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In Good Company: EliseAI Multifamily Podcast
Why Your Next Leasing Agent Might Be a Bartender │ Nick Deveau, Co-Founder & CEO at GrottoAI
Nick Deveau is on a mission to fix billions of dollars being lost through apartments sitting vacant each year. As Co-Founder and CEO of GrottoAI, he's built a coaching tool that works alongside multifamily leasing teams on their calls and onsite tours, a first for the industry, to find insights into what moves a prospect to lease.Nick has spent nearly a decade building vertical AI in highly regulated industries, from hiring to healthcare to insurance. Most recently, he and Co-founder Ben Epstein led the core technology behind EvolutionIQ's $730 million acquisition in late 2024, one...
2026-06-25
19 min
In Good Company: EliseAI Multifamily Podcast
One in Three Prospects Never Get a Follow-Up: Inside Grace Hill Data │ Jen Tindle, VP of Partnerships and Strategic Initiatives at Grace Hill
Jen Tindle has spent her career at the intersection of real estate and technology. Today she's VP of Partnerships and Strategic Initiatives at Grace Hill, where she leads M&A, partner programs, and data products. She also writes the All About CRE Substack newsletter and co-created Build Order, a podcast and essay series about how systems shape cities. Before Grace Hill, Jen led data and analytics at private equity firm Pennybacker Capital before co-founding CREx, a CRE tech company that she ran as CEO.Jacob Kosior and Jen get into what Grace Hill's data is actually showing...
2026-06-09
20 min
In Good Company: EliseAI Multifamily Podcast
25 Years In The Multifamily C-Suite: Why The Onsite Role Must Change │ Jamie Gorski, Founder & President at Catchpoint Collective
Jamie Gorski has 25+ years of C-suite multifamily experience across marketing, operations, and resident experience. Through her companies Catchpoint Collective and Journey Lens, she advises operators, proptech companies, and investors.Jamie started in multifamily as a groundskeeper in Baltimore. She was picking up trash, walking door to door, and helping residents with the kinds of small but meaningful things that stay with you. That first job taught her something she has never forgotten: this industry matters because we provide homes.Jacob Kosior and Jamie get into why the onsite role has to change as AI and...
2026-05-29
23 min
In Good Company: EliseAI Multifamily Podcast
Centralization in Multifamily: The Hard Skills Aren't the Hard Part │ Brittany Gonzalez, Senior Manager of Centralized Services at RangeWater
Brittany Gonzalez has built centralized services teams twice, at two different organizations. Brittany is Senior Manager of Centralized Services at RangeWater Residential. Before RangeWater, she spent over six years at Cardinal Group, starting as an assistant community manager in student housing before becoming one of the earliest hires on Cardinal's centralized services team. Jacob Kosior and Brittany get into what it actually looks like to go from on-site burnout to building a centralized program across 75,000+ units. They talk about the moment she realized the community manager role wasn't for her, what changed when she m...
2026-05-13
19 min
In Good Company: EliseAI Multifamily Podcast
Surviving vs. Thriving: What Separates Multifamily Operators in 2026 │ Dan Oltersdorf, President of Centricity
Dan Oltersdorf has spent over 20 years thinking about how housing operators actually work.Dan is President of Centricity, the back-office partner for property accounting, HR, IT, insurance, and ancillary revenue. Before Centricity, he spent more than two decades at Campus Advantage, ultimately as Chief People Officer, after starting his career as an RA at Colorado State University.Jacob Kosior and Dan get into what's quietly costing operators their focus in 2026, and what separates the teams who are thriving from the ones in survival mode. They talk about the ‘white wa...
2026-04-29
20 min
Student Housing Insight
SHI.Tough Talks with Courtney Colegrove at Austin, TX 2026 - SHI 1029
🎙️ Episode Summary Recorded live at Student Housing Interface Conference 2026 at Austin, Texas this episode features SHI Ambassador Courtney Colegrove leading a series of fast-paced “Tough Talks” with top voices across the student housing industry. Through a mix of rapid-fire “this or that,” one-word reflections, and real-world scenario reactions, owner/operators and vendors share candid insights on the challenges they face daily. From staffing and culture issues to vendor reliability, leasing strategy, and operational chaos during peak seasons, this episode captures unfiltered perspectives from the field. ⏱️ Timestamps & Segments 00:00:15 – Brian Curley 00:02:08 – Gre...
