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Groove wants your building to have one number to call
From hotel televisions to apartment Wi-Fi, Groove Technology Solutions sells a practical promise: one team to install the technology, connect the pieces and pick up the phone.
Lavanda Was a Laundry App. Then the Landlords Called.
A consumer laundry service discovered its best customers were property operators with a stranger problem: empty beds, mismatched software and no clean way to mix hotel-speed stays with residential leases. Lavanda followed the demand and built the operating system instead.
The $149 Gatekeeper Standing Between 5 Million Apartments and a Bad Contractor
NetVendor built a business around the least glamorous risk in real estate: the contractor whose insurance looked fine last month. Its wager is that compliance should stop bad work before it starts - not explain it after the claim.
The $200-a-Month Wedge That Turned Grace Hill Into Property Management’s Operating Layer
Grace Hill began with a stubbornly specific problem: training apartment teams without pulling them off the property. Twenty-eight years and a string of acquisitions later, it is trying to connect what employees learn with what residents actually experience.
He Put the Apartment Tour Inside the Browser
Wojciech Kalembasa turned a mortgage broker's frustration with flat property listings into a visual-media company, a proptech platform, and a 2025 acquisition by Yardi. The useful part of his story is the sequence: listen closely, build the service, then turn the repeated work into software.
The Land Nobody Wanted in 1991 Is Now a 1.8-Gigawatt Bet
Leon Backes started Provident by buying land nobody wanted from failed savings-and-loans. Thirty-plus years and $7.5 billion later, the same patient-money playbook is building a 5,000-acre town and one of Texas's largest data center campuses.
The Company Betting That a Text Beats a Survey
Founded in 2010 with the Mall of America as its first account, Kipsu turned front-desk texting into a real-time engagement engine now used by 1,600+ organizations in about 30 countries.
The Man Who Sold Cars in Caracas Is Now Building Coral Gables the Way George Merrick Dreamed It
Alirio Torrealba spent 25 years selling Fords and Kias in Venezuela. Then he moved to Miami and started building the kind of Coral Gables that George Merrick sketched a century ago - boutique, Mediterranean, and now worth half a billion dollars.
The Real-Estate Firm Betting That Aging Well Is an Operating Business
Livingston Street Capital built a national property portfolio around an unfashionably practical filter: needs before wants. Its wager on active-adult housing shows what happens when demographic conviction meets hands-on operations.
The Cardiologist Who Turned a Single Hotel Into a $3.7 Billion Portfolio
A practicing heart doctor built Encore Enterprises into a diversified real estate and private equity firm that develops apartments, runs emergency rooms and manages dental clinics - all from one office off the Dallas Parkway.
The Studio That Builds AI Companies for the Industries Silicon Valley Skips
A Boston venture studio is manufacturing AI startups for real estate, mortgages, and construction - the messy, high-barrier industries most software founders avoid. Here is how the co-founder model works.
BASE4 - Architects, Engineers, Designers
A Boca Raton firm decided architecture should behave more like a factory than an atelier - so it wired together designers on four continents into a 24-hour workday and pointed the whole thing at one goal: build faster and cheaper.
INTEREL
INTEREL is a Dubai-based smart building technology company that builds the hardware, operating system and IoT infrastructure hotels and multifamily properties use to control HVAC, lighting, shades and guest services from a single connected platform. Its 'Hotel of Things' ecosystem pairs a portfolio of smart thermostats and room controllers with INTEREL OS and the connectBsmart connectivity framework, letting properties automate energy use, integrate door locks, voice assistants and property-management systems, and cut water and power consumption. Founded in 2010, INTEREL has installed roughly 500,000 devices across more than 45 countries and now operates within the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem.
Aerwave
Aerwave is a Texas-based proptech company that designs, deploys and operates next-generation managed Wi-Fi for multifamily residential communities. It delivers property-wide, gigabit-speed internet that is secure and always on, paired with 24/7 domestic support, an owner analytics dashboard, and a capital program that lets property owners deploy infrastructure with no upfront cost. Aerwave works exclusively with real estate owners, developers and operators across the multifamily, build-to-rent, single-family rental and student-housing markets.
