# Lev

> Lev is a New York-based software company building an AI-native platform for commercial real estate (CRE). Founded in 2019 by Yaakov Zar, it started as a tech-enabled financing marketplace connecting property sponsors and brokers with thousands of lenders, then evolved into a purpose-built system of apps, AI agents, and data that helps CRE professionals manage relationships, deals, documents, and lender outreach. Lev combines one of the industry's largest sources of real-time lender and market data with agentic automation that ingests calls, emails, and unstructured files to move deals forward faster.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Yaakov Zar (Co-Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~95 employees
- **Products:** Lev Agent, Lender Search, Lev Match, Lev Memo, Lev API / Platform
- **Notable:** Raised over $200M total (Crunchbase lists ~$214.8M) across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds., Closed nearly $1B in commercial real estate mortgages on the platform in 2021, up ~10x year over year., Built real-time and historical data coverage for 4,000+ lenders nationwide.

## Products & services

- **Lev Agent** — AI agents that gather information across a user's touchpoints - calls, emails, documents - then structure and aggregate it to move deals forward.
- **Lender Search** — Access to real-time and historical data for 4,000+ lenders nationwide, including current programs and verified contacts across lending divisions.
- **Lev Match** — AI-powered lender matching and scoring that pairs a deal with the lenders most likely to fund it.
- **Lev Memo** — Automated generation of credit, debt, equity, investment, and deal materials from source data, files, and approvals.
- **Lev API / Platform** — A CRE-native platform with 50+ plugins so teams can solve a single workflow without migrating their entire operating system.

## Achievements

- Raised over $200M total (Crunchbase lists ~$214.8M) across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds.
- Closed nearly $1B in commercial real estate mortgages on the platform in 2021, up ~10x year over year.
- Built real-time and historical data coverage for 4,000+ lenders nationwide.
- Founder Yaakov Zar named a 2024 'Ones to Watch - Innovator in CRE' by the New York Real Estate Journal.
- Reports closing CRE loans up to 3x faster than the traditional 100+ day process.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — CEO Yaakov Zar joined the Commercial Observer podcast to discuss how CRE is implementing agentic workflows with Lev.
- **2025** — Lev repositioned from a financing marketplace into a unified AI platform organized as apps, agents, data, and a plugin ecosystem (50+ plugins).
- **2022-05** — Announced $170M in new funding ($70M equity Series B + $100M debt) from Parker89, Cross River Digital Ventures and others.

## Links

- Website: https://www.lev.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lev/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/levsoftware
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/levsoftware/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Lev-Capital-272451016103237/

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Last updated: 2026-07-19