PerchPeek is a modern relocation management company that pairs AI-powered tools with human relocation experts to move employees across borders. Built for HR and global mobility teams, its platform handles home finding, visas and immigration, expense management and ongoing coaching, while giving employers 360-degree visibility of cost, progress and satisfaction. The company pitches itself as roughly 70% cheaper than traditional relocation providers and operates across dozens of countries worldwide.
Perchwell is a modern data and workflow platform for residential real estate, built to replace the dated MLS (Multiple Listing Service) software that agents rely on every day. Founded in New York City in 2015, it pairs a property-centric data model with fast search, branded reports, market analytics, client collaboration tools, and well-built iOS and Android apps. MLSs, brokerages, and agents use Perchwell as a single source of listing data and a daily workspace. The company is backed by Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Starwood Capital, and several of the largest MLSs in the country.
Rentberry is a San Francisco-based proptech company building an end-to-end, AI-powered rental ecosystem that lets tenants and landlords handle the entire rental lifecycle online - from search, virtual tours, applications and automated tenant screening, to digital lease signing, rent collection and ongoing maintenance. Founded in 2015 by Ukrainian entrepreneurs after a frustrating San Francisco apartment hunt, the platform now spans roughly 90 countries and uses AI agents to analyze listings, generate property descriptions, negotiate pricing and coordinate move-in services. The company has expanded into a chain of furnished modular homes and is preparing for a planned public listing under the NASDAQ ticker RNTB.
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.
Runwise is a New York-based smart-building company that retrofits aging heating, cooling, water, and electrical systems with proprietary wireless hardware, sensors, and cloud software. Its platform learns each building's behavior and automatically runs core systems at the minimum needed, cutting fuel use 20-25%, lowering carbon emissions, and helping owners comply with climate laws like NYC's Local Law 97. Used in over 10,000 buildings across the U.S., Runwise has saved customers more than $100 million in energy costs and positions itself as the operating system for buildings still running on 1960s technology.
Safehub turns any building into an IoT device for earthquake risk. Its proprietary sensors and cloud analytics deliver building-specific damage information within minutes of a seismic event, helping owners, insurers and emergency teams make faster, better decisions. The same sensor network powers a new generation of sensor-triggered parametric earthquake insurance designed to slash basis risk and speed up payouts.
Grant Drzyzga is the founder and CEO of Revela, a Detroit-based property management software company he started in 2014 with $50,000 and no real estate experience. After bootstrapping for roughly nine and a half years, he raised a $9 million Series A led by FirstMark Capital in November 2023. Revela now serves more than 200,000 units and has become one of the largest lenders to property managers in cities like Detroit, St. Louis, and Gary. Drzyzga's pitch is that real estate software should be built 'from the books out' - accounting first - and that embedded financial services can bring liquidity to a market that has long been low-margin and illiquid.
James Gallagher is the CEO and co-founder of GreenLite, a New York based construction technology company that pairs AI with licensed architects, engineers, and former regulators to deliver code-compliant building permits in days rather than months. A former Marine infantry and intelligence officer who deployed to Afghanistan, Gallagher spent a decade scaling the physical footprints of venture-backed companies like Gopuff, Bandit, and Good Uncle before realizing that permitting was the real bottleneck holding builders back. He founded GreenLite in 2022 with fellow Gopuff alum Ben Allen, and has since raised $86M across three rounds, including a $49.5M Series B led by Insight Partners in September 2025.
Jeffrey Carleton is the co-founder and CEO of Runwise, a New York-based smart-building company that pairs proprietary wireless sensors with cloud software to cut the energy that boilers, cooling, electric and water systems waste. Drawing on seven years spent running 150 New York apartment buildings, he turned a hands-on operator's frustration with 1960s heating controls into a platform now deployed in more than 10,000 buildings, serving roughly 1,000 customers and saving over $100 million in energy costs. In June 2025 Runwise raised a $55 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures, bringing total funding to $79 million, around a thesis Carleton states bluntly: every building needs to be rebuilt with software, not bricks.
Jeremy Sicklick is the co-founder and CEO of HouseCanary, a San Francisco proptech company that uses machine learning to value and forecast residential real estate across more than 136 million U.S. homes. A former partner and managing director at Boston Consulting Group, he started HouseCanary in 2013 after the 2008 housing collapse exposed how paper-bound and opaque the largest asset class in America really was. His pitch: replace a two-to-three week human appraisal with an instant, data-driven valuation, and bring stock-market-grade transparency to homes.
Jimmy Jung is the founder and CEO of BuildBlock, a cross-border real estate platform that lets Korean and Asian investors buy, build, and manage U.S. property without ever boarding a plane. A licensed professional engineer who once helped project-manage Google's new Silicon Valley headquarters, he turned the messy, intermediary-clogged process of overseas property investment into a single end-to-end pipeline: search, financing, LLC setup, construction, management, and tax. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Seoul with U.S. offices, BuildBlock has expanded from residential brokerage into industrial plant and AI-infrastructure development.
