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Brice Gumpel Found a Business in the Empty Chairs
A college food account taught Brice Gumpel what restaurant owners fear after the dinner rush. He turned the empty table into a product, then had to reinvent that product when every dining room closed.
Stephen Carroll
Stephen (Steve) Carroll is the co-founder and CEO of Findigs, a New York proptech company that turns rental tenant screening into an autonomous leasing decision. A former Wall Street structured-products salesman who then ran ops at the restaurant startup Seated, Carroll built Findigs after a bank quietly stopped mailing his rent checks and nearly got him evicted. The company started as a free consumer rent-payment app validated in NYC bars with Typeform surveys, then pivoted to B2B software. As of 2026 it powers roughly 400,000 rental units, has raised about $80M including a $32M Series C, and pitches operators on cutting evictions by up to 80%.