Pearl Certification provides third-party certification for high-performance homes, enabling homeowners to enhance their property’s energy efficiency and market value. By partnering with a network of qualified contractors and real estate professionals, Pearl ensures that these homes are accurately valued and effectively marketed, benefiting both current and future homeowners.
Funding
$51.8M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Homeowners lack a reliable, standardized method to document and verify energy-efficient features, leading to undervaluation in the real estate market and hindering adoption of sustainable upgrades. Existing home energy scores often fail to capture the full value of high-performance features and improvements.
Solution
Pearl Certification provides a third-party certification service that assesses and validates high-performance home features, increasing homeowner's ability to capture the added value of energy efficiency, comfort, and resilience. Through a network of qualified contractors, real estate professionals, and appraisers, Pearl Certification ensures that high-performing homes are accurately scored, effectively marketed, and properly valued. The certification process involves on-site verification and documentation of energy-efficient assets, which are then translated into a Pearl Score, offering a clear and credible representation of a home's performance. This enables homeowners to maximize their home's value during refinancing or sale, while also promoting energy-efficient home improvements.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes homeowners seeking to increase their property value through energy efficiency, contractors looking to differentiate their services, builders constructing high-performance homes, and real estate professionals aiming to market certified properties.
Features
- On-site verification and documentation of high-performance home features by trained professionals.
- Pearl Score, a standardized metric representing a home's energy performance.
- Green Door app for homeowners to track and manage their home's certified assets.
- IncentivesHub tool for contractors to attract and engage homeowners with rebate information.
- Partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and other industry organizations.
- Integration with real estate professionals and appraisers to ensure accurate valuation.
- Certification of homes meeting DOE Zero Energy Ready (ZER) standards.