Honest Buildings, the LinkedIn of Energy Efficiency, Raises Series A Round
Date: 09/11/2012
Company: Honest Buildings
Source: Greentech Media
ROCKPORT AND MOHR DAVIDOW PUT UNDISCLOSED INVESTMENT INTO THE SOCIAL MEDIA APP FOR GREEN BUILDINGS.
JEFF ST. JOHN: SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Honest Buildings, the startup that’s collecting billions of square feet of property data in a LinkedIn-like online database for real estate professionals, efficiency experts and would-be tenants, has just raised an undisclosed Series A round from Mohr Davidow Ventures and RockPort Partners. Chalk up a point for information technology and social media, applied to greening the built environment.
The New York City-based startup previously raised an undisclosed seed round from Spring Ventures partners Nick Allen, Sunil Paul entrepreneur and author Lisa Gansky, former Expedia.com CFO Michael Adler and other angel investors, who also participated in the new round.
Honest Buildings has 250,000 commercial and mixed‐use buildings in New York, representing more than 4 billion square feet of property. It also has projects underway in San Francisco and partnerships with the Environmental Defense Fund, and just announced a 37,000-building project in Portland, Ore.