John Meadows is the co-founder and co-CEO of Bowery Valuation, a New York-based proptech company building the first vertically integrated appraisal-tech platform for commercial real estate. A certified appraiser who valued more than $3 billion of property at BBG before he turned 30, Meadows left the legacy appraisal world in 2015 to rebuild it from scratch with partners Noah Isaacs and Cesar Devers. He runs the company as a co-CEO partnership, has raised over $80 million in venture funding, and treats company culture as a system to be engineered rather than a slogan.
Ken McDonald is the CEO of Leonardo247, a Plano, Texas proptech company whose proactive operations and maintenance software runs across more than 2 million rental units. A Stanford MBA and Dartmouth math-and-economics grad, he has spent 25-plus years turning small online businesses into large ones - scaling LifePics from a few thousand users to 12 million, helping push TeamSnap past 15 million users as Chief Growth Officer, and running dozens of SaaS and payments products as Chief Product Officer at Togetherwork. He co-wrote 'How to Acquire Your First Million Customers' and now applies an operator-first view of AI to the unglamorous world of apartment maintenance.
Kevin Song is the founder and CEO of withco, a New York-based company helping small business owners buy the buildings they rent through a lease-to-own model. The son of Korean immigrants whose Brooklyn grocery store was lost when a landlord doubled the rent, Song turned that family loss into a venture-backed mission: turn tenants into owners. A Cornell economics graduate and former J.P. Morgan analyst named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for social entrepreneurship, he raised more than $30 million from Founders Fund, Canaan, NFX and Initialized, plus backers including Venus Williams, Kevin Durant, Will Smith's Dreamers VC and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro.
Mark Murphy is the co-founder and CEO of Banner (withbanner.com), a New York proptech building the capital-expenditure operating system for commercial real estate. After years in real estate finance at Goldman Sachs and RBC Capital Markets, he watched institutional owners run billion-dollar capital projects on spreadsheets, email threads, and disconnected tools, and started Banner in 2019 with college friend Kunal Chaudhary to replace that mess with one platform. Backed by Y Combinator (S19), Blackstone, Fifth Wall, Pruven Capital and Basis Set Ventures, Banner raised a $10M Series A in October 2023 and now oversees more than $10 billion in capital spend for operators like Starwood Capital, LivCor, Morgan Properties and Industrious.
Neil Rubler is the founder and CEO of Vessel Technologies, a New York company that mass-produces small, prefabricated, solar-ready apartment buildings and sells them through the housing industry's first franchise model. After two decades running large multifamily real estate firms - Vantage Properties and then Candlebrook Properties, which oversaw more than $3 billion in assets across seven states - he left conventional development behind in 2017 to attack the so-called Missing Middle: people who earn too much for subsidized housing and too little for market rate. A Wharton MBA and magna cum laude Cornell graduate, Rubler treats housing like a manufactured product rather than a construction project, aiming to build higher-quality homes faster, cheaper, and more sustainably.
Oleksiy Lubinsky (also known as Alex Lubinsky) is the co-founder and CEO of Rentberry, a San Francisco-based platform that automates the long-term rental process from search and custom-offer negotiation to digital leases, rent payments and maintenance. A Ukrainian native and UC Berkeley economics graduate who came out of investment banking, he sold his first company, the networking app City Hour, in 2015 before launching Rentberry that same year. He has pushed the company through one of crypto's most-talked-about ICOs, an AI rebrand, and serial equity-crowdfunding rounds, framing Rentberry as a bid to strip the friction, fees and middlemen out of renting.
Paul Bennett is the co-founder and CEO of PerchPeek, a London-based, AI-powered relocation platform that helps companies move employees across borders. He started his first venture at 17 selling hand sanitiser outside supermarkets, studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, then spent three years at Amazon launching its Treasure Trucks in the UK before founding PerchPeek in 2018. What began as a 'Tinder for renting' property app pivoted during the 2020 pandemic into an end-to-end relocation service now operating in 150-plus countries, backed by roughly $17-18m in funding.
Vessel Technologies is a New York-based housing product company that designs, manufactures, and franchises attainably priced apartment buildings for the 'missing middle' - working people who earn too much for subsidized housing and too little for market-rate rents. Using a panelized, IKEA-style off-site construction system, Vessel builds all-electric, solar-powered, universally accessible apartments that fit on small urban lots and go up in under a year for a fraction of conventional cost.
withco is a New York-based property ownership platform on a mission to help small business owners buy the buildings they already work in. Using a lease-to-own model, withco buys commercial real estate alongside high-quality small business owners and transitions them to full ownership over the course of a standard lease term - turning rent payments into a path toward equity and protecting local businesses from displacement.
