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The Chinese Software Company Quietly Running the World's Phone Bills
It was ZTE's software arm, then Alibaba bought it and gave it a whale for a logo. Today Whale Cloud's ZSmart platform quietly meters the calls, data, and monthly bills of more than a billion people across 80-plus countries.
The Operating System Behind 24 Million Front Doors
RealPage began by putting apartment ledgers online. Now its software reaches from the first leasing inquiry to the final rent payment - and its next act is an AI workforce built for the unglamorous machinery of rental housing.
Tambourine
The Fort Lauderdale firm has spent three decades trying to answer one question for hoteliers: how do you get a guest to book with you instead of with Expedia?
Extra Space Storage
America's largest self-storage operator has turned spare rooms into a national operating system - pairing green doors with dynamic pricing, property management, lending and one of real estate's broadest rooftop-solar programs.
Zaplar
Zaplar is a Stockholm-based, Y Combinator (S26) startup building an AI-native operating system for hotels and event venues. Instead of stitching together the legacy hotel stack - PMS, POS, booking engine, CRS, RMS and MICE tools - Zaplar consolidates them into one platform where AI agents handle bookings, guest messaging, RFPs, event planning and follow-ups. Staff review and approve the agents' suggested actions, so hoteliers keep control while spending less time in front of a screen.
H2O Hospitality, Ltd.
H2O Hospitality is a Seoul-founded hospitality technology company that digitizes hotel operations end to end - from booking and mobile check-in to revenue and facility management. Its flagship platform, H2O Flow, connects reservation, property, revenue and facility systems into one workflow, and was the first service in Asia to achieve a validated integration with Oracle's OPERA PMS. Founded in 2015 by Cornell-trained, Forbes 30 Under 30 CEO John (Woong Hee) Lee, the company manages roughly 210,000 room units across seven countries and has raised about $48.5M, including a $30M Series C led by Kakao Investment and Korea Development Bank in 2021.
Kozystay
Kozystay is a Jakarta-based, technology-enabled short-term rental management company and Indonesia's largest player in the flexible-stay segment. It manages more than 1,000 premium apartments and villas across Jakarta, Bandung and Bali on behalf of property owners, handling pricing, bookings, housekeeping, guest communication and maintenance under a profit-sharing model. Founded in 2019 by Dane Putranto and Frans Winarto, the company reached EBITDA breakeven, raised a Series A in 2025 led by Integra Partners with Intudo Ventures and Cercano Management, and acquired Bali villa manager BaliSuperHost to build a nationwide operating platform.
Softinn Solutions
Softinn Solutions is a Malaysian hotel technology company that builds cloud-based hotel management software for boutique hotels, resorts, villas and hotel chains across the Asia Pacific. Its all-in-one platform pairs a Property Management System with a Channel Manager connected to 40+ OTAs, a commission-free booking engine, a website CMS and self-service check-in kiosks - designed around the mission to 'make hotelier work easier.' Founded in Melaka in 2012 by JeeShen Lee and Caren, Softinn serves 1,000+ hotel owners in markets including Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Singapore.
Ampion, PBC
Ampion, PBC is a Boston-based public benefit corporation and software platform for community solar and distributed generation. Its enterprise technology handles subscriber acquisition, billing, revenue management, customer care, and sustainability reporting for solar asset owners, connecting households and businesses to local solar farms so they can lower electricity bills without rooftop installations or upfront costs. Ampion manages hundreds of megawatts across multiple U.S. states and has saved subscribers more than $42 million in electricity costs.
Cubby
Cubby is an AI-native software platform built specifically for the self-storage industry. Founded in 2022 by Matt Engfer and Adam Fleming and headquartered in New York City, it replaces the sector's aging legacy systems with a single operating platform that unifies facility management, online rentals, revenue management, call handling and autonomous Voice AI. Cubby now serves more than 400 operators managing roughly 450,000 units across North America, and in January 2026 raised a $63 million Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
KeyData
KeyData (Key Data Dashboard) is a Santa Rosa Beach, Florida based analytics company that turns verified, direct-from-source reservation data into market intelligence for the short-term and vacation rental industry. By integrating directly with property management systems rather than scraping listing calendars, it gives professional property managers, destination marketing organizations, investors and enterprise research teams real-time benchmarks on occupancy, ADR, RevPAR and booking demand. Founded in 2018 and backed by $12.4M in funding, the company reports coverage of millions of properties and thousands of property managers across global markets.
