A 108-year-old brokerage that started managing Manhattan skyscrapers now moves $9.4 billion of real estate advice a year - and quietly runs the buildings you work in.
PropRise is a San Francisco AI company (YC S23) building software for institutional commercial real estate teams. Its two live products, Primer and Beacon, automate the Excel-heavy grind of dealmaking: Primer turns offering memos, rent rolls and T-12s into underwriting models with every number cited back to its source, while Beacon scans roughly 450,000 U.S. trade areas to surface self-storage sites that match a firm's buy-box. Founded by ex-Stripe machine-learning and engineering leads, PropRise is used by teams behind $50B+ in CRE, including Bain Capital, Colliers and Public Storage.
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.
BeyondView is a San Francisco proptech company that builds photorealistic, interactive digital twins of commercial real estate. Using computer vision, machine learning and deep learning on a cloud platform, it turns blueprints and photos into virtual spec-suites - so owners, brokers and operators can whitebox vacant space, reposition properties, run remote walkthroughs and manage portfolios without physical staging or on-site scans. Founded by former Wikimedia executive Kul Wadhwa and staffed with veterans of Pixar, Electronic Arts, Marvel and Stanford's HSTAR Lab, BeyondView counts WeWork Japan, Healthpeak, Ventas and other large landlords among its customers.