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    Stefan Martinovic

    Stefan Martinovic

    VP Partnerships @placer-data VP Investments @midwood, Head of Innovation @rebny-the-real-estate-board-of-new-york, Founder & CEO @create-2 (Techstars '16), @college-of-william-and-mary MBA

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    Placer
    Placer
    Vice President, Partnerships 2021 - Present (over 5 years)
    Stefan is a seasoned innovator with domain expertise in technology, real estate, economic development and investment management. A builder of companies, buildings and products,... more Stefan is able to rapidly dissect complex challenges while leading teams that formulate creative solutions across digital and built environments.
    Midwood
    Midwood
    Vice President, Investments & Head of Analytics 2018 - 2021 (over 2 years)
    For over 90 years Midwood has cultivated a diversified real estate portfolio comprised of retail, office, residential, mixed use and net leased properties and has grown from... more a residential brokerage into a sophisticated investment and development platform that owns over 125 properties in 10 states and the DC comprising in excess of 3.5M square feet. The company has a development pipeline of several million square feet and actively acquires opportunities in NYC, Boston, Philadelphia and DC.
    The Real Estate Board of New York
    The Real Estate Board of New York
    Director of Innovation and Products 2017 - 2018 (over 1 year)
    Stefan served as the first-ever head of innovation and products at REBNY. He was responsible for advancing modernization of the City’s real estate listing systems (the RLS),... more building the industry's authoritative property database, and other trailblazing products that facilitate real estate leasing & sale transactions, while ensuring that New York remains the bleeding edge for the global real estate technology ecosystem by fostering collaboration.
    Create
    Create
    Founder, Chief Executive Officer 2011 - 2016 (almost 5 years)
    Create is a venture-backed 3D mapping and property database and software platform that served over 10,000 real estate market participants. As founding CEO, Stefan was responsible... more for all facets of organizational growth from inception through exit and is recognized as an innovator in real estate technology. Stefan raised $4M of capital from VC funds and angel investors, growing the company to 12 FTE Led the company through Techstars, one of the world's most prestigious technology accelerators.
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    Create
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    U.S. Department of Defense, OPVS Group, International Truck and Engine, City Interests, Hickey & Associates, Coriolis Management, Tenney 110, Unacast, New York University, The Real Estate Board of New York, Midwood, Placer
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    Projects
    Terrain
    Terrain turns real estate professionals into local experts
    Terrain is the ultimate analytics technology for making sense of the growing deluge of location based data, transforming it into unique insights which drive… · More investment selection
    The Spencer
    7 unit residential building in West Harlem, NYC
    Broadacre Farm
    Catskills conservation community & regenerative farm
    Broadacre Farm is transforming the 117 acre former dairy farm at 26 Hoag Road in Livingston Manor, NY into a vibrant new regenerative conservation community… · More development that prioritizes: Preservation of open space for community recreation, wildlife habitat and restoration of the natural ecology Sus
    Residential Listing Service (RLS)
    Listing data service for industry professionals & platforms
    REBNY's Residential Listing Service provides data for industry professionals & technologies serving the world's most important real estate market - New York City.
    Create.io
    Property database of the future
    CEO · Product vision, capital raising, strategic direction

    Create is a real estate platform packed with property data, 3D maps, and tools that… · More empower instant investment decision making.
    Edward Switzer
    With Edward Switzer
    Parkside
    Lead analyst · $700 million 15.5 acre mixed-use transit-oriented greenfield community development of 3 million SF
    Park Heights
    500 unit mixed-income housing development
    Finalist RFP response for a 500 unit modular mixed-income housing development in Baltimore, MD
     
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    About
    Achievements

    Led full product life cycle innovation & execution at Placer.ai, which grew from 200 to 600 FTE, raising $100M and hitting a $1B valuation.

    Head of Innovation and Products at The Real Estate Board of New York, spearheading innovation initiatives and PropTech development. Launched Manhattan's first authoritative Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and centralized property database.

    Built Create.io from an idea to a 12 person company serving over 10,000 real estate, brokerage, and AEC professionals across the Eastern US. Took the company through the Techstars accelerator, and was selected for White House initiatives to use open data and mapping to further access to economic opportunity in at risk communities.

    Negotiated $10 million tax incentive, paving the way for the development of 186 units of affordable housing in an underprivileged area. Secured tax increment and government grant financing for the redevelopment of a blighted shopping center into a vibrant mixed-use community.

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    Real Estate Business Development Business Strategy Product Development Business Operations Start-Ups Finance
    Locations
    New York City
     
    Q&A
    What words of wisdom do you live by?

    I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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