MetaProp NYC Announces Its 2016 Accelerator Class

MetaProp NYC, a real estate tech incubator, has just announced eight startups that will be joining its 2016 accelerator class.

Selected from a pool of 300 applicants from 35 countries, these startups came from NYC, Seattle, Silicon Valley and Tampa Bay, and recently took part in other technology accelerators, such as YCombinator. The class also features two female CEOs.

Each member of the class will receive between $50k and $250k in funding and will undergo 22 weeks of real estate and technology training, industry exposure and mentorship from partners including REBNY, Zillow, Millennium Partners, EisnerAmper, ICSC and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

The companies are:

• Flip: The first peer-to-peer lease listing website, where tenants can showcase their lease or take over an existing lease. 
• Ravti: Uses a digital tagging system to automate bidding, procuring and overseeing HVAC operations; clients include CBRE and Regency Centers.
• BuildPulse: Helps track HVAC system operations, and claims that its software can reduce energy use by 5% to 10%.
• Enertiv: Energy management platform that tracks data across an entire building or a single room, and can be checked with a smartphone app.
• HoM: Brings group fitness classes to underutilized spaces in hospitality, commercial and luxury residential buildings.
• onTarget: Reduces construction cost and time overruns through its visual project management, analytic software and 3D renderings.
• WorkOf: An online marketplace for locally made furniture where developers can get anything from wall lamps to cabinets from studios all over the US.
• Bowery: Claims to be the “the fastest commercial appraisal report software in the business.”