RealZono has raised a $2 million pre-seed. We build a system that reads the public record across whole counties and finds the parcels about to move before they reach the market.
The round was led by Link Ventures, with a group of angels from real estate, data, and technology.
Why we built this
The premise is simple. The best signals in real estate are already public. Every deed, probate filing, tax lien, rezoning, code violation, and planning agenda is filed at a county office and then left to sit. By the time a property is listed, the reasons for the sale have been on the record for months.
Almost nobody reads all of it. There is too much, it is scattered across clerks, assessors, and planning departments, and most of it never links back to the parcel it describes. That gap is the opportunity.
The market moves last. We would rather move first.
RealZono reads the record. The system takes in what a county files, ties each document to its parcel, and watches for the patterns that come before a sale: a probate opening, a new lien on a long-held property, a comp plan amendment that changes what can be built on a lot.
Who built it
RealZono was founded in 2025. Members are Oakley Dehning, Nick Anewalt, Jeremy Smithline, and Beck Page. Backgrounds out of MIT, Blackstone, Citadel, and Palantir.