MetaProp

MetaProp, established in 2015, is a New York-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in real estate technology, or PropTech. The firm invests in startups and growth-stage companies across various real estate sectors, including office, retail, residential, and hospitality. MetaProp's investment strategy involves a 16-week accelerator program, with initial investments ranging from $0.25 million to $2 million, typically taking a 6% equity stake. The firm also provides community leadership through initiatives like the PropTech Place innovation hub and global events.

Zachary Aarons

Partner

Zach Aarons

Co-Founder and General Partner

Aaron Block

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Jeanne Casey

Principal

Tom Cashel

CFO

Jackson Feder

Investor

Bryan Lyandvert

Investor

Wes Mizell

Associate

Wes Mizell

Associate

Lauren Price

Investor

Philip Russo

Founding Partner, MetaProp Advisors and Chief Communications Strategist

Zak Schwarzman

General Partner

Past deals in Commercial Real Estate

Light RFP

Grant in 2024
Light RFP is a digital platform facilitating commercial real estate (CRE) procurement. It streamlines the Request for Proposal (RFP) process by offering features such as site visit scheduling, vendor Q&A, internal communications, bidding, leveling, reference review, and contract signing. This enables property managers and CRE developers to efficiently manage projects and collaborate with vendors.

Spacemaze

Grant in 2024
Spacemaze is a software company that specializes in office management solutions aimed at empowering workplace teams. Its platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including inventory management, facility management, interactive floor plans, and lease agreement management. Additionally, Spacemaze provides sustainability reports and an internal marketplace that facilitates resource reuse, promoting sustainable resource management. By streamlining these processes, the company enables businesses to optimize savings, reduce waste, and lower carbon emissions, ultimately enhancing operational efficiency and supporting environmentally responsible practices within the workplace.

Revela

Series A in 2023
Revela is a real estate operating system platform. It provides services like operations, accounting, acquisitions, and communication services. Its financial management platform includes a fully integrated accounting and payment processing system that streamlines accounting processes, automates data collection and ensures data accuracy.

Bowery Valuation

Series B in 2023
Bowery Valuation is a New York-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in cloud-based appraisal software and mobile applications. The company provides its appraisers with innovative tools that enable them to produce comprehensive commercial appraisal reports more than twice as quickly as their leading competitors. By utilizing a robust backend database and natural language generation technology, Bowery enhances efficiency, quality, and consistency across its operations. This approach allows appraisers to deliver more consistent reports at a reduced cost and within shorter timeframes, positioning Bowery as a significant player in the appraisal industry.

Saltbox

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2019, Saltbox provides flexible workspace solutions for businesses. It offers adaptable office spaces and private warehouse suites, along with support services such as Wi-Fi, loading docks, conference rooms, and community events. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Saltbox caters to importers/exporters, distributors, makers, and e-commerce operators.

Nophin

Seed Round in 2022
Nophin develops a property rental financing platform for commercial real estate, leveraging an artificial intelligence copilot to underwrite deals and streamline the rental process. The platform automates data entry, provides intelligent insights, and generates worksheet analyses to support investment decisions, and it offers automated deal filtering, comprehensive market research with source citations, dynamic scenario analysis within Excel, automated report generation, workflow automation, and advanced document analysis. These capabilities help landlords and commercial real estate professionals simplify operations, assess markets, compare scenarios, and focus on making optimal investments.

CoFi

Seed Round in 2022
CoFi is a digital platform designed to enhance the construction lending process through integrative business software. The platform automates and modernizes the construction payment process, effectively addressing inefficiencies and providing greater predictability and consistency for residential and commercial projects. By streamlining payment management, CoFi enables banks and private lenders to efficiently manage and scale their construction portfolios. Additionally, the platform empowers contractors by facilitating project funding that is backed by on-demand payments, thereby improving their financial flexibility and access to necessary resources.

Showdigs

Seed Round in 2022
Showdigs operates a leasing automation platform that connects property managers and landlords with a network of local, actively licensed real estate agents who are trained to conduct showings through an intuitive scheduling system. The arrangement streamlines on-demand showings, makes the process simple and cost-efficient, reduces scheduling overhead, improves office productivity, and supports scaling of rental portfolios for property managers and owners.

Occupier

Series A in 2022
Occupier Inc. is a New York-based company that offers transaction and portfolio management software tailored for commercial tenants and brokers. Founded in 2018, Occupier's platform enables users to manage and optimize various aspects of the real estate transaction and portfolio management lifecycle, including lease administration, lease accounting, and transaction management. By automating and streamlining the management of lease portfolios, Occupier addresses the unique challenges faced by commercial tenants. The software facilitates collaboration between tenants and brokers throughout the lease life cycle, from site selection to critical date management, ensuring compliance with new lease accounting standards and enabling informed decision-making in real estate transactions. The team's extensive experience in commercial real estate and proptech allows them to deliver effective digital solutions for managing real estate portfolios.

