Grotto AI

Grotto AI builds an AI coaching platform for multifamily leasing teams, listening in on calls and tours and nudging agents in real time toward the behaviors - curiosity, rapport, a well-timed laugh - that its data shows actually close leases. Founded in 2025 by Nick Deveau and Ben Epstein, veterans of the AI-in-insurance startup EvolutionIQ, the company raised a $10 million seed round led by ICONIQ Capital in February 2026 and already runs on portfolios for operators like Weidner Apartment Homes.