Openland

Openland is a professional messenger for the real estate industry. It makes it easier to do market research, source deals, and work on transactions. Openland's key features (channels, listings, chats) are built to streamline communications between all stakeholder groups in real estate, including owners, builders, investors, lenders, tenants, brokers and local officials. Openland was founded in 2017 in San Francisco and graduated from Y Combinator in Winter 2018. The company is led by CEO, Yury Lifshits, a former data scientist for Yahoo! and Caltech, and CTO, Steve Korshakov, a former lead engineer at Telegram and the author of open-source messaging platform Actor.im.