Estate Intel

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Estate Intel is a platform offering reliable data and insights on the African real estate market. It enables companies to generate high-quality market reports, understand current trends, make accurate forecasts, and identify leads.

Mapped

Seed Round in 2021
Mapped automates the discovery, extraction, and normalization of real-time data from building systems, sensors, devices, and APIs in commercial real estate. Its platform breaks data silos, empowering owners and operators to unlock value from their data.

Floorfy

Seed Round in 2021
Floorfy is a developer of a B2B SaaS platform that assists real estate professionals in digitizing and streamlining the commercial transaction process through immersive virtual experiences. The platform enables users to capture 360-degree photos and quickly generate high-quality digital content, including 3D virtual tours, dimensioned floor plans, interactive 3D renders, and HD photos and videos. Additionally, it allows for the creation of virtual open house experiences and provides features such as hotspots and multi-language descriptions. By facilitating the rapid production of engaging visual content, Floorfy helps real estate agents maintain a competitive edge in a fast-paced market while enhancing the client experience.

Saltbox

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2019, Saltbox provides flexible workspace solutions for businesses. It offers adaptable office spaces and private warehouse suites, along with support services such as Wi-Fi, loading docks, conference rooms, and community events. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Saltbox caters to importers/exporters, distributors, makers, and e-commerce operators.

Occupier

Seed Round in 2021
Occupier Inc. is a New York-based company that offers transaction and portfolio management software tailored for commercial tenants and brokers. Founded in 2018, Occupier's platform enables users to manage and optimize various aspects of the real estate transaction and portfolio management lifecycle, including lease administration, lease accounting, and transaction management. By automating and streamlining the management of lease portfolios, Occupier addresses the unique challenges faced by commercial tenants. The software facilitates collaboration between tenants and brokers throughout the lease life cycle, from site selection to critical date management, ensuring compliance with new lease accounting standards and enabling informed decision-making in real estate transactions. The team's extensive experience in commercial real estate and proptech allows them to deliver effective digital solutions for managing real estate portfolios.

Switch Automation

Series A in 2019
Switch Automation Inc. is a global real estate software company that provides solutions designed to help property owners and facility managers lower operating costs, enhance energy efficiency, and improve occupant satisfaction. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with additional offices in Australia, Asia, and Europe, the company offers a comprehensive smart building platform that integrates traditional building systems with Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. This platform enables real-time analysis, automation, and control of building assets. Switch Automation serves a diverse range of industries, including commercial real estate, retail, grocery, and financial services, focusing on delivering innovative technology that prioritizes both environmental sustainability and operational effectiveness.

Mero Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Mero Technologies offers AI-driven labor allocation and supply utilization services for commercial property managers. Its platform optimizes cleaning routes, tracks consumable usage, and monitors restroom traffic, enabling data-driven workforce management and inventory control.

Saltbox

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2019, Saltbox provides flexible workspace solutions for businesses. It offers adaptable office spaces and private warehouse suites, along with support services such as Wi-Fi, loading docks, conference rooms, and community events. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Saltbox caters to importers/exporters, distributors, makers, and e-commerce operators.

Younity

Venture Round in 2019
Younity Inc. is a technology company based in New York that focuses on enhancing the digital infrastructure of multi-family properties through its innovative software platform. Founded in 2018, Younity empowers developers, landlords, and asset managers by integrating and managing smart systems within buildings, thereby improving operational performance and occupant experiences. The company's offerings include a communication platform that modernizes building communication infrastructure and property-wide WiFi networks designed to provide secure, reliable internet access without hidden costs. Younity serves various sectors, including residential, commercial, co-working, hospitality, retail, and student housing, aiming to streamline digitalization processes and enhance connectivity for tenants.

HqO

Series A in 2019
HqO, Inc. operates a Software-as-a-Service tenant engagement platform tailored for commercial real estate professionals. The platform enables landlords to foster community and enhance tenant experiences by providing a mobile application that connects tenants to building amenities and each other, as well as integrating with building systems. It allows tenants to access features such as building entry via smartphone, shuttle tracking, and food ordering. Additionally, HqO's offerings include analytics, mobile access, transit data, alerts, and smart building solutions. The company serves a diverse clientele, including property owners, asset managers, property managers, real estate brokers, and tenants. Founded in 2015 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, HqO also has offices in London and Paris. The company was previously known as VentureApp Inc. before rebranding in January 2018.

District Capital

Seed Round in 2018
District Capital, Inc. is a commercial mortgage lender incorporated in 2018 and headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, with an additional office in Washington, District of Columbia. The company specializes in developing and operating a technology platform designed to streamline the commercial mortgage lending process. By automating deal and borrower underwriting, District Capital enhances the borrower experience while reducing costs, increasing speed, and improving transparency. Its mission is to simplify the commercial real estate lending process, enabling clients to efficiently manage more deals and grow their businesses effectively.