2026-04-24
21 min
Save to Zero
Real Estate, Property Management, and AI with Matt Hitchcock Ep. 10
Episode 10: Real Estate, Property Management, and AI with Matt Hitchcock Building a real estate business that can scale is about way more than just owning one. That’s the meat of the conversation Save to Zero hosts Zach and Mike have with Matt Hitchcock of Common Wealth Collective. From house hacking and multifamily investing to in-house property management, systems, and AI, Matt shares how his team built a company that now manages around 1,000 rental units and roughly $150 million in assets. Matt walks through the lessons he learned early, why he and his partners chose to ma...
2026-04-21
49 min
In Good Company: EliseAI Multifamily Podcast
What Nobody Tells You About Building From Scratch in Multifamily │ Bobbi Steward, CEO & Co-Founder of Revyse
Bobbi Steward saw multifamily vendor management was broken and decided to fix it. Bobbi is Co-Founder & CEO of Revyse, the vendor management platform helping operators bring clarity to contracts, compliance, and spend. Before Revyse, Bobbi came up through proptech before leading marketing and customer experience at a top-15 multifamily operator. It was on the operator side where she saw how fragmented vendor management really was: property management companies working with thousands of vendors and no single source of truth.Two weeks after her daughter was born, a planned career break lasted 48 hours before she decided to build...
2026-04-15
16 min
The Brief
Smarter Centralization
In this episode of The Brief, Denise and Logan break down the March/April issue of Multi Housing Advocate, Smarter Centralization, highlighting how operators are redesigning roles, leveraging AI and automation, and building more intentional operating models. Featuring insights from leaders at EliseAI, Centerspace, Hornig Companies, SmartRent, Weidner Apartment Homes, and Saturday Properties, the episode explores how centralization can strengthen teams, improve performance, and expand career paths. ⭐ Read the March/April Issue of Multi Housing Advocate: mmha.com/resources/advocate 📌Register for the Working Together Conference (April 16): mmha.com/wtc 🎙 Browse Past Episodes of The B...
2026-04-03
14 min
In Good Company: EliseAI Multifamily Podcast
The Uncomfortable Truths About Transformation at Scale │ Managing 40,000+ Apartments ft. Chris Lahna of Dominium
The hardest part of adopting new technology isn't the software. It's the people. Chris Lahna is Partner, President of Property Management and Chief Talent Officer at Dominium — one of the country's largest affordable housing operators, with 50 years in business and more than 40,000 apartments across 19 states. His path to the role wasn't traditional. He's helped build jet engines, worked in asset management, and started at Dominium leading HR. Now he leads transformation across people, process, and technology — in the unique position of owning both sides of it: what changes and how you bring your people with you.
2026-04-01
17 min
In Good Company: EliseAI Multifamily Podcast
How Cardinal Group Builds Leaders, Not Managers ft. CEO Alex O'Brien
In the debut episode of In Good Company, host Jacob Kosior sits down with Alex O'Brien, co-founder and CEO of Cardinal Group Companies. Cardinal is celebrating 20 years in business and just hit 110,000+ beds under management in student housing.Jacob and Alex dig into what it actually takes to be a modern leader in multifamily. They talk about why this might be the hardest time to lead, the difference between managing and leading through uncertainty, why your title "before the comma" matters more than the technical skills after it, and how Alex thinks about always recruiting even when...
2026-03-26
16 min
In Good Company: EliseAI Multifamily Podcast
In Good Company: A New Multifamily Podcast
In Good Company is a new podcast about the people building multifamily. Host Jacob Kosior sits down with operators and leaders to talk about how businesses are built, decisions get made, and communities come to life.New episodes twice a month. A podcast by EliseAI.
2026-03-18
00 min
Startup Builders & Backers
How Founder-Led Thinking Creates Faster AI Innovation
What happens when the best AI hires are not AI specialists at all, but founders?In this episode of Startup Builders and Backers, I sat down with Fran Loftus, Chief Experience Officer at EliseAI, to talk about a hiring philosophy that goes against the grain. At a time when so many companies are chasing the same technical talent, EliseAI is betting on people with founder DNA, generalists who can move fast, solve problems across functions, and take ownership from day one.Fran brings a rare perspective to that conversation. She has lived both sides of...
2026-03-10
21 min
Topline
This is How Tech Executives Will Get Hired in 2026
Is your traditional SaaS experience becoming obsolete? In this new 20-minute rapid-fire format, Sam Jacobs, AJ Bruno, and Asad Zaman tackle a specific listener question: How does a senior operator transition from a legacy B2B SaaS role into a high-growth AI company? The market is shifting toward a meritocracy where recent hands-on capability outweighs decades of tenure on a CV. The hosts break down exactly how to position yourself for companies like CoreWeave and EliseAI. They discuss why hiding your lack of technical engineering skills is a mistake, how to build a portfolio of "work product"...
