Plunk
Founded 2019 · 23 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors
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Plunk provides AI-powered analytics for residential real estate valuation, enabling homeowners, real estate professionals, and investors to track individual home prices in real time. The company was acquired by home.ai in Q3 2024.
Founders & leadership
Plunk was founded in 2019 by Brian Lent and David Bluhm.
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Brian LentinCo-founderBrian Lent is co-founder and former CEO of Plunk, an AI-powered analytics platform for residential real estate valuation (acquired by home.ai in 2024). He previously founded Medio Systems, a mobile AI company serving 440+ million users that was acquired by Nokia in 2014, where he served as Chief Technology Officer; earlier he held senior roles at Amazon (where he built its first large-scale AI and data analytics platform after Junglee's acquisition), IBM, and other technology companies, and earned a Master's degree and pursued doctoral candidacy in Computer Science at Stanford University.
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David BluhminCo-founderDavid Bluhm co-founded Plunk, an AI-powered analytics platform for residential real estate valuation. He has founded or co-founded numerous technology companies over three decades, including Z2 (mobile games, acquired by King.com), Realtor.com (real estate marketplace), and Medio Systems (predictive analytics, acquired by Nokia/HERE), and previously held senior business development roles at Motorola and Hewlett-Packard.
Investors · 6
Sony Ventures CorporationTokyo
Plug and Play Venturesreported · 2 sourcesSunnyvale · $50K – $12M
Second Century Venturesreported · 2 sourcesChicago
Also in the syndicate · 3
Sony Innovation FundUnlock VenturesleadVectr Fintech Partners
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$6.5M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2020–2021
- $6.5MSeed FundingMay 2021 · 2 sources
Unlock Ventures (lead), Plug and Play Ventures, Second Century Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, Vectr Fintech Partners
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Plunk do?
- Plunk provides AI-powered analytics for residential real estate valuation, enabling homeowners, real estate professionals, and investors to track individual home prices in real time. The company was acquired by home.ai in Q3 2024.
- Who founded Plunk?
- Plunk was founded by Brian Lent, David Bluhm in 2019.
- Who are Plunk's investors?
- Plunk's investors include Sony Ventures Corporation, Plug and Play Ventures, Second Century Ventures.
- How much funding has Plunk raised?
- Plunk has disclosed $6.5M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.