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Steve Marcinuk
06 Feb 2025

In today’s dynamic real estate landscape, a fundamental transformation is reshaping how property managers serve their clients. Leading this change is Blanket, a technology company founded by Lior Abramovich, whose journey from naval commander to real estate innovator offers unique insights into the industry’s future. The Silent Killer: Understanding Property Management Churn The property management ...

Steve Marcinuk
29 Jan 2025

The commercial real estate (CRE) industry is making significant advancements in the analysis and valuation of properties, as market pressures compel professionals to reevaluate long-standing manual processes. Market Context and Pain Points While the commercial real estate industry has long used sophisticated tools for property assessment, current market conditions demand greater efficiency. The traditional process ...

Rudi Davis
22 Jan 2025

From his days as a software engineer at Microsoft to becoming a real estate tech entrepreneur, Daniel Tsikata’s journey reflects a common startup origin story: he encountered a problem and built a solution. That solution has evolved into DealWorthIt, a platform that’s transforming how real estate investors analyze potential investments. From Personal Tool to Commercial ...

Steve Marcinuk
16 Jan 2025

When Darian Kelly walked into a new construction sales office as a first-time homebuyer five years ago, a simple question about community demographics led to an uncomfortable silence. “The response I got was, ‘go take a walk and find out for yourself,’” Kelly recalls. This experience, combined with his background in political consulting and supply ...

Steve Marcinuk
13 Jan 2025

Algoma, an AI development platform, is transforming how developers approach site feasibility. By automating pre-construction services through AI-powered technology, the company has reduced what traditionally requires weeks of consultant coordination into a process of several days, all through a subscription-based model. The platform streamlines pre-development workflow by generating complete feasibility packages that include zoning analysis, ...

Steve Marcinuk
02 Jan 2025

In an industry some feel is ripe for transformation, Navigate Homes is pioneering a new approach to real estate investment transactions by leveraging artificial intelligence to streamline the brokerage process. Founded by Roshan Srinivasan, the company emerged from a crucial insight about the real estate investment market: while most PropTech companies focus on first-time homebuyers, ...

Steve Marcinuk
27 Dec 2024

In an era where institutional investors like Blackstone are dominating the single-family home market, one startup is working to level the playing field for individual investors. Coffee Clozers, co-founded by serial tech entrepreneur and CEO Liam Maher, is helping everyday Americans compete in real estate investing through sophisticated data analysis and user-friendly technology. After witnessing ...

Steve Marcinuk
27 Dec 2024

The future of real estate ownership might not be the traditional single-family model we’ve grown accustomed to. Cody Anderson, founder of Tomi, is pioneering a sophisticated platform that’s reimagining how people can collaborate to own property together. Drawing from his experience transforming equity management for private companies at a software company called Carta, Anderson is ...

Steve Marcinuk
19 Dec 2024

When Sarah Cipkar broke ground on her 430-square-foot backyard home in Windsor, Ontario in August 2020, she couldn’t have predicted it would lead to creating what would become Canada’s only nationwide backyard home marketplace. But that personal project, sparked by a 2019 bylaw change allowing detached accessory dwelling units (ADUs), would eventually evolve into Resimate, ...

Rudi Davis
17 Dec 2024

After multiple successful exits in the healthcare industry, entrepreneur John LeRoy noticed something peculiar about real estate referrals: they were stuck in the past. Drawing from his 30-year experience as a property investor and his background in healthcare’s efficient referral systems, LeRoy founded Realay, a platform modernizing how real estate professionals handle referrals across markets. ...