2026-03-08
27 min
The Multifamily Hangout
Episode 84 - Matt Nieves & Daniel Paulino
Matt Nieves is a multifamily tech GTM operator known for scaling EliseAI from early stage through rapid growth, with prior leadership experience tied to Apartment List’s AI leasing platform and broader revenue and client-facing teams in rental tech. Daniel Paulino is VP of Real Estate at Reputation, where he leads the company’s real estate practice. Before Reputation, he served as VP of Marketing at Bozzuto, leading digital strategy for a large multifamily portfolio, and he brings a background in enterprise marketing from earlier roles (including major consumer and financial brands).
2026-02-25
1h 05
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
This Is What Makes Your Property Profitable (From Someone Who Owns 1,000+ Units)
Two overlooked “levers” helped Kent Ritter scale past 1,000 multifamily units—and most operators have never even thought of them. One helps you keep tenant turnover low, slashes your CapEx costs by 30%, and keeps your cash flow flowing. The other allows you to build properties for cheaper, do less capital raising, and get on the local government’s good side.Even if you’ve heard of these tactics, you probably haven’t tried them.Today, Kent Ritter from Hudson Investing discusses two strategies most operators overlook: in-house property management and public-private partnerships (P3s).First, Kent...
2026-02-23
40 min
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
This Is What Makes Your Property Profitable (From Someone Who Owns 1,000+ Units)
Two overlooked “levers” helped Kent Ritter scale past 1,000 multifamily units—and most operators have never even thought of them. One helps you keep tenant turnover low, slashes your CapEx costs by 30%, and keeps your cash flow flowing. The other allows you to build properties for cheaper, do less capital raising, and get on the local government’s good side.Even if you’ve heard of these tactics, you probably haven’t tried them.Today, Kent Ritter from Hudson Investing discusses two strategies most operators overlook: in-house property management and public-private partnerships (P3s).First, Kent...
2026-02-23
40 min
Tech Talk with 20for20
S4 E10: Supporting Fraud in a Centralized Environment
In this final episode in our season on fraud prevention, we explore the impact of another huge industry trend, centralization, on fraud prevention, as screening increasingly moves out of the leasing officeIn this episode, Dom Beveridge speaks with Marlee Murdock of Western Wealth Communities, Gardner Rees of Greystar, and Christi Weinstein of BH about how centralization changes accountability, decision-making, and compliance.The conversation covers:Three different centralization journeys: an owner-operator, the industry’s largest operator, and an NMHC Top 10 owner/operator with a mix of owned and third-party properties, approached centralization in different ways....
2026-02-05
43 min
Multifamily Collective Podcast
2,133 - The Multifamily Operations Tip of the Day: Automating Collections
Can technology truly replace the warmth of human connection in collections?Here’s the truth: automation can’t carry compassion. But you can blend both for better outcomes.Today’s Multifamily Operations Tip of the Day unpacks a tension we’re all feeling: How do you automate rent collections without turning cold and robotic?Automation is brilliant for reminders, logs, and consistency, but it still requires human empathy. This episode explores how leaders can use PropTech tools like Elise AI (no sponsorships here, just a good example) while still empowering teams to apply discretion where it counts. Collections are emotiona...
2026-01-21
02 min
Tech Talk with 20for20
S4 E09: The Human in the Loop of Fraud Prevention
Fraud detection has become more automated, but is there a case for more human intuition in the process? In this episode, Dom Beveridge speaks with Damon McCall, founder of ApproveShield, about how human judgment, conversation and case-level review can improve outcomes for both operators and onsite teams.The conversation covers:The human role in screening: Bringing together identity, income and rental history, applying context and judgment to find edge cases that automated checks might miss.Centralized casework instead of onsite burden: How dedicated teams handling applications separates sales from screening and removes the...
2026-01-13
45 min
The Beat
AI @ HLTH: Turning Automation Into Better Care Experiences
In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Natalie Ngo, from EliseAI, for a friendly, insightful conversation about how AI is transforming the way healthcare organizations communicate and operate. EliseAI provides automation tools designed to streamline everyday interactions, reduce administrative burden, and help staff focus on what matters most. Together, Sandy and Natalie explore how EliseAI can empower healthcare teams to do more with greater efficiency.In this episode, they talk about:How and where EliseAI got startedThe value that AI will bring to your companyHow EliseAI is supporting healthcare organizationsWhat the implementation process w...
