TechCrunch · Mar 2018
Introduced Quantierra in YC Winter 2018 Demo Day coverage and described its real-estate sourcing product, commission model, and early traction.
Sourcing investment real estate
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Quantierra is a low-profile New York real estate advisory firm that uses proprietary software and data to source, analyze, and execute investment real estate transactions for developers and investors, earning commission on facilitated sales.
Primary product
Data-driven real estate investment sourcing and transaction advisory platform
Founded
2014
Headquarters
106 E 30TH ST #2R, New York, NY 10016
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Real Estate
Sub-industry
PropTech / real estate advisory
Offices
106 E 30TH ST #2R, New York, NY 10016
New York City, NY, USA
Business model
real estate advisory
brokerage / transaction commission
software and data analytics platform
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$120K
Latest round
Seed · Jan 2018
Latest amount
$120K
Jan 2018 · Y Combinator
Mar 2015
People & investors
Investors
Work & culture
Privacy-conscious and low-profile; the company explicitly says it keeps a low profile because clients prefer discretion. The team appears small and engineering/data-heavy.
Product & market
Pricing
1.5% commission on property sales facilitated through the platform; advisory work is also part of the service model.
Differentiators
- —proprietary software and database for sourcing and analysis
- —uses both public and private data
- —algorithmic assessment of buildability, value, and sale probability
- —focus on New York City / metro-area real estate opportunities
- —privacy/discretion-first client relationship
- —parcel- and zoning-level analytical workflow
Technology
proprietary database
algorithms
data scraping
data parsing
OCR
CSV/text-file processing
SQL
Ruby on Rails
ActiveRecord
Heroku
Firefox
Geckodriver
Kimurai
RGeo
PostGIS-style geospatial tooling
Customers
institutional investors
non-profit organizations
real estate developers
investors in investment properties
buyers and sellers of NYC real estate
Competitors
Douglas Elliman
Century 21
Keller Williams Realty
PropertyQuants
Haystacks.AI
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$2M estimated ARR
Latest news
Architizer Journal · May 2016
References the New York Times zoning analysis and Quantierra's underlying data work on Manhattan buildings.
The New York Times · May 2016
Profiles a Quantierra-backed zoning analysis using public records on more than 43,000 Manhattan buildings, citing Sandip Trivedi and Stephen Smith.
Time Out New York · May 2016
Discusses the Quantierra study showing roughly 40% of Manhattan buildings would not meet current zoning rules.
The Real Deal · Jan 2016
Covers Quantierra as an NYC real-estate startup applying big data to investment decisions and notes its focus on sites between $5M and $20M.
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