Home inspection software startup Inspectify acquires energy reporting platform Joule

Inspectify, a Seattle startup that sells home inspection software, acquired Joule, a small company that provides energy efficiency insights from home inspection data.

• Inspectify has been working with Joule for the past three years to develop “Home Energy Scores” as part of its home inspection process.
• Heeral Prakash, who founded Joule in San Francisco in 2020, will support Inspectify as an advisor. Joule, which was bootstrapped, had one other employee.
• Founded in 2019, Inspectify has raised $23 million to date, including a $5.3 million round last year. Earlier this year it acquired Aloft, another Seattle real estate startup that focuses on streamlining the appraisal process.
• Inspectify is ranked No. 166 on the GeekWire 200, our list of the top Pacific Northwest tech startups.