2026-01-06
21 min
The Beat
AI @ HLTH: Turning Automation Into Better Care Experiences
In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Natalie Ngo, from EliseAI, for a friendly, insightful conversation about how AI is transforming the way healthcare organizations communicate and operate. EliseAI provides automation tools designed to streamline everyday interactions, reduce administrative burden, and help staff focus on what matters most. Together, Sandy and Natalie explore how EliseAI can empower healthcare teams to do more with greater efficiency.In this episode, they talk about:How and where EliseAI got startedThe value that AI will bring to your companyHow EliseAI is supporting healthcare organizationsWhat the implementation process w...
2026-01-06
21 min
Tech Talk with 20for20
S4 E08: Organized Fraud Deep Dive
Fraud in multifamily has evolved from individual and opportunistic to a more coordinated and sophisticated enterprise. In this episode, Dom Beveridge speaks with Jess Tierney, chief integration officer at Verifast, James Stilwell, head of fraud forensics at Snappt and Maitri Johnson, senior vice president at TransUnion, about the mechanics of organized fraud, how it spreads, and what operators need to understand about the threat.The conversation covers:Fraud rings, testers, and influencers: How organized groups test properties share techniques, and sell full “rental packages.” Some even create shell management companies to probe fraud systems. Social chan...
2025-12-16
50 min
Tech Talk with 20for20
S4 E07: Verification of Rent - An Untapped Screening Opportunity?
In this episode of Tech Talk with 20for20, Dom Beveridge is joined by Sam Stein (Snappt), Vitaliy Merkulov (Renter, Inc.), and Amanda Cox (President and COO of Bellaire Multifamily Management) to explore why verification of rent (VOR) is returning as a core part of screening—and what modern technology now makes possible.The conversation covers:What is VOR and how does it help? How VOR uses prior-landlord records to reveal late payments, balances, damage, notices, pets, early terminations, and evictions that never reach credit files.Why VOR nearly disappeared—and why it’s back...
2025-12-10
43 min
Tech Talk with 20for20
S4 E06: Beyond “Fraud” - Underwriting the Resident Lifecycle
S4 E06: Beyond “Fraud” - Underwriting the Resident LifecycleIn this episode of Tech Talk with 20for20, Dom Beveridge speaks with Copley Broer, co-founder and managing partner of Sunriver Capital Partners, about why multifamily’s fraud and screening challenges are really questions of risk management. Broer—whose firm invests in and operates PropTech and FinTech companies including Vero and Rhino/Jetty—shares how he sees the sector evolving toward integrated underwriting and smarter, data-driven decision-making.The conversation covers:From “fraud” to “risk”: Fraud prevention is only part of a larger risk spectrum that includes employmen...
2025-12-03
40 min
Tech Talk with 20for20
S4 E05: Simplicity vs. Security: The Application Process Tradeoff
Multifamily operators face a growing tension: how to build strong fraud protection without creating too much friction in the application process. In this episode of Tech Talk with 20for20, Dom Beveridge brings together Christopher Cunningham (RPM Living), Steve Carroll (Findigs) and Mark Fiebig (Payscore) to discuss how operators and suppliers are finding the right balance between screening depth and user experience.The conversation explores:Active vs. passive fraud prevention: Active methods (like bank linking, ID scans, and liveness checks) are now standard, while passive data checks run quietly in the background to flag inconsistencies.
2025-11-26
54 min
Tech Talk with 20for20
S4 E04: Document Verification Deep Dive
Document fraud is now one of the fastest-growing sources of bad debt in multifamily—and the tactics are getting more sophisticated. In this episode of Tech Talk with 20for20, Dom Beveridge is joined by Bonnie Smetzer (Asset Living), James Stilwell (Snappt) and Jamie Borodin (Docuverus) to examine how document fraud works, why it has accelerated, and what operators need from modern verification tools.The panel explores:How document fraud has evolved: AI-assisted forgeries now mimic both the visual layout and metadata of pay stubs and bank statements, replacing the crude edits of earlier years....
2025-11-19
50 min
Real Estate Investor Podcast
Episode #248 - Asset Management Mastery with Tim Chui
Joining Gary on the show today is Break of Day Capital's Director of Asset Management, Tim Chui. With over a decade of experience in institutional real estate, Tim Chui has held senior roles at leading firms including JRK Properties, Essex Property Trust, and American Realty Advisors. He began his career analyzing equity and fixed income opportunities before moving into acquisitions, portfolio management, and asset management. Tim has overseen 54 multifamily assets across Southern California totaling more than 12,000 units and $5 billion in value, and has successfully navigated complex, over-leveraged portfolios through challenging market cycles. In today’s conversation, Tim shares what fi...
