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The Landlord Betting That America Still Needs to Buy Milk in Person
While the internet was busy declaring the shopping center dead, a West Palm Beach firm quietly assembled 14 million square feet of the stuff - and keeps selling it at a profit.
Cushman & Wakefield
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.
Lenk
Lenk is a Latin American loan-origination platform that lets banks, financial entities, and fintechs digitize the entire credit lifecycle - from lead capture and onboarding to underwriting and disbursement. Its white-label, modular software automates commercial, consumer, mortgage, automotive, and leasing credit with configurable workflows and dozens of pre-built integrations to regional registries and bureaus. Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator (W22), Lenk says it serves 20+ institutions across three countries, processing roughly 500,000 applications and $2B in transactions a year.
Palomma
Palomma is a Medellin-based fintech building an AI-native banking platform for real estate in Latin America, starting with rent. It deploys AI agents that handle leasing, sales, and collections for property managers across WhatsApp, SMS, and phone calls 24/7, then layers on payment collection and disbursement to own the flow of rent and monetize it through credit and insurance products. Founded in the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch, the company originally launched as a frictionless Pay-by-Bank API for LatAm merchants before pivoting to real estate.