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Behind the Build: How BuildOps Is Powering the Future of Commercial Contracting
Apr 1, 2025
BuildOps is transforming the backbone of commercial contracting with software purpose-built for the trades. In this edition of MetaProp’s Founder Spotlight, General Partner Zak Schwarzman sits down with Co-Founder and CEO Alok Chanani to reflect on the company’s early milestones, hiring lessons, and recent $127M Series C.
Highlights from NYC Real Estate Tech Week 2024
Aaron Block Nov 20, 2024
MetaProp’s mission with NYC Real Estate Tech Week is clear: unite the brightest minds and leading real estate innovators in New York City to accelerate the digitization and decarbonization of the built world. The 2024 edition broke records with unparalleled attendance, world-class speakers, and transformative discussions that exceeded our wildest expectations.
Modern Construction Procurement: Our Investment in Trestle
Sep 5, 2024
In the fragmented and dispersed world of construction, particularly in heavy civil projects, inefficiencies in vendor procurement and management have long been accepted as an unavoidable cost of doing business. Industry-wide labor shortages, increasing project complexities, and unprecedented infrastructure spending and corresponding demand have only exacerbated these challenges. Enter Trestle, the construction industry's most advanced vendor risk management platform.
Pest Remediation-as-a-Service: Our Investment in Pest Share
Jackson Feder Aug 22, 2023
Pests are pervasive. Whether you rent or own your home, chances are you have had a pest problem at one point or another. And yet, the pest remediation solutions at one’s disposal – especially for renters – are subpar. Pest Share sells subscription, on-demand pest control services for residential tenants.
First Annual MetaProp Founders Summit
Jun 13, 2023
MetaProp united its Portfolio Founders under one roof for the First Annual MetaProp Founders Summit, sponsored by PwC, in New York City on May 8-9. The summit fostered a deep sense of collaboration, providing a unique ground for meaningful connections and partnerships.
The Excellence of the Nordic PropTech Ecosystem
Feb 27, 2023
I recently was in Sweden for the Nordic PropTech Awards and wanted to share the inspiring experience I had. I participated in the awards and the venture capital panel, sharing MetaProp’s global investment perspective while also engaging with local startups. It was truly a unique experience, from net zero dining, passionate entrepreneurs, and exemplary technologists.
Meet MetaProp: Sage Shamsai, Innovation Services
Nov 30, 2022
Sage Shamsai has been an integral part of the MetaProp team for over a year, beginning her tenure with us as a Masters' student at Stanford University. During her time with us she has worked specifically with our innovation services team to support our LPs and strategic partners in understanding how to navigate the strategy, roadmaps, technological adoption and transparency necessary for environmentally sustainable businesses and successful growth.
Modern mortgage finance in LATAM: Our Investment in Yave
Nov 22, 2022
Financing a home purchase with a mortgage is often the most significant personal financial transaction one will make. In the US, the mortgage transaction, notoriously rife with process inefficiencies, is in the midst of a significant tech-driven overhaul. At MetaProp we have been investing for the better part of a decade in companies like Morty, Staircase, and others that are leading this charge by introducing digital solutions into, and removing inefficiencies from, the home lending value chain.