House Canary
San Francisco, US · Founded 2013 · Delaware corporation · 60 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
HouseCanary provides residential real estate data, valuations, CMAs, market forecasts, and AI-driven analytics on 136M+ U.S. properties. It serves real estate investors, agents, loan officers, mortgage lenders, and investment banks, offering search, analytics, and customer engagement platforms.
Also known as ComeHome · HouseCanary · HouseCanary, Inc · HouseCanary, Inc.
Founders & leadership
House Canary was founded in 2013 by Christopher Stroud and Jeremy Sicklick.
Board
Investors · 7
Also in the syndicate · 1
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$568K disclosed across 4 of 6 rounds · 2013–2020
▶$50KraisedMar 2017 · 2 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Christopher StroudDirector
- Mark DyneDirector
- Jeremy SicklickExecutive Officer, Director
- Egon DurbanDirector
- Offering amount
- $50K
- Amount sold
- $50K
- First sale
- May 2013
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2013
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$15KraisedMar 2017 · 1 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Mark DyneDirector
- Jeremy SicklickExecutive Officer, Director
- Egon DurbanDirector
- Christopher StroudDirector
- Offering amount
- $15K
- Amount sold
- $15K
- First sale
- May 2014
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2013
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$3KraisedMar 2017 · 2 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Jeremy SicklickExecutive Officer, Director
- Egon DurbanDirector
- Christopher StroudDirector
- Mark DyneDirector
- Offering amount
- $3K
- Amount sold
- $3K
- First sale
- Jan 2014
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2013
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$500KraisedMar 2017 · 3 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Christopher StroudDirector
- Jeremy SicklickExecutive Officer, Director
- Mark DyneDirector
- Egon DurbanDirector
- Offering amount
- $500K
- Amount sold
- $500K
- First sale
- Oct 2014
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2013
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026HouseCanary, Inc. is a residential real estate technology company that provides property data, automated valuation models (AVMs), comparative market analyses (CMAs), appraisal software, market forecasts and AI-driven analytics covering US residential property. The company curates and normalizes data from thousands of sources, applies machine learning and image-recognition techniques to identify property attributes and assess home condition from photos, and delivers results through web platforms, customizable reports and APIs. Stated coverage is 136 million-plus properties, and the company describes itself as both an analytics platform and a 50-state brokerage.
Product lines include a data, analytics and valuations offering; a proprietary 50-state investment search platform; a customer engagement/digital banking platform for lenders; Property Explorer (CMA tool); Data Explorer for market insights; and CanaryAI. A verified-agent product bundles unlimited CMAs, propensity-to-list data and CanaryAI. Earlier company materials also describe a ComeHome consumer platform distributed through financial institution partnerships. Third-party reviewers note strong market and block-level data granularity, rental comparables, broad MLS coverage and API access, while citing limited listing-presentation features for agents, manual comparable adjustments, and pricing at roughly $10 per CMA report as drawbacks.
Founding story
HouseCanary was founded in 2013 by Jeremy Sicklick, who serves as CEO, with the original aim of forecasting future home prices rather than only estimating current values.
Business model
HouseCanary sells software, data and valuation products to institutional and professional customers, with enterprise and custom pricing for large accounts and per-report or plan-based pricing for individual agents. It also operates a real estate brokerage in all 50 states and provides data access via APIs, plus a price-match guarantee on its offerings.
Subscription and plan-based access to platforms and data, per-report fees (approximately $10 per CMA, with discounts at higher volumes), custom enterprise pricing, and brokerage services.
Traction
As of February 2020 the company reported valuations for 106 million US residential properties with a 2.5% median absolute percentage error, powering more than $200 million of institutional real estate transactions monthly and expecting consumers to close more than $100 billion of transactions that year via ComeHome through financial-institution partnerships; revenue was reported to have doubled in each of the two prior years. Current company materials cite coverage of more than 136 million properties.
Latest developments
The company is currently marketing a product for verified real estate agents that includes unlimited CMAs, propensity-to-list data and CanaryAI, alongside its data and analytics, investor search, and lender customer engagement platforms, and offers a price match guarantee.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Positioned as a leading provider of residential property valuations and analytics for institutional real estate and mortgage markets, with reported adoption by 6 of the top 10 single-family rental REIT operators, 8 of the top 10 private lenders, and 4 of the top 5 Wall Street buyers of residential whole loans; earlier materials cite use by 7 of the top 10 residential loan buyers and 7 of the top 10 bulge-bracket investment banks. Reviewers describe the product as oriented to lenders and investors rather than to residential sales agents, competing with agent-focused CMA tools such as Cloud CMA, RPR and ToolkitCMA and with AVM providers including Zillow's estimate.
