
Rob Hayden is the CEO and co-founder of Renew, a New York based AI powered retention platform for multifamily and single family rental operators. He co-founded the company in 2021 with Kevin Murphy after both worked together at rental insurance startup Jetty. In October 2025 Renew closed a $12 million Series A led by Haymaker Ventures with participation from Goldcrest Capital and Upfront Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $20 million and financing the launch of the industry's first Resident Referral Network.
Rentana is an AI-powered revenue intelligence platform for multifamily real estate owners and operators. It replaces spreadsheet-driven pricing with real-time, unit-level recommendations - optimizing rents, amenity values, marketing specials, and lease renewals in one platform. Founded in 2023 by a team out of Stripe, Airtable, Airbnb, and AppFolio and led by ex-Two Sigma investor Julie Blanc, Rentana raised a $5M seed round in 2025 and reports outcomes like millions in added property value and roughly 10 hours saved per property each week.
Mike Sroka is the CEO and co-founder of Dealpath, the leading deal management platform for institutional real estate investors. Founded in 2014 alongside Andy Lee and Kenter Wu, Dealpath has grown to support over $10 trillion in real estate transactions, raised $75M in total funding including a Morgan Stanley-led $43M Series C, and counts Blackstone, Nuveen, UBS, and MetLife among its clients. Sroka's background spans real estate finance at Hudson Advisors and growth roles at venture-backed software companies including Zynga and Fanhood, giving him a rare dual fluency in capital markets and product development. He serves on Blackstone's PropTech Advisory Board and is a vocal advocate for AI-powered deal workflow automation in commercial real estate.