Global Founders Capital

Global Founders Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany. The firm focuses on investing in innovative companies at various stages of development, from early-stage ventures to those preparing for an initial public offering. With a global outlook, Global Founders Capital seeks to empower entrepreneurs across all continents, particularly in the software and technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. The firm evaluates investment opportunities based on their potential impact and feasibility, aiming to support individuals with transformative ideas.

Cedric Asselman

Partner

Leonardo Banchik

Partner

David Citron

Partner

Onur Erbay

Partner

Melvin Hade

Partner

Roel Janssen

Partner

Kendrick Geluz Kho

Investor

Benedikt Körling

Investor

Maximilian Mayer

Investor

Matthias Müller

Partner

David Sainteff

Partner

Donald Stalter

Partner

Guilherme Steinbruch

Partner

Sarra Zayani

Partner

Soheil Mirpour

Partner, Head of Growth and PE and COO

Past deals in Residential Real Estate

Keyzy

Seed Round in 2023
Keyzy is a FinTech and PropTech company focused on facilitating home ownership for young professionals and first-time buyers. It addresses the challenges of saving for a deposit and obtaining traditional mortgages by purchasing homes on behalf of its clients. Keyzy then rents these homes to clients for a period of three to seven years, during which up to 25% of their monthly rent payments can be applied toward a future deposit. Clients have the opportunity to buy the home at the original purchase price, minus the accumulated deposit. With rising house prices and a significant decline in youth home ownership, Keyzy aims to break the cycle of renting and provide a pathway to home ownership for individuals such as doctors, nurses, teachers, and civil servants, who often struggle with affordability due to increasing living costs and stringent lending criteria.

Keyzy UK

Seed Round in 2023
Keyzy is revolutionizing the path to homeownership with its innovative rent-to-own FinTech solution. Catering to young professionals and first-time buyers, Keyzy eliminates the daunting hurdle of hefty upfront deposits, offering a flexible and accessible alternative to traditional mortgages. With Keyzy, individuals can rent their dream homes while simultaneously building equity through monthly payments, paving the way for future ownership. Our platform empowers users to take control of their housing journey, providing a seamless and transparent experience from start to finish. By leveraging cutting-edge technology and strategic partnerships, Keyzy ensures affordability, reliability, and convenience for its customers. Our commitment to customer-centricity drives us to continually enhance our platform, incorporating user feedback and industry best practices to deliver exceptional value and satisfaction. With Keyzy, homeownership is no longer a distant dream but an achievable reality for individuals from diverse financial backgrounds. Join us in breaking down barriers to homeownership and unlocking the door to your future with Keyzy. Welcome home.

Welcome Homes

Series A in 2022
Welcome Homes is an online platform designed to simplify the home building process for buyers. By streamlining various stages, including land selection, customization, financing, and construction, it allows users to manage their home-building journey entirely online. This approach transforms home buyers into home builders, providing a seamless and price-transparent experience. Welcome Homes aims to help individuals save time and ensure they can create a beautifully designed home in their preferred location.

Ivy Homes

Seed Round in 2022
Ivy Homes operates a real estate platform that simplifies the process of buying and selling homes. The company provides instant offers to sellers, allowing them to receive a fair price upfront for their properties. Its platform captures detailed information on real estate transactions and incorporates a pricing model to accurately assess home values. By offering liquidity through immediate purchase options, Ivy Homes enhances the selling experience, making it both easy and secure for homeowners.

Pine

Series A in 2022
Pine is a digital mortgage company focused on transforming the home financing process. By leveraging technology, Pine aims to simplify and enhance the mortgage experience for customers, making it more efficient and user-friendly. The company offers a range of mortgage products designed to meet the needs of borrowers while addressing the complexities often associated with traditional mortgage processes. With an emphasis on combining technology with supportive human processes, Pine seeks to provide a streamlined and stress-free mortgage experience for its clients.

Pinhome

Series B in 2022
Pinhome is a technology-driven platform focused on enhancing property transactions and home financing accessibility. It aims to simplify the buying, selling, and renting processes by providing a comprehensive solution that organizes property data and information. The platform facilitates efficient property transactions and offers a range of services, including home and personal maintenance, ensuring that clients can seamlessly navigate their real estate needs. By digitizing property transactions and streamlining home financing, Pinhome addresses the challenges often associated with real estate, making it easier for customers to find and manage their homes.

AMORA

Seed Round in 2022
AMORA, through a technological approach to property evaluation, creates a new way for Brazilians to acquire their dream home with the lowest downpayment available, providing an opportunity for customers to build equity at the same time as they live in their desired property.

