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Vancouver , Washington – basedDigs , a collaboration weapons platform that provides house-builder , vendors and — eventually — homeowners with something akin to a digital twin of a household , today announce that it has extended its $ 7 million seed round from 2023 with another $ 7 million . The new round was led by theOregon Venture Fund(OVF ) andLegacy Capital Ventures , with its live investor likeFuse , Flying Pisces the Fishes , BetaworksandPSFfollowing on from their previous investment andDeepwater Asset Managementalso conjoin in this round .
“ It ’s fantastic to have proven investors like OVF and Legacy lead our seed round and collaborator in helping us navigate all the challenges accompanying speedy increment , ” said Digs chief operating officer and co - father Ryan Fink . “ Bringing on extra seasoned experience construction and scaling consumer technology will see to it our ability to remain to spring up expeditiously and speed up our marketplace scheme . ”
Fink , who co - founded the company with Ty Frackiewicz , previously built Streem , which aimed to create digital counterpart of home plate using nothing by phone television camera . Frontdoor acquire Streem in 2019 . Now the team is using a unlike approach that focuses more on helping builders , vendors and homeowners partake in documents , using AI and computer vision to help them well understand those documents . At the core of that is a modernistic real - time collaboration chopine and papers storage service .
“ Digsis occupy how we build and own a home to the next level , ” said Gene Munster , managing partner at Deepwater . “ We ’re delirious to partner again with Fink and squad who are using AI to work real pain in the neck points that millions feel every daytime , whether you ’re a builder or a homeowner . ”
Digs is now out of beta and usable in the U.S. and Canada and besides several boutique builders , it also enumerate some internal developer among its users .
To help mature the squad , Digs recently hiredJef Holoveas its chief operating officer . Holove was previously the CEO of Drop , the marketplace well known for its keyboard and audiophile selections . Corsair acquired Drop in 2023 . Maybe even more significantly , before that , he was the COO of Streem — and before that the CEO of Basis , which Intel acquire in 2014 ( and , as with so many Intel acquisitions around that time , quickly desert ) . He was also previously the chief executive officer of Eye - Fi , which was ultimately acquired by Ricoh . recount me if you discern a trend here .
“ The digital twin that Digs creates for the home includes everything plate builders and householder would need to know — from room dimensions , paint and fixture particular , to what weewee filter is compatible with the fridge , ” Holove said . “ reckon the unprecedented ease of pull off and meliorate homes with insights tailored to your interests , available at the insistency of a push . ”
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