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SonarHome operates a digital platform designed to streamline the evaluation, sale, and purchase of residential properties, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe. The company provides homeowners and sellers with free online property valuations, leveraging data analytics to offer accurate estimates. Its core capability lies in digitizing traditional real estate transactions, offering users a comprehensive toolkit for property management and facilitating connections with local real estate professionals.
The company was founded in 2017 by Mateusz Romanowski, driven by the insight to modernize the fragmented and often opaque real estate markets in emerging economies. Romanowski, drawing from prior experience in large-scale business projects, recognized the opportunity to empower consumers with accessible data and digital tools. This foundational vision centered on creating a transparent and efficient ecosystem for property transactions.
SonarHome serves individual homeowners and sellers seeking an efficient and data-driven approach to their property needs, as well as prospective buyers. The platform aims to demystify the complexities of real estate by providing clear information and guided processes. The company’s long-term vision is to continue transforming the real estate market through ongoing digital innovation, establishing itself as a key enabler for property transactions.
SonarHome has raised $7.8M across 2 funding rounds.
SonarHome has raised $7.8M in total across 2 funding rounds.
SonarHome has raised $7.8M in total across 2 funding rounds.
SonarHome's investors include DX Ventures, Market One Capital, Chris Guzowski, Michał Borkowski.
SonarHome has raised $7.8M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $7.0M Seed in June 2021.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2021 | $7M Seed | — | DX Ventures, Market ONE Capital, Chris Guzowski, Michał Borkowski | Announced |
| Jun 1, 2019 | $800K Seed | — | Market ONE Capital, Chris Guzowski | Announced |
SonarHome is a proptech company providing data-driven property valuation tools and sales services to simplify real estate transactions for homeowners and sellers in Central and Eastern Europe, primarily Poland, Hungary, and Romania.[1][2][3] It offers accurate apartment appraisals using cutting-edge algorithms, personalized selling strategies, connections to top local agents, and pioneered iBuying—direct cash purchases—in Poland, serving individuals looking to sell quickly and safely while addressing valuation uncertainty and market complexity.[1][2][3] The platform has demonstrated growth, selling nearly 300 apartments in 2022 via its agency, raising €5.6 million in 2021, and expanding operations with scalable cloud infrastructure for machine learning and AI-driven insights.[1][2][3]
SonarHome emerged from the real estate challenges faced by co-founder Mateusz Romanowski, a serial entrepreneur, during his home purchase in Warsaw, prompting him to team up with CTO Piotr Chmolowski in 2019 to build a home valuation tool for Eastern Europe.[2] The company traces its roots to 2017 (or 2018 per some records), when a team of experts in large-scale projects began transforming Poland's real estate market by introducing tech-enabled standards like iBuying, which allowed safe, rapid sales and addressed sellers' lack of pricing knowledge.[1][2][3] Early traction included operating a real estate agency, achieving nearly 300 apartment sales in 2022, and a €5.6 million funding round in 2021 to disrupt CEE markets, evolving from pure online estimates to agent-matching services.[1][2][3]
SonarHome rides the proptech wave in CEE, where secondary real estate markets suffer from opaque valuations, slow transactions, and stress—trends amplified by digital adoption post-2020 and demand for efficiency in emerging economies.[1][2][3] Its timing aligns with rising AI and cloud scalability needs, using tools like DigitalOcean for handling high data volumes across borders, positioning it ahead of competitors like Solgt or Homeloop in data-driven personalization.[2][3] By blending human agents with tech, it influences the ecosystem through new standards like iBuying, partner expansions, and market insights, fostering trust and accelerating deals in underserved regions while eyeing further international rollout.[1][2]
SonarHome is poised to deepen AI integration for automation and efficiency, targeting R&D in predictive analytics to optimize property decisions amid volatile markets.[2][5] Expansion into more CEE countries via in-house tools and agency partnerships will capitalize on proptech growth, potentially boosting revenues (which grew 170% in 2021) toward profitability as EV hovers at $12-18M.[1][5] Evolving from valuations to full-service platforms, its influence could reshape seller empowerment, tying back to its origin in solving real-world buying pains with granular, tech-human hybrid innovations.[2]