Differentiation is claimed on data breadth and accuracy, including block-level home price index data rather than only MSA-level values, rental comparables alongside sale comparables, condition-adjustable AVMs, image-recognition-derived property attributes, well-documented APIs and raw data exports, and the combination of analytics with an in-house nationwide brokerage.
Technology
Automated valuation models and predictive analytics built on aggregated property data from thousands of sources, with machine learning algorithms for valuation and forecasting, image recognition to extract property details and condition from photographs, and combined AI-driven and manual quality control. Data is delivered through web applications, reports, CSV exports and APIs.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales to lenders, investors, servicers and capital markets clients, complemented by self-serve online plans and a verified-agent product for individual real estate professionals, API-based integration for technology customers, and distribution partnerships such as supplying home value estimates to Nextdoor.
Mortgage lenders and banks, private money/non-QM lenders, capital markets participants and whole-loan buyers, mortgage servicers, single-family rental REITs and other institutional real estate investors, investment banks, prop-tech firms, real estate agents and loan officers.
Geography
United States nationwide coverage and a 50-state brokerage; headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in San Antonio, Texas and Boulder, Colorado.
History
Founded in 2013 in San Francisco, HouseCanary built valuation and analytics products for capital markets and real estate investors, expanded with offices in San Antonio and Boulder, and received investment from QED Investors in 2018. In February 2020 it closed a $65 million growth round led by Morpheus Ventures, Alpha Edison and PSP Growth, bringing total reported funding to $130 million. It subsequently broadened its portfolio to include an investor search platform, a lender customer engagement platform, appraisal tools and AI features, and a product tier for verified real estate agents.
Risks & controversies
Customer and employee criticism has been reported publicly: a 2025 user review described unclear per-report charges and reliance on chatbot support, and reviewers note high pricing and limited fit for residential sales agents. An appraisal-industry forum thread aggregated former-employee reviews alleging layoffs, high turnover, management and culture problems, and limited revenue relative to spending, and referenced litigation proceeds as a funding source; appraisers in that discussion also questioned the reliability and market acceptance of automated valuations.
Compiled by commissioned research from 13 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.
Competitors · 6
by search overlap
Companies competing with House Canary for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 10
launches, deals, and filingsHouseCanary partnered with the social network Nextdoor to supply Nextdoor with its own automated home value estimate.
Sicklick was recognized with the 2024 HousingWire Vanguard Award, which honors C-level leaders in real estate, and was also a recipient of Inman's 2024 Power Players Awards.
First acquisition for HouseCanary; Dropmodel, founded in 2017, provides web-based analytic and financial modeling tools for the single-family real estate asset class. Dropmodel co-founder Tom Blake joined HouseCanary as Vice President of Investor Platform.
HouseCanary named Craig Phillips, former counselor to Secretary Steven Mnuchin at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as a senior advisor.
Growth funding round led by Morpheus Ventures, Alpha Edison and PSP Growth, bringing total company funding to $130 million; described elsewhere as a Series C growth round.
$65M source ↗
HouseCanary announced a $65 million growth (Series C) round led by Morpheus Ventures, Alpha Edison and PSP Growth, bringing total funding to $130 million. Proceeds were earmarked for valuation accuracy, team expansion and technology development.
$65M source ↗
QED Investors lists 2018 as the year of its investment in House Canary, with Jamie Loving as QED champion.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 13
primary sources listed
- House Canaryhousecanary.com · web
- HouseCanary Raises $65 Million to Expand its Platformproptechoutlook.com · web
13 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does House Canary do?
- HouseCanary is a US residential real estate data, valuation and analytics company serving lenders, investors and agents.
- Who founded House Canary?
- House Canary was founded by Christopher Stroud, Jeremy Sicklick in 2013.
- Who are House Canary's investors?
- House Canary's investors include Alpha Edison, QED Investors, Structural Capital, Alpaca VC, Morpheus Ventures, WME Venture Capital.
- How much funding has House Canary raised?
- House Canary has disclosed $568K raised across 4 of its 6 known rounds.
- Where is House Canary headquartered?
- House Canary is headquartered in San Francisco, US.