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Instead of the typical real estate transaction where one seller sells to one buyer, Lofty is much more flexible.\r\n\r\nSellers fractionalize their equity ownership in the property into smaller units, so that anyone can buy a portion for as little as $50, allowing access to one of the best asset classes for people who have previously been locked out. Sellers can also sell a portion of their equity (starting at just 10%) instead of the entire property or create customized HELOC structures.\r\n\r\nInvestors can browse a variety of individual real estate properties ranging from commercial strip malls, a HELOC in someone's house, Airbnbs, to a single-family rental properties, and directly purchase ownership in these properties in under 5 minutes. There is no lockup period. Users can constantly trade these ownerships with others on the marketplace.\r\n\r\nInvestors truly legally own the properties they invested in and co-manage it with other investors through an online governance program. Owners have so far voted on how to handle various repairs, delinquent tenants, the sale of the underlying property, and much more.\r\n\r\nLofty never custodies or handles user funds or assets. 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With this startup, you can become a real estate investor", "url": "https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/inno/stories/news/2022/08/11/investing-with-lofty-ai.html", "date": "Aug 11, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 81777, "title": "Lofty - The NASDAQ for real estate", "tagline": "A marketplace to buy and sell investment properties with instant liquidity.", "body": "## What is Lofty?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81777&key=user_uploads/280486/b30729a4-1034-48ea-9ecc-0960d7862b2f)\n\n[Lofty](https://www.lofty.ai) is a real estate marketplace, where people can buy and sell fractional ownership in real estate properties in seconds for as low as $50.\n\nAnyone can come to list a property on Lofty for sale. We convert the equity of the property into tradable tokens on the blockchain through a process called \"tokenization\". They can then list as much or as little of it as they want for sale on the marketplace.\n\nThere are thousands of investors from around the world using Lofty to invest and build their own real estate portfolios. Many of them have also listed and sold partial ownership in properties they already owned (including their primary residences).\n\nWe’re the only platform that lets you buy AND sell fractional ownership with no restrictions or lock-up periods.\n\nNow, we’re launching a new feature that allows you to instantly buy and sell ownership in properties without the requirement of a traditional counterparty.\n\nFor the first time in the world, you can now buy and sell equity in a house (grants you legal ownership + management control) with the same experience as trading a share of AAPL on Robinhood.\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=81777&key=user_uploads/280486/f0e480b1-5df8-40d0-948d-4dbc35c9ebe0)\n\n## How does ownership work?\n\nEvery property’s deed is legally held by a unique WY DAO LLC. Unlike a traditional LLC that has a centralized managing member/partner, these LLCs are algorithmically managed through smart-contracts on the blockchain.\n\nEvery member has equal power and voting rights based on how much of the LLC they own. So, by owning 10% of a DAO, you legally own 10% of the underlying property. The tokens/shares are legal representations of ownership in the LLC; whoever owns tokens of the LLC, also owns the LLC, which means they also own the property.\n\nCo-ownership of properties is very common in the US and is no different than if you co-owned a house with family members or close friends. But instead of informally discussing how to manage things over the phone or in meetings, the management process is formalized through the “governance program”, where members vote on all management decisions. One token equals one vote and a super majority of 60% is required for any decisions to pass.\n\n**We don’t manage your properties nor do we sell properties to you. Instead, you’re directly buying from and selling to other people on the platform. Your funds never touch our accounts** and you settle directly with each other using the blockchain through smart contracts. We don’t take a cut of your earnings or charge you management fees. Instead, we make a 6% transaction fee for every transaction on the platform. It’s split, so that the seller pays 3% and the buyer pays 3%.\n\n* Now anyone can invest and actually legally own real estate for as little as $50.\n* Anyone from around the world can participate; **you don’t have to be an accredited investor.**\n* Our smallest users have invested $50 while our largest user has invested over $2,000,000.\n* **No crypto understanding or experience needed, you can pay with credit cards or ACH transfers.**\n\n# **To sign up, just create an account on **[**Lofty**](https://www.lofty.ai)**.**\n\n## Examples of properties\n\n**We have tokenized over 170 properties to date.** You can find almost any type of property on Lofty and we’re adding1 new property per week.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81777&key=user_uploads/280486/4352a64e-d17d-4547-b8b7-0c78afc91432)\n\n* [A single-family house in Texas](https://www.lofty.ai/property_deal/1821-Donetto-Dr_Leander-TX-78641) being used as a standard long-term rental.\n* [A single-family house in FL](https://www.lofty.ai/property_deal/122-Florida-Park-Dr_Palm-Coast-FL-32137) where the tenant has an option to rent-to-own and purchase the property from owners.\n* [Cool ranch in CA](https://www.lofty.ai/property_deal/33008-Joshua-Ave_Acton-CA-93510), where the owner is basically doing a HELOC through Lofty.\n\n ![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=81777&key=user_uploads/280486/098a28ee-51eb-49cf-af21-0f5973c77c09)\n\n* [Vacation rental cabin in CO](https://www.lofty.ai/property_deal/902-Karlann-Dr_Black-Hawk-CO-80422), short-term rental through Airbnb.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81777&key=user_uploads/280486/ac44e1f5-6dce-41de-9975-8bf811fe441f)\n\n* [Parcel of Land in NY](https://www.lofty.ai/property_deal/6117-Hyde-Flats-Road-21_Black-Creek-NY-14714), where you can determine with your fellow co-owners to add more value by leasing out parts of it to solar companies and a local farmer.\n* [Historic four-plex in upstate NY](https://www.lofty.ai/property_deal/88-Madison-Ave_Albany-NY-12202), all short-term rental units.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81777&key=user_uploads/280486/566c24c9-c8c7-4200-9329-d09df468ea57)\n\n## Instant liquidity + lending\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81777&key=user_uploads/280486/67ce02ec-1476-4847-bf37-93d2621da70e)\n\nWe’re proud to introduce our [newest feature](https://amm.lofty.ai), the automated-market-maker and liquidity pools! You can read more in-depth about how this all works in our [learning center](https://learn.lofty.ai/en/collections/7492346-proactive-market-maker-pmm-liquidity-pools).\n\nWe took some concepts from decentralized exchanges (dexes) in the web3 world and adapted them to better fit a real world asset like a house.\n\n**The algorithm borrows liquidity from people on the internet. It uses this borrowed liquidity to trade with Lofty users, which allows you to buy and sell ownership instantly without needing a traditional counterparty.**\n\nThe result is for the first time in the world, you can now directly buy and sell legal ownership in a specific property with the same speed and user experience as buying AAPL or TSLA on Robinhood.\n\nOn the other side, you can also now lend out your real estate ownership and/or money for yield. This is especially beneficial for lending out your real estate ownership, because you can continue to collect rental income from the property and vote on governance decisions, while also getting yield from lending.\n\n**You can view our lending platform **[**here**](https://amm.lofty.ai)** and if you don’t have USDC (a stable coin) to lend out, no worries. We have our own on-ramps at Lofty and honor 1:1 exchange rates between USD and USDC. You can also directly convert USD to USDC on Coinbase, then send it to your Lofty account.**\n\nThis feature is completely opt-in. 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Cresa is a fine-tuned multimodal Agent that handles key workflows for acquisition teams 24/7 so they can focus on high-potential investments. Cresa can screen deals using your preferred acquisition model, analyze deal documents, conduct market research, and generate comprehensive reports. Try Cresa’s [Rent Comp Research](https://cresa.nophin.com/) — no signup or prior experience is needed.\n\n\n\n**Team**\\\nWe're Kwadwo and Weeks, a technical team of second-time YC founders and CRE investors on a mission to revolutionize commercial real estate investing. Having experienced the inefficiencies in CRE investing firsthand, we previously built an end-to-end underwriting solution. There, we uncovered a major pain point for investors: the top-of-the-funnel bottleneck of screening deals, where they waste time reviewing countless deals that don’t match their buying criteria.\n\n**Problem**\\\nAcquisition teams are bogged down by the manual tasks required to screen deals, from analyzing deal documents to conducting time-consuming comp research before testing assumptions in an Excel model. A thorough diligence process takes an average of two hours. The workflow is highly manual, yet each deal is unique, preventing easily scaled processes. These inefficiencies lead to missed opportunities and slowed decision-making, making it difficult to focus on high-potential opportunities.\n\n**Solution**\n\nCresa is an AI Screening Analyst that automates multifamily deal screening and diligence processes. Cresa is the first fine-tuned multimodal CRE Agent that handles key workflows for acquisition teams 24/7 so they can focus on high-potential opportunities. Cresa can screen deals using your preferred acquisition model, analyze documents, conduct market research, generate comprehensive reports, and send emails.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84018&key=user_uploads/289172/1b4daad8-fe9f-4816-a301-4e41f11994ed)\n\n**Cresa In Action**\n\n\n\n**Key Highlights**\n\n1. Specify your investment criteria, and Cresa will automatically screen and filter deals using your acquisition model — each time.\n2. Cresa can analyze and summarize deal documents like rent rolls, T-12s, OMs, and more and answer complex questions.\n3. Sync real-time data to your acquisition models and download the analysis in Excel.\n4. Run dynamic scenarios within your acquisition model.\n5. Ask Cresa to conduct real-time market research from web sources and email you or anyone on your team a comprehensive summary.\n6. Cresa can help generate investment memos using analyzed financials and market research, summarizing key takeaways for stakeholders.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* Connect us to acquisition teams focused on multifamily assets.\n* Try Cresa’s [Rent Comp Research](https://cresa.nophin.com/) — No prior experience is needed. 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Over the past 3 years, we’ve been working with commercial real estate finance teams to streamline their bank account data. We’ve built a multibank dashboard to provide a single login to teams working with hundreds of accounts across 10+ banks. \n\n💸 Today we’ve launched **multibank payments**, further reducing the need for teams to log into separate bank portals. Now, teams can fully manage their account inventory, reconcile transactions, and make transfers in a single dashboard.  \n\n🚀 Recently, we have **expanded our focus beyond** real estate to satisfy all entity structures. Whether you are a small finance team with a simple account structure or you deal with hundreds of subsidiaries and entities and the complexity that brings, Arpari makes it easy to streamline your bank-related processes. \n\n# **TL;DR**\n\n* Arpari centralizes account inventory, balances, and transactions across all your accounts, making month-end processes a breeze\n* Our dashboard works with any number of banks and complex entity structures \n* Today, we launched payments so your team just needs to log into a single portal to set up and approve all payments to vendors, investors and anyone else\n* Do you know any finance teams that work with more than one bank? Please introduce us! Email [Alexandra.zwiener@arpari.com](mailto:Alexandra.zwiener@arpari.com) or [book a demo here](https://www.arpari.com/book-demo)\n\n  \n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89175&key=user_uploads/859217/57361321-c472-4677-955d-e6feecc21f04)\n\nFinance teams who are responsible for balance reporting and transaction reconciliation often scramble at month end, don’t report at the frequency they’d like, or sacrifice reporting accuracy altogether.   \n\n1. **ACCOUNT INVENTORY**: Using multiple banks can mean liquidity is an unknown, especially for teams who work with many accounts. Bank accounts tracked in Excel—many unnamed or vaguely labeled—makes effective management nearly impossible. Often accounts are missed, and cash misplaced. \n2. **MANAGING ACCESS**: Financial operations are severely hindered by fragmented bank access scattered across multiple team members. Accountants regularly need separate logins, deal with constant lockouts, and navigate multiple security code requests, reducing productivity. Add in payment approval workflows, and you have duplicate, complex permissions to manage across multiple portals. \n3. **DATA NORMALIZATION**: Beyond data access, when teams finally gather transaction data across banks, the data comes through in various formats. Many banks only offer PDF downloads, some banks don’t even provide export.  \n4. **TRANSFER MONITORING**: Teams need to log into multiple portals to monitor pending transactions and approvals. Additionally, when vendor or investor bank details change, they need to update the information across multiple portals.\n\n \n\nTeams who have tried to solve this problem have found treasury software that doesn’t work for multibank users. Incumbent solutions price with bank-by-bank implementation, which doesn’t work for users who have hundreds of accounts across 10+ banks, with their account and bank list constantly in flux. \n\n  \n\n# 👩‍💻  **Our Solution: One login for all finance teams needs**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89175&key=user_uploads/859217/7bf3d96a-04c3-4687-b9a6-6d369a929170)\n\n  \n\nWe’ve built a dashboard for finance teams to interact in one place. When teams are doing the same manual tasks 10+ times, why not do them once? \n\n### STABLE CONNECTIONS\n\nWe leverage various connection methods to banks to provide stable, usable data daily to our customers. The account, balance, and activity information is the foundation to all workflows for our customers; unifying this information into a single place gives them back time for month-end reporting, peace of mind, and full transparency of their true cash flow.  \n\n### DASHBOARD CUSTOMIZATION\n\nWe offer added customization to help organize account, balance, and activity data. Our dashboard is built around teams with complex fund and entity structures and prioritizes easy navigation according to how our users think about their bank information. \n\n### SINGLE PORTAL ACCESS\n\nWith payment approval workflows and read-only access, finance teams no longer need to permission non-account signers into bank portals. 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Start billing tenants like a utility.", "body": "# 🚀 Wand Solar — Bill Tenants for Solar Energy Like a Utility\n\n👋 Hi everyone! We’re Idan and Itai, co-founders of **Wand Solar**.\n\n## 🔥 The Problem\n\n**Solar wasn’t built for rentals.**\n\nToday, landlords invest in solar systems for their rental properties, but **tenants get all the savings**.\n\nLandlords pay tens of thousands upfront—and see no return. ❌\n\nWe spoke with dozens of landlords who installed solar on their house, but when they moved out and kept it as a rental, they had **no way to bill their tenants** and recoup their investment.\n\n\n\n## ⚡ What We’re Building\n\n**Wand lets landlords bill tenants for solar energy—just like a utility.**\n\n* 💰 Tenants pay what they normally would for electricity (or less)\n* 🏠 Landlords finally earn from the solar systems they paid for\n* ⚡ Same utility line items and tariffs. Full transparency\n* ✨ Want to offer a deal? Set your own discount (e.g., 10%, 15%)\n* 💳 Tenants pay by credit card—just like any other utility\n* 🏦 Landlords get paid via wire transfer\n\n**_No additional hardware. No tenant disruption. Just new income from the sun._**\n\n**_You earn first, we only earn when you do_** - we charge 10% of the solar revenue you collect.\n\n## 🔄 How It Works\n\n1. **Add your property and connect your solar system -** just enter basic property info and link your solar setup.\n2. **We track solar usage in 15-minute intervals -** we measure how much solar energy your tenants use—accurately, throughout the month.\n3. **We generate monthly solar bills using your utility’s rates -** the bills reflect the same line items and tariffs your utility company uses.\n4. **Tenants receive transparent, familiar-looking bills -** nothing confusing—just clear, itemized solar billing that looks like a standard utility bill.\n5. **Tenants pay, you get paid -** tenants pay by card, you receive automatic transfers. You keep 90%, we take 10%.\n\n## 💡 Why We Built This\n\nBefore Wand, we built a DevOps startup together. But we wanted to work on something with deeper impact—something that could actually move the needle on climate.\n\nThen we saw this stat:\n\n**55% of electricity in the U.S. is used in rental properties.**\n\nYet solar adoption in rentals is almost nonexistent—because of the **split incentive problem**: landlords pay for solar, but tenants get the savings.\n\nIt’s a broken system. And it’s a massive opportunity—both for reducing carbon emissions and unlocking billions in untapped properties across the entire value chain.\n\nWe built Wand to fix it. Now, landlords can finally earn from solar, and tenants still benefit from clean, affordable energy. Win-win.\n\n🚀 [Use Our Solar Income Calculator to See How Much You Could Earn—in Seconds.](https://www.wandsolar.com/real-estate)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89699&key=user_uploads/1014551/e1089a7c-f5b5-494e-ab45-6ef4458b85d4)\n\n## 🏁 Ready to Boost Your Income?\n\n☀️ **Already have solar?**\n\n[Sign up now](http://app.wandsolar.com/signup) and **get your first month free.**\n\n_shoot us an email at _[_founders@wandsolar.com_](mailto:founders@wandsolar.com)_ after you sign up to claim it._\n\n🔧 **No solar yet?**\n\nWe’ll connect you with trusted installers—schedule a call or drop us a line \\*\\*[**here**](https://www.wandsolar.com/schedule-a-call).\n\n**Wand Solar — Utility-style billing for landlords with solar.**\n\nCheck us out → [www.wandsolar.com](http://www.wandsolar.com)\n\n📬 Questions? [founders@wandsolar.com](mailto:founders@wandsolar.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NKl-wand-solar-utility-style-solar-billing-for-landlords", "votes": 61, "created_at": "2025-04-21T14:30:32.587Z" }, { "id": 65694, "title": "🛡 Allero - Open source project that protects your production CI/CD pipelines", "tagline": "We scanned many OSS project and found tons of CI/CD pipelines which are not protected. Allero is here to protect them all.", "body": "### **Hey Fam! 👋**\n\nI am [@Idan Shahar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-shahar/?originalSubdomain=il) and together with [@Itai Peri](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itayperry/) we founded [Allero](https://allero.io/).\n\n### **📣 TL;DR**\n\n**We scanned public repositories of FreeCodeCamp, Medium, Supabase, Posthog, and many more. Guess what we found out?!**\n\n[Allero](https://github.com/allero-io/allero) is an open source () CLI policy enforcement tool that protects your production CI/CD pipeline. CI/CD pipelines tend to be messy, and there are so many variations of pipeline manifests spread across different repositories. This makes it difficult to ensure security, code quality, and compliance standards are in place in every pipeline.\n\nBy running Allero, you can easily reveal and prevent problematic pipelines across multiple organizations and repositories.🏁\n\n### **👩🏽‍💻Who is it for**\n\nYou are a DevOps engineer or a platform engineer responsible for CI/CD pipelines in your company. You have at least a few dozen pipelines, and they are complex as hell! You obviously spend so much time managing and maintaining them, which is a total nightmare. Why? because you need to ensure that the code they deliver is bug-free, not vulnerable, scalable, and ready for production.\n\n**We already found many problematic pipelines in open-source projects, and we are 100% sure there are many of them out there!**\n\n* [Medium](https://github.com/Medium/jupyterhub/blob/master/.github/workflows/test.yml#L141) - When using npm in CI, in order to avoid surprises in dependencies’ versions, you should always use `npm ci` instead of `npm install`\n* [Supabase](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml#L42) - When using `npm ci` / `npm install` without `--ignore-scripts` - you risk running unknown scripts injected by your dependencies - which may be malicious.\n\n**Are you sure you don’t have them as well? Go ahead and see for yourself** **with** **our** [**CLI**](https://github.com/allero-io/allero#%EF%B8%8F-one-minute-installation-to-run-allero-validation-on-a-daily-basis-most-recommended)**!**\n\n**Wanna help us out?**\n\nWould love for you to run our tool, and to hear your thoughts! If you’re missing any rules, please reach out to us at [founders@allero.io](mailto:founders@allero.io) or just create a [new issue](https://github.com/allero-io/allero/issues/new) in our repo!\n\nIf you found this helpful, would love you to share it with your friends. Also, a GitHub Star goes a long way in helping our journey. 🌟", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H5a-allero-open-source-project-that-protects-your-production-ci-cd-pipelines", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2022-08-29T17:35:55.185Z" }, { "id": 64859, "title": "Allero - Prevent Non-compliant Code from Reaching Production", "tagline": "With Allero, only high quality and secure code makes it to production.", "body": "### Hey Fam! 👋\n\nI am [@Idan Shahar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-shahar/?originalSubdomain=il) and together with [@Itai Peri](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itayperry/) we founded [Allero](https://allero.io).\n\n### 📣 TL;DR\n\n[Allero](https://allero.io) scans your code delivery processes (aka CI/CD pipelines) to verify that security, code quality, and compliance checks are in place and that only valid code reaches production. 🏁\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64859&key=user_uploads/1014551/711f2234-57e1-44b6-8dd5-c9e678973107)\n\n## 📖 Our Story\n\nItai and I both have been engineers for most of our careers. During my years at Microsoft, I worked with lots of companies who developed microservices in the cloud. While microservices bring lots of advantages, they also come with a lot of complexity - as there are so many of them, often by the hundreds.