foundi
foundi is a Taiwan prop-tech SaaS platform that aggregates government real-price, land, and listing data into AI-powered search, CRM, and store-intelligence tools for licensed real estate agents and brokerage chains, monetized via subscriptions and usage-based credits.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2014
- HeadquartersTaipei, Taiwan
- Headcount—
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What foundi does
foundi is a Taiwan-based prop-tech data aggregation platform founded in 2014 that consolidates fragmented real estate information—government real-price registries (實價登錄), land and building transcript records (電傳), and aggregated listing data—into a single, real-time-accessible intelligence suite for licensed real estate agents (房仲) and brokerage store managers (店東長/店長). Its product surface spans a web-based property quick-search tool (房地快搜), a Chrome browser extension (房地小幫手), a 24/7 LINE messaging bot (房地快搜LINE), a mobile app with hourly push notifications (房地APP), and an enterprise store-intelligence dashboard (房地戰情), supplemented by modules for land search (找土地), buyer matching (找買方), CRM (客戶經營), land record sharing (電傳共享), and alley/neighborhood navigation (巷導). Underlying technology includes big-data indexing of public sources, AI-driven semantic search, intelligent listing deduplication, computer-vision-based address identification from images, and predictive market analytics—reportedly built by a founding team of former Google engineers.
The company monetizes through a tiered subscription-plus-usage model: individual professional accounts begin at approximately NT$800/month for access to search, address, land, and tracking tools; usage-based credit points (priced at NT$1.05/point, with packages up to 10,000 points) monetize access to government land records at NT$10 per ownership record; and enterprise 房地戰情 plans are sold to store owners at NT$3,688 for a 366-day, 10-user seat bundle, with a PRO tier and volume-discounted group-purchase accounts available. Go-to-market is hybrid: a product-led growth motion (7-day free trial, self-serve web/app signup, LINE login) is layered with a community-led motion (daily 2 PM live-streamed teaching sessions on YouTube since 2020) and a sales-led motion for enterprise deals (on-site training, HQ relationships with franchise brokerages). A free New Agent Training Camp (新人王訓練營) combining 10 structured courses with 31–93 days of free professional account usage functions as the primary top-of-funnel acquisition channel. The company claims 32,000 active real estate agents across Taiwan, has conducted 3,000+ on-site training sessions across all 22 counties and cities, and grew headcount from 4 (2014) to 50 (2024), remaining privately held with no disclosed external funding.
foundi firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- foundi
- Legal name
- 知微科技股份有限公司
- Website
- https://foundi.info
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2014
- Operating status
- Operating
- Short description
- foundi is a Taiwan prop-tech SaaS platform that aggregates government real-price, land, and listing data into AI-powered search, CRM, and store-intelligence tools for licensed real estate agents and brokerage chains, monetized via subscriptions and usage-based credits.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
foundi industry classification
Industry- Product category
- PropTech / Real Estate Intelligence Software
- NAICS
- Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519)
- SIC
- Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)
- akta.pro primary industry
- POI, Local Listings & Business Directory Platforms (BPAMANAD)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Enterprise Search, Indexing & Content Discovery (HDAEAGAH), Domain, Website & App Discovery Portals (BPAMAAAM)
Keywords
Where foundi is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Taipei
- HQ country
- Taiwan
- HQ region
- Asia
Offices1 record
Markets served
foundi business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain
Revenue model
- Professional Account Subscription (快搜專業帳號): Monthly or annual subscription for individual real estate agents, providing access to property search tools, address lookups, land search, buyer matching, tracking, and land record access. Pricing starts at approximately NT$800/month for base professional membership. Credit points (點數) are used for land record access (電傳) at NT$10 per ownership record.
- Credit Points / Top-up (儲值點數): Prepaid credits for land record (電傳) access. Points are priced at NT$1.05 per point, with packages of 10 (NT$11), 500 (NT$525), 3,000 (NT$3,150), and 10,000 (NT$10,500) points available. This serves as a consumption-based revenue stream on top of base subscriptions.
- 房地戰情 Enterprise Plan (戰情帳號): Enterprise-level subscription for real estate store owners/managers. The basic plan is priced at NT$3,688 for 366 days covering up to 10 users, including market analysis, land record sharing, training courses, and community maps. PRO version adds address information and property management features.
