Seasoned tech veteran and entrepreneur, Sal Patalano, shares with us today how he's leveraging his 30+ years experience to lead the expansion of Plentific into the US rentals market. Plentific has amassed a network of more than one million properties and 20,000 service providers. This network, coupled with their software interface, is what makes real-time operations possible for owners and property managers. Sal breaks it all down for us. Listen in! More About Sal and Plentific At Plentific, we’...
May 09, 2023•57 min•Season 13Ep. 152
Let's imagine e-commerce, but for rental listings. It's kind of what we're talking about today. I've got Austin Lo, he is the founder and CEO of Peek. He got his start in real estate working at an investment fund. They were creating data-driven models, investing in e-commerce internet platforms. And, you know, he had this interest in real estate and so he went so far as to become a licensed agent in New York City. He learned the rentals game in New York City. And as I've been told, because I've ...
Apr 18, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 13Ep. 151
In this episode we're talking about the Shopify of real estate. I'm thrilled to have Jason Hardy, the CEO of Ownly, a Canadian-based company that is also working in the United States, as our guest today. Ownly is bringing e-commerce to the residential real estate industry, creating a frictionless home buying experience. Their patent-pending technology, called Verified, connects qualified buyers and sellers, solving the problem of verifying identities and funds of potential buyers. The world of r...
Apr 11, 2023•58 min•Season 13Ep. 150
This is a different approach. We've got Nick Farquhar. He is the CEO of a company called Appreciate. You can find them online, appreciate.io. They describe themselves as a tech-enabled property management. And one of the first questions I asked Nick was, "what does it mean to be tech-enabled property management?" You got to listen to this one. Appreciate gets into the data, their approach is a little different than others with educating their clients—helping them make sure that they get all the ...
Apr 04, 2023•57 min•Season 13Ep. 149
You'll hear me say it in the intro, but wow. This was a heck of a discussion. John Andrew Entwistle is the Founder and CEO of a company called Wander. In a very short amount of time, Wander has exploded on the scene for vacation rentals. They're approach: verticalize the entire business. When I say the entire business—I mean everything! The tech, the management, property selection, the marketing, and oh the brand. Wander has masterfully build an incredible community around their brand of high-en...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 13Ep. 148
It's not enough to just list a pretty home or apartment on Airbnb in order to stand out. Maybe it is for some, but not for Jonah Hanig. Jonah is the Founder of a company called Rove. They've set out to build an exclusive network of luxury short-term and mid-term rentals, ideals for those traveling and working. It's more than just the bones of the building, though. The team at Rove is especially skilled in upscaled design, ensuring each property is tastefully complete. Of course every Rove proper...
Mar 28, 2023•47 min•Season 13Ep. 147
More about Cameron and Prophia Prophia is a rising proptech smart tool for commercial real estate & lease abstraction used across 1,800 buildings, with 100% customer retention, and has exceeded one million pages scanned with its AI-powered technology. With Prophia’s AI abstraction tool, commercial real estate owners, investors, and operators can eliminate manually intensive lease abstractions and data accessibility processes. This allows users to enhance their investment strategy in real tim...
Mar 21, 2023•51 min•Season 13Ep. 146
What an honor it was to have Bonnie Murray, founder and CEO of Raccord on the show. Raccord is building a mobile-first data platform specifically for commercial real estate owners and operators. We had a fun discussion highlighting why the decision to build mobile first as compared to everyone else in the industry, as well as how this can save organizations significant time from handling administrative work and reducing delays with data requests. We also had a chance to discuss the importance of...
Mar 14, 2023•48 min•Season 13Ep. 145
More about Anne and Lobby CRE Lobby CRE helps commercial real estate firms transform their portfolios with intelligent analysis, industry benchmarking, and asset management, enabling access to all data sources and automating performance reporting across all properties from a single platform. Lobby CRE is the first data analytics and management platform designed specifically for commercial real estate. Lobby helps companies discover opportunities in their business and provides configurable insigh...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 13Ep. 144
Stop the tape! This is one of the most energetic episodes on Tech Nest—ever! Jeffrey Berman, partner at Camber Creek, brings the heat. We covered a wide variety of topics. We talked strategy, proptech trends, what's to come, and more. But ultimately, I think you'll walk away with at least one thing—Jeffrey is not your average VC! Don't delay—hit the play button. More about Jeffrey and Camber Creek Camber Creek is the oldest venture capital firm in the US, driving innovation in the real estate in...