Belong is a tech-enabled, AI-powered rental management network that vertically integrates the entire home-rental experience for both homeowners and residents. It markets homes across 26+ listing sites, vets residents, collects rent, handles maintenance, and offers homeowners Guaranteed Rent so they get paid on the first even when a resident is late. The mission is to let homeowners become financially free while helping residents feel they belong - and eventually become homeowners themselves.
Fifth Dimension is a London-based AI company building a decision-intelligence platform for real assets. Founded in 2023 by Dr. Kate Jarvis and Johnny Morris, its flagship AI assistant, Ellie, pulls unstructured data from leases, surveys, and deal documents, organizes it into formatted templates, and automates the document-heavy workflows that slow down real estate investors, lenders, and asset managers. In May 2026 it raised a roughly $26M (€22M) Series A led by HV Capital to scale across the UK and US.
PermitFlow is a New York-based construction technology company building an AI platform that automates the permitting lifecycle - from jurisdiction research and application prep to submission, tracking, inspections, and license management. Founded in 2021 by Francis Thumpasery and Samuel Lam, the company says its software has powered more than $20 billion in construction value and cuts approval times roughly in half for builders like Lennar, Amazon, IKEA, and Toll Brothers. It raised a $54M Series B led by Accel in December 2025, bringing total funding to about $90.5M.
Summer is a New York proptech company that builds SummerOS, asset-management software for short-term rental operators. After starting as an asset-heavy 'own a vacation home without the risk' model, the Airbnb-alumni team pivoted to SaaS, crunching market data and a property's own performance to tell operators exactly what to fix, raise, or rethink. It aims to bring professional-grade, data-driven tools - long standard in commercial real estate - to the fragmented $125B short-term rental market.
Salman Ahmad is the co-founder and CEO of Mosaic, a Phoenix-based, tech-enabled general contractor reinventing how build-to-rent homes get planned and built. He grew up in a construction household, then stacked degrees in computer science from Arizona State, Stanford, and a PhD from MIT before deciding the most interesting unsolved software problem was the most analog industry there is: pouring foundations and framing walls. Mosaic's software platform, Mosaic Hub, coordinates contractors, schedules, and payments so homebuilders can offload construction the way startups offloaded servers to AWS.
Stella Wu is the founder and CEO of Eano, a San Mateo construction-tech company that started as a way to fix the chaos of home renovation and grew into all-in-one software for contractors covering sales, project management, and payments. A UC Berkeley grad and the first marketing hire at Wish, where she managed $400M+ in annual ad spend, she built Eano after her own ADU project turned into 150 unanswered emails, a 350-day permit, and quotes that swung from $40K to $100K. Investors describe her as the opposite of the steel-toed-boots construction stereotype. Eano has raised over $20M.
William Sankey is the co-founder, CEO and Head of Product of Northspyre, a cloud intelligence platform that has helped manage more than $175 billion in real estate development projects. A Yale- and Harvard-trained developer who once helped run the billion-dollar Madison Square Garden renovation, he taught himself to code on nights and weekends to kill the spreadsheet drudgery he saw everywhere in the industry. That side project became Northspyre, which he founded in 2017 and has since grown on more than $32 million in venture funding.
Ege Akpinar is the founder and CEO of Pointr, the indoor location company behind Deep Location, a platform that gives buildings the kind of accurate blue-dot navigation people take for granted outdoors. He started it in 2013 as a Harrods consulting side project, turned it into a venue-mapping engine used by Fortune 100 companies, hospitals, airports and CES, and built an AI mapping system that compresses days of manual map-drawing into minutes.
Francis Thumpasery is the co-founder and CEO of PermitFlow, a New York-based startup using AI to drag construction permitting out of the fax-machine era. After a Harvard economics degree, a stint at McKinsey, and years investing in workflow software, he watched relatives outside Washington, DC wrestle with permits and decided the $1.6 trillion construction industry deserved better software. Since 2021 PermitFlow has powered over $20B in construction value, raised $90.5M, and turned a famously paper-bound process into something measured in days instead of months.
Dr. Kate Jarvis is the CEO and co-founder of Fifth Dimension, the London-born AI company building Ellie, an agentic assistant that screens deals, drafts investment-committee memos and surfaces risk for the people who buy and manage real assets. A Stanford linguistics PhD turned backend engineer, she spent a dozen years shipping machine-learning products before GPT-3 convinced her that real estate's mountains of unstructured documents were a problem language models were born to solve. She has raised more than $40M, opened offices in London, New York and Singapore, and put firms like BXP and Realty Income on her platform.