The smart home was supposed to belong to the homeowner. Somewhere along the way, the home stopped being private. One Raven launched to rebuild the smart home around a different premise: what happens inside the home should stay inside the home.
Backed by a $5M seed round led by Fifth Wall, One Raven is the first privacy-focused smart home platform built from the hardware up—every component, every line of code, designed to keep the home’s intelligence inside the home. At its center is the One Raven Home Server, which allows every device to run locally and keeps homeowner data on the home network. Homeowners can securely access and manage the system remotely, with no subscriptions, no hidden fees, and no behavioral data quietly monetized in the background.
The One Raven system pairs the Home Server with smart devices that work without sending the home’s data to the cloud. Homeowners can configure each home with the devices they want—including thermostats, locks, leak detection and security sensors—and every system arrives pre-paired and factory-configured. The full system already knows itself before the box is opened.
The promise of the smart home was simple: your house, smarter.
What arrived instead was a fragmented maze of apps, recurring subscriptions, cloud dependencies, and privacy policies buried in legal language. Devices lose functionality when the internet goes down, when a company changes its pricing model, or when a feature moves behind a higher subscription tier. Homeowners didn’t agree to rent the intelligence inside their own homes. Too often, that is what they got.
“We spent a decade building the smart home for the Renters and Commercial Owners of multifamily portfolios. One Raven is for every homeowner who wants a modern living experience while maintaining their privacy,” said Lucas Haldeman, co-founder and CEO.
This shift is arriving at a moment when consumers are increasingly concerned about privacy and longevity of connected devices. A November 2024 Federal Trade Commission staff report found that 89% of smart products surveyed failed to disclose how long they would receive software updates. Meanwhile, 81% of Americans say they are concerned about how companies use their data, according to Pew Research Center.
Your home is yours. Your data should be too.