2025-11-14
17 min
Tech Talk with 20for20
S4 E03: Income Verification Deep Dive
Income verification sits at the heart of fraud prevention—and it’s getting harder. In this episode of Tech Talk with 20for20, Dom Beveridge is joined by Sarah-Jane Milliren (Aldon Management), Mark Fiebig (Payscore) and Tim Ray (Verifast), to unpack what income verification really involves, why it’s so technically complex, and how it’s changing with the rise of gig work, open banking, and automation.The panel explores:The five income types: Payroll, government benefits, gig work, side-hustle deposits, and assets—all with different levels of reliability and verification methods.Bank linking vs. docume...
2025-11-12
48 min
Tech Talk with 20for20
S4 E02: What Does Fraud Have to Do With Bad Debt?
Fraud and bad debt are connected, but not identical. In this episode of Tech Talk with 20for20, Dom Beveridge speaks with Steve Carroll (Findigs), Kyle Nelson (Snappt), and Nate Thompson (Morgan Properties) about how fraud drives bad debt, and how smarter policies, metrics, and market awareness can keep both under control.The panel explores:Where they overlap: Many evictions stem from fraud, but some bad debt comes from life events or overly rigid screening policies.Better policies: One-size-fits-all rules like “three times rent” don’t work everywhere. Operators are using local data to fine-tune risk and approval criteria.Evolvi...
2025-11-05
54 min
The Apartment Department
The Future is Automated: Transforming Multifamily Operations with Minna Song
Send us Fan MailIn this episode of The Apartment Department, co-host Chris Johnson sits down with Minna Song, CEO of EliseAI, to discuss how artificial intelligence is transforming multifamily operations. For nearly a decade, EliseAI has helped properties automate leasing, maintenance, and resident communications—cutting lead-to-lease times from 30 days to just 14 and boosting renewal retention by 9%.Minna shares how EliseAI’s success is rooted in deep partnerships with their 700+ customers. Her team learns directly from on-site staff—observing workflows, conducting time studies, and building bespoke solutions that fit each property’s goals. It’s AI built w...
2025-11-04
22 min
Tech Talk with 20for20
S4 E01: What’s So Difficult About Multifamily Fraud?
This season of Tech Talk with 20for20 begins with a fundamental question: why is fraud such a difficult problem for multifamily operators to solve? Dom Beveridge is joined by three experts, Jamie Borodin (Docuverus), Mark Fiebig (Payscore) and Tim Ray (Verifast), to break down what makes this problem uniquely complex, and why so many operators underestimate it.Fraud prevention, they explain, is not a single task but a constantly moving target shaped by technology, incentives, and human behavior. The discussion explores:The fundamentals of fraud - understanding the difference between first-party, third-party, and synthetic fraud, and why most i...
2025-10-30
49 min
The Leverage Podcast
The Future of SaaS Is Already Here—and It’s Called EliseAI.
Watch on YouTube • Listen on Spotify • Listen on AppleSaaS as we know it is dying and giants are being felled. Today, I want to talk about EliseAI’s playbook for murdering such giants in the world of property management software. The company’s displacement strategy is elegant and brutal: Start with conversational AI that solves an obvious pain point (answering repetitive tenant inquiries), use that wedge to integrate your product into every system used by a customer, expand into workflow automation that makes human interfaces less necessary, then give away the CRM and other legacy s...
2025-10-21
44 min
EO
How a Cockroach Startup Became a $2.2B Market Leader | EliseAI, Minna Song | EO
How a Cockroach Startup Became a $2.2B Market Leader | EliseAI, Minna Song EO stands for Entrepreneurship & Opportunities.Follow the podcast & turn on notifications for new episodes.EO Socials:Twitter twitter.com/eostudi0LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/eostudioOfficial Website eostudio.ioEO School welcome.eostudio.ioDisclaimer: This fanmade podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by EO. All content rights and trademarks belong to EO. If you represent EO and have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.----------------------------- -------- Keywords: business podcast, tech leadership, ai startups Learn mo...
2025-10-02
20 min
Outbound Squad
[Playbook] Account Executives: Steal this framework to self-source 30%+ of your pipeline (without making hundreds of cold calls)
This episode is the audio from our recent webinar on AE self-sourcing. Erika Fuchs from EliseAI, Rob Anderson from TitanX, and Darin Alpert from ZoomInfo joined us to share how top reps self-source pipeline to book more meetings and crush quota, without making hundreds of cold calls. Check out more free content and get coaching at https://outboundsquad.com.
