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Greg Schwartz Left Zillow to Fix the Most Anxious Hour in Homebuying
After 12 years building Zillow's marketplace, Schwartz traded scale for a blank sheet of paper. At Tomo, his wager is that a mortgage can feel less like paperwork with a deadline and more like a service designed for an actual person.
Jome
Jome (formerly NewHomesMate) is an AI-powered real estate marketplace focused on new construction homes. It aggregates dispersed listings from home builders into one searchable platform - covering roughly 90% of available new construction inventory across 16 U.S. cities - and pairs buyers with certified experts trained specifically on the new-build process. Founded by Ukrainian entrepreneurs Dan Hnatkovskyy and Sofia Vyshnevska, the Austin-based company has helped over 100,000 buyers search for homes and generated more than $250M in sales for builders including D.R. Horton, Lennar and PulteGroup.
Nora Apsel
Nora Apsel is the co-founder and CEO of Morty, the New York-based online mortgage marketplace she helped build from a Techstars idea in 2016 into a full-stack platform that has facilitated over $2 billion in home loans across 45+ states. She joined as Morty's founding engineer, rose to COO, and took the CEO seat in 2020. A former nonprofit worker who retooled as a software engineer at Meetup and Flurry, she is driven by using product and technology to democratize access to financial products and make one of life's most opaque transactions - getting a mortgage - transparent and buyer-first.