Industry Home improvement Website plentific.com Founders Cem Savas, Emre Kazan | Headquarters London, United Kingdom Founded 2013 | |
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Services Online marketplace, review site | ||
Plentific com an interview with the founders
Plentific is a British online home marketplace founded in 2013. In 2014, the company received $1.6m in seed funding. In April 2015, Plentific formed a partnership with LendInvest, the largest peer-to-peer real estate mortgages real estate platform. The partnership led to an ongoing effort to develop and generate future investment towards Plentific. In August 2015, Plentific and Zoopla Property Group formed a partnership to launch “Find a Pro”, a project that provides users with unprecedented access to a database of professionals and local tradesmen for home-related improvements and maintenance projects. In 2016, Plentific became the first home services marketplace to launch an insurance-backed guarantee, the Plentific Guarantee, which covers the whole of any Plentific project, including the deposit, post completion and legal fees. In the same year, Plentific also became the first transactional online home services marketplace in Europe, as the platform allows customers to book and pay for trade professionals.
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History
Plentific was founded in November 2013 by ex-investment bankers and property developers Cem Savas and Emre Kazan. Headquartered in London, the real estate online portal received $1.6m in seed funding in 2014, and in 2015 it entered into a partnership with LendInvest to help generate future funding. In May 2015, Plentific signed an agreement with the National Access and Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) to help regulate compliant scaffolding contractors. In August 2015, Plentific partnered with Zoopla Property Group and Primelocation. The partnership led to the launch of “Find a Pro”, an online service that allows users access to a large database of professionals and local tradesmen (see Overview). In 2016, Plentific received £2m in funding from the Property Innovation Labs (Pi Labs) and partnered with the HomeOwners Alliance as well as the Planning Portal. During 2016, Plentific was also awarded among the top 50 disruptive businesses in the UK.
Overview
Plentific is an online home services marketplace. The website helps property buyers and homeowners find and hire peer-reviewed professionals and tradesmen in different fields within home improvement and maintenance projects. Plentific’s online portal also provides a ‘Find a Pro’ feature, where users can request advice from Plentific search consultants, as well as a panel of mortgage brokers, solicitors, surveyors and architects. The ‘Find a Pro’ feature covers 56 categories of services offered by over 75,000 providers. Other features include an insurance-backed guarantee, payment platform, project data, area trends, statistics, estimates, integrated financial calculators, property buying guides, and concierge service.