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Nick Ornitz
Nick Ornitz is the co-founder and CEO of Topline Pro, a New York-based company building generative-AI software for home service professionals - roofers, painters, landscapers, cleaners and electricians. He started the company with Shannon Kay after the two met at Harvard Business School and dropped out to build it, pivoting from an earlier video-consult idea called ProPhone after Y Combinator. Topline Pro now positions itself as a full-time AI team that runs the marketing, sales and operations of a trade business in the background, and has driven more than $655 million in booked work for customers across all 50 states. Ornitz raised a $27M Series B led by Northzone in 2025, bringing total funding to $44M, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Enterprise Technology list in 2023.
Topline Pro
Topline Pro is a New York-based software company that builds an AI-powered platform for home service businesses - landscapers, roofers, painters, plumbers and other trades. It bundles a custom website, local SEO, review collection, social posting, lead follow-up, online booking, CRM, and invoicing into a single subscription, run by AI agents that handle marketing, sales, and operations so owners can stay in the field. Founded in 2020 by Nick Ornitz and Shannon Kay (Y Combinator W21), the company has helped pros book more than $655 million in work and raised a $27M Series B in 2025.