Mar 01, 2023•56 min•Season 13Ep. 143
In this episode, host Nate Smoyer chats it up with Adam Mait, the co-founder and COO of DoorLoop. DoorLoop is a feature-rich property management platform that Nate describes as the "Zapier of proptech" platforms due to its ability to seamlessly integrate with a plethora of tools and services. Adam shares details about DoorLoop's platform, including how it streamlines property management tasks, as well as discussing newly released features such as websites for property managers. DoorLoop is still...
Feb 21, 2023•57 min•Season 13Ep. 142
In this episode of Tech Nest Podcast, host Nate Smoyer sits down with Ryan Barone, CEO of RentRedi, to discuss their customer-centric approach to building rental management tools. Ryan also shares more about the effects of the pandemic on the rental market and details how his team weigh the pros and cons of incorporating features from partners versus building them in-house. This is a must-listen for anyone in the property management space or interested in the latest tech solutions for the rental...
Feb 07, 2023•52 min•Season 13Ep. 141
Adam Stark is Co-founder of a company called Jet.Build. Jet.Build is a platform that enables real estate developers to streamline communication between vendors, partners, lenders, and other important stakeholders on projects. This is accomplished by digitizing and automating a lot of the manual processes you might encounter when completing a ground up or retro-fitting an older apartment building. Tools such as Jet.Build help companies initiate and progress significantly in digitally transforming...
Jan 24, 2023•50 min•Season 13Ep. 140
Join host Nate Smoyer on Tech Nest podcast as he sits down with reAlpha President, Jorge Aldecoa, to discuss their concept of investing in vacation rentals like stocks. Jorge will share his insights on the current state of the vacation rental market and explain how owning a share of the budding vacation rental industry is more attainable than ever before. Jorge shares how reAlpha is approaching vacation rentals investing differently than others using their proprietary AI-powered reAlphaBrain, El...
Jan 17, 2023•46 min•Season 12Ep. 139
Max Brickman, founder of Heartland Ventures, discusses his unconventional approach to venture capital investing on Tech Nest. Brickman has an incredible background as an operator, and that experience has helped him rethink the approach to venture capital. All the way from the investors he partners with all the way to how his firm determines what companies to invest in. More about Max and Heartland Ventures Heartland Ventures is an unconventional venture capital firm focused on connecting startup...
Jan 11, 2023•45 min•Season 12Ep. 138
Tech Nest Podcast brings you an interview with Lily Liu, CEO of Piñata, an innovative new app that rewards renters for their monthly payments. In this episode, Lily discusses the inspiration behind Piñata, how it works, and the benefits it offers to both renters and landlords. She also shares her insights on the future of the rental market and how renter amenities will take shape in the years to come. Tune in to hear more about this exciting new app that is changing the game for renters everywhe...
Jan 03, 2023•55 min•Season 12Ep. 137
More about Cherre and Kevin Cherre is the leader in real estate data and insight. We connect decision makers to accurate property and market information, and help them make faster, smarter decisions. By providing a unique “single source of truth,” Cherre empowers customers to evaluate opportunities and trends faster and more accurately, while saving millions of dollars in manual data collection and analytics costs. Kevin is recognized as one of the leading commercial real estate executives and c...
Dec 27, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 12Ep. 136
More about Roofstock onChain and Sanjay Raghavan and Geoff Thompson Roofstock onChain is the web3 subsidiary of Roofstock, the leading digital real estate investing platform for the $4 trillion single-family rental home sector. Using blockchain technology, Roofstock onChain provides investors the ability to purchase tokenized single family rental properties with one click, and to transact with crypto, cutting the time and cost incurred by legacy systems. Roofstock provides extensive resources fo...
Dec 20, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 12Ep. 135
What a time to be alive. It truly is and this episode is proof of that. I'm talking with Brent Hasse, CEO of Flat. Flat is a subscription service for homeowners. They're leveraging smart technology, combined with a network of vetted trade partners, to provide superior home maintenance and wellness checks to homeowners. Brent gives us all the dirt on the business, including how strategic channel partnerships have proven to be significant driver of growth versus other more costly channels like dig...
Dec 06, 2022•48 min•Season 12Ep. 134
Alex Czarnecki is leading the charge at Cottage, focused on modernizing the way in which homeowners can build ADUs. The popularity of ADUs only seems to grow as housing becomes tougher to afford while legacy zoning laws have made it very difficult to build new, infill housing units. With legislation changes to zoning laws and increased focused on units such as ADUs, it's no wonder the opportunity to revolutionize this segment of real estate is only accelerating. Even though Cottage has only been...