Clint Lee
Clint Lee is the co-founder and CEO of OneDay, a Dallas-based SaaS video platform that helps senior living communities, multifamily real estate operators, and funeral homes capture and share personalized video stories. He started the company in 2012 after his grandfather died and the family realized they had almost no video to remember his voice. OneDay has grown to work with thousands of senior living communities across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, raised roughly $24 million across two rounds including a $19M Series B led by Volition Capital in 2021, and has since layered in an AI video assistant called AVA.
Downstream
Downstream is a Dallas-based online marketplace that lets construction contractors rent equipment, book waste hauling, and order jobsite services - dumpsters, porta potties, scissor lifts, forklifts, fencing, mobile offices - from a nationwide network of vetted suppliers. The platform delivers real-time pricing, multiple competing quotes per job, consolidated billing, Net 30 payment terms, and AI agents that read a contractor's rollout sheets or invoices to procure automatically. Founded in 2022 (originally as Trash Gurus), the company raised an $8M Series A in November 2025 co-led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and Moneta Ventures.
Findigs
Findigs is a New York-based proptech company that automates residential tenant screening and leasing decisions. Its AI-native platform verifies applicant identity, income, and documents, detects fraud, and returns instant, data-grounded rent-or-decline decisions with contractual fraud guarantees - helping single-family and multifamily operators fill units faster while cutting evictions and delinquency. Founded in 2018 by Colby College classmates Steve Carroll and Keith Gilvar, Findigs manages screening across 400,000+ residential units and has raised roughly $80 million to date, most recently a $32M Series C in June 2026.
OneDay
OneDay is a Dallas-based B2B SaaS company that helps businesses create, personalize, and automate short videos to build stronger customer relationships and drive sales. Originally built to capture and preserve the life stories of senior living residents, OneDay expanded its video storytelling technology into multifamily real estate and the funeral industry, and now leans on an AI video assistant called AVA for scriptwriting, teleprompting, automated delivery, and engagement analytics. The company partners with thousands of senior living communities across the U.S., U.K., and Canada and has raised roughly $24-25 million to date.
Peek
Peek is a New York-based proptech company building an AI-powered leasing platform for multifamily property owners and operators. It brings e-commerce-style shopping to apartment rentals through unit-level 3D tours, self-guided tours, a conversational AI leasing assistant, and prospect analytics - helping operators lease faster and cut vacancy loss. Founded in 2019 by Austin Lo and Chris Kostoulas, Peek raised a $5M Series A in May 2025 and serves a portfolio spanning hundreds of thousands of units across the U.S.
Qira
Qira is a New York-based financial platform built for residential property managers. It brings security deposits, deposit alternatives, rent payment processing, Pay Later flexible rent, and automated move-out claims into one system that syncs with major property management software and handles compliance across all 50 U.S. states. Formed in October 2021 by the merger of Rentigo and HelloRented, Qira aims to protect owner cash flow while smoothing the money side of renting for residents.
Renew
Renew is a New York-based proptech company that builds an AI-powered resident retention platform for multifamily and single-family rental operators. Founded in 2021 by Rob Hayden and Kevin Murphy, Renew treats the lease-renewal moment as a strategic lever: its software surfaces early churn signals, automates the renewal workflow, and - through the industry's first Resident Referral Network - lets operators keep residents inside their portfolio even when they move. The company raised a $12M Series A in October 2025 to scale the platform.
TestFit
TestFit is a Dallas-based real estate feasibility platform that uses configurator and generative-design algorithms to turn a raw parcel into a buildable site plan, unit mix, parking layout, cost estimate and pro forma in minutes instead of weeks. Founded in 2016 by Clifton Harness and Ryan Griege, it serves developers, architects, contractors, civil engineers and municipalities evaluating multifamily, industrial, retail and mixed-use projects, and has raised $22M including a $20M Series A in 2022.