\n\nHundreds of microservices means hundreds of delivery processes - a significant bottleneck with DevOps engineers. I witnessed developers ending up developing their own delivery processes (CI/CD), while the DevOps team owns the process organization-wise and provides guidance to developers.\n\nThis poses a huge challenge for companies (and in particular DevOps and Platform Engineers) to ensure CI/CD pipelines are up to security, quality and compliance standards.\n\nAs a result, companies are forced to allocate significant engineering resources to deal with incidents like data breaches, complex rollbacks due to bugs, long delivery times, etc.\n\n## 🤯 We solve it with one simple CLI tool!\n\n**Manage your deployment risks with us!**\n\n* ✔️ Simply query pipelines to ensure they are up to security, compliance, and quality standards, across the entire organization.\n* 📊 Gain visibility into your pipelines across multiple SCM and CI/CD platforms in one single tool.\n* 🏃 Simplicity is our thing. Just download the CLI, generate a token, and start querying pipelines.\n\n**For example:**\n\n* Verify that every pipeline implements Snyk / SonarQube / unit/integration tests. (or any other tool!)\n* Make sure binaries are not being published to the wrong destinations.\n* Get the top 10 pipelines that fail the most / are the slowest.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64859&key=user_uploads/1014551/eae5776e-8ef1-4b8d-8b5c-49f1cda57bca)\n\n**Sounds interesting? Wanna try our alpha version? Check out our** [**Website**](https://allero.io)**,** [Sign Up,](https://www.allero.io/waiting-list) and start gaining trust in your code delivery processes again.\n\n## 🤝 Don’t have this problem but wanna help us out?\n\nWe would love to talk with Platform and DevOps Engineers\n\n* **Who work for companies that develop microservices.**\n* **With at least 150+ Engineering team.**\n* **Cares about having a healthy and secure production.**\n\nShoot us an intro email to [founders@allero.io](mailto:founders@allero.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gs7-allero-prevent-non-compliant-code-from-reaching-production", "votes": 118, "created_at": "2022-07-25T15:25:53.546Z" } ] }, { "id": 27109, "name": "HOMLI", "slug": "homli", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6811479c1b708608fea18dd35850ae5ec8cd5a17.png", "website": "https://thehomli.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "HOMLI is building the first fully autonomous real estate broker, enabling homeowners to sell without agents.", "one_liner": "Sell your home without brokers", "team_size": 20, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate", "launched_at": 1654707476, "tags": [ "Real Estate", "Consumer", "Proptech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction", "Housing and Real Estate" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/homli", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/homli.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/homli/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/thehomli", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/homli", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6811479c1b708608fea18dd35850ae5ec8cd5a17.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 930002, "full_name": "Antonis Mitropoulos", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Antonis is a Co-Founder at HOMLI. 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Instead of using four different apps for Banking, Payments, Expense Management & Bill Splitting, users can keep and manage their money on Shelf, and pay anywhere effortlessly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65508&key=user_uploads/365732/54d561c6-d375-498a-90c0-66bbd9fba12c)\n\n### **🚨The Problem:**\n\n**70% of the expenses made by Young Professionals are Shared!**\n\nPeople in the early stages of their career usually shift to the tier 1 & 2 cities of India where their companies are based. In these cities, they live with their friends in shared apartments and have a lot of common expenses such as → Rent, House-Help, Cook, Groceries, Online Food Ordering, Entertainment, Travel, and Utilities just to name a few. There are also a lot of alluring activities that they partake in with their friends & colleagues which just adds up to a big amount at the end of the month.\n\nIn all these scenarios there is usually only one person who pays, then he/she tracks/splits the amount, then constantly asks for their money back (only to get it back after 2 months), and in the entire duration they suffer a dent which disrupts their monthly budget and there is almost negligible savings (Gosh! Even sounds painful).\n\n**The current banking system does not understand this!**\n\n### **💡The Solution:**\n\n**⚡One-Stop Financial App for all the needs of Young Professionals⚡**\n\nAs a Neobank, Shelf not only caters to your banking & payments needs, but we also help you manage your spending and pay as a group from the getgo! 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We’re Steph and Leia, co-founders of Cambio.\n\n**Problem**\n\nThere are many stakeholders in commercial real estate (landlord, LP investor, lender, property manager, etc.). At the center of them all is building data: leases, loan documents, environmental assessments, physical conditions reports, etc. Yet this data is analog, manually created and spread across thousands of PDFs and spreadsheets. Bottom line: there is no system of record weaving all stakeholders in commercial real estate together.\n\nThis makes mission critical workflows like capital planning and compliance painful. Teams rely on manual, expensive and fragmented consultant engagements, requiring thousands of team hours and millions of dollars in upfront cost, just to know where to take action in order to drive returns and impact across the portfolio. After years of manually hunting down utility data, sifting through static 100-page reports and building one-off financial models for every building in the portfolio, real estate managers are desperate for a better way.    \n\n**Enter Cambio**\n\nWe’ve lived this painful user journey. That’s why we built Cambio - to disrupt and automate this process. We use LLMs and agentic workflows to reason across thousands of pages of building documents and help commercial real estate funds identify high-impact retrofits that drive cost savings, compliance and decarbonization. Our AI-based models empower cheaper, faster, and more intelligent data-driven decisions across hundreds or thousands of buildings at scale.\n\n**Backstory**\n\nWe met as roommates at Stanford while pursuing our Masters degrees. On move-in day, we discovered we both worked in commercial real estate and joked over a glass of wine that we should team up to start a company together. 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For the less involved, they can forget about everything and still have a say, thanks to our support for online voting and meetings through video calls.\n\n—\n\nHi everyone, we are [Dani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielcarmonaserrat/) (CEO) and [Dani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danitorramilans/) (CTO), and we are on a mission to become the one-stop solution for homeowners, starting with the specific problem of managing their community (the Homeowners Association).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77957&key=user_uploads/209666/c8be3536-00a4-4af9-930a-161a7a0428a5)\n\n## **💣 The problem: Interacting with the HOA sucks**\n\nIf you own an apartment or a house in a housing complex, you need to split expenses with the rest of the owners for things such as utilities, insurance, or maintenance of common areas. \n\nCollecting payments from the owners, paying providers, submitting taxes when applicable, and keeping track of incidents is very painful, so HOAs hire a manager.\n\nNobody trusts their HOA manager: hidden fees, slow response times, and non-existent proactivity.\n\n## **🎉 The solution: One stop for your HOA needs**\n\nAldara is the modern version of an HOA manager. As digital as the owners want us to be, we take care of everything and you can rest assured that things will happen smoothly.\n\n* **⚡Speed:** Our centralized customer support has SLAs of hours instead of days (working to make it become seconds), and thanks to our structured data, anyone in the team can solve incidents.\n* **🗣️Communication:** We update owners about everything through their favorite contact methods: email, WhatsApp, and even postal card (also automated). The elevator was broken and we just fixed it? We will keep you updated in real-time about the status. \n* **🔎 Transparency:** We operate as a neobank for the HOA, which allows us to automate accounting and show balances and expenses in real-time instead of once a year.\n* **💰Savings:** HOAs spend a lot of money. Thanks to our integrations with curated providers, we can save HOAs money on recurrent expenses while providing a better service.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77957&key=user_uploads/209666/3ec399e3-be57-4390-84b5-62cd6db28bdf)\n\n**🚀 Futuristic Vision: Harnessing AI to Revolutionize Real Estate Services**\n\nAt Aldara, we're not just about managing homeowners' associations today; we're shaping the future of real estate services by solving complex human interactions within a specific context. Our core strength lies in our exceptional tech talent and our commitment to leveraging the power of AI, which is already transforming how we operate and interact with our communities.\n\n### **👋 How you can help**\n\n* Are you part of an HOA and would like to share your experience? [Let us know.](https://demo.aldara.com/?lang=en)\n* Try our demo [here](https://demo.aldara.com) and let us know what you think.\n* Do you know a property owner in Spain? 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HOAs hire building managers to take care of operations, accounting and taxes.\n\n### **What’s wrong with building managers?**\n\nThe average experience for apartment owners is very poor. Managers are traditional small businesses using little technology, resulting in slow response times to incidents and low transparency. It’s a local, fragmented industry with no differentiation, and buildings stay very long with their existing managers for lack of a better option.\n\nWhat’s worse, because managers spend a lot of time working on tedious, repetitive tasks, they have less time to find improvement opportunities for the buildings they manage such as government subsidies for renovations, solar projects, cost savings, etc. It’s more like “keeping the lights on” and less like coaching the team to do better.\n\n### **How is Lumo different?**\n\nBy automating back-office operations like accounting, taxes and incident management, Lumo is able to provide buildings with fast response as well as real time information of their building, allowing them to understand their real expenses and the status of their requests.\n\nThanks to technology, we are able to scale the business, which allows us to negotiate with service providers of the buildings, increasing service quality and saving owners money.\n\n### **Founders**\n\nMiquel and Dani are technical co-founders (CS and Aerospace) from the top engineering school in Spain.\n\nMiquel was previously a Product Manager at Youtube where he launched Shopping on Youtube. 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He started his career at Ethos Group, an insurance company in Dallas, and was more recently a staff engineer at Mosaic (joinmosaic.com), a fintech unicorn. \n\nChristian earned a BS in Computer Science at SMU, and he enjoys playing golf and board games with friends and family.