OwnHome

Series A in 2022
OwnHome is a company focused on transforming renters into homeowners by offering innovative homeownership alternatives. The business model involves purchasing properties on behalf of clients, who then gain the rights to these homes. Clients make secure monthly payments while accumulating purchase credits over time. At a pre-agreed settlement price, clients can finalize the purchase of the home, making homeownership more accessible for those who may not have the means for a traditional down payment. By providing this unique pathway, OwnHome aims to address the challenges of entering the housing market.

Duppla

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Duppla is a rent-to-own startup based in Colombia that focuses on providing alternative financing solutions for home buyers. By utilizing a unique approach to homeownership, Duppla moves away from traditional debt mechanisms, offering innovative models that enhance access to housing. The company aims to make homeownership more attainable for individuals and families, particularly in the Latin American region. Its platform facilitates housing loan finance applications and promotes debt-free financing, allowing clients to save on initial fees and qualify for mortgage loans that fit their budgets. With a team of co-founders and experts in research and strategy, Duppla is well-equipped to address the challenges of affordable housing financing and improve the customer experience in navigating the path to homeownership.

Fractional

Seed Round in 2021
Fractional is a platform that facilitates fractional ownership in real estate, making property investing more accessible to a broader audience. By developing an investment application, the company aims to lower the cost of entry and reduce the time commitment traditionally associated with real estate investments. Users can directly own fractions of various investment properties, including single-family and multi-family homes, while also visualizing potential returns, cash flow, and associated costs. The platform allows investors to benefit from rental income and appreciation without incurring annual fees or being bound by a holding period.

Fraction

Series A in 2021
Fraction is a technology-based lending platform focused on making residential real estate affordable, flexible, and liquid. The company was founded in 2018 by Hayden James, Josh Baker, and Rayan Rafay and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Morada Uno

Seed Round in 2021
Morada Uno is a technology company that focuses on enhancing the real estate industry by offering tools and financial products aimed at real estate brokers and professionals. The company provides services that facilitate the screening, collection, and insurance of residential leases. By equipping real estate professionals with resources to streamline interactions between property owners and tenants, Morada Uno enables efficient transaction closures and effective asset management for its clients. The company's solutions aim to create a digital, seamless, and secure rental experience in the real estate market.

Klarsolar

Seed Round in 2021
Klarsolar is a provider of photovoltaic systems that specializes in solar energy solutions aimed at promoting self-sufficiency for private households. The company offers a range of services, including consulting, planning, roof installation, and online configuration, allowing customers to easily design their solar systems from home. Additionally, Klarsolar provides after-installation support to ensure customer satisfaction and system efficiency. For further inquiries, contact information is available on their website.

OwnHome

Seed Round in 2021
OwnHome is a company focused on transforming renters into homeowners by offering innovative homeownership alternatives. The business model involves purchasing properties on behalf of clients, who then gain the rights to these homes. Clients make secure monthly payments while accumulating purchase credits over time. At a pre-agreed settlement price, clients can finalize the purchase of the home, making homeownership more accessible for those who may not have the means for a traditional down payment. By providing this unique pathway, OwnHome aims to address the challenges of entering the housing market.

Fraction

Venture Round in 2021
Fraction is a technology-based lending platform focused on making residential real estate affordable, flexible, and liquid. The company was founded in 2018 by Hayden James, Josh Baker, and Rayan Rafay and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Welcome Homes

Seed Round in 2020
Welcome Homes is an online platform designed to simplify the home building process for buyers. By streamlining various stages, including land selection, customization, financing, and construction, it allows users to manage their home-building journey entirely online. This approach transforms home buyers into home builders, providing a seamless and price-transparent experience. Welcome Homes aims to help individuals save time and ensure they can create a beautifully designed home in their preferred location.

Casai

Series A in 2020
Casai is a startup in Latin America, merging smart home technology, and premium accommodation to innovate the hospitality industry. It is a real estate platform for fully-furnished premium apartments in Mexico City and is a hospitality concept designed for the nomadic generation. Casai curates beautiful apartments that merge the design and comforts of a boutique hotel with the technology of a San Francisco home and the local ambiance of a vacation rental.

Glide

Seed Round in 2019
Glide is a platform for residential real estate transactions. They provide tools for agents, brokers, and teams for their transactions. They build software for buying and selling homes.

Casai

Seed Round in 2019
Casai is a startup in Latin America, merging smart home technology, and premium accommodation to innovate the hospitality industry. It is a real estate platform for fully-furnished premium apartments in Mexico City and is a hospitality concept designed for the nomadic generation. Casai curates beautiful apartments that merge the design and comforts of a boutique hotel with the technology of a San Francisco home and the local ambiance of a vacation rental.

