Radiate Hospitality is a Palo Alto-based hotel and real-estate management company that develops, renovates, and operates a portfolio of boutique and branded hotels across the West Coast. Formerly known as BPR Properties, the firm runs 11 hotels with roughly 988 rooms - from the Autograph Collection Hi-Lo Hotel in Portland to the Crowne Plaza Cabana in Palo Alto - guided by a mission of 'passionately creating a sense of belonging.'
The John Stewart Company (JSCo) is a San Francisco-based, full-service affordable and mixed-income housing organization. Founded in 1978 by John Stewart, it has grown into one of California's largest affordable housing managers, handling roughly 31,000 units across the state through integrated property management, development, construction, and financial services - with a parallel mission of delivering resident services and supportive housing for vulnerable populations.
Danny Shader is the founder and CEO of PayNearMe, a Santa Clara-based fintech platform that processes over $50 billion annually for more than 20,000 businesses. A serial entrepreneur whose previous ventures were acquired by Amazon, Motorola, and Netscape, Shader built PayNearMe from a niche cash-payment network into PayXM, the industry's first full-stack Payment Experience Management platform. Backed by $245 million in total funding including a $50M Series E in September 2025, he has spent 15+ years turning a deceptively simple problem - helping the cash-dependent and underbanked pay their bills - into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise payments category.
Vendoroo is an AI-powered property maintenance coordination platform that automates the full lifecycle of maintenance work orders for property managers. By combining AI triage, vendor management, and workflow automation, Vendoroo eliminates up to 95% of manual maintenance coordination tasks, enabling property managers to handle more units with less staff. Their platform includes a 24/7 AI virtual front desk, automated work order routing and vendor scheduling, and deep integrations with leading property management systems like Rent Manager and Rentvine.
Cameron Steele is the Co-Founder and CEO of Prophia, an AI-powered data intelligence platform for commercial real estate that manages over 330 million square feet of assets. With a 30-year career spanning Oracle, Royal Bank of Canada, private equity, buuteeq (sold to Booking Holdings for $135M), OpenTable, and Booking.com, Steele brings rare cross-disciplinary depth to PropTech. He co-founded Prophia in 2018 to fix what he identified as a fundamental data crisis in one of the world's largest asset classes - an industry where 53% of rent rolls contain material financial errors and leading firms were still managing contractual data with pre-internet manual services.
Reza Keshavarzi is the Founder and CEO of Vendoroo, a San Francisco-based AI startup that automates maintenance coordination for property managers. A Harvard-trained engineer who previously built WipeHero and Tulu, Reza turned a childhood memory of watching his father struggle with property maintenance costs into a mission to put AI in charge of the front desk. Vendoroo now processes millions of maintenance workflows, cutting work order backlogs by 42% for its clients.
Wayline is an AI voice and text platform purpose-built for property managers. Branded as 'Operator,' it replaces the receptionist, leasing agent, and maintenance coordinator with a single always-on AI that answers calls and texts 24/7, converts leads, books showings, triages maintenance requests, dispatches vendors, and closes tickets - all without a human lifting the phone. Backed by Y Combinator (S25) and built by two repeat founders with deep roots in real estate and enterprise software, Wayline targets the 46 million rental units in the US where overworked property teams are perpetually one missed call away from a vacancy.