Our Story… so far
A tale of curiosity, experience, trial, error, success and growth into an evolving marketplace.
Betterview was founded in 2014 by David Lyman and David Tobias. David Tobias was born into the insurance industry having grown up in the family business of performing property inspections. Realizing that the number one most problematic part of any property was the roof, he teamed up with his fellow Bay Area friend, David Lyman, to find a solution. David Lyman is a repeat startup founder with a deep background in enterprise software.

Betterview is quickly becoming essential to every transaction around buildings and properties by making every property thoroughly understood. We provide software and services that capture, organize, and analyze data for buildings and properties to unlock valuable insight.
Betterview is the only property data platform that informs every transaction for decision-makers who want to reduce risk, cost & waste in an increasingly competitive environment.
Every day, our team is focused on the needs of our customers. We strive to earn your trust by providing valuable, accurate insight around buildings and properties that are important to your business. It is important to us that we provide our customers with information that is not only useful to their business decisions, but that is easy to use. To achieve that we combine high quality human interactions with sleek, intuitive design. We are pioneers on the journey alongside our customers who are transforming the way they do business with data-driven decision-making.

Betterview Timeline
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2011
28-11-2011
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Co-founder Dave Tobias experiments with painter poles to attain roof imagery.
01-01-2011
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2014
28-11-2012
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SEPTEMBER
Our founders start inspecting roofs with drones.
01-09-2014
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DECEMBER
Betterview Founded
01-12-2014
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2015
01-01-2015
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JULY
Entered 500 startups Accelerator
01-07-2015
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2016
01-01-2016
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SEPTEMBER
100th property inspection using drones
01-09-2016
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DECEMBER
First use of aerial imagery and machine-learning (Gatlinburg Fires)
01-09-2016
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2017
01-01-2017
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JUNE
First SaaS Customer
01-06-2017
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JULY
Re-brand / Evolution of Vision
01-07-2017
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AUGUST
Maiden RE becomes strategic investor
01-07-2017
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2018
01-01-2018
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FEBRUARY
Nationwide becomes strategic investor
01-02-2018
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APRIL
LC360 Integration
01-04-2018
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OCTOBER
Guidewire Integration
01-10-2018
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2019
01-01-2019
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JANUARY
ManchesterStory and EMC Insurance become investors
01-01-2019
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JUNE
Brian Desmond, CMO of Guidewire, joins Board
01-06-2019