Top Real Estate Startups in 2024

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.

Unison is a San Francisco-based company that is pioneering a smarter, better way to buy and own homes. We are a team of financial and real estate professionals who are committed to helping homebuyers get the home they want, and homeowners finance their life needs without adding debt. We are radical enablers of enlightened capitalism pioneering optimal homeownership for all.

Realm is building the modern financial advisor for your house. Primary residences account for 62% of the average American’s total assets, but there’s no accessible platform homeowners can turn to for unbiased, actionable advice — until now. From the day you buy your home to the day you sell it, you’re making a series of expensive and confusing decisions. To navigate these decisions, homeowners try to cobble together information from biased experts, googling, and friends. Realm's free insights and tools help homeowners across the US make informed decisions. Our nationwide product is powered by technology, with a human touch. Our insights help homeowners navigate complex & expensive home decisions, ranging from how much to spend on a kitchen renovation to when to refinance.

Perchwell is a market intelligence, search and collaboration solution for real estate professionals and their clients. As a complete workflow solution, Perchwell allows agents to provide differentiated service to clients more efficiently and grow their businesses as a result. Perchwell is built on a comprehensive database of real estate data constructed from myriad public and private sources. Together, these data provide a rich foundation for evaluating the market and help professionals develop hyper-personalized, actionable insights in seconds. perchwell.com

openigloo is a mobile app and website, where renters can anonymously share and read rental reviews and access real-time city data on their buildings and landlords. With a community of over 500,000 NYC renters, our mission is to build a world where tenants everywhere are treated like valued customers. Since launching in August 2020, openigloo has helped tens of thousands of New Yorkers vet their prospective buildings and find landlords who care about their renters.

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.

Remoov is enabling the circular economy by making it simple to upcycle unwanted goods, ensuring we end up with value in hand rather than at the dumpster. Remoov aims to bring efficiencies and data insight to an antiquated $50B "not-junk" industry. Our platform is driven by our pickup service. Remoov will pick up anything that a person wants to sell, donate or recycle. We charge a pickup fee based on the volume collected and then the owner receives 50% of the resale proceeds as well as donation receipts. Items collected for resale are on consignment and processed through resale through our proprietary data extraction and appraisal process.

We have created a brand new class of financial product - an "Obligo". It is something between a security deposit and a pre-auth (billing authorization). Our platform is solving a huge problem for both tenants and landlords, and the demand is out of this world. The conditions are ripe for Obligo to become the new industry standard!

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.

AirGarage is repurposing the 30% of real estate in the average American city currently dedicated to parking. We are building a future where real estate is digitized and can be transitioned from one use to another seamlessly on-demand, moving every piece of urban real estate toward its highest and best use. We are starting with the $131 billion US parking real estate market because it is one of the most offline and mismanaged commercial real estate asset types. As a full-stack parking operator, we automate the operation of parking lots and parking garages. We handle everything from advertising to collecting payments from drivers and enforcing against illegal parking. We already operate 150+ parking lots and parking garages across 30 US states and we are growing quickly. We are backed by top tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Founders Fund, and angel investors who have founded or worked at companies like Uber, Opendoor, Flexport, and more.