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TH E M R EP O RT
By Rachel Williams
W
hile San Francisco is historically
known for its quaint trolleys and
Victorian architecture, the tech
boom has taken over this historic
city with companies like Twitter, Uber, and FitBit
now calling it home. Nestled in right alongside
them is an up-and-coming real estate tech
company that is making its mark in the housing
industry—HouseCanary.
Founded in 2014 by Jeremy Sicklick, who acts as CEO, and Chris
Stroud, who acts as Chief of Research, HouseCanary is high-tech,
fast-paced, and young—Stroud is a millennial after all.
When you ask Sicklick and Stroud what HouseCanary aims to
achieve, the answer is a simple one: help people—from homeowners,
to those in the industry such as appraisers, real estate agents, lend
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ers, and investors—make better real estate decisions. Underlying this
simplicity is a comprehensive data set that aggregates thousands of
elements and sources to allow the company's team of PhD statisticians
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