StarCity

Starcity’s mission is to make cities more accessible to EVERYONE. We accomplish this by creating comfortable, affordable community homes that inspire people to live a more intentional life. We package that with a modern, consumer internet platform to make living together more simple and hassle free. Research indicates that the odds of rising to another income level are notably higher in great cities. Simply put, the best cities foster the highest probability of economic success (1). Suburban sprawl is not good for the environment. City dwellers consume 30% less gasoline. Urban dwellers require fewer resources in sum than their suburban counterparts (2). Starcity enables more people to live sustainably in urban environments. Food, music, the arts, innovation, and philanthropy are at the heart of our cities. Mixing diverse groups of humans creates eclectic culture and movements. Society looks to cities for the direction human thought is headed. Even more so, living in

Starcity enables more people to live sustainably in urban environments. Food, music, the arts, innovation, and philanthropy are at the heart of our cities. Mixing diverse groups of humans creates eclectic culture and movements. Society looks to cities for the direction human thought is headed. Even more so, living in tight knit community has been shown to extend life significantly (3). But, building homes for everyone is really, really difficult; it involves navigating physical, capital, political and emotional pressures that are usually in conflict. As a result, not many people are working on this problem.

Starcity has successfully delivered two buildings and is currently developing three more. They have provided homes for 12 people and the pipeline will create new homes for 150. Our team has built successful real estate and software teams before, the founders most recently built an 8-figure real estate company and a social app.
Starcity is backed by NEA, Social Capital, Y Combinator, Urban.Us, Lowes Ventures, Kima Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Blue Seed Collective, Alrai Capital, Paul Bucchiet, Othman Laraki, and Jared Friedman.

Sources:

(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/business/in-climbing-income-ladder-location-matters.html?_r=0 (2) http://www.nbwctp.org/resources/the_environmental_impact_of_suburbanization.pdf (3) http://www.businessinsider.com/susan-pinker-discovered-why-so-many-sardinians-live-to-100-2015-11

(2) http://www.nbwctp.org/resources/the_environmental_impact_of_suburbanization.pdf (3) http://www.businessinsider.com/susan-pinker-discovered-why-so-many-sardinians-live-to-100-2015-11

(3) http://www.businessinsider.com/susan-pinker-discovered-why-so-many-sardinians-live-to-100-2015-11