2025-09-30
1h 01
Funded | How They Raised Millions
Minna Song (EliseAI) — From Crazy Early in Conversational AI to $250M from A16Z | Ep 57
Raising money for AI might seem easy today, but back in 2017, it was anything but. In this episode of Funded, Jason Yeh sits down with Minna Song, co-founder and CEO of EliseAI, who shares her journey from bootstrapping a conversational AI startup before ChatGPT was even on the horizon to closing a $250M Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz. Minna opens up about the doubts investors had early on, the lessons she learned about storytelling and timing, and how staying disciplined helped her build one of the fastest-growing companies in real estate and healthcare AI.
2025-09-30
45 min
Higher Levels Tech Sales Podcast
#53 - Inside the Tech Sales Interview Process at a Unicorn AI Company
Learn what it's like selling in the artificial intelligence space and what skills are needed to thrive. This video features an interview with Frankie Jorquez, Director of Sales Development at EliseAI, discussing team success and hiring opportunities in the SaaS space.EliseAI recently raised $250 Million dollars and is valued at $2.2B.
2025-09-08
25 min
Health:Further
155 - Why 25% of Kids Aren’t Getting the Care They Need w/ Mitch Mudra
Vic is joined by guest host Mitch Mudra, founder of Ladder Health, to discuss the Minneapolis mass shooting, his background at UnitedHealth, and building Ladder to address developmental delays in children. They cover Walmart’s gains during inflation, job market risks, Nashville’s tunnel project, and major healthcare VC deals including LS AI and CAR T therapy. Other topics include AI in back-office operations, sleep and vision tech startups, CMS pre-authorization, CDC leadership turmoil, 340B rebate changes, UnitedHealth’s DOJ probe, Johns Hopkins’ contract fight, no-surprise billing costs, children’s hospital layoffs, Quest’s lab joint venture, and Walgreens’ breakup. They...
2025-08-30
1h 06
Today in Multifamily Housing
Today in Multifamily Housing - Pod #34
Today in Multifamily Housing - Pod #34 | August 21st, 2025Welcome to your AI-hosted multifamily news briefing and analysis! Join hosts Alex and Jordan as they break down the biggest deals, trends, and developments from August 20th, 2025.In This Episode: 🏢 Billion-Dollar Deals: Cortland Partners' massive $1.6B portfolio acquisition and Foulger Pratt's strategic DC expansion with $447M AvalonBay purchase💰 Capital Markets: LaSalle's $700M lending strategy and how private credit is filling the gap as banks scale back📈 Development Spotlight: Columbus, Ohio emerges as a multifamily construction powerhouse, ranking 5th nationally in permits per capita🤖 PropTech...
2025-08-21
09 min
The a16z Show
Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Housing and healthcare make up nearly half of household spending, yet both sectors are riddled with inefficiency and rising costs.In this episode, Erik Torenberg is joined by a16z Growth partner Alex Immerman and Minna Song and Tony Stoyanov, cofounders of EliseAI, to discuss why they’re tackling these critical industries and how AI can transform everything from leasing and maintenance to patient scheduling and compliance.The conversation covers:Why the U.S. is 5 million housing units short — and how technology can help unlock existing supplyHow automation can cut waste, reduce labor costs, and...
2025-08-21
39 min
TBPN
Mark Cuban, Vlad Tenev & MORE | Larry Ellison's Cloud Scores Big, Silicon Valley's Family Life, Qasar Younis, Minna Song
(00:21) - Timeline (06:37) - AI Orality Opens Up the Grift Gates (27:23) - Ellison's Cloud Scores Big with AI Titans (44:25) - Timeline (01:35:31) - Silicon Valley's Pro-Family Posture Fights Reality (01:46:00) - Timeline (01:57:17) - Vlad Tenev, co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, discusses the company's evolution into a comprehensive financial platform, offering services like credit cards, banking, and retirement accounts. He highlights Robinhood's mission to democratize finance by enabling customers to manage various financial assets and transactions within a single app. Tenev also emphasizes the integration of AI to enhance customer support and the company's commitment to expanding access to financial markets, including...