Blueprint Power

Series A in 2018
Blueprint Power is a New York-based technology company that develops machine-learning tools to automate the management, aggregation, orchestration, and market transactions of energy assets across commercial buildings. The platform enables buildings to function as distributed power plants by optimizing energy use and monetizing capacity through participation in wholesale energy markets. By applying data analytics, it helps regional groups of real estate owners monetize existing energy assets and generate additional revenue streams, improving the financial sustainability of their portfolios as the energy system evolves toward greater use of distributed resources. Founded in 2017, the company supports the monetization and efficient operation of building-scale energy assets.

Workframe

Series B in 2018
Workframe is a software company specializing in workflow optimization for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry. Its web-based platform provides large corporate tenants, landlords, brokers, and service providers with enhanced visibility into their workflows. The solution offers actionable data to drive efficiency and cost savings by automating critical tasks and accelerating project delivery. Workframe's visual tools help users discover trends, collect inspiration, share ideas, and provide real-time project updates, thereby streamlining communication, improving collaboration, and proactively managing risk across various initiatives.

Spacious

Series A in 2018
Spacious Technologies, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in New York, operates in the technology sector by transforming unused restaurant spaces into shared co-working environments. The company allows users to utilize these venues, which are typically closed during daytime hours, as productive urban workspaces. By partnering with local eateries, Spacious creates a network of accessible locations equipped with high-speed Wi-Fi, complimentary coffee, and essential amenities that foster productivity and collaboration. This innovative approach not only provides freelancers and remote workers with alternative work settings but also helps restaurant owners maximize their space during off-hours. As of August 2019, Spacious operates as a subsidiary of WeWork Companies Inc.

Bowery Valuation

Seed Round in 2017
Bowery Valuation is a New York-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in cloud-based appraisal software and mobile applications. The company provides its appraisers with innovative tools that enable them to produce comprehensive commercial appraisal reports more than twice as quickly as their leading competitors. By utilizing a robust backend database and natural language generation technology, Bowery enhances efficiency, quality, and consistency across its operations. This approach allows appraisers to deliver more consistent reports at a reduced cost and within shorter timeframes, positioning Bowery as a significant player in the appraisal industry.

Enertiv

Seed Round in 2017
Enertiv, Inc. is a digital energy company based in New York that specializes in providing data-driven energy efficiency solutions primarily for the real estate and energy services sectors. Founded in 2011, Enertiv's platform digitizes building operations by collecting and analyzing data from various sources, including the deployment of IoT devices that monitor critical equipment and environmental conditions. This enables property owners and operators to optimize performance, reduce waste, and manage operating expenses more effectively. Enertiv offers a range of services, including energy data analytics, sub-metering, automated billing, and measurement and verification solutions, aimed at enhancing asset value and promoting energy efficiency across commercial real estate portfolios.

Ravti

Seed Round in 2017
Ravti is a company that specializes in software solutions for managing HVAC systems in commercial real estate. Its platform digitizes the management of HVAC equipment and properties, allowing for efficient oversight of maintenance programs, emergency repairs, scheduled repairs, and capital replacement. By streamlining these processes, Ravti enables property owners and real estate organizations to enhance asset audits and improve financial performance through more accurate capital expenditure management and increased staff productivity. The company's approach aims to achieve significant cost savings, potentially reducing HVAC replacement expenses by 18-40%.

Zeus Living

Seed Round in 2016
Zeus Living, Inc. is a property management company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in renting furnished housing to startups, students, and businesses across several key markets, including the Bay Area, Seattle, Los Angeles, and the District of Columbia. Zeus Living partners with homeowners to furnish and manage their properties, thereby providing attractive rental options for corporate clients and facilitating a higher rental income for property owners. Additionally, the company offers a web-based application that delivers property information, enhancing the user experience for both tenants and homeowners.

Spacious

Seed Round in 2016
Spacious Technologies, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in New York, operates in the technology sector by transforming unused restaurant spaces into shared co-working environments. The company allows users to utilize these venues, which are typically closed during daytime hours, as productive urban workspaces. By partnering with local eateries, Spacious creates a network of accessible locations equipped with high-speed Wi-Fi, complimentary coffee, and essential amenities that foster productivity and collaboration. This innovative approach not only provides freelancers and remote workers with alternative work settings but also helps restaurant owners maximize their space during off-hours. As of August 2019, Spacious operates as a subsidiary of WeWork Companies Inc.

Avail

Seed Round in 2015
Avail is an online platform designed to assist independent landlords and property managers in managing rental properties. Founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, Illinois, Avail provides a comprehensive suite of tools that simplifies the rental process. Its offerings include rental listings, tenant screening, customized leases, online rent payments, maintenance tracking, and rent price analysis. The platform caters specifically to landlords with fewer than 10 units, filling a gap in the market for accessible online management tools. With its user-friendly interface, Avail allows landlords to efficiently advertise vacant units, process rental applications, conduct credit checks, and handle lease agreements digitally. As of now, Avail serves approximately 70,000 landlords, making it a valuable resource for both novice and experienced property managers seeking to enhance their operations. Since December 2020, Avail has operated as a subsidiary of Move, Inc.
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