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The air filter that ate the lease
Second Nature began with two students trying to remember an air filter. Now it wants to choreograph the whole rental relationship - lease, insurance, internet, credit score and all.
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.
Rentvine Turned Property Managers’ Least Favorite Chore Into a $74 Million Growth Story
The Florida software company spent years listening to the people who reconcile rent, deposits and owner payouts. Then it built the accounting-first platform they kept asking for - and made switching systems the product’s hardest, most valuable feature.
AppFolio Turned Property Management’s Paper Cuts Into a Billion-Dollar Software Business
The founders walked away from salons and greasy repair-shop keyboards. Twenty years later, their bet on property managers has become a $1 billion-a-year lesson in choosing a market with painful work, sticky data, and customers willing to pay.
Enumerate Is Turning the HOA Back Office Into One Big, Boring Advantage
HOA work is a thicket of invoices, late dues, board questions and bounced emails. Enumerate's bet is that the winner will be the company boring enough to connect every last one of them.
The HOA Software Bet: How CINC Systems Turned Boring Back-Office Work Into an AI Business
CINC Systems spent two decades connecting the unglamorous machinery of HOA management. Now it is using that unusually deep data foundation to automate the invoices, budgets, board packets, and resident requests that make property managers dread Monday morning.
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.
Guesty Turned Airbnb Chaos Into a Control Room - Now It Wants AI to Run the Night Shift
The Soto twins began by doing the chores behind an Airbnb listing. Thirteen years later, Guesty is selling the control room - and betting that an army of software agents can run much of it.
The Most Expensive Thing in Property Management Is the Repair Nobody Can See
Property Meld turned the humble work order into a trail of decisions, messages and measurable outcomes. Now its bet is bigger: that maintenance deserves an operating system of its own.
The Operating System Behind 24 Million Front Doors
RealPage began by putting apartment ledgers online. Now its software reaches from the first leasing inquiry to the final rent payment - and its next act is an AI workforce built for the unglamorous machinery of rental housing.
RentBetter
RentBetter is an Australian proptech company that gives everyday landlords the same tools and services real estate agents use to lease and manage residential property - advertising, tenant screening, digital leases, rent collection, inspections and maintenance - in one online platform, at a fraction of a traditional property manager's cost. Founded in Sydney in 2016 by Jeremy Goldschmidt, it targets the roughly 2.2 million Australians who own investment property and want to self-manage without paying ongoing management fees.
Baselane
Baselane is a New York fintech that gives individual real estate investors and landlords a single place to bank, collect rent, and keep their books. Instead of stitching together a legacy bank account, spreadsheets, an accountant, and consumer payment apps, users open property-specific accounts, collect rent by ACH or card, and let AI categorize transactions into tax-ready reports. The company says its 50,000-plus customers move more than $2 billion in annual transactions and save an average of roughly 150 hours and $5,000 a year.
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.
RentRedi
RentRedi is a mobile-first property management platform that gives independent landlords an all-in-one toolkit to collect rent online, list and market vacancies, screen tenants, sign leases, and coordinate maintenance and accounting - while giving renters an app to pay rent, set up auto-pay, build credit, and submit maintenance requests. Founded in 2016 by father-and-son team Ryan and Ed Barone after Ryan's own frustrating apartment hunt in New York City, the company now serves close to 300,000 landlords and renters and manages more than $33 billion in assets.
Hemlane
Hemlane is a San Francisco-based property management platform that blends software automation with on-the-ground human support to help rental owners and small property managers run long-term rentals from anywhere. It handles advertising and listing syndication, tenant screening, online rent collection, lease signing, 24/7 repair coordination and eviction support, and can connect owners with local licensed agents for showings and inspections - positioning itself between do-it-yourself landlord apps and full-service property management firms.
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.
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.
Leonardo247
Leonardo247 is a cloud-based, mobile-first property operations and maintenance platform built for the multifamily real estate industry. Its software - often referred to as 'Leo' - pushes daily tasks, workflows, inspections, preventative maintenance and compliance procedures to onsite teams so nothing slips through the cracks. Founded in 2014 by industry veteran Daniel Cunningham after a building he managed lost hot water due to a missed maintenance step, the company now counts half of the nation's ten largest multifamily owners and operators among its customers and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies.
Revela
Revela is a Detroit-based proptech company building an all-in-one property management platform that fuses double-entry, GAAP-grade accounting with leasing, maintenance, payments, reporting, and embedded banking. Founded in 2014 by Grant Drzyzga and bootstrapped for nearly a decade before raising a $9M Series A in 2023, Revela aims to bring liquidity and modern software to a historically low-margin, fragmented industry, serving managers of single-family, multifamily, affordable, commercial, and student housing across hundreds of thousands of units.