MetaProp

MetaProp is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015, specializing in early-stage investments in the real estate technology sector, commonly referred to as PropTech. The firm focuses on various areas within real estate, including office, retail, residential, storage, hospitality, and leisure technology. MetaProp operates a 16-week accelerator program that supports startups, and it has invested in over 100 technology companies across the real estate value chain. The firm manages multiple investment funds and engages in community leadership through initiatives like the PropTech Place innovation hub, educational programs at Columbia University, and events such as NYC Real Estate Tech Week. MetaProp aims to foster innovation in real estate by providing capital, resources, and networking opportunities for emerging companies in the industry.

Zachary Aarons

Co-Founder and General Partner

Zach Aarons

Co-Founder and General Partner

Aaron Block

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Tom Cashel

CFO

Jackson Feder

Investor

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

Maureen Waters

Partner

Past deals in Construction and Engineering

BuildOps

Venture Round in 2023
BuildOps, Inc. provides a comprehensive software solution tailored for commercial HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors. Founded in 2018 and based in Santa Monica, California, the company’s platform integrates various functionalities, including dispatching, scheduling, customer management, and mobile invoicing. This all-in-one operational software streamlines business processes, enabling subcontractors to efficiently manage invoicing, billing, estimates, proposals, payments, workflows, and financial reporting. Designed by a team of subcontractors and engineers, BuildOps aims to enhance operational efficiency and profitability through its cloud-based technology, allowing users to improve their day-to-day operations while reducing costs.

Join

Series A in 2022
Join, Inc. operates a preconstruction intelligence platform designed to enhance decision-making processes in the construction industry. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the company serves a diverse clientele, including contractors, designers, owners, and suppliers. The platform optimizes product and material selection tailored to the unique characteristics of each project, providing clarity that facilitates collaboration among stakeholders. It offers real-time insights into cost trends, visualizes estimated budgets, and helps manage risks and opportunities. By empowering contractors and architects with deep material expertise, Join enhances whole-building performance and promotes efficient workflows, enabling faster and more informed decision-making throughout the preconstruction phase.

Ergeon

Series B in 2022
Operator of a global construction marketplace intended to disrupt the multi-trillion-dollar construction industry. The company's services offer outdoor home improvement, fences, hardscapes, and landscaping services to commercial and residential clients and deliver projects in a shorter time, enabling clients to simplify home improvement by empowering skilled local contractors.

BuildOps

Series A in 2022
BuildOps, Inc. provides a comprehensive software solution tailored for commercial HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors. Founded in 2018 and based in Santa Monica, California, the company’s platform integrates various functionalities, including dispatching, scheduling, customer management, and mobile invoicing. This all-in-one operational software streamlines business processes, enabling subcontractors to efficiently manage invoicing, billing, estimates, proposals, payments, workflows, and financial reporting. Designed by a team of subcontractors and engineers, BuildOps aims to enhance operational efficiency and profitability through its cloud-based technology, allowing users to improve their day-to-day operations while reducing costs.

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.

Aren

Venture Round in 2021
Aren, Inc. operates an artificial intelligence-powered platform that focuses on assessing and managing civil infrastructure. Based in New York, the company leverages computer vision and machine learning technologies to provide a cost-effective and automated solution for infrastructure risk management. By utilizing data-driven decision-making, Aren's platform helps engineers and asset owners minimize the risk of infrastructure failure while optimizing budgets and global infrastructure spending. Its advanced approach aims to enhance the asset management practices of engineering firms, ensuring more efficient and reliable management of civil assets.

Avvir

Series A in 2021
Avvir unleashes the latent potential of BIM technology by finally closing the feedback loop and keeping building models continuously up-to-date. This enables construction teams to closely monitor progress and catch mistakes before major rework is required. We achieve this by automating the processes around data acquisition, visualization, and analysis, so that BIM updates can be made in hours rather than weeks.

Ergeon

Seed Round in 2020
Operator of a global construction marketplace intended to disrupt the multi-trillion-dollar construction industry. The company's services offer outdoor home improvement, fences, hardscapes, and landscaping services to commercial and residential clients and deliver projects in a shorter time, enabling clients to simplify home improvement by empowering skilled local contractors.

AirWorks

Seed Round in 2020
AirWorks Solutions, LLC, founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializes in aerial mapping and surveying software tailored for the construction industry. The company emerged from MIT in 2018 and has developed a patented algorithm and web application that transforms aerial datasets into engineering base plans compatible with CAD systems. This innovative software streamlines the surveying process, allowing land developers and engineers to evaluate more job sites efficiently and significantly reducing the time required for data processing. By automating the conversion of aerial data, AirWorks enables clients to avoid the need for local processing resources and extensive training, ultimately accelerating project timelines and enhancing productivity in construction planning and acquisition.

Briq

Series A in 2020
Briq offers a comprehensive suite of modern technology for construction companies that includes AI based forecasting, search and automation to help modernize financial management of construction companies of all sizes. Briq helps general and specialty contractors use their data to drive better outcomes for all phases of construction. We use great technology such as automation, machine learning, and predictive technology to help enhance fee, stop fee erosion, and freeze overhead costs.

Aren

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Aren, Inc. operates an artificial intelligence-powered platform that focuses on assessing and managing civil infrastructure. Based in New York, the company leverages computer vision and machine learning technologies to provide a cost-effective and automated solution for infrastructure risk management. By utilizing data-driven decision-making, Aren's platform helps engineers and asset owners minimize the risk of infrastructure failure while optimizing budgets and global infrastructure spending. Its advanced approach aims to enhance the asset management practices of engineering firms, ensuring more efficient and reliable management of civil assets.

