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Douglas Elliman Real Estate
The 114-year-old New York brokerage sells the top 5% of the housing market - and is now betting a leadership shake-up, a global alliance and a hard turn toward profitability can keep it there.
Trusty
Trusty is an agent-to-agent matchmaking network for residential real estate that surfaces homes whether or not they are officially listed. Founded by Tim Hyer and Nicholas Meyers and part of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, the company lets agents share off-market intent, gives buyers access to hidden inventory, and lets homeowners field private offers - all outside the traditional MLS. By 2022 it had onboarded roughly 350 agents covering about 80% of California.
Get Listings
Get Listings is a Sydney-based proptech company that helps real estate agents win more seller listings. It combines AI that scores roughly 14 million Australian properties daily for their likelihood to sell with a done-for-you advertising service that generates exclusive seller leads through Facebook campaigns. Agents can buy leads on a pay-per-lead basis or run a managed program, and track everything through a portal and mobile app. The company says it has served thousands of agents and generated hundreds of thousands of leads tied to more than a billion dollars in listed property.
Briggs Elwell
Briggs Elwell is the co-founder and CEO of RLTYco, a New York-based specialty finance and services firm built for independent (1099) real estate agents. After more than 15 years in real estate - from sales and asset management at The Related Companies to building the Northeast business for OPTIMAR International - he co-founded RLTYco in 2021 with attorney Daniel Kennedy. The company started by advancing agents their commissions within 24 hours and has grown into a one-stop platform spanning commission funding, tax and financial tools, legal formation, healthcare, and rewards. In January 2025 RLTYco raised a $20 million Series A led by Altriarch and acquired the rewards technology of Zurp.
RLTYco
RLTYco is a New York-based financial services and benefits platform built for the roughly 1099 real estate agent economy. Founded in 2021 by industry veterans Briggs Elwell and Daniel Kennedy, it packages together commission advances, tax help, legal formation, healthcare plans, and a member perks program - services traditionally reserved for salaried W-2 employees. Its flagship product, RLTY Capital, buys a portion of an agent's pending commission and funds approved deals in as little as 24 hours, without credit checks or brokerage approval. After a $20 million Series A in January 2025, the company expanded nationwide and, in July 2026, acquired Atlanta-based commission-advance firm RealCommissions.
Indigo
Indigo is an AI-powered home transaction platform that reworks the messiest part of buying and selling a house: the offer and the paperwork behind it. Built by the founding team behind Ribbon, the New York startup replaces the email-and-PDF scramble with real-time offer dashboards, AI-generated and compliant contracts, and shared deal rooms for agents, buyers and sellers. It raised an $8 million seed round in January 2025 and says it topped 20% of home offers in its first markets within three months of launch.