Proprioo

Series B in 2019
Proprioo is a French start-up focused on transforming the real estate market by providing an entirely digital platform for selling properties. Operating across Île-de-France, as well as the Lyon and Bordeaux regions, Proprioo offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional real estate agencies, significantly reducing agency commissions. For a flat fee of €1990, the company delivers a comprehensive sales service, which includes property valuation and facilitation of the sale process up to the notary stage. Utilizing machine learning technology, Proprioo enhances the selling experience by effectively matching listings with qualified buyers and providing accurate value estimates, thereby helping property owners avoid common pitfalls that could complicate or hinder a sale.

REZI

Series A in 2018
REZI is a rental company that provides leasing and financial technology for tenants, property owners, and landlords. The company uses its proprietary analytics, technology, and financial products to improve the rental experience for landlords and tenants alike. It operates with the goal of automating the rental process, decreasing discriminatory practices in renting, and improving outcomes for property owners. REZI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

Proprioo

Series A in 2018
Proprioo is a French start-up focused on transforming the real estate market by providing an entirely digital platform for selling properties. Operating across Île-de-France, as well as the Lyon and Bordeaux regions, Proprioo offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional real estate agencies, significantly reducing agency commissions. For a flat fee of €1990, the company delivers a comprehensive sales service, which includes property valuation and facilitation of the sale process up to the notary stage. Utilizing machine learning technology, Proprioo enhances the selling experience by effectively matching listings with qualified buyers and providing accurate value estimates, thereby helping property owners avoid common pitfalls that could complicate or hinder a sale.

Glide

Seed Round in 2018
Glide is a platform for residential real estate transactions. They provide tools for agents, brokers, and teams for their transactions. They build software for buying and selling homes.

Homebell

Venture Round in 2018
Homebell is a business enterprise that offers reliable craftsmen services at a fixed quote and fair prices for home & living space projects.The company is focused on its customers' home and create ideal living spaces. A professional approach and a high-quality result are the most important values for them and its craftsmen. The company organize and realize their customers' plans so that they can lean back and enjoy the results. Quality, transparency and fair pricing are part of their complete service. They are the reliable partner for home improvement.

Zeus Living

Series A in 2017
Zeus Living is a property management company, rents furnished housing properties to startups, students, and companies in the Bay Area, Seattle, Los Angeles, and the District of Columbia. It also manages furnished properties on behalf of property owners.

ProntoPiso

Seed Round in 2017
ProntoPiso is a real estate service provider that specializes in facilitating the buying and selling of properties. The company offers an online platform designed to support clients throughout the entire real estate transaction process. This includes advancing funds from property sales at no cost, thereby easing the financial burden on clients. ProntoPiso also leverages technology to enhance the selling process, providing real estate professionals with tools such as photographic reports and three-dimensional (3D) videos for effective marketing and promotion. By combining these resources, ProntoPiso aims to generate qualified leads and ensure a smooth experience for clients during their real estate transactions.

Nested

Series B in 2017
At Nested, their Mission is to give home-sellers certainty over their property sale from day one, without compromising on price. They do this by advancing what you need to buy your new home, whilst they sell your old one for the best possible price. Selling a home is one of the most stressful things you do in life. It's all-to-common to experience unclear valuations, broken chains and untrustworthy estate agents. they'were bringing a refreshing approach to this broken industry, removing the uncertainty for home sellers, providing best-in-class service and helping their customers secure their dream home on their timeline.

Nested

Series A in 2017
At Nested, their Mission is to give home-sellers certainty over their property sale from day one, without compromising on price. They do this by advancing what you need to buy your new home, whilst they sell your old one for the best possible price. Selling a home is one of the most stressful things you do in life. It's all-to-common to experience unclear valuations, broken chains and untrustworthy estate agents. they'were bringing a refreshing approach to this broken industry, removing the uncertainty for home sellers, providing best-in-class service and helping their customers secure their dream home on their timeline.

Proprioo

Seed Round in 2017
Proprioo is a French start-up focused on transforming the real estate market by providing an entirely digital platform for selling properties. Operating across Île-de-France, as well as the Lyon and Bordeaux regions, Proprioo offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional real estate agencies, significantly reducing agency commissions. For a flat fee of €1990, the company delivers a comprehensive sales service, which includes property valuation and facilitation of the sale process up to the notary stage. Utilizing machine learning technology, Proprioo enhances the selling experience by effectively matching listings with qualified buyers and providing accurate value estimates, thereby helping property owners avoid common pitfalls that could complicate or hinder a sale.

Nested

Seed Round in 2016
At Nested, their Mission is to give home-sellers certainty over their property sale from day one, without compromising on price. They do this by advancing what you need to buy your new home, whilst they sell your old one for the best possible price. Selling a home is one of the most stressful things you do in life. It's all-to-common to experience unclear valuations, broken chains and untrustworthy estate agents. they'were bringing a refreshing approach to this broken industry, removing the uncertainty for home sellers, providing best-in-class service and helping their customers secure their dream home on their timeline.
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