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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.
The $41 Million Closing Machine Hidden Inside Your Home Deal
OS National turned the least photogenic part of real estate - title, escrow and settlement - into a national operating system. Then a three-year customer paid $41 million to bring the machinery in-house.
The $2 Billion Home-Repair Machine Hiding Behind Your Broken Dishwasher
Frontdoor built a recurring-revenue business around the moment an air conditioner, water heater or refrigerator quits. Now it is using video experts, a contractor network and a $585 million acquisition to stretch beyond the traditional home warranty.
The Orange Doors That Turn Life’s Overflow Into a $4.8 Billion Business
Public Storage built a national business around the awkward months when people have more life than room. Now a new leadership team is using software, data science and a much larger portfolio to decide what the familiar orange doors become next.
Bilt
Bilt found value in the one monthly payment rewards programs ignored. Now the rent-points company is trying to turn the home into the front door for payments, neighborhood commerce and everyday hospitality.
First American Home Warranty
A broken water heater is a household problem. Finding a contractor, reading the fine print and absorbing the bill is a small operating crisis. First American Home Warranty has spent four decades turning that crisis into a service contract - with all the convenience, complexity and trade-offs the category implies.
Newmark
Newmark does not need to own the skyline to make money from it. The 97-year-old firm has built a modern commercial real estate machine around the decisions that happen before, during and long after a building changes hands.
Fidelity National Financial
Fidelity National Financial sits beneath the closing table, turning courthouse records, escrow instructions and fraud checks into something buyers and lenders can trust. Its scale is the story - but so is the software quietly changing how that trust gets made.
Rukita
Rukita is an Indonesian proptech company that manages and rents out furnished co-living spaces, apartments, and boarding houses (kost) under a single brand and app. Founded in 2019 in Jakarta, it aims to raise the quality standard of rental housing for Indonesia's young urban professionals by combining standardized, serviced residences with a technology platform that handles booking, monthly payments, maintenance requests, and community events. Rukita operates directly managed units and a wider marketplace of partner properties, and has expanded its ecosystem into property marketing (RuOption) and financing (RuFinance).