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Caretaker put the apartment to work.
It began as a way to escape a lease. Taking responsibility for the rent turned Caretaker into a company that wanted to automate the landlord’s job.
Buildium made the spreadsheet somebody else’s problem
Two landlords turned their own administrative nuisance into a property management business. The revealing part is how Buildium learned that selling useful software was only half the job.
Goodlord found a business in the wait for the keys
Between “offer accepted” and moving day lies a small mountain of admin. Goodlord has built a business helping letting agents climb it - then added payments, insurance and a stake in what happens next.
Palomma
Palomma is a Medellin-based fintech building an AI-native banking platform for real estate in Latin America, starting with rent. It deploys AI agents that handle leasing, sales, and collections for property managers across WhatsApp, SMS, and phone calls 24/7, then layers on payment collection and disbursement to own the flow of rent and monetize it through credit and insurance products. Founded in the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch, the company originally launched as a frictionless Pay-by-Bank API for LatAm merchants before pivoting to real estate.
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.
EliseAI
EliseAI is a New York-based artificial intelligence company that builds conversational and agentic AI to automate the routine, high-volume communication work of two administratively heavy industries: rental housing and healthcare. Its assistants answer calls, emails, texts and chats around the clock - scheduling tours, handling maintenance and renewals, collecting rent, and booking patient appointments - so property and clinic teams can focus on people rather than paperwork. Founded in 2017 as MeetElise, the company crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue, serves roughly 70% of the 50 largest U.S. rental housing operators, and reached a $2.2 billion valuation with its 2025 Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Qira
Qira is a New York-based financial platform built for residential property managers. It brings security deposits, deposit alternatives, rent payment processing, Pay Later flexible rent, and automated move-out claims into one system that syncs with major property management software and handles compliance across all 50 U.S. states. Formed in October 2021 by the merger of Rentigo and HelloRented, Qira aims to protect owner cash flow while smoothing the money side of renting for residents.
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.