mumbai india founder s rahul yadav advitya sharma abhishek anand sanat ghosh ravish naresh and seven others . ceo jason kothari industry real estate slogan s look up website housing.com available in english launched june 2012 ; 4 years ago 2012 06 housing.com is a mumbai based real estate search portal which allows customers to search for housing based on geography number of rooms and various other filters . 1 2 the company has 6 000 brokers and serves 40 cities in india including chennai mumbai bangalore kolkata and delhi . 3 4 5 contents 1 history 2 product 2.1 data science lab dsl 2.2 acquisition 3 references 4 external links history edit a group of twelve students from the indian institute of technology bombay founded housing.co.in in june 2012 currently when having nine founders . 1 6 6 7 8 the company purchased housing.com from san francisco based internet entrepreneur peter headington and the telephone number 03 333 333 333 in september 2013 for a total of 1m . 9 10 since its founding in 2012 housing.com has raised four rounds of funding . the company raised 2.5 million in series a funding from nexus venture partners in june 2013 . 2 3 4 11 the company used the funds to create its data science lab and to expand to four cities bangalore gurgaon pune hyderabad . 3 12 13 the company raised another 19m in venture funding led by helion venture partners in april 2014 . 14 15 in early march 2015 the company had a nationwide brand launch and revealed its new brand logo colours and brand philosophy ; with the tagline look up . the brand launch was advertised in national newspapers and hoardings in several cities across india ; and notably on the company s social media pages . in june 2015 housing.com then ceo rahul yadav accused sequoia india md shailendra singh of poaching housing.com staff . 16 subsequently he was asked to leave the company altogether citing objectionable behaviour . 17 18 rishabh gupta was temporarily in charge before being replaced by jason kothari in november 2015 . 19 product edit housing.com lists properties submitted by users either brokers or owners on an interactive map . 6 search results are filtered by available rooms lifestyle ratings child friendliness index cfi and area based pricing . 2 3 7 9 20 the company has mapped approximately 650 000 houses in india . 4 12 data science lab dsl edit housing.com s data science lab dsl has generated a number of heat map algorithms and demand flux maps based on these filters . 5 13 the cfi heat map shows child friendliness in a particular area and it measures neighborhoods on three different criteria number of schools number of hospitals and parks and proximity of these facilities to the area . 9 the algorithms also demonstrate price variations in properties across the city . 5 10 21 housing.com is also available as apps for android and ios . 6 acquisition edit housing.com acquired real estate discussion forum indian real estate forum iref for 1.2 million 22 and realty bi a risk assessment firm for realty projects for 2 million . 23 housing.com acquired homebuy360 a cloud based sales lifecycle management platform for 2 million . 24 references edit a b shravan bhat 12 february 2014 . housing.com born out of its founders house hunt . forbes india . retrieved 30 july 2014 . a b c rebecca grant 6 june 2014 . funding daily prism . venture beat . retrieved 30 july 2014 . a b c d victoria ho 6 june 2013 . with 2.5 m injection from nexus indian housing marketplace launches in bangalore . techcrunch . retrieved 30 july 2014 . a b c nikita peer 23 june 2014 . housing.com toying with algorithms for old age friendliness pollution index & helping find girl friends too . tech circle . retrieved 30 july 2014 . a b c real estate portal housing.com launches price heat maps feature . india digital review . 7 october 2013 . retrieved 9 july 2014 . a b c d pritam p hans april 2013 . building search . business today . retrieved 30 july 2014 . a b samidha sharma 4 january 2014 . helion may lead 8m investment in housing.com . times of india . retrieved 30 july 2014 . biswarup gooptu & kala vijayraghavan 11 june 2014 . with fatter paychecks startups rope in more talent than big cos like ibm hul . economic times . retrieved 30 july 2014 . a b c sainul k abudheen 15 november 2013 . nexus venture backed real estate portal housing.com adds child friendliness index to its site ; what s new . tech circle india . retrieved 30 july 2014 . a b anand rai 7 october 2013 . nexus backed real estate portal housing.com launches price heat maps ; what s on offer . retrieved 30 july 2014 . chitra rakesh 6 june 2013 . nexus venture partners injects 2.5 m in an indian real estate startup . retrieved 30 july 2014 . a b peerzada abrar 20 june 2014 . housing.com founded by iit graduates makes more room for growth mops up rs 115 crore . the economic times . retrieved 30 july 2014 . a b malavika velayanika 20 june 2014 . 19m funding for housing.com ups the ante in tech war between 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