Los Angeles-based Breezy launched with $10 million in oversubscribed pre-seed funding led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Fifth Wall, DST Global, and OpenAI’s Fidji Simo.
Co-founded by luxury agent James Harris and Afterpay co-founders Nick Molnar and Anthony Eisen, Breezy is a vertical operating system for residential agents. The platform automates administrative heavy-lifting and utilizes Underbuilt—a proprietary data layer identifying development potential in residential plots. This vertical automation mirrors the models seen in Loop’s restaurant workflows.
Market Signal
- The Productivity Alpha: By targeting the $500B real estate services industry, Breezy aims to become the “Default Workstation” for 20 million professionals, automating the ~25% of the workweek currently lost to manual admin.
- Elite Distribution Moat: James Harris’s status as a top-producing broker provides an immediate “founder-market fit” and a feedback loop from 200+ influential agents, bypassing traditional enterprise SaaS sales cycles.
- The Professional Inertia: A primary execution hurdle remains the “Relationship Paradox”; high-earning agents often equate manual, high-touch “tribal knowledge” with premium service, requiring a cultural shift toward automation.
Key Details
- Funding: $10M
- Lead Investor: Ribbit Capital
- CEO: James Harris
- Use Case: Vertical operating system and data platform for residential real estate
