Tech Nest: The Proptech Podcast

Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Cristine Brown the VP of Partner Success at Rhino, a company that been leading the multifamily industry in creating alternative solutions for the standard security deposits rents must put up to rent an apartment. Cristine shares a lot about the products at Rhino, but als...

Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Despite my personal affection for self-storage, we've gone 165 episodes of Tech Nest without having someone on discuss the topic. Cory Sylvester, Co-founder of the popular self-storage data platform Radius Plus and Co-founder of DXD Capital is here to break the drought....

Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- What if sharing commercial real estate data could be more valuable than holding it all to yourself? This could be things like how the building was constructed, energy usable, roof condition, and more. Think CARFAX, but for commercial real estate. That's what David Kaiser...

Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Ethan Lieber is the Co-founder and CEO of Latchel, a proptech based in Seattle that is working to improve property management companies' response times, as well as helping property managers achieve incremental revenue through resident benefits. Often times property manag...

Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Inc Magazine just published their annual list of the fastest growing, private companies in the US. Proptech had a great showing out on the list this year. The list below (which I discuss in this episode) isn't likely the exhaustive, entirety of all proptech companies on...

Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Josh Ernst, Founder and CEO of Backflip, a fintech focused on helping real estate investors through enhanced investing tools and by providing loans, brought the heat! Very few interviews with founders get into the specifics of product-led growth like we did in this one....

Government employee by day, proptech founder at night. Donato Callahan is the CEO of BrightInvestor, a tech service that enables for real estate investors to better gather data and insights on markets, using visualizations. Donato isn't just a hopeful tech founder looking to capitalize on an opening in the market. He's an active real estate investor, building the tools to accelerate much of the ma...

In this episode, we're joined by the CEO of Azibo, Vikas Gupta. Azibo is an all-one-solution for mom-pop landlords—specifically for those with 50 units or less. In the last few years, there's been significant changes to the rental landscape including how owners collect rent, reporting on-time rent payments to credit bureaus, and how many are becoming investors (think: accidental landlords) due to...

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Welcome to another episode of Tech Nest. In today's episode, we have a special guest joining us, Bill Martiner, the CTO and Co-founder of Avenue One, a Proptech company that has quietly risen to unicorn status in about three years time. Avenue One recently made headlines by successfully raising an impressive $100 million round of funding. While they may be a quiet company, their impact in the resi...

Join us on this episode as we delve into the world of rental with the founder of Rentbase, a new solution for agents and brokers in the real estate industry. Noam Blum, the founder, shares his personal experiences as an agent and the challenges he faced. With Rentbase, he aimed to automate leasing workflows and uncover sales opportunities. Rentbase is working to simplify the leasing process, from...

"More than a marketplace" is how ReWyre desrcibes their procurement platform for proptech solutions. Rasheq Zarif is the Co-founder and COO of ReWyre, and he wants to help property professionals find the right proptech solutions that meet their business needs in a more efficient and seamless way. Rasheq is leveraging his experience as an accomplished consultant, CEO, and tech advisor to guide real...

If you've been following Mike Wolber, then you know he's a rare one in our industry. Mike is a fellow podcast host of Modern Multifamily, but also the Chief Revenue Officer at Rent Dynamics—a proptech company focused on improving the overall lifecycle of residents through better technology tools for owners and managers. Mike is frequently bringing a ton of value to the industry sharing his insight...

It's an exciting day when we get to have a returning guest on Tech Nest. Drew Fabrikant, CEO of Scout will be sharing today about AI, its uses in real estate, and what you might need to know to leverage this tech in your business—whether you're running a proptech or traditional real estate business. More about Drew and Scout Scout helps you build stronger connections with your ideal customer. Drew...

More about Andrew and Doorvest Doorvest is an end-to-end solution for real estate investing, done entirely online. Doorvest helps individuals build wealth remotely by facilitating the purchase of a single-family rental and managing the property—making owning rentals as easy as owning a stock.  Only in this case, they’ll own the whole home! Andrew Luong is the co-founder of Doorvest, a venture-back...

Seasoned tech veteran and entrepreneur, Sal Patalano, shares with us today how he's leveraging his 30+ years experience to lead the expansion of Plentific into the US rentals market. Plentific has amassed a network of more than one million properties and 20,000 service providers. This network, coupled with their software interface, is what makes real-time operations possible for owners and propert...

Let's imagine e-commerce, but for rental listings. It's kind of what we're talking about today. I've got Austin Lo, he is the founder and CEO of Peek. He got his start in real estate working at an investment fund. They were creating data-driven models, investing in e-commerce internet platforms. And, you know, he had this interest in real estate and so he went so far as to become a licensed agent...

In this episode we're talking about the Shopify of real estate. I'm thrilled to have Jason Hardy, the CEO of Ownly, a Canadian-based company that is also working in the United States, as our guest today. Ownly is bringing e-commerce to the residential real estate industry, creating a frictionless home buying experience. Their patent-pending technology, called Verified, connects qualified buyers an...

This is a different approach. We've got Nick Farquhar. He is the CEO of a company called Appreciate. You can find them online, appreciate.io. They describe themselves as a tech-enabled property management. And one of the first questions I asked Nick was, "what does it mean to be tech-enabled property management?" You got to listen to this one. Appreciate gets into the data, their approach is a lit...

You'll hear me say it in the intro, but wow. This was a heck of a discussion. John Andrew Entwistle is the Founder and CEO of a company called Wander. In a very short amount of time, Wander has exploded on the scene for vacation rentals. They're approach: verticalize the entire business. When I say the entire business—I mean everything! The tech, the management, property selection, the marketing,...

It's not enough to just list a pretty home or apartment on Airbnb in order to stand out. Maybe it is for some, but not for Jonah Hanig. Jonah is the Founder of a company called Rove. They've set out to build an exclusive network of luxury short-term and mid-term rentals, ideals for those traveling and working. It's more than just the bones of the building, though. The team at Rove is especially sk...

More about Cameron and Prophia Prophia is a rising proptech smart tool for commercial real estate & lease abstraction used across 1,800 buildings, with 100% customer retention, and has exceeded one million pages scanned with its AI-powered technology. With Prophia’s AI abstraction tool, commercial real estate owners, investors, and operators can eliminate manually intensive lease abstractions...

What an honor it was to have Bonnie Murray, founder and CEO of Raccord on the show. Raccord is building a mobile-first data platform specifically for commercial real estate owners and operators. We had a fun discussion highlighting why the decision to build mobile first as compared to everyone else in the industry, as well as how this can save organizations significant time from handling administr...

More about Anne and Lobby CRE Lobby CRE helps commercial real estate firms transform their portfolios with intelligent analysis, industry benchmarking, and asset management, enabling access to all data sources and automating performance reporting across all properties from a single platform. Lobby CRE is the first data analytics and management platform designed specifically for commercial real est...

Stop the tape! This is one of the most energetic episodes on Tech Nest—ever! Jeffrey Berman, partner at Camber Creek, brings the heat. We covered a wide variety of topics. We talked strategy, proptech trends, what's to come, and more. But ultimately, I think you'll walk away with at least one thing—Jeffrey is not your average VC! Don't delay—hit the play button. More about Jeffrey and Camber Creek...