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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.
zavvie
zavvie is a Boulder, Colorado proptech and fintech company that gives real estate brokerages and mortgage lenders a white-labeled marketplace of modern buying and selling solutions - cash offers, buy-before-you-sell bridge products, and iBuyer options - all designed to keep the agent and loan officer at the center of the transaction. Founded in 2015 by Lane Hornung and Stefan Peterson, zavvie turns ordinary buyers into cash buyers and helps lenders capture more mortgage business through its AI-powered HomeFAI platform.
Madeline Hung
Madeline Hung is the co-founder and CEO of Castle, a Hudson, New York fintech building payments infrastructure for the home - software that helps homeowners automate, consolidate, and reduce the cost of their biggest asset. She arrived at the idea the hard way, converting a derelict Hudson Valley photography studio into a livable house during the pandemic and discovering that tracking home spend felt like writing paper checks into a black hole. Before Castle she co-founded The Good Country with nation-branding strategist Simon Anholt and worked across human-rights research and citizen-engagement ventures, a path that runs from Oxfam and Health Leads to a seed-funded home finance app.