Top Commercial Real Estate Startups in 2024

Kasa Living, Inc. is a real estate technology company that is building a global accommodations brand. The company partners with owners of multifamily and boutique hospitality properties, transforming underutilized real estate into stylishly-furnished, professionally managed units that cater to business and leisure travelers seeking trustworthy and comfortable accommodations. Kasa was founded in 2016 by a team that includes technology and real estate professionals who previously drove growth at firms, including Airbnb, KKR, and Apollo. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.

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.

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.

Cherre is the leader in real estate data and insight. We connect decision makers to accurate property and market information, and help them make faster, smarter decisions. By providing a unique “single source of truth,” Cherre empowers customers to evaluate opportunities and trends faster and more accurately, while saving millions of dollars in manual data collection and analytics costs.

We create specialized tools for space and desk management so that you get everything you need to reserve conference rooms and desks, find the right people, and optimize how your office is used. we make space scheduling, desk management, wayfinding, and office analytics easy.

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.

The only conversational AI platform for Self Storage. When others close their doors at 6PM, you’re still open. 24/7 in fact. You’d be surprised at how many people are looking to rent storage units at 2AM. The goal of automation should be to make the lives of people easier—whether those people are your customers or your facility manager. Automation eliminates repetitive and tedious tasks—freeing up people to spend their time on more worthwhile activities.

Cubby’s mission is to empower self-storage operators to grow their independent and family-owned businesses in the face of massive institutionalization. There are more than 70,000 self-storage properties in North America. They’re operated by more than 35,000 independent business owners who provide service to tenants in times of tremendous life change. Whether moving across the country for a new job opportunity or moving on after a family death or divorce, self-storage tenants find tremendous value from a high-quality renting experience. So much value, in fact, that self-storage is the fastest growing asset class in commercial real estate by value, surpassing $50 billion annually in the U.S. last year. The lending market in this asset class is growing as well, with over $10 billion trading hands annually. Additional investor interest is pouring in, and with it, tremendous pressure to compete at the highest level. If you want to build technology that’s valued by more than 1 in 10 Americans renting a storage unit, the near minimum wage managers looking for a way to earn their bonus, and the independent owners, lenders, and investors that make up this industry, we'd love to chat. We’re a seed-stage team of 20+ experienced software professionals already closing significant customers. lucky enough to be backed by a phenomenal group of investors and 28+ of the industry’s most influential advisors, giving us the access and resources to build things right and think for the long term. Our product allows self-storage operators to market, lease, and manage their properties while seamlessly receiving payments and financing. We serve 3 persona categories: Leads, Tenants, and Operators. Operators captures 3 primary levels: store manager, district manager, and business owner which ascend in seniority.

Investor demand for exposure to residential real estate is rapidly increasing. The percentage of homes sold that were flipped has increased by 50% over the past 5 years. However, as more and more inexperienced investors enter the market, the average profit and ROI is decreasing. homebldr empowers real estate professionals with a turnkey solution for maximizing the ROI of residential real estate investments and renovation projects. Their solutions enable real estate professionals to source high-quality investment opportunities and take full advantage of those opportunities. We provide advanced data analysis & underwriting, competitive financing options, and access to the trade partners to decrease the time taken to evaluate and close on investment opportunities and increase the likelihood of successful and profitable exits.

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