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Ernesta’s big idea: stop making the room fit the rug
The Peloton co-founders’ next venture sells rugs cut to the inch. Its more interesting experiment is making a custom purchase feel less like a gamble.
Welcome Homes puts the house online. The hard part comes next.
A home can be configured in a browser. Building it still takes people. Welcome Homes’ shift toward local builders reveals where the convenience ends and the real work begins.
Thomas James Homes Is Selling a New House With Fewer Surprises
The luxury builder replaces aging houses in established neighborhoods with new homes at a guaranteed price and construction deadline. Its real test is making that promise repeatable, one difficult lot at a time.
Beazer Homes
Beazer Homes is trying to make a volatile housing market feel less volatile - one lower utility bill, independently tested wall and competing mortgage quote at a time.
LUISAVIAROMA
A Florentine shop born in 1929 became an early luxury e-commerce operator, then opened a 1,000-square-meter New York flagship. LUISAVIAROMA's real product is not simply fashion - it is the edit, wrapped in service, spectacle and global logistics.
Foyr
Foyr is a cloud-based, AI-powered interior design platform whose flagship product, Foyr Neo, lets designers, architects, contractors and students go from 2D floor plans to photorealistic 3D renders and interactive walkthroughs inside a web browser - no heavy CAD skills or high-end hardware required. Founded in 2014 by former Microsoft director Shailesh Goswami, the company positions itself as an all-in-one alternative to stitched-together tools like SketchUp, V-Ray and Photoshop, with a library of tens of thousands of 3D furniture models and rendering that runs in the cloud. Foyr says more than 150,000 creators worldwide use the platform.
Homebound
Homebound is a tech-enabled homebuilder headquartered in San Francisco that manages the entire home construction process from design to move-in. Founded in 2018 in the wake of the devastating California wildfires, the company combines a proprietary software platform with a vetted trade partner network to offer semi-custom homes at fixed prices. Homebound handles everything from lot sourcing and permitting to interior design and construction management, compressing what typically takes years into an industry-leading timeline. With over $308 million raised and 500+ homes built across markets in California, Texas, Colorado, and Florida, Homebound is rewriting the rules of residential construction for a new generation of homebuyers.