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Casa Wants to Be the Uncle Kevin in Your Pocket
Two founders talked to hundreds of homeowners, decided the real product was a trusted person to ask, and shipped it as an app. This is the case for turning a family handyman into software.
Thumbtack Wants to Be the Operating System for Your House
The local-services marketplace spent years helping people find a pro. Its bigger wager is to become the place homeowners turn before they even know what is broken.
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.