Starcity
Company

Last deal

$30M

Amount

Series B

Stage

27.04.2020

Date

3

all rounds

$51.25M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Starcity is a tech-enabled platform that offers coliving options for renters in expensive cities.

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Sector :

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founded date

01.01.2016

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series B

IPO status

Private

Description

The San Francisco-based company operates coliving communities with just under 500 beds in San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles, and has a development pipeline of approximately 2,000 units. With a team of 45 people from various disciplines, including real estate, technology, design, and hospitality, Starcity is both a General Partner and Operator with full-stack real estate development, design, and management capabilities. The company provides fully furnished homes with community events, on-site laundry, bi-weekly cleaning, regular maintenance, and other related services, making it possible for users to live near the city at a lower cost. Starcity has awesome backers, including Y Combinator, NEA, Social Capital, and Index Ventures, and has been featured in notable publications like Business Insider, San Francisco Chronicle, Silicon Valley Magazine, TechCrunch, and many more.
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announced date

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Jesse Suarez
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Jesse Suarez is the Founder, COO, and General Counsel at Starcity.

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Jon Dishotsky
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Mr. Jon Dishotsky serves as a Partner at Giant Ventures. He Co-Founded Starcity where he served as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member. He graduated from UC Davis with a Bachelor's in Managerial Economics and joined Cushman & Wakefield a few years before the recession. He did over 3M square feet of commercial real estate transactions primarily with hyper-growth startups and in that experience, he found that housing affordability was a major problem in cities which led him to start Starcity.

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Mo Sakrani
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Mo Sakrani

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Mo Sakrani

Employee Profiles
13
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Robert Levy

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Software developer

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