Pricemoov
Pricemoov is a Paris-based B2B SaaS company that builds a cloud-native price management and optimization platform. It combines data science, automation, and competitive market intelligence to help retailers, distributors, and enterprises set, govern, and optimize prices across channels - protecting margins and lifting revenue. Founded in 2016 by Pierre Hebrard, Francois Aubert, and Jean Saglio, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2023 and serves customers across auto-parts, grocery, retail, distribution, and rental industries.
Renew
Renew is a New York-based proptech company that builds an AI-powered resident retention platform for multifamily and single-family rental operators. Founded in 2021 by Rob Hayden and Kevin Murphy, Renew treats the lease-renewal moment as a strategic lever: its software surfaces early churn signals, automates the renewal workflow, and - through the industry's first Resident Referral Network - lets operators keep residents inside their portfolio even when they move. The company raised a $12M Series A in October 2025 to scale the platform.
Infovity
Infovity is a San Mateo, California consulting firm that is 100% focused on Oracle Cloud applications. Founded in 2008 by former Oracle product leaders, the firm designs, implements, integrates, and manages Oracle ERP, HCM, SCM, EPM, and CX cloud systems for companies in high tech, life sciences, energy, banking, and manufacturing. It has completed 500+ implementations and reports that roughly 90% of its business comes from referrals and repeat clients.
Model N
Model N is a Redwood City-based enterprise software company that builds cloud revenue-management systems for pharmaceutical, medtech, semiconductor, and high-tech manufacturers. Its Revenue Cloud automates pricing, quoting, contracting, rebates, incentives, and regulatory compliance - the commercial machinery that governs how life sciences and high-tech companies book and protect their top line. Founded in 1999 and taken public in 2013, Model N was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2024 for $1.25 billion and now serves 150+ leading brands across more than 120 countries.
RightRev
RightRev is a revenue recognition and automation platform for the office of the CFO, built to handle the messiest parts of ASC 606 and IFRS 15 compliance at high transaction volume. Founded in 2020 by Jagan Reddy - the accountant-turned-founder who built the original RevPro/Leeyo revenue engine later acquired by Zuora - the company sells both a standalone, API-first product and a native Salesforce Revenue Cloud application, plus an AI layer called Revi. It ingests contracts, orders, invoices and usage data from upstream billing and CPQ systems, applies configurable revenue rules, and produces journal entries, waterfalls and audit-ready reports. Backed by Norwest, Salesforce Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Innovius Capital and Cheyenne Ventures, RightRev has raised more than $31 million and counts Snowflake, Drata, Epicor, Docebo, CAE and LogicMonitor among its customers.
Matt Engfer
Matt Engfer is the co-founder and CEO of Cubby, an AI-native operating platform for self-storage facilities based in New York. After stints in enterprise client success at commercial real estate software firm VTS and an art-sales side hustle that put him inside three storage units and left him baffled by the industry's technology, he started Cubby in 2022 with Adam Fleming. Cubby now serves more than 400 operators managing over 500,000 units across the U.S. and Canada, and raised a $63M Series A led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives in early 2026.
Pierre Hebrard
Pierre Hebrard is the CEO and co-founder of Pricemoov, a Paris-based SaaS platform that helps enterprises set, govern, and optimize prices using AI. He started the company in 2016 after a career that took him from investment banking in London and trading in Hong Kong to running Jumia's operations across Kenya and Nigeria. In April 2023 Pricemoov raised a $10 million Series A led by ISAI and Bpifrance Digital Venture.
Rentana
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.
Julie Blanc
Julie Blanc is the co-founder and CEO of Rentana, an AI-powered revenue optimization platform for multifamily real estate owners and operators, headquartered in New York. After more than a decade in venture capital and corporate development - including stops at the Drone Racing League and fintech company Array - she launched Rentana with a team drawn from Stripe, Airtable, Airbnb and AppFolio. The company raised a ~$5M seed in May 2025 led by Zigg Capital and Benchstrength. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and Wharton magna cum laude graduate, she speaks French, German and English.
