Lev

What Lev does

Lev, Inc. is a New York-based AI platform founded in 2019 that operates a commercial real estate (CRE) financing marketplace connecting borrowers (sponsors and brokers) with a network of over 4,000 lenders. The company's core technology combines proprietary AI-powered matching algorithms with real-time lender data infrastructure to streamline loan origination, lender discovery, and financing workflows that have traditionally been fragmented and manual in CRE. The unified platform architecture integrates apps, agents, and data, with individual products including Lev Match (AI-powered lender matching), Lev Agent (autonomous AI agent for CRE workflows), Lev Memo (loan memorandum automation), Lender Search (database of 4,000+ lenders), and Lev API (developer-facing integration layer).

Lev serves two primary customer segments: CRE sponsors seeking financing for properties and CRE brokers facilitating financing for their clients, with a secondary enterprise tier for large CRE firms requiring firm-wide AI deployment. The go-to-market is hybrid: a product-led growth motion with a freemium credit-based offering (2,000 free credits plus promotional unlimited Lev Agent access through June 30) drives top-of-funnel acquisition from individual professionals and SMBs, while a direct enterprise sales motion targets large CRE firms with custom annual contracts and platform-wide deployment. Revenue streams include subscription/recurring revenue from the enterprise tier and credit-based usage from the self-serve tier.

The company is venture-backed, having raised over $100 million in cumulative funding with Cross River Bank as a major investor and strategic financial partner. Lev employs 51-100 people and is led by founder Yaakov James Zar. Distribution channels are digital-first across LinkedIn, Instagram, X, and content marketing, with the platform itself as the primary conversion surface.

Name

Lev

Legal name

Lev, Inc.

Website

https://lev.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Lev is an AI-powered commercial real estate financing platform connecting CRE sponsors and brokers with a network of 4,000+ lenders through matching algorithms, autonomous AI agents, and workflow automation tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Real Estate Lending Technology

NAICS

Mortgage and Nonmortgage Loan Brokers (522310)

SIC

Loan Brokers (6163), Mortgage Bankers & Loan Correspondents (6162)

akta.pro primary industry

Automated Valuation Models (AVM) & Property Data/Analytics (FSALALAJ)

Keywords

• Commercial real estate lending
• AI lending platform
• CRE financing software
• Lender matching marketplace
• Commercial mortgage technology

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Platform Credits/Subscription: Lev offers a credits-based pricing model with 2,000 credits plus unlimited Lev Agent access, suggesting a tiered subscription approach for platform usage

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Lev operates an AI-powered commercial real estate financing platform that connects sponsors and brokers with a network of over 4,000 lenders. It offers a suite of products including Lev Agent (autonomous AI workflow assistant), Lender Search, Lev Match (AI-powered lender matching), Lev Memo (loan memorandum automation), and Lev API for programmatic integrations, delivered via a unified apps-agents-data platform.

Product overview

Lev is an AI platform for commercial real estate that offers a unified platform-plus-modules architecture. The core platform provides the infrastructure for apps, agents, and data, while individual products include Lev Agent (autonomous AI agent), Lender Search (lender discovery), Lev Match (AI-powered matching algorithm), Lev Memo (document automation), and Lev API (developer integration). The platform uses AI-powered matching algorithms and real-time data from over 4,000 lenders to help sponsors and brokers secure commercial real estate financing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Lev Agent: AI agent for commercial real estate workflows
• Lender Search
• Lev Match
• Lev Memo
• Lev API

Products and services

• Lev Agent AI-powered agent that automates commercial real estate financing workflows, enabling professionals to complete loan origination tasks with autonomous decision-making capabilities. Targeted at CRE sponsors, brokers, and lending professionals.
• Lender Search Search tool that enables users to find and evaluate lenders from a network of over 4,000 lenders based on loan requirements and financing criteria. Targeted at CRE sponsors and brokers seeking financing partners.
• Lev Match AI-powered matching technology that connects commercial real estate sponsors and brokers with optimal lenders using real-time data and proprietary matching algorithms. Targeted at CRE professionals seeking financing.
• Lev Memo Document generation tool that automates the creation of loan memoranda and financing documentation for commercial real estate transactions. Targeted at CRE brokers and capital markets professionals.
• Lev API Developer API enabling programmatic access to Lev's commercial real estate financing platform, allowing integration of lender marketplace data and matching capabilities into external applications. Targeted at developers and platforms in the CRE ecosystem.
• Lev Platform Unified AI platform that combines apps, agents, and data to help commercial real estate companies grow, serving as the underlying infrastructure for all Lev products. Targeted at enterprise CRE firms requiring firm-wide deployment.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 4,000 lenders available through the platform for matching

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Yardi Systems: Established enterprise CRE software platform offering property management, accounting, and increasingly data/AI tools across the CRE stack. Comparable as a broad incumbent that could integrate AI-driven lender matching into its suite and compete with Lev across enterprise CRE accounts.
• RealPage: Large CRE-focused software provider serving owners, operators, and lenders with property management, asset management, and analytics. Relevant incumbent peer because it controls significant lender-side data and enterprise distribution that could be repurposed into AI-driven matching.
• CoStar: Dominant CRE data and analytics platform with deep market intelligence across properties, owners, and capital markets. Comparable because its data depth and capital markets client base overlap with Lev's lender and sponsor audiences, and it has been expanding into AI-enabled workflows.

Direct peers

• Juniper Square: Investment management platform for CRE and private fund sponsors, with workflow tools spanning deal management, investor reporting, and fund administration. Direct peer because it serves similar CRE sponsor personas and has been adding AI and data capabilities that overlap with Lev's workflow ambitions.
• CrowdStreet: Online CRE investment and deal marketplace connecting sponsors with capital providers and individual investors. Comparable because it operates a CRE-focused two-sided marketplace with workflow and matching tools, addressing similar sponsor and capital-provider personas as Lev.
• Brevitas: CRE investment marketplace and deal-flow platform that connects sponsors with capital via structured digital listings. Direct peer in the CRE capital-formation marketplace category, targeting the same sponsor and capital-provider audience as Lev's marketplace.
• Groundfloor: CRE debt and equity marketplace enabling individual and institutional investors to fund loans on individual properties. Comparable as a CRE lending marketplace, though it skews more residential and retail-investor focused versus Lev's commercial sponsor base.
• Lendio: Small business loan marketplace connecting borrowers with a network of lenders across multiple credit products. Direct peer because of the two-sided lender-borrower marketplace model and AI-enabled matching, though it focuses on SMB rather than CRE specifically.

Others

• Arixa Capital: Private CRE bridge and transitional lender operating on its own balance sheet. Relevant adjacent peer because it sits on the lender side of the CRE capital stack that Lev's marketplace aggregates and could be both a potential partner and direct counterparty to Lev.

Emerging players

• TenantBase (now part of CubiCasa/OfficeSpace): CRE technology platform applying marketplace and matching models to office leasing transactions. Emerging peer because of the shared thesis that CRE workflows benefit from AI-enabled matching, though it focuses on leasing rather than capital markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/levsoftware
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lev
• Instagraminstagram.com/levcapital
• Facebookfacebook.com/levcapital

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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