OnSiteIQ

Series A in 2020
OnSiteIQ Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a construction data visualization solution aimed at enhancing project oversight for real estate owners and developers. Founded in 2017, OnSiteIQ's platform utilizes machine vision technology to automatically link 360-degree images to a site’s floor plans, allowing stakeholders to monitor construction progress, identify issues, and ensure accountability among project participants. With its focus on risk assessment and documentation, the platform facilitates collaboration and enables comprehensive site inspections from any device, making it a valuable tool for lenders, insurance providers, and construction teams.

1Build

Pre Seed Round in 2019
1Build, Inc. is a software company that specializes in automating construction cost estimates by converting building blueprints into material shopping lists. Founded in 2019 and based in Mountain View, California, the company employs a blend of human and machine intelligence to enhance the bidding process for construction firms. Its platform streamlines the takeoff and estimating process, particularly for contractors involved in wood and metal framing, insulation, and drywall. By simplifying these tasks, 1Build enables clients to concentrate on project execution, ultimately helping them to close more project leads, reduce material costs, and increase profitability. The founding team comprises engineers and builders with extensive experience in both construction and technology.

BuildOps

Seed Round in 2019
BuildOps, Inc. provides a comprehensive software solution tailored for commercial HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors. Founded in 2018 and based in Santa Monica, California, the company’s platform integrates various functionalities, including dispatching, scheduling, customer management, and mobile invoicing. This all-in-one operational software streamlines business processes, enabling subcontractors to efficiently manage invoicing, billing, estimates, proposals, payments, workflows, and financial reporting. Designed by a team of subcontractors and engineers, BuildOps aims to enhance operational efficiency and profitability through its cloud-based technology, allowing users to improve their day-to-day operations while reducing costs.

Briq

Seed Round in 2019
Briq offers a comprehensive suite of modern technology for construction companies that includes AI based forecasting, search and automation to help modernize financial management of construction companies of all sizes. Briq helps general and specialty contractors use their data to drive better outcomes for all phases of construction. We use great technology such as automation, machine learning, and predictive technology to help enhance fee, stop fee erosion, and freeze overhead costs.

Tracflo

Pre Seed Round in 2019
TracFlo is an online financial tool developed to help contractors manage project risk. The platform provides a central location to develop, track, and maintain all costs associated with construction projects, from initial award, change orders, allowances, monthly billing, all the way to project closeout. The company helps people project work-in-place to guarantee that it stays on budget and on schedule. TracFlo is headquartered in New York.

Avvir

Seed Round in 2019
Avvir unleashes the latent potential of BIM technology by finally closing the feedback loop and keeping building models continuously up-to-date. This enables construction teams to closely monitor progress and catch mistakes before major rework is required. We achieve this by automating the processes around data acquisition, visualization, and analysis, so that BIM updates can be made in hours rather than weeks.

Avvir

Seed Round in 2019
Avvir unleashes the latent potential of BIM technology by finally closing the feedback loop and keeping building models continuously up-to-date. This enables construction teams to closely monitor progress and catch mistakes before major rework is required. We achieve this by automating the processes around data acquisition, visualization, and analysis, so that BIM updates can be made in hours rather than weeks.

Briq

Seed Round in 2019
Briq offers a comprehensive suite of modern technology for construction companies that includes AI based forecasting, search and automation to help modernize financial management of construction companies of all sizes. Briq helps general and specialty contractors use their data to drive better outcomes for all phases of construction. We use great technology such as automation, machine learning, and predictive technology to help enhance fee, stop fee erosion, and freeze overhead costs.

AirWorks

Seed Round in 2019
AirWorks Solutions, LLC, founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializes in aerial mapping and surveying software tailored for the construction industry. The company emerged from MIT in 2018 and has developed a patented algorithm and web application that transforms aerial datasets into engineering base plans compatible with CAD systems. This innovative software streamlines the surveying process, allowing land developers and engineers to evaluate more job sites efficiently and significantly reducing the time required for data processing. By automating the conversion of aerial data, AirWorks enables clients to avoid the need for local processing resources and extensive training, ultimately accelerating project timelines and enhancing productivity in construction planning and acquisition.

OnSiteIQ

Seed Round in 2018
OnSiteIQ Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a construction data visualization solution aimed at enhancing project oversight for real estate owners and developers. Founded in 2017, OnSiteIQ's platform utilizes machine vision technology to automatically link 360-degree images to a site’s floor plans, allowing stakeholders to monitor construction progress, identify issues, and ensure accountability among project participants. With its focus on risk assessment and documentation, the platform facilitates collaboration and enables comprehensive site inspections from any device, making it a valuable tool for lenders, insurance providers, and construction teams.

Branch Technology

Series A in 2018
Branch Technology, Inc. is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based company specializing in cellular fabrication technology through advanced 3D printing. Founded in 2014 by Christopher W. Weller and Platt Boyd, the company focuses on creating innovative architectural components such as decorative walls, non-loadbearing interior partitions, ceilings, and furniture. Utilizing proprietary algorithms, Branch Technology constructs complex geometries in open spaces without the need for support materials or highly controlled environments. This unique approach allows for the development of structures that traditional construction methods cannot achieve, resulting in cost-effective designs with improved material strength, reduced energy consumption, and enhanced job site efficiency.

OnSiteIQ

Pre Seed Round in 2018
OnSiteIQ Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a construction data visualization solution aimed at enhancing project oversight for real estate owners and developers. Founded in 2017, OnSiteIQ's platform utilizes machine vision technology to automatically link 360-degree images to a site’s floor plans, allowing stakeholders to monitor construction progress, identify issues, and ensure accountability among project participants. With its focus on risk assessment and documentation, the platform facilitates collaboration and enables comprehensive site inspections from any device, making it a valuable tool for lenders, insurance providers, and construction teams.

Kwant

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Kwant.ai brings profitability and predictability to construction projects like automotive manufacturing.
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