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmgreen", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b7300f4b45592f918385cc760c0028203c132d32.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 70501, "title": "Homeflow 🏠 - Simplifying insurance for large real estate investors", "tagline": "Meet Homeflow, the first digital platform that gives real estate investors a single place to purchase and manage their insurance", "body": "**tl;dr:** Homeflow is the first digital platform that gives large real estate investors a single place to purchase and manage insurance for their portfolio. Rather than having policies spread out between multiple agents/brokers, real estate managers can use Homeflow to view their policies, change coverages, and get quotes for upcoming acquisitions.\n\nHi everyone, we’re Perry and Christian, co-founders of Homeflow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70501&key=user_uploads/437987/6f1b3243-2701-4977-80af-bd2a8ae8254b)\n\n### **🤔 Why are we the right ones to work on this?**\n\n[Perry](https://www.linkedin.com/in/perryha95/) was the 5th business hire at Hippo Insurance and was there through the IPO, building and leading the sales operations team. \n\n[Christian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmgreen/) was the youngest staff engineer at Mosaic, a unicorn proptech company, where he led engineering for a new business line that grew to $10M ARR in 6 months. \n\n### **❌ What’s the problem?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70501&key=user_uploads/437987/48a1f68f-5a21-48cc-9fb3-01549b851641)\n\nLarger real estate investors deal with inefficiencies when managing their insurance. For example, one of our partners has 200 units, and their insurance was placed with 5 different brokers across 6 insurance companies (carriers). This occurs because 1) insurance brokers are often state-specific since insurance is regulated and licensed on a state-by-state basis and 2) the insurance carriers that sell 1-4 family unit properties are frequently different from the ones that sell 5+ family unit properties. \n\nAlso, real estate investors with a traditional broker still need to call or email if they want to get an updated policy document or file a claim. As a result, the insurance experience has been highly service-dependent, only as good as the broker. \n\n### **👨🏼‍💻 What have we built?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70501&key=user_uploads/437987/25f86ff3-7933-4817-a28d-95f00690b83e)\n\nHomeflow is the first digital platform that gives real estate investors a single place to purchase and manage insurance for their portfolio. Homeflow’s nationwide footprint and 50+ carriers provide real estate investors with a single platform for all of their insurance needs. Real estate investors can also use Homeflow’s self-service platform to view all policy documents, manage their claims, or request changes to their policy. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70501&key=user_uploads/437987/90d4c705-24af-4724-bec9-541202333dad)\n\n### **👋 Asks:**\n\nAre you (or someone you know) a real estate investor looking to simplify and save on your insurance? Feel free to reach out to [founders@homeflow.me](mailto:founders@homeflow.me) or book a [meeting with us here](https://calendly.com/perry-rentr/30min). 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Our documentation and planning platform is currently in production: we have signed 7 paid pilots in 3 months with a potential ACV of $1.4M. \r\n\r\nsizeless (https://sizeless.co) spun out of research in robotics and spatial AI: co-founders Cornelius von Einem (PhD, ETH Zürich) and Roger de Belsunce (Physics & AI postdoc at MIT) lead the technology, while Julius Schilling (insurance, Aon) leads the commercial side. sizeless is building the proprietary training-data layer that all construction robots will run on.", "one_liner": "The spatial AI to plan, build and maintain the world's infrastructure", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction", "launched_at": 1691128419, "tags": [ "Computer Vision", "Real Estate", "Construction", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sizeless", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/sizeless.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/sizeless-ai", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/90ad40c9214ea17e0132605fba1e092c86e8b9a0.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1260496, "full_name": "Roger de Belsunce", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "PhD in astrophysics from University of Cambridge", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/rogerdb", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1721d9c98133ce985f909f4100bac939d563d2a2.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1260577, "full_name": "Cornelius von Einem", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Cofounder of sizeless (S23). 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We do it in hours, from a video the crew films themselves.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114663&key=user_uploads/1260577/02c85a25-fa1a-43a2-ad56-6e571b257b37)\n\n### **Problem ❌**\n\nEverything under a street — gas, water, power, heat, fiber — must be documented when it is built or repaired. That documentation is still done by hand: schedule a surveyor, drive out, measure with a tape or a GPS rover, write it on paper, go back to the office and draw it. Then the next contractor does the same thing again, for their own pipe, in the same trench.\n\nOur average customer **waits 6 months** for documentation and spends around **$4M a year per German city** on it.\n\nAnd once the trench is backfilled, nobody can check whether the numbers were right. One person's reading, one moment, unrepeatable. That is why crews keep hitting lines that \"aren't there\".\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114663&key=user_uploads/1260577/f446f4ae-943d-4c83-ba7e-c48b9220eca7)\n\n### **Solution ✅**\n\nThe crew films the open trench with a phone for about 10 minutes. Then:\n\n**Our SLAM engine** builds a metric 3D model from that video — no surveyor, no scanner, and it works without GPS in basements and house connections\n\n**Our vision engine** recognises the components — pipe types, diameters, fittings, couplings — and attributes them\n\n**Our agent** produces what the customer actually files: CAD/BIM, GIS, quantities, and invoice-ready numbers\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114663&key=user_uploads/1260577/bbaddb8c-abbf-43ad-8866-025cde7bb93b)\n\nThe crew also talks while filming, and that goes into the record:\n\n> _\"There was a gas pipe crossing, so we had to lay this pipe approximately\\\n> 50 cm below it.\"_\n\nNo point cloud and no plan ever captures the _reason_ for a deviation — and once the trench is closed, it is gone for good. That sentence, anchored to the exact position in 3D, is the part nobody else has.\n\n**Where we are:** seven paid pilots in three months, the first converted to an annual contract, working with utilities and contractors on district heating in Germany.\n\n**Why now:** phones do metric 3D capture, reconstruction got cheap, and vision-language models read attributes rather than just detecting boxes. And the long game: construction robots are coming, and nobody holds the training data for what is underground. That is the layer we are building.\n\n### **Ask 💬**\n\n**Intros to utilities, municipal works, or civil and pipeline contractors** - Europe or the US\n\n**Anyone who has sold into municipalities or utilities:** how did you shorten those cycles?\n\n**Founders in construction tech, geospatial or robotics** — would love to compare notes\n\nIf you know someone running a **family construction business**, that is often our fastest door in\n\nYou can reach us at [julius@sizeless.co](mailto:julius@sizeless.co) (commercial) or [cornelius@sizeless.co](mailto:cornelius@sizeless.co) (technical).\n\n### **Team**\n\n**Julius** (CEO) — ex-Chief of Staff to the CEO at Aon.\n\n**Cornelius** (CTO) — PhD in robotics and computer vision at ETH Zürich's Autonomous Systems Lab. Built perception systems for railways, and a wearable navigation system for blind users.\n\n**Roger** (Science lead) — professor of physics & AI. Spent a decade recovering 3D structure from sparse, noisy measurements; in his case, mapping the universe.\n\n_Fun fact: the hardest part of our capture pipeline is not the maths, it is that trenches are wet, muddy, and full of moving excavators — which breaks every off-the-shelf 3D reconstruction method we tried._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TpP-sizeless-spatial-ai-for-underground-infrastructure", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2026-09-10T18:00:52.630Z" } ] }, { "id": 29112, "name": "Foundation", "slug": "foundation-2", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9dd20033ab143f980f73115add9045604e7e9b6b.png", "website": "https://buildwithfoundation.com/", "all_locations": "Boulder, CO, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Foundation is the buyer experience platform for homebuilders. By bringing the new home shopping, purchase, and ownership experience online, Foundation helps homebuilders sell more homes, more profitably, to happier customers.", "one_liner": "Shopify for Homebuilders", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate", "launched_at": 1693591286, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Real Estate", "B2B", "Proptech", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction", "Housing and Real Estate" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? 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Our buyer experience platform brings homebuilders online to help them sell more homes, at higher margins, to happier home buyers. One way to think about this is to ask a question: why do you have a better app for tracking your pizza delivery than you do for the biggest purchase of your life? Almost nobody in Silicon Valley understands homebuilding in the U.S. Just the Top 300 U.S. homebuilders — what some folks call “production builders” — build and sell >$250 BILLION (with a B) worth of homes a year, and spend $10B+ on technology, customer acquisition, and commissions. These builders don’t build homes on Sand Hill Road. But once you get outside of the Silicon Valley bubble, you learn how important homebuilding is in the U.S. Yes, it’s economically important — this is a massive corner of the American economy — but homebuilding also has huge cultural significance. Go talk to someone from Texas, or Florida, or a normal midwestern city: either they’ve thought about buying a new construction home, or their friends & family have, or they know someone who works in homebuilding." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "The U.S. is underbuilt by anywhere from 2M-6M+ homes. By helping bring homebuilding online, we help builders run better businesses — and do our small part to help get more homes built for American families. Beyond the new construction industry, we believe more broadly that the entire economy is still coming online. Parts of residential real estate have resisted this, but it’s happening. 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In most American cities, most homeowners have either considered buying a new construction home, have already bought one, or know someone who works in or around the new construction industry.\n\nThe U.S. is also significantly underbuilt from a housing perspective — estimates suggest that we’re anywhere from 2M-6M homes short of the inventory needed to house American families. To bridge this gap, it’s going to be the big “production” builders who do much of the heavy lifting.