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The Company Selling a Green Card, One Student Dorm at a Time
How a boutique Miami developer turned dorm rooms in Gainesville and Sweetwater into a pitch for permanent U.S. residency - and why families in São Paulo and Ho Chi Minh City keep signing up.
Rukita
Rukita is an Indonesian proptech company that manages and rents out furnished co-living spaces, apartments, and boarding houses (kost) under a single brand and app. Founded in 2019 in Jakarta, it aims to raise the quality standard of rental housing for Indonesia's young urban professionals by combining standardized, serviced residences with a technology platform that handles booking, monthly payments, maintenance requests, and community events. Rukita operates directly managed units and a wider marketplace of partner properties, and has expanded its ecosystem into property marketing (RuOption) and financing (RuFinance).
Aerwave
Aerwave is a Texas-based proptech company that designs, deploys and operates next-generation managed Wi-Fi for multifamily residential communities. It delivers property-wide, gigabit-speed internet that is secure and always on, paired with 24/7 domestic support, an owner analytics dashboard, and a capital program that lets property owners deploy infrastructure with no upfront cost. Aerwave works exclusively with real estate owners, developers and operators across the multifamily, build-to-rent, single-family rental and student-housing markets.
TULU
TULU is a proptech company that turns underused lobby and common space in apartment and student-housing buildings into 24/7 on-demand rental hubs. Through IoT-based units and a mobile app, residents can rent or buy brand-name products - from vacuums and e-scooters to VR headsets and household consumables - without owning them. Founded out of MIT's DesignX by Yishai Lehavi and Yael Shemer, the company pairs physical smart units with an AI layer that personalizes inventory per building, and it has served more than 500,000 residents across dozens of cities in North America and Europe.
uhomes.com
uhomes.com (operated by Uhouzz) is a global online marketplace for international student accommodation. Founded in 2015 by Jason Yin, it connects students with verified housing near universities across 500+ cities in around 27 countries, listing more than 2 million beds from 2,000+ apartment brands. The platform combines AI-driven property matching, VR and 3D virtual viewings, multilingual one-on-one consultants and a zero-agency-fee, zero-markup pricing promise, and has served over 2.5 million registered users with 400,000+ successful bookings.
Younity
Younity is a New York and Tel Aviv based proptech company that builds a software-defined digital infrastructure platform for multifamily and commercial buildings. It delivers property-wide, instantly provisioned WiFi paired with a SaaS layer for building performance monitoring, cyber protection, proactive service and an open platform for smart-building integrations. Younity helps landlords, developers and asset managers turn connectivity from a cost center into a revenue source while giving tenants lightning-fast, secure internet from move-in.
Jason Yin
Jason Yin (Yin Jiankun) is the founder and CEO of uhomes.com (formerly Uhouzz), a global online marketplace for international student accommodation. After more than a decade teaching and leading at New Oriental Education & Technology Group, he launched the platform in March 2015 to help students studying overseas find, tour and book housing. Today uhomes.com lists more than two million beds across 500-plus cities and roughly 2,000 universities, operates from around 16 global offices, and carries a 4.9-star Trustpilot rating, positioning itself as one of the largest student housing booking platforms in the world.
Leonardo247
Leonardo247 is a cloud-based, mobile-first property operations and maintenance platform built for the multifamily real estate industry. Its software - often referred to as 'Leo' - pushes daily tasks, workflows, inspections, preventative maintenance and compliance procedures to onsite teams so nothing slips through the cracks. Founded in 2014 by industry veteran Daniel Cunningham after a building he managed lost hot water due to a missed maintenance step, the company now counts half of the nation's ten largest multifamily owners and operators among its customers and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies.
Revela
Revela is a Detroit-based proptech company building an all-in-one property management platform that fuses double-entry, GAAP-grade accounting with leasing, maintenance, payments, reporting, and embedded banking. Founded in 2014 by Grant Drzyzga and bootstrapped for nearly a decade before raising a $9M Series A in 2023, Revela aims to bring liquidity and modern software to a historically low-margin, fragmented industry, serving managers of single-family, multifamily, affordable, commercial, and student housing across hundreds of thousands of units.