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Lev is a company.
Lev has raised $282.0M across 5 funding rounds.
Key people at Lev.
Lev was founded in 2019 by Avi Goldberg (Co-Founder, Investor & Board Member).
Lev has raised $282.0M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Lev offers a comprehensive software platform for commercial real estate (CRE) professionals, powered by purpose-built artificial intelligence. It integrates tools for lender matching, automated workflow, and intelligent pipeline tracking. The platform streamlines contact management, branded deal material generation, and documentation centralization, enhancing efficiency across CRE financing transactions.
Yaakov Zar founded Lev in 2019, initially as a CRE brokerage. His insight, gained from significant transaction volumes, highlighted the need for a technology-first approach over traditional brokering. This prompted a strategic pivot, focusing on developing an AI-powered platform to resolve inefficiencies and data challenges in CRE financing.
Lev serves a diverse client base, including property sponsors, owners, general partners, and various financing and investment sales brokers. Its vision empowers these professionals to accelerate deal closures, broaden capital access, and establish more efficient operational procedures. The company aims to transform CRE financing through innovative technology.
Key people at Lev.
Lev has raised $282.0M across 5 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $170.0M Debt / Series B in May 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2022 | $170M Debt Financing | Parker89 | Animo Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, Canaan Partners, Capital ONE Ventures, Citi SPRINT, Cross River Digital Ventures, JLL Spark, NFX, Stepstone Group | Announced |
| Apr 1, 2022 | $70M Series B | — | Animo Ventures, Harmonix Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, NFX, Plum Alley Investments, Sarah Smith Fund, Tachyon Ventures, Tectonic Capital, Triatomic Capital, Bradley Horowitz, Jason Haider | Announced |
| Jul 20, 2021 | $30M Series A | Hunter Somerville | Animo Ventures, Canaan Partners, First American Financial, JLL Spark, Ludlow Ventures, Pete Flint | Announced |
| Feb 1, 2021 | $10M Seed | — | Animo Ventures, Harmonix Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, NFX, Plum Alley Investments, Sarah Smith Fund, Tachyon Ventures, Tectonic Capital, Triatomic Capital, Bradley Horowitz, Jason Haider, Richard Boyle, JLL Spark, Ludlow Ventures | Announced |
| Feb 1, 2020 | $2M Seed | — | Animo Ventures, Harmonix Fund, Sarah Smith Fund | Announced |
Lev was founded in 2019 by Avi Goldberg (Co-Founder, Investor & Board Member).
Lev has raised $282.0M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Lev's investors include Parker89, Animo Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, Canaan Partners, Capital One Ventures, Citi SPRINT, Cross River Digital Ventures, JLL Spark, NFX, StepStone Group, Harmonix Fund, Kleiner Perkins.
Lev is a privately held fintech company that operates the industry's first digital platform for commercial real estate (CRE) financing, matching borrowers with lenders to enable faster transactions and better outcomes.[1][4] Founded in 2019, it has closed over $2 billion in debt financing, offering tools like lender relationship management, interactive market dashboards, and support from capital markets specialists, serving major CRE players.[1][3] Led by CEO Sammy Greenwall, with key executives including VP Gabriel Hoffman and CTO Alberto Sheinfeld, Lev streamlines debt financing workflows in a traditionally fragmented market.[1]
(Note: A separate entity, Lev Investments, is a real estate investment and development firm founded in 2003, but search results indicate the primary "Lev" in tech contexts refers to the CRE fintech platform.[1][2][3])
Lev was founded in 2019 by Yaakov James Zar in the software and internet services industry, targeting inefficiencies in CRE debt financing.[3] The company emerged to digitize a manual process, quickly gaining traction by closing over $2 billion in loans and earning trust from top CRE names through its user-friendly technology and expert team.[1] Pivotal early growth came from its award-winning capital markets specialists providing end-to-end support, differentiating it from legacy brokers and positioning it as a go-to platform.[1][4]
Lev stands out in CRE financing through:
Lev rides the fintech wave digitizing real estate, particularly CRE debt markets strained by high interest rates and manual processes post-2020 disruptions.[1][4] Its timing aligns with rising demand for efficient capital amid $1T+ annual U.S. CRE lending needs, leveraging AI-driven matching and data tools to cut deal times from months to weeks.[1] By enabling faster liquidity, Lev influences the ecosystem, empowering smaller borrowers against institutional giants and fostering innovation in proptech, where platforms like it are reshaping $20T+ global CRE financing.[1][4]
Lev is poised for accelerated growth as CRE markets stabilize in 2026, potentially expanding into adjacent services like equity financing or international markets with its $2BN track record.[1] Trends like AI analytics and embedded finance will amplify its platform, while pre-IPO interest signals strong valuation upside for investors.[1][3] As proptech matures, Lev's influence could evolve from niche disruptor to category leader, supercharging workflows and democratizing CRE access—reinforcing its role as the go-to for smarter, faster debt deals.[1]
