Best Residential Real Estate Tech Companies in Illinois, United States
The 38 best Residential Real Estate Tech companies in Illinois, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Home Partners of America.
Our analysis of 50 Residential Real Estate Tech companies
$11.2b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Residential Real Estate Tech companies in Illinois
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home Partners of America Rental housing provider offering quality homes and exceptional resident experiences 60Product top 26%Growth top 30%Innovation top 39%Market top 42% All 9 signals ▾Producttop 26% Growthtop 30% Innovationtop 39% Markettop 42% Fundingtop 42% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 47% Globalbottom 32% Newsbottom 22% Product: 12 distinct product lines · Company stage: Acquired Growth: Headcount 285 → 354 (+24%) across vintages rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $773M | 123 mo ago | Acquired | William Young CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 2 | Scion Provider of residential housing services 62Patents top 28%Moat top 32%Talent top 38%Innovation top 39% All 11 signals ▾Patentstop 28% Moattop 32% Talenttop 38% Innovationtop 39% Markettop 41% Producttop 41% Fundingtop 42% Growthtop 45% Newsbottom 45% Techbottom 42% Globalbottom 33% Patents: 55 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 47 filings since 2022 vs 8 in 2017-21 Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 4/10 · IP moat: 55 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $707M | 103 mo ago | Funding Raised | Eric Bronstein Co-Founder & EVP | 1999 | WordPressBugHerdZendesk+24 | 1 job opening · 1 internship |
| 3 | Truss Holdings Online full-service brokerage firm for commercial real estate | $24M | 91 mo ago | Series A | Bobby Goodman Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 4 | Neighborhoods.com Online brokerage firm providing curated homes & neighborhoods | $15M | 85 mo ago | Series A | — | 2007 | SalesforceFacebook LoginGoogle Sign-in+20 | — |
| 5 | CommonGround Offers a marketplace for buying, selling, and leasing farmlands | $4M | 43 mo ago | Seed | Chris Baumann Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | SentryNode.jsFirebase+30 | — |
| 6 | Flat Provider of a property management platform | $20K | 39 mo ago | Seed | Kamil Gondek Co-Founder | 2021 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 7 | College Annex Web/mobile based marketplace for student housing | $20K | 147 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jeff Corbo Co-Founder & CFO | 2012 | — | — |
| 8 | Equity Residential Provider of a listing platform for investments in residential and commercial real estate assets | — | 103 mo ago | Public | — | 1969 | Google MapsBootstraptoastr+22 | — |
Top 10 Residential Real Estate Tech companies in Illinois
#1
Seed · East Peoria, Illinois · founded 2018 · 33 employees$3.8Mraised▾
Offers a marketplace for buying, selling, and leasing farmlands. The company offers a platform connecting farmers, landowners, and land professionals for land transactions. Users can browse the listings and also search based on property and transaction type.
- Jan 2023Seed$3M
- Jan 2021Seed$750K
#2
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2012 · 354 employees$772.6Mraised▾
Rental housing provider offering quality homes and exceptional resident experiences. The company is dedicated to providing an exceptional rental experience, offering professionally managed, quality homes and apartments across North America. They focus on enriching the lives of residents and local communities, underpinned by a strong culture and business philosophy. The company provides high-quality rental housing options through a technology-enabled operating platform and dedicated on-the-ground teams. Their development programs deliver new rental homes and apartments, addressing the housing supply shortage. They empower team members to improve residents' lives, fostering community and connectivity through technology. Services include property management, maintenance, resident support, and financial wellness programs. They offer pet-friendly homes, smart home features, and perks for residents, ensuring an effortless living experience. The company utilizes a resident app for communication, payments, and maintenance requests, enhancing the rental journey.
- Series A$5M
- Conventional Debt$29M
#3
Funding Raised · Chicago, Illinois · founded 1999 · 1159 employees$707Mraised▾
Provider of residential housing services
- Jan 2018Conventional Debt$707M
#4
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2021 · 11 employees$20Kraised▾
Provider of a property management platform. It offers a platform for building maintenance management. Its subscription-based platform enables users to streamline tracking, managing, and completing the routine tasks of house management.
- 2023Seed$20K
- May 2022Seed$165K
#5
Series A · Deerfield, Illinois · founded 2016 · 50 employees$24.3Mraised▾
Truss is an online full-service brokerage firm for commercial real estate. Space owners can register on the platform to avail the company's services that include the creation of a rich listing accompanies by professional photographs, the creation of a 3D virtual tour of the space powered by Matterport cameras, screen tenants, schedule assisted viewings, provide assistance during negotiations, and provide and sign lease documents. The company's assisted viewings are arranged in partnership with local real estate professionals. It also has developed an AI-powered chatbot that can answer preliminary queries from the renters and assist in setting up appointments.
- Jan 2019Series A$15.1M
- Aug 2017Series A$7.7M
- Aug 2017Conventional Debt—
- Feb 2017Seed$1.5M
#6
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2007 · 39 employees$15Mraised▾
Neighborhoods is an online brokerage firm that enables users to find, research, and compare homes & neighborhood that fit their lifestyle. Provides detailed property listings with neighboring amenities, cost of living, property price trends, etc. Assigns dedicated agents to prospective buyers that helps them throughout the property purchase cycle. Charges a fixed commission on successful deals.
- Aug 2019Series A$15M
#7
Deadpooled · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2012$20Kraised▾
Web/mobile based marketplace for student housing
#8
Public · Chicago, Illinois · founded 1969 · 2400 employees—raised▾
Provider of a listing platform for investments in residential and commercial real estate assets. It mainly engaged in the acquisition, development, and management of residential rental apartment properties in urban and high-density suburban coastal gateway markets for shareholders, residents, and employees. Invests directly in equity joint-venture structures, pre-sale transactions at market cap rates, and in multiple property pools.
#9
Deadpooled · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2014 · 3 employees—raised▾
Herbfront is a property listing website, where users can search as well as list for properties that have high chance of growing legal cannabis. All the properties are curated by the company before it is showcased on their platform. The company has an algorithm where it predicts the legal cannabis property probability.
- Aug 2015Seed—
#10
Deadpooled · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2014—raised▾
Commercial Connected is a Professional Commercial Real Estate Sales & Leasing listing platform. The platform provides opportunity to post a oroperty that is For Sale, post a buyer need and an agent will get back, post a property that is For Lease, post a tenant need for an agent to get back.
- Aug 2015Seed—
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How research on Proptech Construction in Illinois is moving
A read on the academic research around Proptech Construction in Illinois — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 41 papers.
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign25
- Illinois Institute of Technology7
- Illinois State University4
- Western Illinois University2
- University of Illinois Chicago1
- Point cloud2→3
- Building information modeling15
- Value (mathematics)3
- Stakeholder2
- Overlay2
- Systems engineering2
- Building information modeling3
- Embodied energy2
- Life-cycle assessment1
- Sustainability1
- Architectural engineering1
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