2025-08-21
3h 33
The Apartment Department
All Things Zillow Rentals: A Deep Dive with Jami Thomas
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Chris and Anne speak with Jami Thomas, VP of Sales at Zillow Rentals, where we cover a wide range of exciting topics including:The rumor that Zillow may be phasing out their PPL options for packages.Zillows recent partnerships with two AI powerhouses, EliseAI and Google Gemini.Best practices for creating effective Zillow listings.Utilizing your Zillow support team and data resources to maximize results.Zillow Rentals vision for the future.For any multifamily marketer or operations professional who has been dying to know what Zillow Rentals next...
2025-08-05
45 min
Student Housing Insight
SHI Tough Talk with Jacob Kosior - SHI1010
🎧 Episode Summary: In the final installment of the Tough Talks series, SHI Ambassador John Barr sits down with Jacob Kosior, a seasoned student housing operator turned VP at Elise AI. They explore the real-world challenges of implementing AI in property management, tackle the underestimated difficulties of change management, and dig into leadership development within the student housing space. With a candid discussion full of humor, insights, and hot takes, this episode is a masterclass in staying relevant and resilient in a fast-changing industry. 🕒 Timestamps & Topics: 00:00:16 – Sponsor message from Campus Technologies 00:03:32 – John Barr’s AI c...
2025-07-18
43 min
Thesis Driven Leader Series
Elise AI's Minna Song on Building the Artificial Intelligence OS for Housing—and Why Leasing Is Just the Start
Minna Song is the co-founder and CEO of EliseAI, a company using advanced natural language processing to automate communication across the multifamily industry—and beyond. Originally launched as MeetElise, the company powers AI leasing agents for over 350 customers, including 70% of the 50 largest rental housing operators in the U.S., but Song’s vision goes far beyond leasing.In this episode, she sits down with Brad Hargreaves to unpack the evolution of EliseAI, from a chatbot into an enterprise-grade operating system for housing. They talk about the gap between software teams and site teams, how operators misjudge AI time...
2025-06-01
40 min
Cory Playlist
002 - The Fast-Paced Future of Company Culture in Tech with Jacob Kosior of Elise AI
What happens when a property management leader dives headfirst into the world of AI and PropTech? In this episode, host Kelsi Cory welcomes Jacob Kosior,https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobkosior/ VP of Client Strategy at Elise AI, to unpack his remarkable journey from the traditional real estate sector into the tech-driven world of artificial intelligence.Jacob reveals how Elise AI is revolutionizing multifamily housing and why adaptability, communication, and cross-department collaboration are more than just buzzwords—they’re essential survival skills in today’s fast-paced tech culture. From the challenges of change management to the company’s mission...
2025-05-16
21 min
Multifamily Media Network
002 - The Fast-Paced Future of Company Culture in Tech with Jacob Kosior of Elise AI
What happens when a property management leader dives headfirst into the world of AI and PropTech? In this episode, host Kelsi Cory welcomes Jacob Kosior,https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobkosior/ VP of Client Strategy at Elise AI, to unpack his remarkable journey from the traditional real estate sector into the tech-driven world of artificial intelligence.Jacob reveals how Elise AI is revolutionizing multifamily housing and why adaptability, communication, and cross-department collaboration are more than just buzzwords—they’re essential survival skills in today’s fast-paced tech culture. From the challenges of change management to the company’s mission...
2025-05-16
21 min
Tech Talk with 20for20
S3 E11: BONUS EP! Six Great Ideas From The 2025 Edition
In this year's 20for20 Annual Survey, we once again asked six leading companies to share a viewpoint about some important aspect of operations and technology. This year, we released a video in which leadership from each company advocates for their viewpoint.This is a GREAT way to get an explanation of six powerful new insights from companies at the cutting edge of multifamily technology. The viewpoints are:Donald Davidoff, CEO of Real Estate Business Analytics (REBA) presents a new framing of analytics as a lever for control over property performance.Daniel Berlind, CEO...
2025-04-23
1h 02
Venture with Grace
Cody Ng from 01 Advisors: Insights on AI and Early Growth Investing
Cody Ng is an investor at 01 Advisors, a growth stage (Series A-C) vc firm founded by operators for operators, focusing on AI, devOps/infrastructure, and vertical SaaS companies. 01A is founded and led by Dick Costolo (ex-Twitter CEO), Adam Bain (ex-Twitter COO), and David Fischer (ex-Meta CRO). As a team, they’ve scaled high-growth companies like Twitter, Meta, Airtable, Yahoo, Benchling, etc. from $0 to $120B+ of combined yearly revenue and over $1T of market cap. Prior to 01A, Cody was at Point72 Ventures, where he was a founding member of the growth venture capital team and helped lead investments in...
