Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best New York City based Real Estate companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Real Estate industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top New York City Real Estate Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Apollo
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Apollo Global Management is an asset management firm that specializes in credit-oriented capital and real estate markets.
Compass
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Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling real estate assets.
Cadre
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Cadre is an online marketplace that connects investors and operators of real estate.
Jones
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Jones offers independent contractors a Pay-As-You-Go solution to end the hassle of liability insurance.
Updater
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Updater is a technology company that develops technology to help consumers relocate to the United States.
VTS
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VTS is a real estate CRM software company bringing together landlords, brokers, and tenants to make deals happen.
RealBlocks
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RealBlocks is a technology platform that delivers online access to alternative investments.
Entera
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The premier full service SaaS + Services platform for professional single-family real estate investors
REZI
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REZI a rental company that provides tech solutions to improve the rental experience for landlords and tenants alike.
Rhino
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Rhino is a licensed insurance agency that gives renters financial alternatives to security deposits.
Common Living
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Common Living is a community-driven residential company that brings community, convenience, and flexibility to housing.
Cushman & Wakefield
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Cushman & Wakefield is a real estate services firm that offers agency leasing, tenant representation, and investment management services.
Better.com
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Better.com is a homeownership journey platform that utilizes technology to change the way people buy and own a home.
Delos
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Delos is a real estate company that focuses on tech, health, design and science to improve human health in the built environment.
Ribbon Home
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Ribbon Home was created to make home ownership achievable by giving homeowners the freedom to buy before they sell.
Hello Alfred
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Hello Alfred provides resident‑first software and services to deliver in‑home support and local experiences.
Orchard
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Orchard is an online platform for buying and selling residential real estate.
EasyKnock
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EasyKnock provides homeowners with money and time through their innovative sale-leaseback programs, Sell & Stay, and MoveAbility.
Spruce Holdings
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Spruce Holdings aims to improve title insurance assessment and issuance to reduce the time needed to close a real estate deal.
Reonomy
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Reonomy is an AI-powered data platform for the commercial real estate industry.
Blueground
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Beautiful, thoughtfully furnished apartments for a month, a year or even longer.
Jetty
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Jetty is a financial services company on a mission to make renting a home more affordable and effortless for everyone.
SquareFoot
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SquareFoot is a marketplace that helps companies find office spaces.
Bowery Valuation
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Bowery Valuation is a technology-enabled commercial real estate appraisal that powers appraisers with cutting edge software.
Great Jones
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Great Jones is building the modern operating platform for the residential rental asset class.
Cherre
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The Leading Real Estate Data Management and Analytics Platform
Astorian
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Astorian is an online marketplace intended to improve residential and commercial efficiencies.
Valon Technologies
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A modern, secure, and homeowner-first approach to homeownership.
Convene
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Convene designs and services premium places to work, meet, and host events.
Triplemint
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Triplemint is creating a better real estate experience for buyers, sellers and renters.
CAIS
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CAIS is a financial technology platform providing the independent wealth channel with access to alternative investments.
CompStak
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CompStak employs a crowdsourced model to gather commercial real estate information for investors, brokers, asset managers, and appraisers.
Spacious
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Spacious reimagines how to use urban space more efficiently.
TheGuarantors
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TheGuarantors is a FinTech company that offers innovative risk and financial solutions for the real estate ecosystem.
Funnel
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Funnel offers an app that makes leasing for prospective residents simple with just a few clicks from its users’ favorite devices.
MeetElise
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MeetElise is an AI company revolutionizing the housing industry, with the ultimate goal of making good housing more accessible.
ButterflyMX
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ButterflyMX is developing a contactless entry intercom that provides secure, convenient, and affordable property access from a smartphone.
Whose Your Landlord
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Whose Your Landlord is a multipurpose platform that empowers and informs the rental community.
Domio
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Domio is building branded apartment-hotels with a focus on group travelers.
VERO Leasing
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VERO Leasing offers a platform that automates residential applicant screening and leasing.
Obligo
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Obligo rids both landlords and renters from the burden of security deposits.
Roomi
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Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions.
Berkadia Commercial Mortgage
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Berkadia is a leader in the commercial real estate industry.
Branded Strategic Hospitality
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Branded Strategic Hospitality is an investment and solutions company that leverages its ecosystem of hospitality venues.
Realm
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Get more out of your biggest asset. Realm shows you what your home could be worth & how to access more of its potential.
Enertiv
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Enertiv transforms building data into asset value for commercial real estate portfolios.
Skyline AI
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Skyline is a real estate technology platform that connects accredited global investors to US real estate opportunities.
