Just back from a successful trade mission to Boston, Jason Richard, CEO of Saint John-based real estate website Prop2go.com, said his company is preparing to move into new market segments, including cars and jobs.
Prop2go’s technology allows landlords and property managers to find tenants for their apartment buildings. It has more than 100,000 listings from clients in seven countries, though its main focus is on Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. In a recent trade mission, it signed up three new clients in suburban Boston, which were its first clients in New England.
Richard explained in an interview the company’s technology mines data to help connect buyers and sellers (or landlords and renters), and it now has a prototype for the jobs market and hopes to have a model for cars next year.
“Our vertical search engine works for any buyer-seller market where information is distributed across multiple paths,” said Richard.
Prop2go has been privately funded so far, and has received assistance from such programs as the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program.