval, a broker portal linked to more than 25 banks, and mobile tools for agents. Founded in 2020 by Jad Antoun and Khalid Ashmawy, Huspy operates across the UAE and Spain, facilitates over $7 billion in annual real estate transactions, and has helped more than 25,000 people buy homes.
Indigo
Indigo is an AI-powered home transaction platform that reworks the messiest part of buying and selling a house: the offer and the paperwork behind it. Built by the founding team behind Ribbon, the New York startup replaces the email-and-PDF scramble with real-time offer dashboards, AI-generated and compliant contracts, and shared deal rooms for agents, buyers and sellers. It raised an $8 million seed round in January 2025 and says it topped 20% of home offers in its first markets within three months of launch.