Simplist
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The modern mortgage marketplace embracing the unique paths of the next generation of homeowners.
GPB Capital Holdings
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GPB Capital is a New York-based alternative asset management firm that seeks to acquire income-producing private companies.
Welcome Homes
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Welcome Homes is a revolutionary home building platform that makes buying and designing new homes simple and more affordable.
Fund That Flip
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Fund That Flip provides fast, convenient, and affordable capital for experienced real estate investors.
NeueHouse
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NeueHouse is a private workspace and cultural home for creators, innovators, and thought-leaders.
Honest Buildings
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Honest Buildings is a data-driven project management and procurement platform for real estate owners.
EnergyWatch
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EnergyWatch makes energy data management and monitoring easier for real estate portfolios and licensing partners.
CrediFi
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CrediFi delivers the financial data and analytics for CRE professionals and portfolio managers.
Stuf
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Stuf is a next generation self-storage startup with a mission to be the home away from home for people’s “stuff”.
StackSource
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The online platform for commercial real estate loans
Up&Up
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Up&Up is a platform that enables fractional homeownership.
The Lightstone Group
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Lightstone Group is a real-estate investment company that develops, manages and invests in all sectors of the real estate market.
Blueprint Power
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Blueprint Power is a real estate and energy tech company that turns buildings into urban power plants.
EQUITYMULTIPLE
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EquityMultiple is a platform that makes real estate investing simple, accessible, and transparent.
Occupier
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Occupier is a building software to enable businesses to make real estate decisions
Hightower
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Hightower is the commercial leasing management platform that helps brokers and owners to manage their end-to-end leasing workflow.
Morty
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Morty is a mortgage marketplace that allows homebuyers to shop, compare — and close — any loan product from any lender, completely online.
The We Company
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The We Company is a platform for creators that transforms buildings into dynamic environments for creativity, focus, and collaboration.
WiredScore
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WiredScore is the company behind Wired Certification, the international digital connectivity rating system for commercial office buildings.
Architizer
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Architizer enables architects to search for, evaluate, and share building-products across teams.
Lument
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Lument offers custom capital solutions for investors in the multifamily, affordable housing, healthcare and commercial real estate sector.
Ollie
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Ollie is a micro-housing and coliving platform, providing residents with hotel-style services, community events and abundant amenities.
Upflex
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Upflex aggregates all workspace providers into one booking and billing infrastructure.
doorkee
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Doorkee develops a peer-to-peer rental platform that connects departing tenants, apartment seekers, and landlords.
LeFrak
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LeFrak is a preeminent, family-owned property company committed to community development and long term ownership.
Knock
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Knock is an online home selling platform that makes buying or selling a home simple and certain.
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Sharestates specializes in crowd funding, real estate, investment, fixed income investment, and alternative investment.
ReAlpha
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ReAlpha develops a real estate platform that uses machine learning to help in making real estate investment decisions.
Covercy
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The fastest growing network of real estate investment professionals, boosting GP productivity & creating a smart LP experience
Habitas
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Habitas is a global hospitality group created by a diverse community of people seeking human connection.
Zuul
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Zuul strives to allow for smooth and seamless expansion, helping a brand achieve new revenue channels and customer acquisition.
720 Degrees
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720° is a cloud based analytics solution for indoor environmental quality monitoring.
Skyline Robotics
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Skyline Robotics specializes in automating all real estate maintenance work at heights.
Uppercase
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Uppercase offers modern retail solution that helps brands to launch stores from the ground up.
Propertymate
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Propertymate helps homebuyers to find, compare and buy new constructions.
Kushner
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Kushner Companies is a diversified private real estate organization.
Envizzo
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Envizzo is a platform for real estate operators to design and furnish properties with ease.
Metechi
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Metechi is a Bank-Centered Syndication Marketplace providing lenders instant access to Commercial Real Estate loans originated by banks.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Peek
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Powering the data-driven leasing journey through interactive tours, analytics, content management and marketing tools
The Forest Road Company
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The Forest Road Company is a financing company that provides financing services to different industries.
Rentroom
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Next generation software for property owners and tenants
Ladder Capital Finance
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Ladder Capital Finance LLC is a specialty finance company that provides comprehensive financing solutions to the commercial real estate
GeoCV
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GeoCV is a machine learning expertise, developing a novel and dynamic brand of reality capture using your smartphone.
Roam International
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Roam is a coliving and coworking community testing the boundaries between work, travel, and life adventure.
NorthStar Realty Finance
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NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. is an internally-managed real estate finance company formed in October 2003. Our shares are publicly traded
