Itay Oren

Itay Oren runs Visitt, an AI-native property operations platform that now sits behind the daily work of roughly 10,000 commercial buildings. In January 2026 his company raised a $22 million Series B to chase a single, unglamorous idea: give property teams one interface, with AI at the core, instead of the tangle of legacy tools they have lived with for decades.

The pitch is deceptively plain. Commercial real estate is enormous, and yet the software that keeps a building running - work orders, preventive maintenance, compliance, visitor access, tenant requests - has stayed fragmented and dated. Oren's argument, repeated across investor decks and interviews, is that this fragmentation is not a minor annoyance. It is the problem.

A problem he lived before he solved

Visitt did not begin as a thesis on a whiteboard. Before founding the company in 2017, Oren worked in business development for two real estate firms in Israel. That is where the frustration took shape - watching building teams stitch together disconnected tools to do basic operational work, and seeing how much time leaked out of the seams.

"What are the solutions that we can actually bring into these spaces, and how can we increase operations and make things more efficient?" he told Commercial Observer. "That's how we started Visitt, from a real need." He built the company with Idan Wender, who runs technology as CTO, and Jonathan Kroll, who leads product as CPO. From the start it was dual-homed between New York and Tel Aviv, one foot in the US market it wanted to win and one in the engineering base where it grew.

The timing bet

Founding a proptech company in 2017 meant being early - years before AI was ready to do the heavy lifting Oren imagined. That patience is now the story's payoff. As large owners and operators started ripping out legacy systems, Visitt was already positioned as an AI-first option rather than an old tool with a chatbot bolted on.

The numbers Oren cites for 2025 are unusual: managed square footage grew by more than 900 percent, and the platform now spans more than 310 cities and 10,000 properties. In June 2026 the company said it would deploy across roughly 46 million square feet of BGO's Canadian portfolio, about 300 properties - the kind of enterprise footprint that signals the product has moved past early adopters.

What the platform actually does

Strip away the AI framing and Visitt is a consolidation play. It folds work orders, preventive and predictive maintenance, compliance, tenant communications, equipment tracking, security, amenities and finance into one place. The AI layer is meant to sit on top of that operational core, turning scattered building data into next actions for the people on the ground.

Oren is careful about how he frames the money. "This investment allows us to accelerate innovation while staying true to how we operate: as true partners with our customers," he said when the Series B closed. The round was led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, with Vertex Ventures Israel, Anfield and Sarona Ventures joining. Reported total funding sits around $35 million.

The read on the market

Oren's optimism is grounded in a shift he says he can feel in sales conversations. "Owners and operators are now replacing their legacy systems and trying to adopt AI, and faster than what we saw before," he told Commercial Observer. "It's great timing and a great thing for the company." When teams see what the AI can do for their property staff, he added, the objection tends to fall away: "then they say, 'OK, we want to engage with your solution.'"

He expects that curve to steepen. "I expect 2026, and the years to come, to have even more adoption of AI." For a founder who spent the first stretch of his company waiting for the market to catch up, that is less a prediction than a description of what he already sees landing on his desk.