Scott Fouser

Scott Fouser is a Portland, Oregon-based serial entrepreneur, salesperson, and commercial real estate operator with more than two decades in the real estate industry. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Pepperdine University. In 1999 he founded RealNet Investments LLC, a commercial real estate investment firm that structures deals across multiple asset classes with a thesis of creating significant near-term value, recapitalizing, and holding for long-term cash flow. Under his leadership RealNet grew to over $40 million in annual revenue and owned/operated assets across eight states, earning back-to-back spots on the Inc. 500/5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. (#298 in 2007 and #82 in 2008).

Fouser is a repeat founder in the real estate and home-services technology space. He founded and served as CEO of GruntWorks, Inc. (launched 2011), a web-based marketplace that connected homeowners with local service professionals for home repair, maintenance, and improvement — homeowners could submit a job request and a personal home assistant would return bids from qualified contractors. GruntWorks was later acquired by Househappy. He was also President and Co-Founder of LeaseEasy, where he oversaw product development and customer acquisition for a resident-screening application built for apartment operators.

At Househappy — a Portland-based technology platform (founded 2011) that gives homeowners a "home concierge" for maintenance and improvement needs and helps real estate agents and lenders stay in front of their homeowner-clients — Fouser has served as Chief Revenue Officer and as Founder of Househappy Home Services, the division providing customized support for home repair, maintenance, and improvement. Househappy operates a freemium model (free tier plus a $99 "Househappy Plus" upgrade) alongside a "Househappy Protect" home-warranty product and B2B partnership programs for agents and lenders.

More recently, Fouser has moved into insurance technology as an executive at Rover AI (roverai.co), a tech-enabled insurance marketplace that helps advisors and TPAs shop self-funded health insurance plans using AI/ML-powered predictive analytics to model disease onset, progression, and future cost. His title there is listed variously as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy Officer across sources.

• Primarily an operator-founder and commercial real estate investor rather than a high-volume angel; his capital and expertise concentrate on real estate and home-services/PropTech ventures he builds or leads.
• RealNet's stated approach: structure commercial real estate investments "to create significant near-term value, recapitalize, and hold for long-term cash flow" across a variety of asset classes.
• Deep domain focus on real estate technology, home maintenance/home-services marketplaces, resident screening, and insurance technology — the sectors where he has founded companies.
• Early/seed-stage orientation, consistent with his history of founding and co-founding startups (GruntWorks, LeaseEasy, Househappy Home Services) in Portland.
• Values founders who pair a sales and revenue-growth engine with product — his own career centers on customer acquisition, client retention, and revenue leadership.