Romio efficiently connects people, businesses, organizations, and groups around their interests in the neighborhoods where they live, work and play. People can FOLLOW updates from friends, neighbors, local experts, favorite businesses, real estate insiders and what's happening around where they live. By FOLLOWING things around them, neighbors are effectively on the most interesting conversations, people, businesses or causes around neighborhoods.
Romio's intelligent and social real estate engine recognize concepts and suggest properties with related matches. For example by searching for a "Terrace", the engine recognizes the term as a concept by highlighting it in as a "PILL" indicating it'll look for related terms such as Deck, Patio... By seeing bubbling conversations from real people who live around properties they're looking to buy or rent, Romio helps people "knock on neighbors doors to get the inside scoop around a place before making a commitment".
Romio leverages social connections and networks such as facebook and twitter, to help people tap the collective inside knowledge and wisdom of neighbors, to make life better around where they live for them and the people around them.
Romio was started by Tarik Sansal who previously started onTargetJobs, a leading vertical careers sites backed by Warburg Pincus. Romio is backed by its angels and private investment funds.
