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JLL Is Turning the World’s Buildings Into a Living Data Set
The 243-year-old property adviser still brokers leases and sells buildings. Its larger bet is that the data flowing through 250,000 properties can make real estate less wasteful, less risky and far more legible.
The Orange Doors That Turn Life’s Overflow Into a $4.8 Billion Business
Public Storage built a national business around the awkward months when people have more life than room. Now a new leadership team is using software, data science and a much larger portfolio to decide what the familiar orange doors become next.
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.
BradyPLUS
BradyPLUS built a nearly $5 billion distribution platform around the things businesses cannot run out of - soap, takeout containers, stretch film and the know-how to use them. Then it merged again, turning an unglamorous supply cabinet into a revealing lesson in modern scale.
TOPdesk
TOPdesk helps busy service teams handle incoming requests, automatically assign tasks to the right people, and see who's doing what - so you can stay ahead instead of just keeping up.
Munjz | FM & PM Technology
Munjz is a Riyadh-based proptech company that builds cloud-native facility- and property-management software for the Saudi market. Founded in 2017 as a consumer maintenance marketplace, it pivoted to B2B SaaS in late 2021 and now runs Munjz Connect, an Arabic-first CAFM and PMS platform that unifies work orders, assets, vendors, tenants, and finances for property operators, government bodies, and chains such as McDonald's, Dunkin', and DHL. The company raised a $5 million Series A in 2023 led by regional proptech and real-estate investors.
PlanRadar
PlanRadar is a Vienna-based SaaS platform that digitizes construction and real estate project management. Its mobile and web apps let site teams pin defect and task tickets directly onto digital plans and BIM models, capture photos, video and voice notes, assign work, and generate reports - replacing paper checklists and scattered spreadsheets. Founded in 2013, it serves more than 170,000 users across 75+ countries.
Smarten Spaces
Smarten Spaces is a Singapore-founded proptech company that builds AI, IoT and big-data software for managing hybrid workplaces and commercial real estate. Its flagship platform - marketed as Jumpree and, more recently, SpaceOnAI - lets enterprises book desks and meeting rooms on 3D floor maps, forecast space demand, roster teams, and analyze how offices are actually used. Founded in 2017 by former Cisco India president Dinesh Malkani, the company serves Fortune 500 clients across 30+ countries and integrates deeply with Microsoft Teams.
Cubby
Cubby is an AI-native software platform built specifically for the self-storage industry. Founded in 2022 by Matt Engfer and Adam Fleming and headquartered in New York City, it replaces the sector's aging legacy systems with a single operating platform that unifies facility management, online rentals, revenue management, call handling and autonomous Voice AI. Cubby now serves more than 400 operators managing roughly 450,000 units across North America, and in January 2026 raised a $63 million Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
Lambent
Lambent is a Boston-based B2B software company that turns existing Wi-Fi and sensor data into anonymous, predictive occupancy and space-utilization analytics. Its SaaS platform, Lambent Spaces, helps space planners at colleges, universities and corporate campuses understand how buildings are actually used - without installing new hardware or tracking individuals - so they can make data-driven decisions about renovations, capacity, energy use and real estate. Founded in 2017 as Armored Things and rebranded to Lambent in 2022, the company works with customers including the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and partners such as Siemens, Planon and HPE Aruba Networks.
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.
Ingenium LA
Ingenium is an independent engineering, consulting and operations firm specializing in mission-critical data centers across Latin America. Founded in Costa Rica in 2008, it acts as a vendor-agnostic trusted advisor that plans, designs, builds, certifies and operates high-availability digital infrastructure. The firm has worked on more than 150 data center projects in over 20 countries and holds one of the region's largest rosters of engineers accredited by the Uptime Institute, BICSI, LEED, PMI and ISO - including work on Latin America's first Tier IV design certification.
Matt Engfer
Matt Engfer is the co-founder and CEO of Cubby, an AI-native operating platform for self-storage facilities based in New York. After stints in enterprise client success at commercial real estate software firm VTS and an art-sales side hustle that put him inside three storage units and left him baffled by the industry's technology, he started Cubby in 2022 with Adam Fleming. Cubby now serves more than 400 operators managing over 500,000 units across the U.S. and Canada, and raised a $63M Series A led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives in early 2026.
Prefix
Prefix is a New York-based facility management platform for multi-site restaurant and retail operators. It acts as the connective layer between brands and local service technicians - coordinating on-demand and preventive repairs across HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing and electrical, and managing the full job lifecycle from request to invoice. With AI-powered vendor management and 24/7 support, Prefix says it delivers roughly 3x efficiency gains and 15%+ cost savings for the nearly 2,000 locations it serves.
Revert Technologies
Revert Technologies is a Maine-based climate-tech company that helps businesses cut electricity waste by turning things off. Its plug-and-play smart plugs and surge protectors pair with a cloud AI platform that learns usage patterns and utility prices to automatically manage plug loads, kill phantom power, and report energy and carbon savings. Born at Yale and hardened through the Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator, Revert turns the boring problem of standby power into measurable savings and lower emissions.
Jared Schwartzentruber
Jared Schwartzentruber is the founder and CEO of Prefix, a New York facility management platform that keeps the ovens, freezers, and HVAC humming for multi-site restaurant and retail chains like Chipotle, Bojangles, and Famous Footwear. A mechanical engineer trained at Purdue and Columbia, he traded bio-inspired robotics and a healthcare startup for the deeply unglamorous world of broken walk-in coolers, wagering that agentic AI plus a real service layer can cut a chain's maintenance costs by more than 15%. In April 2026 Prefix raised a $7.5M seed round to push toward 10,000 locations.
MaintainX
MaintainX is a mobile-first, AI-powered maintenance and asset management platform (CMMS/EAM) used by frontline industrial teams to replace paper work orders, prevent equipment downtime, and run safer, more predictable operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves 11,000+ companies and manages over 11 million assets across manufacturing, facilities, food & beverage and distribution.
Dan Ryan
Dan Ryan is the CEO and Co-Founder of VergeSense, the leading occupancy intelligence platform transforming how global enterprises manage their real estate. A serial entrepreneur with a track record in hardware-software integration, Ryan previously co-founded ByteLight (LED-based indoor positioning, acquired by Acuity Brands in 2015) before launching VergeSense in 2017 through Y Combinator. Under his leadership, VergeSense has grown to serve 200+ Fortune 500 companies across 140 million square feet in 50+ countries, raising $82.6 million including a $60M Series C in 2021. Ryan is based in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area and is recognized as a pioneer at the intersection of physical and digital worlds, building AI-powered tools that help companies make data-driven decisions about office space, sustainability, and hybrid work strategy.
Michael DeLacey
Michael DeLacey is the US CEO of Symetri, the global AECO and manufacturing technology consultancy he helped build from a two-person New England Autodesk reseller in 1994 into a 500-person organization spanning the US and Europe. As co-founder of Microdesk — which Symetri acquired in 2022 and rebranded in 2023 — DeLacey has spent three decades embedding building information modeling, enterprise asset management, and cloud-based digital workflows into the design, construction, and operations practices of architects, engineers, and manufacturers. His conviction: teach people to fish, not fish for them.