Fundraising Fox
Builty
Techstars '22Walnut Creek, US · 1 known investors
Find your way into Builty
Sign up to see every warm intro you have to Builty
- Paths you didn't know you had: your email and LinkedIn already hold routes to the Builty team. We find them for you
- 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: the friend-of-a-friend routes that take hours to manually find through your inbox or LinkedIn
- Answers now, not in days: momentum is everything in a raise. Skip asking around whether someone knows someone
Days of research, done the moment you sign in, with every route ranked by how warm it is.
Builty provides structured building permit data aggregated from local jurisdictions across the United States, offering permit intelligence through a web portal, API, and bulk download. The platform serves real estate professionals, developers, and property-focused businesses seeking permit information.
Founders & leadership
Investors · 1
How we know: the Techstars portfolio · open dataset · Top 3000 Accelerator Startups (no YC) 2026-08 · Not right? Tell us
Company profile
researched Sep 2026Builty converts public building permit records into a structured, property-level history intended for risk assessment. The company positions its output as "property risk intelligence from the permit record": for a given address it returns the building elements present, their age, and the permit that established each one. Coverage categories include structure and envelope (build year from the authorizing permit, additions, conversions, opening protection, permitted mitigation), roof (covering, tear-off scope, years since last replacement), electrical (panel capacity and last upgrade date, service changes, rewiring), plumbing (repipe history and supply material), HVAC (system type, capacity, fuel and last change-out per unit), and fire protection (sprinklers, alarms, standpipes, suppression with type and install date). The residential data set is aligned to the four-point inspection and wind mitigation, while commercial data is aligned to COPE.
On top of the underlying record, Builty publishes risk scores in three families \u2014 Condition & Change, Catastrophe Resilience (flood, wildfire, wind, hail and freeze mitigation) and Value & Reconstruction \u2014 computed at property, neighborhood and portfolio levels. The company states that scores are derived from permit history alone, without third-party data, satellite imagery or self-reported surveys, that each score carries the underlying permits for audit, and that fields return null where the record is silent. Exact score definitions are shared under NDA. Attribute provenance is emphasized: roof age is dated from the latest roof-covering permit with solar racking and rooftop HVAC excluded, and a bounded "at least N years" value is returned where a reroof did not require a permit.
Builty is listed as a pre-seed company with 1-10 employees, founded in 2020, with locations given as San Francisco and Walnut Creek, California, and it is described as an Esri Startup Partner."]
Business model
Builty licenses access to its permit-derived property data and scores rather than selling software workflows, offering a REST API for address lookups, bulk files, a subscription feed scoped to a customer's book of business, and a no-code web portal, so buyers can consume the data without migrating systems.
Traction
Public figures cited by the company are 155M+ U.S. properties in scope and 25+ years of permit history behind the building-element records. The company is listed at 1-10 employees and at the pre-seed stage.
Latest developments
Builty announced that it has become an Esri Startup Partner.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Builty frames the market standard as a single "roof age" figure and positions its multi-element, dated property record and layered scores against that baseline. It argues the defensibility is not in the permits themselves, which are public, but in direct collection, property resolution, cross-jurisdiction schema normalization and text parsing.
Differentiators asserted by the company are direct-from-source permit collection including specialty datasets other permit data does not carry, resolution of permits to canonical deduplicated and geocoded properties, one schema spanning all jurisdictions, parsing of permit text into structured variables, auditable provenance for every attribute, and scores built exclusively from permit history with no imagery or self-reported inputs.
Technology
The company collects permits directly from source jurisdictions and builds specialty datasets such as fire-protection systems read from fire-review and fire-planning records. Incoming permit records, which rarely carry clean addresses, are matched to a canonical property, deduplicated and geocoded so a property's full history resolves to one place. Jurisdiction-specific permit formats are mapped to a single consistent schema, and free-text permit descriptions are parsed into structured variables such as unit count, capacity, efficiency and project type. Outputs are dated per element and carry the supporting permits as evidence.
Go-to-market
The website drives prospects to request data access or a score sample and routes visitors into industry-specific paths for underwriting, claims, real estate and mortgage, construction and market intelligence, and government. Delivery options are designed to fit existing customer workflows via API, bulk files, subscription feeds or a portal.
The primary stated market is property and casualty insurance \u2014 underwriting, claims and portfolio teams at carriers \u2014 with named workflow entry points at application validation, renewal change detection and portfolio triage. Builty also addresses real estate and mortgage users (AVM lift, collateral verification, origination signals), construction and market intelligence users (lead generation, permit volume as a market indicator), and government users measuring building, housing, energy and recovery on a common basis from federal to local level.
Geography
Coverage is United States-wide, with 155M+ U.S. properties stated as in scope. Listed company locations are San Francisco and Walnut Creek, California.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsBuilty announced on its website that it is now an Esri Startup Partner.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 7
primary sources listed
- Builtybuilty.app · web
7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Builty do?
- Builty turns U.S. building permit records into structured property risk intelligence for insurers, lenders and real estate users.
- Who founded Builty?
- Builty was founded by Kat Gordienko.
- Who are Builty's investors?
- Builty's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Builty headquartered?
- Builty is headquartered in Walnut Creek, US.