Why real estate needs more tech founders

Updated: November 19th, 2023

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Occupier is an end-to-end lease lifecycle management tool for commercial tenants. The company was founded by the trio – Andrew Flint, Erik Pearson, and Matt Giffune in 2018 and it’s headquartered in NYC.

They create software that commercial tenants use to execute lease transactions, manage real estate leases, and ensure compliance with lease accounting standards.

For roughly ten years, Matt and Andrew worked at JLL in NYC and Boston as commercial real estate brokers. This experience & knowledge proved to be useful in building this business.

After working together at VTS, the top leasing asset and management platform for landlords, they founded Occupier. Occupier achieved its goal by raising $10.5M in Series A funding.

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