Hometeam Ventures

Hometeam Ventures is an early-stage, remote-first venture capital firm founded in August 2020 by Alexandria Lafci, headquartered in San Francisco. It invests in founders bringing breakthrough technology to construction and housing, one of the world's largest yet least-innovated industries. The firm is hyper-focused on startups that reduce cost, increase quality, or accelerate the construction lifecycle across the built environment, with sector interest spanning PropTech, ClimateTech, AI, SaaS, and advanced materials tied to the estimated $18T global construction industry. Notable portfolio companies include Hyperframe, Parspec, Foyer, and ICON, with one prior exit; the firm typically invests $500K–$1M in pre-seed and seed-stage U.S. startups, drawing on Lafci's operator background co-founding New Story, a Y Combinator-backed nonprofit that built thousands of low-cost homes and pioneered 3D-printed housing with ICON. Hometeam's investment approach centers on hands-on partnership, brokering pilots between portfolio startups and mission-aligned partners like governments and nonprofits to give founders real jobsite testing conditions, aiming to hard-wire affordable-housing use cases into for-profit construction-tech companies from an early stage.