\n\n### The opportunity: bring a massive industry online\n\nDespite how central homebuilding is to the U.S. economy & culture, large parts of the industry run almost entirely offline. After working closely with homebuilder partners for years at Opendoor, Foundation’s [founding team](https://www.linkedin.com/company/foundation-tech/) realized how big of an opportunity this is.\n\nA simple question we ask: “Why do you have an app for tracking your pizza delivery, but not one for the biggest purchase of your life?” With [the launch of Foundation’s buyer experience platform](https://buildwithfoundation.com/), this finally changes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78242&key=user_uploads/17250/224f88b6-3d32-435a-b9c9-90fd77e1ef64)\n\nBy bringing the home purchase and ownership experience online, Foundation’s buyer experience platform helps homebuilders sell more homes, at higher margins, to happier buyers.\n\nOur first customers go live in Q1 2024, and the early response we’ve gotten — everyone from leading national builders who sell tens of thousands of homes a year, to forward-thinking, fast-growing regional and local builders — shows the tide is finally turning.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KLy-foundation-the-buyer-experience-platform-for-new-homes", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2024-02-07T19:21:11.036Z" } ] }, { "id": 29161, "name": "Goldbridge", "slug": "goldbridge", "former_names": [ "Player One", "Story Quest", "StoryQuest", "Goldbridge", "StoryQuest" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d6bc2a399aaabb43bac34995b9a37125e0e1426.png", "website": "https://www.goldbridgebanking.com/", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Goldbridge is building the financial operating system for the largest asset class in the world – real estate. More than $1T in rent flows through landlord bank accounts annually, with roughly a quarter locked in idle reserves and security deposits – and billions more leaking from unnecessary property expenses. And with $2.5T in real estate loans about to mature in 2027/28, property owners are desperate to boost their income ASAP. \r\n\r\nGoldbridge solves this problem by creating the first AI-powered banking platform for real estate owners. We are backed by Y Combinator and other world-class investors, and our founding team includes a 2x YC founder, former White House advisor, and 100-unit real estate owner/operator with deep industry expertise. 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We already have thousands of units on board and just signed a strategic partnership deal with a company that puts us in front of 8M units in 2026.\n\nWe’re [Alvin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvinsalehi/) & [Greg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregrami/) and we’re the founders of [Goldbridge](https://www.goldbridgebanking.com/). Alvin’s first YC company, Shef (W19), is a homemade food marketplace that helped change state laws across the country so that people could legally cook and sell food from home. They raised over $100M, scaled Shef nationally, and built it into a Series B company that continues to grow rapidly across the country.\n\nNow we’re building Goldbridge, the financial operating system for real estate – and we built it from the ground up based on our personal experience owning and operating residential properties.\n\n**THE PROBLEM**\n\nOver **$1 trillion** **of rent** flows through landlords’ bank accounts every year, and nearly 25% of it sits idle in reserves and deposits. In other words, **real estate banking is fundamentally broken**:\n\n* Traditional banks don’t understand real estate cashflows\n* Property management systems don’t handle money movement, treasury, or yield\n* Operators juggle multiple bank accounts, spreadsheets, and manual reconciliations\n* Billions are lost every year in missed yield, overpayments, and operational inefficiencies\n\nThis is one of the largest underserved financial categories in the country.\n\n**WHY WE BUILT GOLDBRIDGE**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95598&key=user_uploads/95578/286eb9a4-254e-43a5-b09c-1e451fbb85ce)\n\nAs the son of immigrants, Alvin grew up in a motel and helped his parents manage properties growing up. Now he owns 81 units in the Bay Area, and he’s personally experienced how painful it is to manage property finances once you hit mid-market scale (50+ units).\n\nBy modernizing his banking stack, renegotiating contracts, appealing his property tax bills, applying for government rebates, optimizing maintenance spend, and restructuring rent collections, Alvin took his 81-unit portfolio from **–2% burn → +36% cashflow in just a few months.**\n\nWe’ve now replicated this for other property owners, and the patterns are universal.\n\n**OUR SOLUTION**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95598&key=user_uploads/95578/de43ac4b-4268-4af9-8522-7410002f340c)\n\n**1. Banking Built for Real Estate**\n\nHigh yield operating accounts, reserve accounts, and automated reconciliations across your entire portfolio of properties -- all under one FDIC-backed infrastructure.\n\n**2. Automated Savings & Earnings Optimization**\n\nGoldbridge automatically surfaces:\n\n* Property-tax reassessment opportunities\n* Vendor contract renegotiation opportunities\n* Government rebate and incentive programs\n* Utility bill errors\n* Idle cash yield optimization\n* Reserve allocation improvements\n\nBecause Goldbridge sits at the **banking + transaction layer**, we have access to data that is cleaner, richer, and more accurate than generic financial platforms. On top of that, we can actually move money for owners intelligently and safely rather than just highlighting the issues that need to be resolved and throwing the manual work back onto their plates.\n\n**WHY NOW**\n\n**1. A $2.5T Refi Wall Is Coming (2027–2028)**\n\nAn estimated $2.5 trillion in real estate loans will mature soon, which is making owners desperate to improve their property finances. They will need pristine financials, liquidity discipline, and real-time visibility into how their money moves.\n\n**2. LLMs Unlock Automation in a Data-Dense Industry**\n\nNeedless to say, real estate produces massive amounts of invoices, leases, utility bills, tax docs, contracts, rent rolls, and loan agreements. What previously took days to review and reconcile can now be done in minutes.\n\n**TRACTION**\n\nWe’re moving extremely fast. We already have **thousands of units** on board and just signed a strategic partnership deal with a company that puts us in front of **8M units** in 2026.\n\n**FOUNDERS**\n\n**Alvin Salehi (Co-Founder/CEO)**\n\n* 2x YC founder\n* Multifamily owner/operator (100+ units)\n* Co-founder of [Shef](https://shef.com/) (Series B)\n* Fmr Senior Tech Advisor @ White House\n\n**Greg Rami (Co-Founder/CTO)**\n\n* 15+ yrs eng experience with Data/ML/SWE; full stack + mobile native\n* Built parallel data processing for physics models @ NIST\n* Led engineering teams at high-growth companies\n\n**GET IN TOUCH**\n\nGoldbridge is building the financial OS for a trillion-dollar vertical. Drop us a line anytime if you’d like to chat – [**founders@goldbridgebanking.com**](mailto:founders@goldbridgebanking.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oru-goldbridge-ramp-for-real-estate", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2025-11-18T14:39:13.062Z" } ] }, { "id": 29284, "name": "AveryIQ", "slug": "averyiq", "former_names": [ "Starlight Charging", "Avery HQ", "Avery" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e9858815bbd831276cdcb1d662f0a88316f786e6.png", "website": "https://averyiq.com", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA", "long_description": "Avery helps property managers fill vacancies faster and resolve maintenance requests automatically. 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We [built tools](https://partner.starlightcharging.com) to help you launch and scale your EV charging business – everything from site analysis and installation management (through our national network of certified electrical contractors) to payment collection.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87003&key=user_uploads/157923/54fdff9a-ce05-4576-aa6f-2e7f72d01086)\n\n\n\n### **Problem:**\n\nThe US needs 100x more EV charging stations to be installed in the next 10 years if gasoline cars will be replaced by EVs. Rather than leaving this work up to the oil companies, who will drag their feet, we think blitzscaling charging needs to be done right, and done soon. \n\nAs with most real estate, not all locations are created equal. It’s hard to predict which potential installation sites will see high utilization and profitability. What’s more, running an installation process in commercial environments (like multifamily apartment buildings or condos) is complicated and overwhelming.\n\n### **Our Solution:**\n\n We are empowering the hard-working electricians of the world to not only solve the charging gap, but also be financially rewarded for doing so. We built magical software that can help analyze millions of candidate charging station locations for profitability, and manage the installation process – everything from permitting and contracts to material and labor management. We built integrations with over 30 different EVSE manufacturers, so that you can operate different charging station models all from one dashboard.  \n\nAfter installation, operating a charging station business does require some ongoing work – stations need to be regularly inspected, updated, and retail prices need to be adjusted for fluctuations in energy prices.  Starlight’s all-in-one platform streamlines this part of the business for you.  Just like a vending machine, as people use your charging stations, you’ll collect small amounts of revenue day-after-day.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87003&key=user_uploads/157923/0f3aa3f4-742c-4b3c-ba9c-92a4882d5d23)\n\n**How did we get here?**\\\nWe have spent several years honing our own EV charging station operation through [Starlight Charging](http://www.starlightcharging.com/) – we have installed and operate ports all across the country. Through this process, we not only built custom software, but we discovered that electricians are in a unique position to profitably install and run the charging stations themselves.\n\n**Why Electricians?**\n\nFirst, a large majority of the installation cost is labor. Electricians can install stations during off-peak times, meaning they’ll keep their team busy now, investing in recurring revenue for later. Next, unlike nontechnical folk, electricians understand how these systems operate – it’s their bread and butter. Finally, if a charging station goes offline and needs maintenance, a locally-based station owner can get them repaired sooner – the incentives to keep the stations operating reliably are aligned!\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\n[CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP](http://partner.starlightcharging.com/)  for our Pro plan to get started immediately on building your own EVSE network. We’re giving the first 15 electricians who sign up an extra 15 charging stations under management for free with the purchase of our “Pro” plan. \n\n_P.S. If you’d like to start operating your own EV charging station network, please _[_get in touch_](https://mailto:info@starlightcharging.com)_ with us! 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After Penn, Kusiima joined McKinsey & Company where he wrote custom data solutions for $10B+ technology companies, worked directly with execs to create GTM strategies, and led private equity due diligence.