The San Francisco Bay Area’s proptech market spans far more than listings and home search. It includes construction intelligence, off-market transactions, industrialized homebuilding, occupancy analytics, and spatial data platforms that turn physical spaces into digital assets. The founders in this group reflect that breadth across both software and the built environment.
Jeevan Kalanithi
CEO & Co-Founder — OpenSpace
Jeevan Kalanithi is the CEO and co-founder of OpenSpace. His background spans artificial intelligence, drones, cameras, management, and leadership, and he has spoken publicly about a career path that included founding work before OpenSpace and an unconventional route into construction technology.
OpenSpace is based in San Francisco and builds a visual intelligence platform for construction and the built world. The company was founded in 2017 and describes its software as turning reality data captured in the field into jobsite intelligence. Its scale now includes more than 60 billion square feet captured, more than 371,000 users, and deployment across 129 countries.
Josh Stech
Co-Founder & CEO — Sundae
Josh Stech is the co-founder and CEO of Sundae. He started the company after working at the intersection of technology and residential real estate, and his background includes Stanford, a CFO role at Purpose Built Investments, and founding-partner experience at LendingHome.
Sundae is headquartered in San Francisco and operates a marketplace that connects home sellers directly with property investors. The company was founded in 2018 and focuses on off-market home sales, particularly for homeowners looking for alternatives to the traditional listing process.
Amit Haller
CEO & Co-Founder — Neovi
Amit Haller is the CEO and co-founder of Neovi. His background includes more than 20 years in the high-tech communications industry, along with more than a decade of experience in real estate development, asset management, and construction. He also founded Reali before leading Neovi.
Neovi is based in San Mateo and develops technology for residential construction and housing delivery. The company is focused on improving how homes are built and delivered through a more industrialized approach, with its operations rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Nic Halverson
Founder & CEO — Occuspace
Nic Halverson is the founder and CEO of Occuspace. He started the company after encountering a simple but persistent problem as an engineering student at UC San Diego: not knowing how busy a library was before walking there and spending time searching for a seat. He later co-invented the company’s sensor-based occupancy system.
Occuspace builds occupancy intelligence software for buildings and shared spaces. The company uses privacy-first sensor data to help operators understand how physical space is being used, and its product has expanded from campus environments into a broader building and workplace analytics platform.
Anthemos Georgiades
Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board — Zumper
Anthemos Georgiades is the co-founder of Zumper, where he currently sits as a the Chairman of the Board. Before starting the company in 2012, he worked at Boston Consulting Group in London and New York and served as an economic advisor in the 2010 British election. His founder story is tied directly to the rental market, after a difficult apartment-search experience pushed him to build a better product for renters.
Zumper is based in San Francisco and operates a rental marketplace built around apartment search, applications, property management tools, and listing distribution. The company has grown into one of the largest online rental marketplaces, with tens of millions of annual users, giving it a clear place in the Bay Area proptech market.
Where Bay Area PropTech Is Expanding
These five companies show how widely proptech now stretches across the Bay Area. OpenSpace is focused on construction intelligence, Sundae on off-market housing transactions, Veev on homebuilding systems, Occuspace on occupancy analytics, and Matterport on digital twins and spatial data.
That range reflects a broader shift in the category. Bay Area proptech is no longer centered on a single consumer interface. It now includes the software, data, and physical systems that shape how buildings are documented, sold, constructed, and managed.
The Bay Area’s innovation story also extends into legal software and AI-native professional tools. Read the San Francisco Bay Area LegalTech Founders to Watch in 2026 for another look at the founders building the next generation of workflow, automation, and professional software.
