Top Commercial Real Estate Startups in 2027

Founded with a mission to revolutionize commercial real estate through innovation, VTS is the industry's leading leasing and asset management platform. By centralizing all of their critical data and workflows in one place, VTS empowers landlords and brokers to better attract, convert and retain their most valuable asset – tenants. Over 7 billion square feet is managed on the VTS platform by a user base exceeding 28,000. The firm's client roster comprises global commercial real estate leaders including Boston Properties, Beacon Capital Partners, Equity Office, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, JLL and CBRE.

We save building owners money on their energy bills by managing their onsite energy assets (such as battery storage, HVAC controls, solar, cogeneration, and electric vehicles) intelligently and efficiently with our machine learning platform. Our position as a retail electricity provider allows us to unlock value streams to customers currently unavailable to them.

Plum delivers a high quality, consultative service to CRE owners, and offers a range of loan programs, including access to long-term capital, providing the right terms and options to meet the individual needs of each owner.

Unlock the potential of every investment partnership. Juniper Square empowers GPs and LPs to focus on building enduring relationships and exceptional investment opportunities. Our partnership enablement solutions empower investment partners to connect and communicate seamlessly across every interaction, freeing teams from the disjointed and siloed systems, operations, and processes holding organizations back from realizing their full potential today.

The future of work is increasingly complex — remote workers, distributed teams, flexible multi-tenant office space — and the dynamic of how workers interact with each other and how workers interact with their physical space is changing. Pre-COVID, our tech was focused on workspace design to enable collaboration. Now we are helping companies plan for a post-COVID workplace and safe return to work for employees. Our Company VergeSense is building an easy-to-deploy space utilization & sensing platform that helps real estate professionals monitor foot-traffic within buildings. Data from our platform is used to improve building layout & design, execute dynamic workforce strategies, and reduce energy costs. For large clients, the financial impact is in the tens of millions per year. We provide a full-stack solution comprised of easy-to-deploy AI-sensors, fleet management tools, analytics software, and APIs that integrate with the leading workplace management systems on the market. Founded in 2017, we went from concept to product-in-the market in 6 months, and now have Fortune 500 customers who collectively manage hundreds of millions of square feet of real estate. The most unique aspect of our product is simplicity - we’ve optimized by rapid-installation (no wires, no IT integration), enabling us to leapfrog competitors who have been in the market for years. Our Team We are looking to grow our team! We value people from all walks of life who exhibit kindness, curiosity, discipline, humility, and passion to excel at what they do. If you would like to contribute to our team, we encourage you to apply. jobs.lever.co/vergesense

Our cloud-based SaaS platform helps Commercial Real Estate service contractors run all of their front office and back office operations.

NAI Northern California is the full-service outpost of NAI Global, the world’s largest network of commercial real estate brokers. With three offices in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, we lead commercial real estate investments throughout the Bay Area, across Northern California, and around the country and the world thanks to the far-reaching NAI platform. Here locally, our team delivers CRE services with a heightened awareness of the technology that drives our region. Our advisors are the most tech-empowered of any under the NAI brand, maximizing the value we create for our clients, the industry, and our community. But we share more than just the tech of our neighbors. We share a mindset. Here it’s not enough to just be aware of what is. We’re also keenly focused on what could be. In Northern California, entrepreneurial thinking is habitual, and it’s a built-in mentality that we bring to every transaction. Since our founding in 2004, we’ve lived through booms and busts, recessions and crises, technological and social upheaval, and have continued to grow year after year. We credit our growth to our diverse client base and the practice of solving every real estate challenge they can present. The Bay Area attracts the entire world, and with this comes countless experiences, backstories, and points of view. Our clients give us the perspective to see a path through any challenge. Our three offices have us surrounding the Bay, and we are annually recognized as a Top-10 CRE Firm by the San Francisco Business Times and the East Bay Business Times. We employ more than 70 people organized into lean mutually-supportive divisions, offering the following services: Acquisitions, Dispositions, Leasing & Subleasing, Marketing Services, Market Research, Property Management, Landlord Representation, Tenant Representation, User Purchases, Build-to-Suit, Site Analysis/Due Diligence, Sale/Leaseback, Consulting & Planning, Receivership & REO, Disposition, and more.

PiinPoint is changing the way organizations use location analytics around the world. Our solution enables businesses to find the best locations for expansion throughout the world and we do it in seconds. Our modern day SAAS solution is easy to use, always up to date, and far cheaper than any other solution. It delivers in depth analysis that can tell you exactly where your target market is, how many cars drive by a location, what commercial real estate is available and much more.

Jones is the simplest risk & compliance solution ever made for commercial real estate. Since founding the company, we have experienced incredible growth fueled by an urgent need to digitize the archaic risk and compliance process in our industry. Our AI-powered SaaS solution has delivered amazing product-market fit for our customers in over 6,000 buildings and 750M square feet of real estate, and growing! We have headquarters in New York, NY and our engineering team is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Office furniture hasn’t changed in a while--about 79 years, in fact. That’s the average age of the top twenty-five office furniture companies in America. None of them were born after the Internet. Branch makes office furniture simple. We're building an office experience for the 21st century: flexible, affordable and easy so you can sit down (or stand) and get to work.