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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.
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.
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.
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.
Cobu
Cobu is a Boston-based proptech company that turns apartment residents into a real community - and turns that community into occupancy. Its resident-powered, AI-enabled platform runs building-wide chats, interest groups, in-person events, and always-on Google review and referral outreach, backed by a team of virtual community managers. For renters it fights isolation; for owners and operators it drives signed leases, higher renewals, better online reputation, and less busywork for on-site teams. Founded in 2018 as Doorbell, Cobu is used across dozens of U.S. states and by many of the country's largest multifamily operators.
EVmatch
EVmatch is a California-based cleantech company that builds software and services to make electric-vehicle charging affordable, shared, and reservable - especially for the hardest places to electrify, like apartment complexes, condos, and commercial properties. Founded out of a UC Santa Barbara master's thesis, the company began as a peer-to-peer marketplace letting home charger owners rent out their stations and has grown into a full EV charging management platform that pairs reservation software, load management, and rebate-navigation services so property owners can deploy charging without straining budgets.
Nutiliti
Nutiliti is a software-plus-service utility management platform that lets property managers and owners hand off the tedious work of turning utilities on and off, retrieving and paying bills, billing tenants back, and reconciling the accounting. Founded in 2020, the company pairs a REST API and dashboard with dedicated human account managers, aiming to collapse work that once took 80-plus hours a month into a couple of hours while protecting portfolio NOI. It serves single-family, multifamily, and commercial operators across the United States.
Propexo
Propexo is a Boston-based proptech startup building the unified API and data platform for multifamily real estate. Often described as 'Plaid for commercial real estate,' Propexo lets software developers and property operators connect to 130+ property management systems - like Yardi, RealPage, AppFolio, Entrata, and Buildium - through a single, normalized API and no-code sync tool. What once took teams of engineers months to build, Propexo delivers in days, with standardized data models, webhooks, and enterprise-grade security. Founded in 2022 and a Y Combinator W2023 alum, it raised a $3.3M seed round led by Prudence in October 2023.
Public Grid
Public Grid is a climate-tech company building a software layer on top of the existing electric grid so households can switch to renewable energy and find savings without hardware, paperwork, or gatekeeping. Its platform sits on top of a user's utility account, brokers bulk green-energy contracts, applies local incentives, and surfaces cleaner, cheaper options in one click. Founded in 2022 (originally as Cottage Energy) and based in New York City, Public Grid says it serves 25,000+ households and is backed by Redbud VC and Hamilton Ventures.
Rentana
Rentana is an AI-powered revenue intelligence platform for multifamily real estate owners and operators. It replaces spreadsheet-driven pricing with real-time, unit-level recommendations - optimizing rents, amenity values, marketing specials, and lease renewals in one platform. Founded in 2023 by a team out of Stripe, Airtable, Airbnb, and AppFolio and led by ex-Two Sigma investor Julie Blanc, Rentana raised a $5M seed round in 2025 and reports outcomes like millions in added property value and roughly 10 hours saved per property each week.
Brilliant Smart Home
Brilliant Smart Home (Brilliant NextGen, Inc.) makes smart home control simple by replacing a wall of light switches with an in-wall touchscreen that runs lighting, climate, music, intercom, cameras, and smart devices from one panel and one app. Founded in 2015 in San Mateo, California, the company sells control panels, smart dimmer switches, and smart plugs to homeowners, home builders, and multifamily property managers. After a 2024 bankruptcy and acquisition by Almeida Strategic Investments, it relaunched as Brilliant NextGen with a builder-and-integrator focus and a second-generation Power over Ethernet platform.