John Helm

Biographie : John is the Managing Director of a venture capital investment firm located in Park City, UT that is focused on investing in companies that provide technology and services to the real estate industry. The firm’s strategic partners include major REITs and private owner/managers of multifamily properties that collectively own/manage approximately 900,000 units. John serves on the boards of RETV Investments Lexicon, Smart Rent, Amenify, Sight Plan and Moved. He also sits on the boards of Nestio, and Next Gear Solutions. Before founding RETV, John was a Venture Partner with DN Capital in Europe from 2012-2016 where he co-invested in 13 deals including Auto1 (Series A), which had revenues in 2016 of over $1.5B and a valuation in excess of $2.4B, and PurpleBricks (Series Seed), a UK online flat fee residential brokerage company which went public in 2015 and is also currently valued in excess of $1B. Previously he was the founder and CEO of two venture backed startups in the online real estate space in the U.S.. He sold his most recent company, MyNewPlace to RealPage (NYSE:RP) for $78.5 million in the summer of 2011. Under John's leadership, MyNewPlace grew by competing successfully with five well entrenched competitors to become the second highest traffic apartment rental website in the U.S.. John was also the founding CEO of AllApartments/SpringStreet, which became the number one apartment rental and relocation site on the Internet before its sale to Homestore in 1999 for $150 million, in a private to private transaction immediately prior to the combined entities IPO. Prior to SpringStreet, John was the Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Development for Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Company where he headed up all finance, technology, and business development activities. John was also a consultant for McKinsey & Company for six years and a sales specialist for Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate Services. John graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. John lives in Park City with his wife Catherine, son Jack (13), daughter Alexandra (11) and black lab Axel (puppy).