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kusiimaboswell/", "x_url": "https://x.com/kusiimaboswell", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/de12147c27b7619c3abc11025397e67a9cd4c53c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1233521, "full_name": "Gabriel Wilson", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "I'm one of the founders of Terrakotta. Before building Terrakotta, I was obsessed with scaling peer to peer networks. By day, I was a SWE at Lyft where I wrote code that powered millions of rides and by night I built StoreStash a profitable gig economy storage platform. 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Voicemails left using Terrakotta are personalized to every contact and generate more callbacks than generic scripts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79253&key=user_uploads/1032568/e407487e-18cb-4c20-b6ba-0c2257e42252)\n\n👋Hey Everyone! We’re Kus, Vincent, and Gabe (from left to right) and we are the founders of Terrakotta. Terrakotta lets users leverage their unique voice (yes, their literal voice) to grow their business. We’re calling it ‘voice nurture’.\n\n**Problem**\n\nVoicemail is a great growth channel to generate interest and callbacks from leads, but historically it hasn’t scaled well. Leaving voicemails during call sessions is: \n\n* Time-consuming\n* Repetitive\n* Tiring\n\n \n\n**Solution: ☎️⚡️Here’s what a call session looks like in Terrakotta⚡️☎️**\n\nWith Terrakotta users can clone their voice, load up a contact list, and set a dynamic AI voicemail script that will be personalized for unanswered calls. From there, users can flip on the auto-dial feature and zoom through their call list, reaching up to 100 contacts/hour.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/BPwVoxEx28ZdtBWjg-vbJvTtJ3SncmfG5Y2vNv-DYP0X7qPheGSAbrc5TMvgnmDEt2N_oyJtj8d5GCCZQyDy5yPi3n_qB6dmfGEwooFBt4v1-97h87uaAX-X0-Ktx6i3VLfrnLYdDic7lzURlNuhyxs)\n\n_(Don’t worry: the contacts are not real people; the phone numbers are our many test lines)_\n\n**About the squad**\n\n* [**Vincent**](https://linkedin.com/in/vincent-wilson-5105141b7) was an incoming Software Engineer at Palantir before dropping out of college to found Terrakotta.\n* [**Kus**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kusiima-boswell-84a1a5151) was a Senior Analyst at McKinsey where he wrote custom data solutions and advised principal investors / GTM execs on strategy. \n* [**Gabe**](https://linkedin.com/in/gabriel-wilson-2b480914b) was a software engineer for Lyft Business and Human Interest (S15).\n\n \n\nWe (strangely) have lots of friends in commercial real estate, and the number one thing they complain about is making outbound phone calls. We’re using our experience with software development and GTM in different contexts to take on this problem in commercial real estate and prove the ability of voice nurture as a growth channel.\n\n**Our asks**\n\n* **If you’re making lots of cold calls and want to do it more efficiently** - try it out!: \n* **Get in touch with us** **if you’re looking for new channels** like voicemail to grow your business\n* **Give us feedback on what you think of the voice-cloning feature - how accurate do you think it is?**\n\n[Email us](mailto:vincent@terrakotta.ai) if you want to check it out.\n\nOr schedule a demo here \n\nThanks for reading!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KcH-terrakotta-add-voice-as-a-channel-to-grow-your-business", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2024-03-11T14:19:47.987Z" } ] }, { "id": 29635, "name": "DigitalCarbon", "slug": "digitalcarbon", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5cd96189d0726eb13cddf2279ecddbb8f1d37895.png", "website": "https://www.digitalcarbon.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Digitalcarbon transforms ordinary images and videos into interactive, photorealistic 3D environments. 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You get human support backed by the best real estate AI anywhere. And it’s all done at no cost to you. Start your search at [tandemspace.com](http://tandemspace.com)\n\n## Why office leasing is broken\n\n**There are thousands of office spaces in a city and no single view of them.** **What exists instead is memory.** A few hundred people, each carrying their own map of the city, built by walking it.\n\nThose maps are good. Brokers who have been doing this for twenty years know their buildings cold, know the landlords, know what a deal should actually cost. **But it's one person's map of a market that changes every week, and there is no version of this job where one person keeps up with all of it.**\n\nSo the process runs on relays. You spend an hour explaining what you need. Your broker spends the week calling the brokers they know, who call the landlords they represent. Eight options come back. You like one. The calls start over. Nobody is doing anything wrong. It just takes days to move a question through a chain of people, and you are one of a dozen searches your broker is running at the same time.\n\nThe economics of this market were built for bigger deals. Commercial leasing grew up around full floors and ten year terms, and everything in it is sized for that. A 3,000 square foot suite on a two year term takes nearly the same work and returns a fraction of it, so smaller spaces get less attention across the board. It's why so many of them go unphotographed, unlisted, and unmentioned. That's most of the market by count.\n\nThe people in this industry are not the problem. This is just what a market looks like when it runs on memory:\n\n**You're seeing only what your broker chooses to show you, prioritized only as much as your deal size warrants, with no way to verify you're getting a fair shake.**\n\n## How Tandem works\n\nOn paper, Tandem is an office leasing brokerage like any other. Same license, same tenant rep fee, same person meeting you in the lobby. **The difference is what that person knows, and how quickly they can act on it.**\n\nEvery Tandem agent works with an agentic brain behind them\\*\\*. It's watching the market constantly: what came available this morning, what a similar unit actually leased for last month, which landlords are flexible on term, what's about to come back online.\\*\\* Knowing the market stops being one person's job, so it doesn't stop when they go home, and it isn't limited to the buildings they've personally walked.\n\nWhat that means for you:\n\n* **You see the whole market on day one**, not on the third callback. Your agent already knows what fits before you finish describing it.\n* **Answers in minutes**, over email, text, or phone, on anything from zoning to what the freight elevator situation is.\n* **You know what it should cost.** Your agent can see what comparable units actually went for, so you go into a negotiation knowing where the number should land.\n* **You don't have to talk to anyone if you don't want to.** The same market is browsable at [tandemspace.com](http://tandemspace.com). Compare asking rents, book a tour for tomorrow, bring your agent in whenever you want them.\n* **A 3,000 square foot requirement gets the same attention as a 30,000 one**, because your agent isn’t paid more for a bigger deal.\n\n**The result: clients who search with Tandem see 30%+ more spaces than in a traditional search, and finish about 6x faster. At no cost to you.**\n\n## Start your search with Tandem\n\nWe’re proud to have placed more than 500 companies into offices, including Cursor, Upwork, Apollo GraphQL. 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Propaya customers save 90% of lease review processing time and cost compared to before.\n\n---\n\n### **Why is this important?**\n\nManaging commercial real estate leases is a complex, time-intensive, and error-prone process. Each lease often runs dozens of pages, filled with intricate clauses that require meticulous review. Traditional manual methods slow operations and increase the risk of errors, leading to financial losses, missed opportunities, and legal disputes.\n\n**The Numbers Tell the Story:**\n\n* **Time-Consuming Processes:** Manual lease reviews are labor-intensive, with automation capable of reducing review time by 90%.\n* **Prevalence of Errors:** 78% of companies have errors in their lease data due to outdated information, underscoring the critical need for regular data updates.\n* **Financial Impact:** On average, businesses lose $15 million each year due to hidden commercial lease costs like overlooked clauses and inaccuracies.\n\n**The Business Opportunity:** The lease abstraction service market is booming, valued at $4.48 billion in 2024 and projected to grow to $5.92 billion by 2028, at a CAGR of 7.2%. As leases become more complex, the demand for accurate, efficient, and automated lease management solutions is growing. AI-powered tools, like Propaya’s, are emerging as essential solutions for property managers, asset managers, and real estate professionals.\n\nAs leases become more complex, the demand for accurate, efficient, and automated lease management solutions is increasing. AI-powered tools, like Propaya’s, are emerging as essential solutions for property managers, asset managers, and real estate professionals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86065&key=user_uploads/1991246/932b8123-c043-4c6f-b8da-23d9fad8a069)\n\n---\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nPropaya simplifies lease management with AI-powered tools:\n\n* **Lease Abstractions:** Quickly transform lengthy, complex lease agreements into concise, searchable summaries.\n* **Lease Reviews:** Ensure compliance and catch critical clauses with automated checks that reduce the risk of errors.\n* **Custom Output:** Propaya seamlessly adapts to your existing workflows by generating forms and reports that match your current style and format. This ensures a smooth transition from manual processes to AI-driven solutions, eliminating disruption and maintaining consistency across your operations.\n\nWith Propaya, you can complete tasks in minutes instead of days, freeing up time for high-value activities like portfolio optimization and deal analysis.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86065&key=user_uploads/1991246/44213415-05c7-4924-95bc-589246c290c9)\n\n---\n\n### **Our Story and Team**\n\n* **Born from Frustration:** Propaya started when we faced firsthand the tedious, error-prone challenges of managing leases in our family’s small property portfolio—highlighting a clear need for innovation.\n* **From Idea to Platform:**\n * Jake and Reader met in high school at Phillips Academy Andover in 2015 and became lifelong friends.\n * As a Stanford engineering student, Reader saw an opportunity to turn our technical expertise into a solution.\n * What began as a dorm-room idea has become a platform transforming commercial real estate management.\n* **Empowering Real Estate Professionals:** Today, we help property managers, asset managers, and brokers nationwide save time, reduce errors, and focus on unlocking portfolio potential.\n* **Meet the Team:**\n * **Reader Wang, CEO:** Former Aerospace engineer at SpaceX with a passion for solving real-world challenges.\n * **Jake Golas, CTO:** Former full-stack developer at Epic systems with deep expertise in building scalable, reliable software systems.\n\nTogether, we’re making commercial lease management seamless, reliable, and effective.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86065&key=user_uploads/1991246/393c1980-a6dd-4775-aba2-0d267a47133a)\n\n---\n\n### **Moving Forward**\n\nWe’re actively expanding our offerings to handle complex multi-tenant lease scenarios, build integrations with property management systems, and provide advanced analytics for smarter decision-making.