Nov 23, 2022•44 min•Season 12Ep. 133
Easily one of my favorite startup founding stories. Andrew Farah, CEO and Co-founder of Density, wanted to create an API he could call to find out how many people were in line at his favorite coffee shop. Once Andrew figured this out, he quickly discovered this sort of technology was something many real estate operations teams and workplace teams across the country would want. Shortly after announcing what he'd created and that he intended to build it out more, thousands signed up for a waitlist...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 12Ep. 132
Over the last few years there's been a few startups that have tried to focus on the first-time home buyer as their market segment by courting renters through rewards programs. You can even see the evidence of this in how the listings marketplace websites like Zillow and Realtor.com want to build relationships with renters today—who in their minds are the homebuyers tomorrow. Will Dunn, Co-founder and CGO of Gravy (Chief Growth Officer, though I recommended the G should be Gravy), breaks down why...
Nov 01, 2022•57 min•Season 12Ep. 131
Marcus Moufarrige, CEO of ility, joins Tech Nest to discuss all things no-code, frameworks, and building tools for those who run complex real estate businesses. Marcus' experience in the office flex-space gives him a unique advantage in understanding the needs for a flexible platform that is able to be molded to meet the unique needs of each operator's needs. ility is that platform. Being that ility is a no-code platform, built in a way to meet a large array of use cases, it may be one of the mo...
Oct 26, 2022•52 min•Season 12Ep. 130
As the story goes with many products, someone got tired of dealing with the same problems, they searched the market for what they believed should be a product to solve the problem, only to discover there was not an adequate solution. So instead of allowing the problem to persist, they built the product themself. That's sort of the story here with Landlord Studio. Today I'm joined by Co-founder, Logan Ransley. He's breaking down some of the common problems residential landlords face every day whe...
Oct 18, 2022•47 min•Season 12Ep. 129
Pat McLoughlin was the first person to agree to grab coffee with me when I moved to Chicago that was not a coworker of mine. We met up in a Foxtrot Cafe in mid 2019. It was there he shared with me what Digs was working on and what they hoped to achieve—ultimately helping more people realize their dreams of homeownership. Fast-forward to late 2020 and Digs was acquired by OJO, a well-funded and well-respected real estate tech company that hosts a vast network of agent partners and operates its ow...
Oct 12, 2022•53 min•Season 12Ep. 128
If you've never heard of lease compliance monitoring, then you and I can join the same club. When Christine and I met at Blueprint, she shared with me what Pronto Housing was doing in the affordable housing space and I knew we had to have her on the show. Did you know there's 80 pages of paperwork when proceeding through lease compliance verification? What a nightmare! There's a good need to make affordable housing more accessible and to improve the experience—that's what Pronto Housing is worki...
Oct 05, 2022•47 min•Season 12Ep. 127
This is a crosspost episode from the Housing News Podcast, hosted by Clayton Collins. This week, Clayton is coming to your feed live from the Blueprint proptech and real estate conference in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. He had the opportunity to sit down in person and talk to Rick Sharga, the Executive Vice President at ATTOM , and Nate Smoyer, the Head of Marketing at Obie as well as the host of the Tech Nest Podcast. The three of them talk about what they learned and took away from the Blueprint c...
Sep 20, 2022•27 min•Season 11Ep. 125
Links and details mentioned in this episode Proptech is finally turning a corner where the best of ideas are catching—the next few years we'll see many more ideas, but consolidation of companies impacting real estate will continue Check out housingwireannual.com to register for the Oct 3-5 event New interviews coming up with Reasonai, Morgan Properties, and Landlord Studio Search Tech Nest episodes to find and listen to interviews with Lydia Winkler, Fatima Dicko, and Michael Lucarelli Look up P...
Sep 14, 2022•28 min•Season 11Ep. 124
More about Marcus and Hostaway Marcus Rader is co-founder and CEO of Hostaway, the leading all-in-one vacation rental management software. Originally from Finland, Marcus has lived in many countries around the world including Sweden, Poland, and The Netherlands before settling in Canada. It was this passion for travel and dedication to learning about the vacation rental ecosystem, together with the deep expertise in technology and start-ups of Marcus and his co-founders, that enabled the creatio...
Sep 03, 2022•59 min•Season 11Ep. 123
More about Chuck and Poplar Homes Chuck Hattemer has over 10 years of experience in professional marketing, sales, and executive roles. Since co-founding Poplar in 2014, Chuck has gone on to grow his company to over 300+ employees, with over $75M venture backing and 13,000+ doors under management across the country. In his spare time, he contributes to Forbes and other industry puzblications such as the SFAA Magazine. Poplar Homes is a tech-enabled real estate service helping investors manage an...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 11Ep. 122