2024-11-23
54 min
Web3 Wavefronts - Digestible News on Crypto, DeFi and AI
New Unicorns Join the Board and One Hits a Stunning 16 Billion Valuation
In August 2024, eight new companies reached unicorn status, adding a total of twenty-five billion dollars in value to the Unicorn Board. Six of these companies are based in the U.S., while two are from China and India. Yinwang Smart Technology, a subsidiary of Huawei, achieved a valuation of sixteen billion dollars, making it the second-highest new unicorn valuation this year. The Unicorn Board has seen a year-to-date total of one hundred fifty-two billion dollars contributed by seventy-nine new unicorns as of September 12, 2024. In 2023, ninety-nine companies joined the board with a collective valuation of one hundred seventy-six billion dollars...
2024-09-12
03 min
Multifamily Unpacked
VP Harris’ major policy speech, SF bans revenue management + multifamily’s thaw
Today on the report we cover: — Reactions to VP Harris’ major policy speech from Friday and what it means for multifamily and millions of renters— San Francisco bans revenue management— EliseAI new round of funding— Jay Parsons REIT earnings calls— Two acquisition stories: Blackstone sold nearly $1 billion apartment portfolio to Equity Residential + Denver Apartment Deal Is Just Part of RMR Group’s $3 Billion Acquisition Plans— New development strategies in California: Greystar’s mega community + Costco's new bid into the multifamily space— Forum registrations will open early
2024-08-20
18 min
Equity
AI for landlords, Grok-2 unleashed, and the latest attempt at AI regulation
This week on Equity Kirsten Korosec and Mary Ann Azevedo were joined by one of TechCrunch’s resident AI experts, Devin Coldewey. They broke down their deals of the week: WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle startup, seeking an initial public offering in the United States at a $5 billion valuation, EliseAI, the company offering AI solutions to landlords, raised $75 million and became a unicorn, and Grok-2 is now available on X but it will cost you.Then the team got into a couple recent startup shutdowns: Tally and Score. Tally was a nine-year-old fintech that helped consumers manage an...
2024-08-16
32 min
TechCrunch Startup News
EliseAI lands $75M for chatbots that help property managers deal with renters
EliseAI employs an army of chatbots to text with, email, and respond to calls from renters about things such as apartment tours, maintenance requests, lease renewals and delinquencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2024-08-15
06 min
AI News Today
xAI Grok's Image Generation & EliseAI's Billion-Dollar Success
On today's episode, we delve into recent advances of Elon Musk's xAI, specifically their AI model Grok, which now generates images on the X social network, stirring up some controversy. We'll also discuss the triumph of EliseAI in their recent Series D funding, raising their value to a billion with their AI-driven tools transforming property management. Lastly, we'll talk about an exciting partnership between California and Nvidia, aimed at training 100,000 residents in AI technology.
2024-08-15
02 min
KI Podcast: Clever und Schön - KI trifft Kreativität | Tech-News zu ChatGPT, Roboter, Tesla, Zukunft
#73 - Wenn dein KI-Vermieter dich abmahnt | (Minifolge - Sommerpause)
Wir tauchen tief in die Welt der Künstlichen Intelligenz ein, die speziell für das Mietwesen entwickelt wurde. Stell dir vor, du hättest einen digitalen Ansprechpartner, der rund um die Uhr für deine Fragen und Probleme zur Verfügung steht. Von einfachen Anfragen über Mietzahlungen bis hin zu dringenden Wartungsanfragen und Mahnungen – diese KI revolutioniert die Art und Weise, wie Mieter und Vermieter miteinander kommunizieren. Ob du selbst Mieter oder Vermieter bist oder einfach nur technikbegeistert – diese Episode wird dir faszinierende Einblicke in die Zukunft des Wohnens und der Immobilienverwaltung geben. Schalte...
2024-07-28
05 min
Real Estate News: Real Estate Investing Podcast
Surprise! Your Real Estate Agent is a Bot!
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way that landlords and property managers are handling rental screenings, and it's making the leasing process better for everyone. But it isn't just for rentals. Many home buyers are also getting the kind of help they need from what some are calling "robot realtors." I thought I'd talk about a few ways that AI is rapidly changing the real estate world. For rentals, an AI assistant can be the one handling all the questions and the scheduling of tours. It's taking a lot of stress out of the property manager's job. They typically converse vi...
2024-02-10
04 min
Real Estate Hackers
PropTech Influencers E2: Fran Loftus, EliseAI
Fran Loftus, who run operations at EliseAI, discusses how AI is dramatically changing the tenant experience.
2023-07-09
43 min