\n\n---\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\nDo you know property managers, asset managers, or real estate brokers who deal with commercial leases? We’d love to connect with them!\n\nYou can reach us at [**founders@propaya.com**](mailto:founders@propaya.com) or schedule a call via [www.propaya.com](https://www.propaya.com). You can also follow our LinkedIn here. \n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MO9-propaya-ai-commercial-lease-abstractions-and-reviews", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2024-12-05T15:22:11.428Z" }, { "id": 83562, "title": "🏠 Propaya - AI-powered Property Management Software", "tagline": " Upload your lease; we will handle the rest.", "body": "**tl;dr:** Propaya simplifies the complexities of property management. Our platform automates routine tasks, provides real-time insights, and reduces the administrative load, empowering property managers to focus on what truly matters—growing their business. Available now at [Propaya.com](http://Propaya.com)\n\n**Meet the founding team behind Propaya - Jake & Reader!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83562&key=user_uploads/1991246/217611dd-ab8e-412e-8020-18621ae6643d)\n\n**From left to right:**\n\n🧠 [**Jake**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-golas/) is our analytical brain: CTO of Propaya, CS degree in 3½ years, former full stack software engineer at Epic Systems. Chat with him about #AI #Azure #dotnet\n\n**❤️** [**Reader**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/reader-wang-70bb31166/) keeps an eye on the bigger picture: CEO of Propaya, 7+ years in real estate management and tech innovation, former SpaceX Engineer, and an MS from Stanford. Chat with him about #propertymanagement #proptech #realestate #propertymanagement\n\n---\n\n**Why is smart property management essential?** 🧐\n\nProperty management is evolving rapidly, and staying ahead requires adopting tools that simplify operations and drive growth. With increased demand for remote work and digital solutions, property managers are under pressure to do more with less—Propaya helps you meet that challenge.\n\n---\n\nWe created Propaya because we understand the personal day-to-day challenges property managers face, from handling tenant requests and maintenance scheduling to managing finances and compliance. Our platform was built to automate these repetitive tasks, giving you back precious time and providing actionable insights to make informed decisions.\n\n---\n\n**The Propaya Advantage** 🎉\n\n* **Automated workflows:** Say goodbye to manual data entry and hello to efficiency. Propaya handles everything from lease renewals to maintenance requests with ease. Just upload your lease PDF, and we will take it from there.\n* **Finance management:** Upload a receipt, and we'll keep your expenses organized and securely stored, forming detailed expense data sheets to make tax season easy.\n* **Automated calendar and alerts:** Stay on top of every task with our integrated calendar and alert system. Propaya automatically schedules important dates and sends timely reminders, ensuring you never miss a deadline or appointment.\n* **Remote management:** Manage your properties from anywhere, anytime, with our fully mobile-responsive platform.\n\n**Our Ask** 🙏\n\n* **Try Propaya today!** Visit [www.propaya.com](https://www.propaya.com) to explore our platform and see how it can transform your property management experience.\n* **Share this post!** Spread the word about Propaya with your network—whether they’re property managers, owners, or contractors, they’ll benefit from what we offer.\n* **Connect us with potential partners**: We’re looking to collaborate with property management consultants, real estate investors, realtors, and tech-forward property management individuals and firms. Reach out to us at [**info@propaya.com**](mailto:info@propaya.com)\n\nQuick blurb to share:\\\n_A Stanford-founded startup, Propaya, has launched a platform that automates property management, reduces administrative burdens, and provides real-time insights. Learn more at _[_http://www.propaya.com_](http://www.propaya.com)_ or contact _[_info@propaya.com_](mailto:info@propaya.com)_ for details._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ljm-propaya-ai-powered-property-management-software", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2024-08-28T21:44:38.562Z" } ] }, { "id": 29824, "name": "Assembly HOA", "slug": "assembly-hoa", "former_names": [ "Assembly Technologies Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/251db0cfd3ffbbbe376cb8fa8066246654b8bd87.png", "website": "https://assemblyhoa.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Assembly is an AI-native HOA management company on a mission to fix homeowner associations. 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He worked as a real estate agent for several years, managing client relationships and transactions. In startups, he specialized in customer success and implementation, focusing on improving client experiences and efficiency.\n\nGrowing up in a townhome community, Allen has firsthand insight into HOA governance challenges and opportunities. 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We can help.", "body": "TL;DR; [Assembly](https://assemblyhoa.com/) provides tech-enabled HOA management for your community and [Atlas](https://atlas.assemblyhoa.com/sign-in), a free AI-copilot to help you navigate your HOA.\n\n[Allen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenliou1/) and [Shreyas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shreyas-assembly/) here from Assembly!\n\nWe started Assembly because we were fed up with slow, inefficient, and costly HOAs that often make homeowners feel like renters, powerless against poor management. What’s the point of homeownership if you feel this way?\n\nAssembly leverages the latest in fintech and AI to automate HOA operations and provide real-time information to homeowners. Our cutting-edge software, combined with top-tier HOA managers, ensures that your most valuable asset is protected while delivering a modern, transparent experience you’d expect in 2024.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82995&key=user_uploads/383321/c99c2211-0986-4274-a34b-2471debedbf8)\n\nWe’re live with 26 communities across Greater Los Angeles and SF Bay Area and a [4\\.9 star rating on Google.](https://g.co/kgs/kYqnUpb)\n\n**Ask:** If you or anyone you know is an HOA board member or a homeowner struggling with their HOA, we’d love to bring your HOA over to Assembly! Please reach out to us at 213 282 8809 or [allen@assemblyhoa.com](mailto:allen@assemblyhoa.com) to learn how we can help or book time directly: \n\n### But wait, there’s more!\n\nTo help any homeowner faster than waiting for the HOA to switch HOA management companies, we’re launching Assembly Atlas, your free AI HOA copilot to help you navigate your HOA. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82995&key=user_uploads/383321/e676505c-c487-4d70-8596-8ee0566e2745)\n\nAtlas reads through your HOA’s governing documents (CC&Rs, Bylaws, and Rules & Regs) and generates simple cards to help you get clarity about what you can and can’t do in your community. 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For example, [Henry](http://www.henry.ai/) can create a full deal package for a broker selling an office building in Dogpatch in minutes instead of weeks. This will ensure that brokers maximize their time in the most value-added part of their business: relationships and sales.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83131&key=user_uploads/89898/dd4cce39-5b6f-426f-9245-f5e9b1b0e7fa)\n\n(Sourav is remote!)\n\nTraditional brokers often spend as much as 50% of their time on tasks that do not contribute to their bottom line. From basic financial analysis to marketing presentations to win future business to basic operational support, brokers often struggle with the manual and time-consuming realities of their business. These tasks are an incredibly painful bottleneck for brokers, which interferes with their primary goal of _building relationships to buy and sell property_.\n\nWe are creating [Henry](http://www.henry.ai/) to solve this problem. Henry is an AI copilot that takes all of the messy, unstructured data that defines CRE transactions and consolidates it into clean marketing deliverables & financial analyses in minutes rather than weeks. Long term, we plan on automating the entire deal flow process for brokers to make their cycle time for a deal an order of magnitude faster. You can find an example of what we do below:\n\n\n\nI ([Sammy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sammy-greenwall-387b3256/)) led Lev for the last five years, a 200+ person series B real estate financing marketplace that I co-founded. During this time, I realized that brokers were often bottlenecked by manual processes & antiquated technology, a problem optimally solved with advances in AI-driven technology. 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In addition to the high labor costs and regulatory burden, delays in reviewing applications and thoroughly screening applicants can cause weeks of lost rental revenue.\n\nLost revenue on a single move-in can accumulate to thousands of dollars, and penalties for non-compliance can cost millions in credit recaptures and fines.\n\n## **The Solution**\n\nTire Swing uses AI to bring compliance expertise to the point of leasing. It turns weeks of reviews and approvals into a minutes-long process. 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We’re Lin and George, founders of AutoSitu. We’re building software that automatically reviews site and building plan sets in minutes and surfaces what a city is likely to flag before you submit.\n\n**🧱 Problem**\\\nIn real estate, _time kills deals_ — and permitting/review is one of the biggest sources of delay and variance.\\\nMost projects go through **2–3 resubmittal cycles**, adding **3–9 months**.\n\n* Developers: **$50k–$250k+** in carrying costs while projects sit in review\n* Architecture teams: **80–200 hours** of unplanned work per resubmittal\\\n → at **\\~$130/hr**, that’s **$10k–$25k+** of margin erased on fixed-fee work 🐌\n\n**⚡ Solution**\\\nAutoSitu is an AI-powered development plan review engine that flags the issues that typically surface later — **before submission**, when fixes are cheap.\n\nTeams use AutoSitu to:\n\n* reduce city comments **50–70%**\n* cut resubmittals from **2–3 → 0–1**\n* shorten approvals by **3–6 months+**\n\n**💰 Impact**\\\nThat’s **$100k–$400k** in avoided carrying costs for developers and **$10k–$25k** in preserved fee margin per project for architecture teams.\n\n👋 **Backstory**\\\nLin worked across **20+ U.S. public and private projects** in planning and architecture, sitting on **both sides of the table**, and repeatedly hearing the same question from teams and clients: _why does review take so long when the issues are so predictable?_\n\nGeorge spent years building automation systems in robotics and AI, turning processes that took **weeks of manual effort** into scalable pipelines, cutting costs from **$50k to $2k** while keeping humans in the loop.\n\nAutoSitu started from a shared realization: permit review isn’t slow because people aren’t trying, it’s slow because the same checks are repeated manually, at scale, with no early signal.\n\n[🎥 **Launch Video**: https://youtu.be/77ErS3Ja4Ho](https://youtu.be/77ErS3Ja4Ho)\n\n🤝 **Ask / CTA**\n\nIf you’re an **architecture/development** team, we’d love to **apply the same playbook from our successful deployments** to your next submission, we’ll help you run AutoSitu end-to-end on a real plan set.