Tour24
Tour24 is a Boston-based proptech company that gives apartment renters a self-guided way to tour multifamily communities on their own schedule - day or night, with or without a leasing agent present. Its mobile app combines curated audio/visual tour guides, Bluetooth-beacon room tracking, smart-lock access control and an analytics dashboard so property operators can keep leasing 'always open.' Founded in 2020 by serial proptech entrepreneur Georgianna W. Oliver, the platform now serves hundreds of thousands of units across roughly 2,000 U.S. properties and in 2025 added Tori, a conversational AI tour assistant.
TULU
TULU is a proptech company that turns underused lobby and common space in apartment and student-housing buildings into 24/7 on-demand rental hubs. Through IoT-based units and a mobile app, residents can rent or buy brand-name products - from vacuums and e-scooters to VR headsets and household consumables - without owning them. Founded out of MIT's DesignX by Yishai Lehavi and Yael Shemer, the company pairs physical smart units with an AI layer that personalizes inventory per building, and it has served more than 500,000 residents across dozens of cities in North America and Europe.
Ed Wolff
Ed Wolff is the CEO and board member of Aerwave, a Dallas-based company that builds and operates managed Wi-Fi networks for multifamily apartment communities. A multifamily-industry veteran with more than 25 years in real estate and technology, he joined Aerwave in 2024 as president and chief revenue officer before stepping into the CEO role, and has led the company through a Series B raise, expansion across dozens of U.S. markets, and recognition as a Broadband Communities Multifamily Partner of the Year. Wolff's earlier career spans senior roles at LeaseLock, RealPage, Cortland, Pinnacle, and Place Properties.
Georgianna Oliver
Georgianna W. Oliver is the founder and CEO of Tour24, a Massachusetts-based proptech company whose platform lets prospective renters take self-guided, app-driven tours of apartment communities without an on-site leasing agent. A serial entrepreneur with a two-decade track record, she previously built and sold EverGreen Solutions and AptBudget (both to RealPage) and Package Concierge (acquired by Gibraltar Industries). She holds two patents for self-guided tours and has been recognized as a 2024 Mass Technology Leadership Council CEO of the Year honoree and a 2025 Female Trailblazers of SaaS Award winner.
Eleven Software
Eleven Software is a cloud-based managed Wi-Fi platform built for hospitality, multifamily, and community connectivity. Its flagship product, ElevenOS, lets hotel brands, apartment operators, and telecom carriers centrally manage guest and resident Wi-Fi across multiple properties, devices, and hardware vendors - handling authentication, branded onboarding, loyalty integration, tiered bandwidth, and real-time analytics without replacing existing infrastructure. Founded in 2001 and now based in Las Vegas, Eleven serves brands like Marriott, Accor, and carriers such as AT&T and Charter.
Minna Song
Minna Song is the cofounder and CEO of EliseAI, a New York company that builds conversational AI for property managers and, more recently, healthcare providers. She started the company in 2017 after taking a front-desk job at a real estate firm to see the workflow up close, and in 2025 raised a $250 million Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.2 billion valuation. EliseAI now serves roughly 70-75% of the fifty largest U.S. rental operators and crossed $200 million in annual recurring revenue.
Or Bokobza
Or Bokobza is co-founder and CEO of Venn, a New York-headquartered proptech company that builds a resident-experience operating system for multifamily property owners. He founded Venn in 2017 with fellow Israeli special-forces veterans Chen Avni and David Sherez after a hands-on urban revitalization experiment in Tel Aviv's Shapira neighborhood. Venn now operates across dozens of cities in the US and Europe and, as of late 2025, has raised roughly $140M in venture funding.
Rob Hayden
Rob Hayden is the CEO and co-founder of Renew, a New York based AI powered retention platform for multifamily and single family rental operators. He co-founded the company in 2021 with Kevin Murphy after both worked together at rental insurance startup Jetty. In October 2025 Renew closed a $12 million Series A led by Haymaker Ventures with participation from Goldcrest Capital and Upfront Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $20 million and financing the launch of the industry's first Resident Referral Network.