What 42Floors does

42Floors is a commercial real estate search marketplace founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco. The platform enables businesses and individuals to search for office, retail, and industrial spaces for lease or sale, and also provides dedicated coworking space discovery. The underlying technology infrastructure is powered by Yardi Systems, a global property management software provider, which supplies the platform's listing and search capabilities. 42Floors operates as part of the broader CommercialCafe network, with listings cross-distributed on PropertyShark and CommercialSearch for expanded visibility, and supports a content library of office, coworking, retail, and industrial market reports used for top-of-funnel demand capture.

The company's revenue model is centered on premium listing advertising and coworking space promotion, monetizing enhanced visibility and lead generation for property owners and operators against a free baseline search experience for seekers. Distribution is primarily self-serve via a web platform accessible globally, with SEO and content marketing as the dominant channels. Customer segmentation is horizontal, targeting commercial property seekers across SMB, individual, and consumer use cases rather than enterprise accounts.

42Floors has raised approximately $17.4M in disclosed funding across early rounds, with the most recent being a $12M Series A in January 2013 led by New Enterprise Associates, alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, and Thrive Capital. The company employs 11-50 people and has not raised additional equity in over a decade, consistent with a stable, mature operating posture rather than venture-scale growth. The firm was co-founded by Ben Ehmke and Jon Bracy and graduated from Y Combinator.

Name

42Floors

Website

https://42floors.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

42Floors is a San Francisco-based commercial real estate search marketplace founded in 2011 that helps businesses and individuals find office, retail, industrial, and coworking spaces, monetizing via premium listing advertising within the Yardi-powered CommercialCafe network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Real Estate Marketplace

NAICS

Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (53121)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Online/Virtual Real Estate Auctions (Marketplace Platforms) (BPAJAEAJ)

Keywords

• Commercial real estate listings
• Office space search
• Coworking marketplace
• Commercial property leasing
• CRE listing platform

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Premium Listing Advertising: Promoted listings and enhanced visibility for commercial real estate properties across the network
2. Coworking Space Promotion: Marketing services for coworking spaces to increase lead generation and bookings

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

42Floors operates an online commercial real estate marketplace that aggregates listings for office, retail, industrial, and coworking spaces across the United States. It enables property seekers to browse and filter spaces while giving property owners a channel to list and promote their available spaces. The platform also offers premium listing advertising and market trend reports to support commercial real estate decision-making.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Commercial Real Estate Search Platform Web-based search and discovery platform that lets businesses and individuals browse 355,000+ commercial property listings nationwide, filtering by property type (office, retail, industrial, coworking), location, and listing category (for lease, for sale, coworking).
• Premium Listing Advertising Paid advertising service that promotes commercial real estate listings to maximize leads and visibility across the network, including distribution on PropertyShark and CommercialSearch.
• Commercial Real Estate Market Reports Editorial market intelligence covering office vacancy, rental trends, industrial sector activity, coworking supply, and CMBS delinquency data, available on the platform's blog.
• Coworking Space Promotion Paid promotion service for coworking spaces to attract tenants seeking private offices, virtual offices, meeting rooms, and open workspace.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Yardi SystemscoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerCommercialCafe is powered by Yardi, a global leader in property management software. Yardi provides the underlying technology infrastructure and platform capabilities.
• PropertySharkflagshipTechnology or IntegrationPropertyShark is part of the CommercialCafe network. Listings on CommercialCafe also appear on PropertyShark, expanding visibility for property owners.
• CommercialSearchflagshipTechnology or IntegrationCommercialSearch is part of the CommercialCafe network. Listings are distributed across the network for maximum exposure.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• LoopNet: LoopNet is the dominant U.S. online marketplace for commercial real estate listings (office, retail, industrial, multifamily), directly overlapping 42Floors' core offering of CRE search and listing promotion for landlords and brokers.
• PropertyShark: PropertyShark is a CRE and property data platform with national listings coverage that overlaps with 42Floors' commercial property search use case, and is cross-distributed within the same Yardi/CommercialCafe network.
• Crexi: Crexi is a venture-backed online CRE marketplace focused on commercial property listings, auctions, and broker tools, competing head-to-head with 42Floors for both tenant searchers and landlord listing dollars across office, retail, and industrial.
• Hubble (Hubble Pass): Hubble is a U.K.-based flexible office marketplace aggregating coworking, serviced offices, and meeting rooms — directly analogous to 42Floors' office/coworking search model, serving a complementary geographic market.
• Catylist: Catylist is a CRE listing and marketing platform serving brokers and property owners with search, property websites, and digital marketing tools — a closely comparable listings/search marketplace play to 42Floors.
• OfficeSpace.com: OfficeSpace.com is a CRE search and listing platform focused on office leasing, directly competing with 42Floors for tenant search traffic and landlord listing promotion in the office vertical.
• CommercialCafe: CommercialCafe is Yardi's CRE listings and coworking search platform with 355,000+ listings, operating the same marketplace model (free search plus promoted listings) as 42Floors across the same property types.

Broad incumbents

• Reonomy: Reonomy (Altus Group) is a CRE property intelligence and listings platform with deep owner, debt, and asset data, competing more broadly in CRE search and prospecting than 42Floors' consumer-leaning marketplace.
• CoStar Group: CoStar is the largest CRE data, analytics, and listings conglomerate (parent of LoopNet and Apartments.com), offering overlapping commercial listing and search capabilities as part of a much broader information-services portfolio.

Emerging players

• CompStak: CompStak is a CRE comps and lease comparables data platform used by brokers and investors — an adjacent, data-driven CRE marketplace serving overlapping customer segments (CRE brokers and investors) with a different core offering.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/42floors
• Facebookfacebook.com/42floors
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/42floors

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors15 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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