\n\n**Reach us** at [**founders@autositu.com**](mailto:founders@autositu.com) or [DM](https://www.linkedin.com/company/autositu).\\\n**Visit us: [https://autositu.com/](https://autositu.com/)**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97122&key=user_uploads/2679474/04e7826b-9b84-4745-9714-a57ac24f95d1)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PGU-autositu-ai-native-development-plan-review-for-faster-approvals", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-01-26T21:00:55.911Z" } ] }, { "id": 31257, "name": "Atlia", "slug": "atlia", "former_names": [ "Odyssey" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7a4b2fb5aaa99f5f795d2aa898508681eae26222.png", "website": "https://www.atlia.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We use AI agents to manage short-term rental properties by running operations completely autonomously. We cut traditional human management fees in half so owners take home 20% to 30% more revenue. 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But in reality, every Airbnb is a tiny hotel and a nightmare of operations. Every reservation restarts the operational clock: prices must be adjusted, guests screened, messages answered, cleaners scheduled, access coordinated, supplies restocked, and maintenance handled, often overnight or between back-to-back stays.\n\nAnd in traditional short-term property management companies, operational failures are common, and they can quickly become very costly:\n\n* A missed cleaning becomes a bad review\n* A poorly screened guest becomes property damage\n* A neglected maintenance issue becomes an issued refund or lost booking\n\nOn top of these operational failures, the average management company takes 15–30% of rental revenue, often alongside cleaning, maintenance, and other fees.\n\nWe’ve been property managers for the past year and ran into the same lose-lose choice every owner faces: manage a 24/7 hospitality business yourself, or hand over a quarter of your revenue to a management company whose costs increase with every property it adds.\n\n## The Solution\n\nWe are building a new type of property management company, with infrastructure built for agents and human-computer-interaction from the ground up. By replacing the layers of coordination and operational overhead built into traditional management companies, we provide a much better service at a much lower fee.\n\nWe center around a simple premise: owners shouldn’t have to choose between good service and reasonable fees. With our model, **owners take home 10–20% more and guests have a more premium experience.**\n\n## Team\n\nWe’re Shaan and Edmond, longtime friends, Duke roommates, and property managers.\n\nEdmond previously built AI voice agents at Rilla, LLM agents at S&P Global, and data pipelines at Vanguard. He has been managing rentals for a year, experiencing the owner’s dilemma firsthand.\n\nShaan previously designed GPU hardware at Apple, brain-computer interface research at Yale, computer architecture research at Duke. He also has been managing Airbnbs and longer-term rentals for a year and a half.\n\n## The Ask\n\nWe are live in 80 properties today, and would love to have you join us.\n\n**If you own a short-term rental** (such as an Airbnb), we can help you generate more revenue while providing better experiences to guests and giving you that peace of mind that your property is in good hands.\n\n**If you are considering investing in a short-term rental,** we can help turn your investment into a much more lucrative investment vehicle.\n\nYou can reach out to us at [founders@atlia.com](mailto:founders@atlia.com). And schedule a free property review at [www.atlia.com](http://www.atlia.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SAV-atlia-the-ai-native-str-property-management-company", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-07-29T17:19:12.682Z" } ] }, { "id": 32195, "name": "RealPact", "slug": "realpact", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0066aaeaa91920faf3f4b4ee35ce9e7c2bc99740.png", "website": "https://realpact.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "RealPact builds AI agents that handle the paperwork behind real estate transactions. They find property records like deeds, tax records, permits, parcel data, and MLS information, then use that data to fill out contracts, organize documents, track deadlines, and help brokerages close deals faster.\r\n\r\nWe are starting by automating transactions and will expand into other parts of brokerage operations. 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It has an infrastructure problem.\n\nWhile nearly every major industry is using AI to move faster, reduce manual work, and automate operations, real estate agents are still managing some of the largest financial transactions in the world through disconnected software, email threads, repetitive data entry, and paperwork.\n\nAgents should be spending their time winning clients, advising buyers and sellers, and closing deals. Instead, they lose hours gathering property information, filling out the same details across multiple forms, tracking deadlines, and coordinating every party involved in a transaction.\n\nThat is why we are building RealPact.\n\nRealPact is not another tool for completing one form or managing one part of a deal. 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Whether it's an unknown utility line, unexpected rock layer, or old foundation that wasn’t on any design map, the costs of delays from underground conflicts quickly add up. \n\nTake utility strikes, when an excavator hits an active utility line. For every dollar spent on the explicit repair cost of that utility line itself, the contractor loses an additional $30 per repair-dollar in project delays, insurance claims, idle work crews, and increased insurance premiums. For a hyperscale project such as data center construction, a single day of delay can cost the cloud-provider up to $14 million dollars for that single day.\n\nIn metropolitan areas, maps are incomplete at best and none create a unified picture of critical infrastructure, making excavation especially dangerous when natural gas or electric lines are broken.\n\nEnter SubVysion. We’ve built a fleet of autonomous rovers carrying ground-penetrating radar and other sensors that create a centimeter-accurate map of subsurface infrastructure. Our hardware is the first and the best to map the entirety of US infrastructure. Using our rovers, we comprehensively map construction sites, city streets, and even larger indoor buildings, at 100x better granularity and 10x the speed (with a single rover) compared to our competitors. We process vast amounts of data using machine learning and agents, and output that data into an easy-to-understand 3D scene. \n\nWho are we? Maxwell Stone was an early ML engineer at Roboflow (YC S20), and Wenson Tang built the world’s smallest and cheapest LiDAR-capable drone for adverse environments. We both studied computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. Together, we’re building SubVysion to map the entirety of America’s subsurface infrastructure.\n\nWe’re currently on job sites in Philadelphia and Texas, helping our first market of utility contractors save hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. We’re soon to expand our mapping services to municipalities and energy providers as we scale up our rover fleet and capacity!\n\nIf you’re in the energy, infrastructure, or hyperscale construction world, we’d love to hear from you at [founders@subvysion.com](mailto:founders@subvysion.com)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Sys-subvysion-preventing-150b-is-wasted-construction-spending", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-08-19T23:30:02.157Z" } ] }, { "id": 35685, "name": "Obia", "slug": "obia", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2d934a569ca7e9c9f8cd404a1de2cd48f7e9510e.png", "website": "https://obia.io/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "OBIA is an AI-native commercial real estate brokerage for industrial and office. 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Every step of that process runs on an AI operating system we built ourselves instead of the legacy process of Excel files, PDFs, emails, and a surprisingly high amount of manual knowledge work that the rest of the industry still uses.\n\nWe are **the developer**. Not a SaaS product. The actual developer. We work for institutional investors to go build physical assets and we get paid to do it on their behalf.\n\n\n\n**🏗️ What a developer actually does**\n\nReal estate development has historically been an opaque industry and generally not well understood. Here’s how it works. White-collar investors like investment funds, private equity, family offices, etc., deploy about **$160B a year** into multifamily projects. They can either buy one that already operates (—> call a broker) or build a new one from the ground up (—> call a developer). A developer finds the land, gets the permits, hires the architect and builder, manages construction, and delivers a finished building.\n\nThat’s where we fit in. HABU is not a software product for developers. **We are the developer.** \n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nNew housing has never been slower or more expensive to build. The high cost of new housing increases everyone's cost of living while also making it hard to finance a project. \n\nA single apartment project involves 700+ discrete internal tasks and over 1,000+ hours of manual desk work: pulling data from a dozen public databases by hand, calling brokers, architects, engineers, and lawyers for quotes, and tracking it all in spreadsheets, word docs, and even physical paper.  \n\nThe biggest technological jump for commercial real estate over the past 40 years was Excel. Seriously, Excel! \n\n**🤖 How HABU works**\n\nWe built an internal AI-native operating system that completes projects up to 10-20% faster, lowers total project costs by 10-15%, and lets us manage 5x more projects per development manager. The end-to-end process is automated and autonomously ran:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=117228&key=user_uploads/1280882/4abab095-10ec-442f-8d93-b2fd3cd8bfbb)\n\n**💵 We are not long term property owners**. Just the service provider. That keeps us extremely capital light, operationally efficient, and lets us scale in a way that legacy developers could never do.\n\n**👫 The Team**\n\n**Bryan**- worked on $310M+ of projects (industrial, datacenter land, and mostly multifamily). Top-ranked grad in the Master’s of Real Estate Development (MRED) program at ASU. Long career in sales leadership at VC-backed startups like Mutiny: employee #5, raised $75M from YC, Sequoia, Insight, Tiger Global, Cowboy Ventures, Uncork, etc. Started first company at age 23 redeveloping brownfield sites and environmental remediation. Double-undergrad of Economics and Sustainability. \\\n**Jun** spent 4.5 years at Meta building AI data systems used across global operations and product teams. Previously managed aviation logistics and complex supply chains in the U.S. Navy and led enterprise transformation work at Accenture. Technical builder with experience taking AI products from 0 to production. M.S. in Analytics. Immigrant, Navy veteran, and first gen college graduate.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\n* Know an investment firm, family office, or high-net-worth individual (founders, VCs, executives) looking to invest in real estate? Introduce us.\n* Own land in Phoenix? Let's talk.\n* Interested in working for HABU and building the future of buildings? 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