Adam Harris
Adam Harris is the co-founder and CEO of Cloudbeds, the hospitality management platform he started in 2012 with Richard Castle after a sketchy reservation experience at a Brazilian pousada. From a back-of-the-napkin idea, he built Cloudbeds into a fully remote company of 700+ people across 40+ countries that powers tens of thousands of lodging properties in more than 150 countries. A former Wall Street investment banker turned serial entrepreneur, Harris has built and sold multiple companies, traveled to more than 51 countries, and is now steering Cloudbeds through the AI era while championing a no-office culture.
Cloudbeds
Cloudbeds is a San Diego-based hospitality management platform that gives independent hotels, hostels, vacation rentals, and lodging groups a single cloud system to run reservations, distribution, payments, revenue management, and guest communication. Founded in 2012 by Adam Harris and Richard Castle, the fully remote company replaces the tangle of disconnected legacy tools that property owners juggle, serving tens of thousands of properties across roughly 150 countries and, more recently, layering in AI through its Cloudbeds Intelligence and Signals products.
Orb
Orb is a modern billing platform that helps software and AI companies turn raw product usage into revenue. Instead of being built around rigid subscriptions and contracts, Orb starts by ingesting real usage events and lets teams define any pricing logic on top - usage-based, seat-based, token-based, or hybrid. Founded by former Asana engineers who were tired of pricing changes taking months, Orb powers billing for companies like Vercel, Replit, Pinecone, and Perplexity.
Summer
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.
Oracle Sales Cloud
Oracle Sales Cloud (CX Sales) is Oracle's enterprise-grade cloud CRM platform that combines sales automation, AI-driven forecasting, configure-price-quote (CPQ), and subscription management into a single suite. Built on Oracle Fusion Cloud, it connects directly with Oracle ERP and supply chain data, letting sales teams quote accurately, close faster, and forecast confidently - without the integration tax that plagues competing platforms. With 5,500+ enterprise customers and $57.4 billion in annual parent revenue, Oracle Sales Cloud targets large organizations that demand reliability, data depth, and AI at scale.
Pipedrive
Pipedrive is a sales-first CRM built by salespeople, for salespeople. Founded in 2010 in Tallinn, Estonia, and now headquartered in New York, Pipedrive gives small and mid-sized businesses a visual, activity-based pipeline that keeps deals moving. With over 100,000 companies across 179 countries using the platform, Pipedrive became a $1.5 billion unicorn in 2020 after a majority investment from Vista Equity Partners. Its philosophy is simple: salespeople should spend less time in software and more time selling.
Beyond
Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing) is a San Francisco-based revenue management platform for short-term rental owners and property managers. Its data-driven pricing engine, market insights, booking engine, and OTA distribution tools help hosts and managers grow bookings across 340,000+ listings in 7,500+ cities. Bessemer-backed and led by CEO Julie Brinkman, Beyond has powered billions in booking revenue and is widely viewed as the category's category-definer.
FLYR
FLYR is an AI-first travel and transportation technology company building a cloud-native Revenue Operating System for airlines and hospitality brands. Its deep-learning platform powers forecasting, dynamic pricing, offer and order management, and revenue optimization for customers like JetBlue, Air New Zealand, Avianca, Virgin Atlantic, and Wyndham.
Nue.io
Nue.io is a unified quote-to-revenue platform built natively on Salesforce that enables B2B SaaS companies to price, quote, sell, bill, and recognize revenue across any channel, pricing model, or mid-term change. Founded by veterans from Zuora, Salesforce Steelbrick, and Anaplan, Nue replaces the patchwork of legacy CPQ and billing systems with a single data model spanning from pricing through billing. Trusted by companies like OpenAI, Glean, Jasper, and Chili Piper, Nue has achieved 3x year-over-year growth and raised $35M to date.
Amr Aloufi
Amr Aloufi is a Co-Founder at Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing), a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that uses AI and dynamic pricing algorithms to maximize revenue for short-term rental property managers and vacation rental hosts worldwide. With roots in Saudi Arabia and a background in business administration and human resources, Aloufi brought operational and business development acumen to a company that has grown to serve 715,000+ listings across 44,000+ cities, raised $46M in funding, and priced over $15 billion in bookings.