The Real Estate Innovators

Andrew Tavakoli is the Founder of RetailMatch. 

RetailMatch uses over 20 different data sources and 200 variables to identify and vet vacant spaces, scoring against demographics, lifestyle attributes, labor, traffic, and more, optimizing the score with gap and void analyses.

What’s the Big Idea?

RetailMatch is the matchmaker that identifies vacant retail spaces—and scores them based on the business, location, demographics, and competition—for expanding retailers and restauranteurs and have increased their coverage area to represent landlords, agents and tenants in fifteen of the country’s top MSAs.

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* To learn more about Andrew Tavakoli visit here.

* To learn more aboutRetailMatch visit here.

Joyce Reitman is the Chief Executive Officer at MotionLoft.  MotionLoft offers real-time and historical pedestrian and vehicle analytics using computer-vision based sensor technology.

What’s the Big Idea?

MotionLoft tracks vehicles and people in real time, MotionLoft places cameras in a location where they can see everything that’s happening in a given area. Software attached to the cameras then uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to monitor how people and vehicles are moving. The data gathered from the software is then delivered to a dashboard for the customers’ personal use.

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* To learn more about Joyce Reitman visit here.

* To learn more about MotionLoft visit here.

Tanner McGraw is the Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Apto.  More than a CRM, Apto’s commercial real estate software helps you build better relationships, win more business, and close deals faster.

What’s the Big Idea?

Apto is the leading web-based software for managing customer relationships, properties, listings, and deals. Apto serves nearly 10,000 commercial brokers and is the CRM of choice for 6 of the top 8 CRE brands. Apto’s world-class software is optimized to meet the needs of CRE brokers, and can be further customized to brokerage workflows and business requirements. Apto is the only platform that allows brokers to manage the full lifecycle of a deal anywhere, from any device.

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* To learn more about Tanner McGraw visit here.

* To learn more about Apto visit here.

Jonathan Wasserstrum is the Founder & CEO of SquareFoot. SquareFoot is a New York-based commercial real estate technology company that provides online real estate search and concierge services. 

What’s the Big Idea?

SquareFoot is a next generation commercial real estate tech company that makes leasing office space easier. With technology that simplifies the search for the perfect office and a hands-on team of experts that facilitates every step of the leasing process, SquareFoot is the surest way to find the next home.

Prospective tenants can get a better selection of options, view availabilities, quickly narrow down options, schedule tours, share documents, and communicate with in-house brokers in real time using SquareFoot’s web and mobile platform.

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* To learn more about Jonathan Wasserstrum visit here.

* To learn more about SquareFoot visit here.

 

Ryan Turner is the Founder & CEO of RefineRe. RefineRE is a Portfolio Intelligence platform that allows occupiers and their brokers to leverage big data, machine learning, and automated processes to create actionable insight, reduce risk, and drive strategic objectives through combined, simplified data points.

What’s the Big Idea?

If data is the new oil, we’re the new standard. We take complex, raw information and refine it into something much more valuable for our clients and their trusted advisors. Our simple to use platform provides clear, concise information that matters to you, the occupier. The result is data driven decisions that are smarter, better, and faster.

RefineRe is fast, flexible and secure. Their industry first platform for occupiers is changing how deals get done and how business see their real estate. No systems integration. No weeks or months long implementation that burns up your valuable time. Their nimble technology with bank level security will get you ahead of the pack in no time.

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* To learn more about Ryan Turner visit here.

* To learn more about RefineRE visit here.

Aric Ohana is the Co-Founder of  Envoy There.  Envoy There provides property owners a fully integrated platform to implement community cars as an amenity for their tenants and guests.   Cars on-demand where you live, work and stay. 

What’s the Big Idea?

As successful real estate developers, Aric has long recognized the need for property owners to offer special perks that attract people to live, work and stay in their buildings. Aware of the rising demand for car-sharing as an alternative to owning an automobile, Aric and his co-founder Ori Sagie came up with the idea to develop a private, turnkey car-sharing network.

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* To learn more about Aric Ohana visit here.

* To learn more about Ori Sagie visit here.

* To learn more about Envoy There visit here.

Brian Axline is the Founder & CEO of Lucro. Lucro’s financial modeling softwares allows its users to spend less time crunching the numbers and more time getting deals done.

What’s the Big Idea?

Lucro’s collaboration suite enables organizations to get more deals done faster. On the Lucro platform, every side of a deal is working off of the same model, making the conversation about the deal itself, not the calculations.

Lucro harnesses machine-learning to automate data entry and eliminate human error, freeing you to source opportunities instead of working spreadsheets.

Lucro delivers a standardized modeling experience throughout your organization, ensuring confidence in each and every model you deliver to the marketplace.

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* To learn more about Brian Axline visit here.

* To learn more about Lucro visit here.

David Bianciardi is the Founder and Principal of AV&C.  AV&C is a collaborative firm with a proven process to distill complex objectives into design driven solutions, partnering with clients to bridge the worlds of storytelling, architecture, and technology. 

What’s the Big Idea?

AV&C create landmarks that enhance the placemaking, connectivity and responsiveness of architectural spaces around the globe.

AV&C works with iconic brands including IBM, Nike, Google, Cadillac, The Smithsonian, and Starbucks, who have realized their most strategic architectural media, art, and interactive installations with AV&C’s unique combination of experience design, software and systems expertise.

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Kris Krisco is the Chief Revenue Officer of Buildout.  Buildout is marketing software for commercial real estate that uses a brand’s blueprints to automatically populate all marketing documents with property information and graphics. 

What’s the Big Idea?

With Buildout, you enter your listing information once and it instantly updates everywhere—your marketing materials, website, proposals, emails and third-party listing sites. Once information is in electronic form, you should never have to enter it again.

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* To learn more about Buildout visit here.

Michael Beckerman is the CEO  of CRETech.  CREtech is where the commercial real estate industry comes to discover all things tech.  

What’s the Big Idea?.  

In depth research and analysis

The most comprehensive directory of startups

News from the leading media sources

Original expert content

And of course, the largest events in the most cities anywhere

All in real time as the news and information breaks

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