Commercial real estate finance is a multi-trillion-dollar market that, for decades, ran on personal rolodexes, phone calls, and PDFs. A single deal - financing an apartment complex, an office tower, a shopping center - could take upwards of 100 days to close. Lev's founding bet, made in 2019, was that the software could do the chasing instead of the humans.
Lev combines what it describes as the industry's largest source of real-time commercial real estate data with purpose-built AI. The platform gives sponsors and brokers instant access to thousands of lenders, lets them compare offers and rates, and structures the mountain of unstructured information every deal generates - calls, emails, documents - so a transaction can move forward faster.
What began as a tech-enabled brokerage has since become something broader: a CRE-native platform of apps, AI agents, and data. The company says its approach closes loans up to three times faster than traditional methods, and by 2021 it was closing nearly $1 billion in mortgages on the platform - roughly a tenfold jump year over year.
The tagline is characteristically direct: Lev exists, it says, to help commercial real estate professionals become "superhuman."
"Lev combines the industry's largest source of real-time commercial real estate data with purpose-built AI to transform the way sponsors and brokers run deals."
- Lev, company description
