# Yishai Lehavi

> Yishai Lehavi is the co-founder and CEO of TULU, a New York and Tel Aviv-born proptech company that turns dead lobby space in apartment buildings into 24/7 on-demand rental hubs for vacuums, gaming consoles, e-scooters and household goods. A trained architect who once built a mobile app to redistribute passengers on crowded trains, Lehavi met co-founder Yael Shemer at MIT's designX accelerator and bet the company on a simple idea: people want access to things, not ownership of them. TULU now serves more than 500,000 residents across 60 cities on both sides of the Atlantic and has raised roughly $53M in total funding.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at TULU
- **Organizations:** TULU, SpaceSeat, MIT designX, Our Generation Speaks, Groag-Harel Architects
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** Venture fellow, MIT designX (accelerator/fellowship), Fellow, Our Generation Speaks (fellowship)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled TULU to more than 500,000 residents across 60 cities in North America and Europe, Raised roughly $53M in total funding, including a $17M Series A extension in 2025, Signed brand partners including Bosch and Karcher and property partners including RXR

## Career timeline

- **pre-2017** — Works as an architect and project leader at Groag-Harel Architects
- **2017** — Founds SpaceSeat, a mobile app for smart distribution of passengers across public transit carriages
- **2018** — Joins MIT designX accelerator and the Our Generation Speaks program, where he meets co-founder Yael Shemer
- **2019** — Co-founds TULU and becomes CEO
- **2020** — TULU launches its on-demand product access units in residential buildings
- **2025** — TULU raises a $17M Series A extension co-led by GreenSoil PropTech Ventures, bringing the round to about $37M
- **2026** — RXR expands its TULU partnership across its multifamily portfolio

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled TULU to more than 500,000 residents across 60 cities in North America and Europe
- Raised roughly $53M in total funding, including a $17M Series A extension in 2025
- Signed brand partners including Bosch and Karcher and property partners including RXR
- Built the TULU Brain data platform on 10M+ real-world product-usage interactions
- Reached operational profitability while expanding across three continents

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — TULU raised a $17M Series A extension co-led by GreenSoil PropTech Ventures, with Bosch Ventures and New Era Capital Partners, bringing the round to about $37M.
- **2026-05** — RXR expanded its TULU partnership, adding product-access amenities across its multifamily portfolio.

## Links

- Website: https://tulu.io
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yishai-lehavi-464b38149
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/TULULiving
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_u0BFpxJaAPoHDYwg-eFcA
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/TULU.city

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Last updated: 2026-07-07