Houzz largest social site for home remodeling, a $ 300B industry, today announced the launch of new social and community functions, enhance growth and MM U.S. $ 11.6 a Series B, led by Sequoia Capital. Since the series growing late last year, Houzz has increased 10 times in the user base and commitment.

Houzz revolutionized the remodeling process to allow consumers and professional remodeling work with visual, mobile tools, local and social. New features include the ability to pursue social work professionals visual design, photography Houzz recommendations based on the wisdom of community and help tag images in green products that provides detailed information on the multitude of professionals in the community Houzz

Houzz is a one-stop shop for renovations, providing photos, articles, advice, product recommendations, and a directory of professionals across disciplines landscape designer for the general contractor.

site attracts over 2.5 million monthly owners and professionals who are involved in renovation projects, resulting in more than 50 million page views per month. In addition to the website, one million owners and professionals have downloaded the iPhone, offering more than five stars 15K customers and generate over 100M page views per month app.

It gives us a great honor to be in business with construction contractors, as Adi and Alon Cohen Takarko, and become their new Houzz-pair, said Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital and a member of the ‘Houzz, I was very impressed with what he has done to revolutionize the home remodeling Houzz features in the mobile industry and social and we look forward together to build a fabulous business

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Oren Zeev

, Series A lead investor and board member Houzz added: “We are delighted to have Sequoia Capital Alfred and join us to help the company to the next level of success.”

In this economy, consumers have high expectations of the financial and emotional investment in their construction and renovation, and professionals need a better way to get exposure as the word of mouth references were based on the real estate boom, the Adi said Tatarko, Houzz co-founder and CEO, is gratifying to see that our growth is the result of creating a better experience for both remodeling from beginning to end

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Houzz was founded by the husband-wife team, Adi Cohen Alon Tatarko. The company raised an initial funding of $ 2 million last year by Oren Zeev and a group of notable entrepreneurs.

Houzz

Houzz (http://www.houzz.com) is the first online platform for home remodeling, offering tools for owners of inspiration, information, advice and social professionals home improvement through its website and mobile applications. Houzz site and mobile applications have the largest database of residential design in the world, articles written by experts in the design, product recommendations, has created a vibrant community of social tools and information on over 30,000 professionals who can help turn ideas into reality.

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