- Group Purchase Accounts (團購帳號): Volume-discounted multi-seat accounts for teams, with pricing tiers based on the number of seats purchased and validity periods of one year from activation.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | Monthly | Professional Account - Monthly |
| Usage-based | Pay-as-you-go | Credit Points (點數) - Prepaid |
| Usage-based | Pay-as-you-go | Credit Points - Refund Calculation |
| Subscription | Monthly | Professional Account Refund Policy |
| Subscription | Multi-year contract | 房地戰情 Basic Plan |
| Freemium | Annual | 新人王培訓營 (New Agent Training Camp) |
Go-to-market motion3 records
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels9 records
foundi product offering
Product offeringCore offering
foundi operates a real estate information integration platform that aggregates Taiwan's public real-estate transaction data, land registry records (電傳), and aggregated listing information into a unified subscription service for licensed real estate agents. The core offering, 房地快搜 (Property Quick Search), lets agents instantly match addresses, surface newly listed and "hidden" listings, and access historical sales data; it is delivered via web, Chrome extension, LINE bot, iOS/Android apps, and a separate enterprise dashboard (房地戰情) for store managers. The platform is supported by former Google engineering talent and uses big-data analytics, AI semantic search, computer-vision image search, and predictive market analytics.
Product overview
Foundi is a unified real estate intelligence platform that integrates multiple tools including 房地快搜 (Property Quick Search), 房地小幫手 (browser extension), 房地快搜LINE (LINE bot), 房地APP (mobile app), 房地戰情 (store management dashboard), and supporting modules for land search, buyer matching, customer management, and document retrieval. The platform uses big data analysis and AI technologies to aggregate and analyze real estate transaction data, helping Taiwan's real estate agents and store managers make more informed decisions through features like AI image search, contextual search, intelligent matching, and real-time market analytics.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- 房地快搜: 主要產品，幫助房仲快速找到初次上架和隱藏案件，精準掌握屋主心態
- 房地小幫手
- 房地快搜LINE (小賴)
- 房地APP
- 房地戰情
- 巷導
- 電傳共享
- 客戶經營
Products and services
- 房地快搜 (Property Quick Search) Core real estate intelligence platform letting agents quickly identify newly listed and hidden properties, perform one-second address matching, receive real-time listing and price-change notifications, and access historical transaction data to understand homeowner psychology. Delivered via web, Chrome extension, LINE bot, and mobile app.
- 房地小幫手 (Property Helper / Chrome Extension) Chrome browser extension that automatically analyzes property information when an agent browses major real-estate listing websites, displaying historical data and current status without manual operation.
- 房地快搜LINE / 房地小賴 (Property Quick Search LINE Bot) 24-hour LINE-based virtual assistant that accepts URLs, addresses, or location-sharing to deliver property information, market analysis, and instant lookup for real estate agents on the move.
- 找土地 (Find Land) Tool that queries and compares multiple land parcels, supporting area calculations, width/depth measurements, and aggregation of multiple lots for land-development agents.
- 房地APP (Property Mobile App) Mobile application available on iOS App Store and Google Play that provides real-time push notifications for new listings and price changes (updated hourly), integrates property search, address lookup, real price data, tracking, and land-record retrieval.
- 找買方 (Find Buyers / Buyer Matching) Buyer-matching service that automatically pairs buyer requirements with available listings, helping real estate agents connect suitable buyers to properties.
- 房地戰情 (Property Battle Report / Store Intelligence Dashboard) Enterprise analytics dashboard for real-estate store owners and managers that visualizes territory market conditions, buyer budget positioning, commission coverage rates, inventory status, and competitive landscape to support strategic decisions across teams of agents.
- 電傳共享 (Land Record Sharing / Electric Document Transmission) Service allowing users to access and share official land and building registry records (電傳), including property registration, ownership, and encumbrance data, delivered from government registries without physical office visits.
- 客戶經營 (Customer Management / CRM) Customer relationship management feature for real estate agents that tracks and manages client interactions, buyer requirements, and follow-up workflows to convert prospects into closed deals.
- 巷導 (Alley Guide) Detailed alley and neighborhood navigation tool for Taiwan's unique lane/alley addressing systems, helping agents locate properties in areas with complex addressing that conventional maps cannot resolve.
Companies that use foundi
Customer profileNamed customers10 records
Segments2 records
Ideal customer profiles2 records
foundi technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
AI capability4 records
Feature11 records
foundi partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
One partnership is on record.
