A North East online home design start-up, which featured on Channel 4’s Love It or List It, has secured £370,000 worth of investment to support its “aggressive” growth plans.
Peek Home was established by North Shields husband-and-wife team Roland and Jaemi Glancy, who originally started helping their friends to visualise the potential for their homes with sketch designs and 3D models.
Word quickly spread through their kids’ school WhatsApp group, and the hobby quickly became a full-time endeavour, with the pair launching Peek Home as a business in August 2021.
The business offers add-on products including 3D walkthroughs, VR home tours and exterior visualisations, and has now designed thousands of home renovations from across the UK with a total project value approaching £100m.
Angel investor Simon Murdoch (Zoopla, Shazam, Carwow) led the investment round, with £200,000 secured from the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund, and managed by Northstar Ventures.
Jaemi Glancy said: “When we started offering to create layouts to help friends imagine how their homes could be, we were blown away by their positive reactions. We’re thrilled to offer a more affordable and accessible way for homeowners to visualise the potential for their home. With this investment, we look forward to helping many more people across the UK and ultimately internationally too.”
Lead investor Murdoch added: “When I first met the Peek Home team I was impressed with the progress they had made by bootstrapping the business for the first year, I have invested with a view to helping Peek Home aim higher with many more services to people extending their homes or even building from scratch.”
