Premoney 16: HiHome & anythm

Welcome to Week 16! I promise it’s a coincidence that both of these companies have heart-shaped logos, even though I do love all of the featured companies (and the readers)!

What you’ll find today:

Two companies below who recently launched, are actively raising (or both) with a bit more detail.

If you’re interested in connecting with them, please use the form I linked to and let me know which company you’re interested in chatting with and we’ll get you introduced!

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This weeks companies:

The Harvard Venture Demo Day took place over the weekend. HiHome (below) along with many others presented their work from the previous few months. I’ll feature a choice couple of these companies in the coming weeks, along side others.

Hihome

Company: Hihome

Stage: Raising pre-seed.

Affiliation: Harvard Innovation Labs

Founder: Tony Shu

Vertical: Real Estate

1-liner: HiHome is the first beginning-to-end homebuying management platform.

Description: HiHome is the first homebuying management platform. 40% of Americans surveyed say that homebuying is the most stressful event in modern life. HiHome brings clarity and peace-of-mind to the process by combining TurboTax-like interactive guidance with a collaboration hub for seamless communication and coordination between buyers, agents, lenders, and more. Because relationships are at the heart of real estate, HiHome supercharges the buyer-agent relationship and empowers agents to deliver a more transparent, organized, and personal experience.

Business Model: Referral

Traction:

• Harvard Innovation Lab Venture Incubation Program

• Private beta app launch in October in Utah with 7 agents using and testing.

My Take: Home buying is riddled with perverse incentives and unfair power dynamics for the average home buyer. Any platform that successfully appeases the brokers / agents and protects the buyers in a sticky way could be huge.

Company: www.anthym.life 

Stage: Raising pre-seed.

Founder: Brian Mohr

Vertical: Wellness, Web app, SaaS, Human Resources, Future of Work

1-Liner: Making work human: anthym unleashes the power of personal storytelling to create authentic & powerful relationships at work.

Description: Covid has disrupted our normal ways of communication & connection overnight. Serendipitous office collisions – the foundation for authentic connections between co-workers – are no longer possible in the “New Normal.

anthym uses experiential triggers like music, movies, books & inspirational media to help surface memories, where the stories behind those memories are labeled & documented and put into an employees ‘anthym.’ anthym then facilitates meaningful experience sharing between teammates via a “live” virtual activity and/or via a matching & scheduling module which ensures members of a team or company meet & share their personal anthyms with one another.

Business Model: SaaS, Freemium

Traction indicators:

• 647% employee-user growth since our May beta

• 70% M-o-M employee user growth since our Aug 15 commercial launch

• $30K bookings in November

• 24 clients including Zillow, Silicon Valley Bank, Better Business Bureau & Theory

My Take: Brian points to a HBR survey showing that top CEO’s rank “Team Communication & Team Connections” as a vital new challenge to overcome in the post-covid world. We all know Zoom itself isn’t creating connections. anthym is a thoughtful approach to creating real connection amongst employees, which ties back to productivity and ultimately the bottom-line. Plus the current client list and growth rates are staggering :-)

That’s all for today! Please remember to subscribe and share Premoney :-)

See you next week,

Jake