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Junaith Shahabdeen Put Machine Learning to Work in the Messy Middle
Long before agentic AI became a boardroom phrase, the Zan Compute co-founder was wiring sensors, software and practical economics into the overlooked routines that keep buildings usable.
The Building Knows What’s Wrong. CIM Makes Sure Someone Fixes It.
Most smart-building software stops at the alert. CIM’s PEAK platform follows the problem from noisy sensor data to diagnosis, assignment and proof of repair - giving property teams a practical route to lower bills, fewer breakdowns and better-performing buildings.
The $4.50 Cleaning Bet That Now Runs 6 Billion Square Feet a Day
ABM began with a bucket, a sponge, a mop and $4.50. Today it sells something far more complicated: the promise that airports depart, data centers stay awake and ballparks are ready before the gates open.
Daisy
Daisy is an AI-native property management company for condos, co-ops and HOAs, founded in 2020 in New York City. It replaces the manual workflows and patchwork of tools legacy managers rely on with a single platform that unifies building finances, maintenance requests, compliance, board decisions and resident communication. Pairing proactive human managers with automation and AI agents, Daisy manages more than 4,000 units across nearly 200 buildings in NYC and has begun expanding into New Jersey, with a stated goal of national and global reach by the end of the decade.
HqO
HqO is a Boston-based property-technology company that builds a real estate experience (REX) software platform for commercial landlords and their tenants. Its platform combines a tenant app, an analytics and intelligence suite, a partner marketplace, and building-operations tools so office owners can measure and improve how people experience their buildings. Founded in 2018, HqO powers hundreds of properties and hundreds of millions of square feet across dozens of countries, and works with major landlords including Hines, Vornado, JLL, JP Morgan and Alexandria Real Estate Equities.
Visitt
Visitt is an AI-native commercial real estate property operations platform that consolidates work orders, preventive maintenance, inspections, tenant communications, compliance and finance into a single interface. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, it serves owners, operators and onsite teams managing office, industrial, multifamily, retail and data-center portfolios. In January 2026 the company raised a $22M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, following a year in which it grew square footage under management by more than 900%.
Itay Oren
Itay Oren is the co-founder and CEO of Visitt, an AI-native property operations platform for commercial real estate. He started the company in 2017 after working in business development for real estate firms in Israel, where he saw first-hand how fragmented and outdated building operations software had become. Under Oren, Visitt has grown to more than 150 customers across 310-plus cities and 10,000 properties, positioning itself as an early mover in embedding AI directly into the day-to-day work of property teams. In January 2026 the company raised a $22 million Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity to build what Oren calls a single AI interface for CRE operations.
Snapfix
Snapfix is a Dublin-founded, photo-first maintenance and operations platform that turns messy building management into a stream of simple photos, tags, messages, and red-yellow-green traffic lights. Built for hotels, facilities, universities, and manufacturing sites, it lets frontline teams raise a work order by snapping a photo or scanning a QR code, then track it to completion at a glance. Founded in 2019 by software engineer and property manager Paul McCarthy, Snapfix counts Hilton, Marriott, Radisson, OCS, and DHL among its users and has raised roughly $3.76M-$4.76M in funding on a mission to become the maintenance platform for the world.