NEW YORK, NY, November 19, 2019 -- Compass, the real estate technology company, today announced that it has acquired the New York City-based, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) company, Detectica. The Detectica team, including its founders Dr. Foster Provost and Dr. Panos Ipeirotis, join the Compass AI team led by Chief Technology Officer Joseph Sirosh. 

“Compass is building an operating system for the real estate industry and this vast undertaking requires the very best talent in the world,” said Compass CTO Joseph Sirosh. “For over a decade Detectica’s founders have been among the most widely respected minds in AI and ML. With this acquisition we deepen our platform while at the same time strengthening our ever-growing team of technologists.” 

Over the past year Compass has placed an increasing focus on AI-powered features, including ‘Recommended For You’ and ‘Similar Homes,’ enabling the platform to deliver relevant listings to home buyers both on Compass.com and the Compass mobile app. The Detectica acquisition along with the addition of the company’s distinguished team will allow Compass to accelerate its efforts in these areas. 

Detectica founders Dr. Provost and Dr. Ipeirotis are both tenured professors at New York University. Dr. Provost is Professor of Data Science, Andre Meyer Faculty Fellow and the Director of the Fubon Data Analytics & AI Center at the Stern School of Business. Dr. Ipeirotis is a Professor and George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow at the Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at the Stern School of Business. He is also an associated faculty member at the Center for Data Science and Computer Science departments. 

“We’re energized by the opportunity to join the Compass team and assist in transforming the way the real estate industry does business by increasing agent productivity,” said Dr. Provost and Dr. Ipeirotis in a joint statement. “Compass’ proprietary software, scale and talented technical team puts the company in a unique position in the space and we look forward to contributing to the future of the industry.” 

Earlier this month, Compass announced its plans for a new technology hub in India to accelerate software development and deepen tech expertise across the company’s growing suite of real estate technology tools. In the past year Compass also acquired real estate CRM tool Contactually, launched a Seattle tech hub and saw an overall growth of its technical team by 200%. 

Founded in 2012 by Ori Allon and Robert Reffkin, Compass serves more than 14,000 agents across 100+ cities in the United States. By continually iterating on the smartest real estate tech tools built by the brightest minds across engineering, design and strategy, Compass is fundamentally changing how agents and clients navigate the process of finding or selling a home.

About Compass
Compass is a leading tech-enabled real estate services company that includes the largest residential real estate brokerage in the United States by sales volume. Founded in 2012 and based in New York City, Compass provides an end-to-end platform that empowers its residential real estate agents at its owned-brokerage to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. The platform includes an integrated suite of cloud-based software for customer relationship management, marketing, client service, brokerage services, and other critical functionality, all custom-built for the real estate industry. Compass agents utilize the platform to grow their business, save time, and manage their business more efficiently. The Compass network includes Christie's International Real Estate, the world's premier global luxury real estate brand with over 100 independently owned brokerage Affiliates in 50 countries and territories. For more information on how Compass empowers real estate agents, one of the largest groups of small business owners, please visit www.compass.com.