- 知微科技股份有限公司 (Zhiwei Technology Co., Ltd.)corefoundi is the consumer-facing brand operated by 知微科技股份有限公司 (company unified number: 24776592). The parent company is the legal entity providing the foundi platform services, copyright policies, and user agreements. Founded in 2014 by a former Google senior software engineer.
Scale indicators7 records
Recent moves8 records
Expansion highlights2 records
foundi competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Realtor.com: Operated by Move (News Corp), Realtor.com aggregates MLS listings, public records, and market data for the US. Comparable as a portal combining property listings, transaction history, and agent directory features.
- CoStar Group: Dominant commercial and residential real estate data, analytics, and marketplace platform in the US/UK/Europe. Comparable as a data-aggregation-and-analytics business serving real estate professionals, though at vastly larger scale and primarily commercial focus.
- Zillow: US-based real estate information platform aggregating MLS data, public records, and listings into consumer and agent-facing tools. Highly comparable business model and product architecture (search, history, comparable analytics) at much larger scale.
- 信義房屋 (Sinyi Realty): Taiwan's largest real estate brokerage franchise with proprietary listing data and agent tools. As a major foundi customer (and competitor in data services for their own agents), Sinyi is comparable both as a customer and as a vertically integrated incumbent with overlapping capabilities.
- PropertyGuru Group: Leading property marketplace across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Comparable as an Asia-focused proptech data platform serving agents and consumers, though at much larger scale and broader geography than foundi.
- Compass: US tech-enabled real estate brokerage with proprietary agent productivity platform. Comparable in targeting real estate agents with integrated SaaS tools, though operating as a brokerage rather than a pure data platform like foundi.
- Redfin: Tech-enabled real estate brokerage and portal combining agent tools, listing aggregation, and market analytics. Comparable in integrating data and AI into agent workflows, though operating primarily as a brokerage versus foundi's pure SaaS model.
Emerging players
- HouseCanary: US residential real estate analytics platform using AI/ML for property valuation and market intelligence. Comparable as a data-and-AI-focused proptech serving real estate professionals, though with more institutional/financial-buyer orientation than foundi's agent focus.
Direct peers
- 樂屋網: Taiwan real estate information platform offering listings, price data, and agent directories. Directly competes with foundi in the property data aggregation space, though with more consumer-facing emphasis versus foundi's agent productivity focus.
- 591 房屋交易網: Taiwan's largest free real estate listing portal. While foundi targets agents and 591 targets consumers, both aggregate Taiwan property listings and transaction data into searchable web platforms with significant user bases, competing for the same underlying data and audience attention.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
foundi social profiles
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Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
foundi leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles1 record
foundi funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
foundi M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about foundi
What does foundi do?
foundi operates a real estate information integration platform that aggregates Taiwan's public real-estate transaction data, land registry records (電傳), and aggregated listing information into a unified subscription service for licensed real estate agents. The core offering, 房地快搜 (Property Quick Search), lets agents instantly match addresses, surface newly listed and "hidden" listings, and access historical sales data; it is delivered via web, Chrome extension, LINE bot, iOS/Android apps, and a separate enterprise dashboard (房地戰情) for store managers. The platform is supported by former Google engineering talent and uses big-data analytics, AI semantic search, computer-vision image search, and predictive market analytics.
Is foundi a public or private company?
foundi is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.
When was foundi founded?
foundi was founded in 2014.
Where is foundi based?
foundi is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, in the Asia region.
How does foundi make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Professional Account Subscription (快搜專業帳號) is the primary driver. The others are credit Points / Top-up (儲值點數), 房地戰情 Enterprise Plan (戰情帳號) and group Purchase Accounts (團購帳號).
Who are foundi's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Realtor.com, CoStar Group, Zillow, 信義房屋 (Sinyi Realty), PropertyGuru Group, Compass and Redfin. HouseCanary is listed as an emerging player. Direct peers are 樂屋網 and 591 房屋交易網.
Does foundi have an API?
No public API is recorded for foundi.
What industry is foundi in?
foundi's product category is PropTech / Real Estate Intelligence Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPAMANAD, POI, Local Listings & Business Directory Platforms, with a secondary code of HDAEAGAH, Enterprise Search, Indexing & Content Discovery. Its NAICS code is 519 and its SIC code is 7370.