July 31st, 2012

Nestio Updates Mobile App To Make Apartment Hunting A Little Less Awful

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After launching at TechStars NY in April, the Tripit of apartment listings, Nestio, raised 750K in funding. And it would appear that the cash is going to good use, as the company has just released version 2.0 of the Nestio iOS app.

“We realized that people were behaving very differently on the website then they were on their phones, so we spent the last year taking into account the differences… → Read More

July 5th, 2011

Nestio Raises $750,000 To Make Apartment Searches Suck Less

Nestio, a startup that aims to calm and organize the frantic process of searching for an apartment, announced today that it has closed a $750,000 seed funding round. The round was led by Quotidian Ventures, with contributions from a number of angel investors, including Joanne Wilson, Rick Webb, Josh Auerbach, and David Tisch. → Read More

June 2nd, 2011

Nestio Is Like A Tripit For Apartment Searches

When you’re looking for a new apartment, or a new place to live, there are quite a few sites you can turn to for real estate listings. There’s Craigslist if you’re feeling saucy, Redfin, Zillow, Realtor.com, and Trulia, to name a few. As my colleague Erick Schonfeld pointed out last year, there’s room for competition in this market, and there’s potential for profitability. But not for a… → Read More

April 14th, 2011

Two More NYC TechStars To Watch: Nestio And ThinkNear

TechStars NYC killed it today with its first ever Demo Day in New York City. I’ve been to a lot of startup pitch events, and I felt that the caliber of the companies and pitches were better than most other incubator and startup events in New York (which makes me feel really good about our own Disrupt NYC event coming up in May). The room was packed with investors too, including Union Square’s… → Read More