AppWork - Series A, $13M

There’s something poetic about watching a company that actually understands the problem it’s solving because it’s lived it. AppWork wasn’t born in a boardroom with a buzzword bingo sheet. It came out of the boiler room, the busted HVAC calls at 2am, the overloaded spreadsheets that passed for “systems,” and the thousand little ways multifamily maintenance has been broken for decades. This isn't PropTech built for a pitch deck. It’s software forged in the trenches by folks who know the grind because they’ve done it.

And now the world’s catching on. AppWork just locked in $13 million in Series A funding, with Resolve Growth Partners leading the charge and Jit Sinha not just investing, but taking a seat at the boardroom table. That kind of move isn’t made on potential alone. It's made when a startup turns three-digit YoY growth into gospel. When NMHC50 operators don’t just kick the tires; they roll out fleet-wide. When mid-market managers stop asking if they need better systems and start asking why they didn’t switch sooner.

Sean Landsberg, Amichai Strasberg, and Yosef Gitlin built AppWork like they were fixing a system they were still stuck inside and that’s why it works. It speaks fluent property management, but it thinks like Silicon Valley. The mobile-first platform turns chaos into clarity: work orders automated, vendors coordinated, compliance locked down tighter than a fire door. And with their integration with Engrain’s Unit Maps, property visualization becomes real-time insight instead of static guesswork.

The secret sauce? It’s not some gimmick or AI hype headline. It’s experience turned into elegance. The UX cuts training time like it’s pruning dead weight. The workflows hit the sweet spot between automation and action. And with features like AB2801 compliance baked right in, it’s already ahead of legislation most operators are still Googling.

This raise isn’t about patting backs or stacking runway. It’s fuel. And the flight path? Higher automation. Deeper AI-driven maintenance tools. A resident experience that feels like hospitality, not hostage negotiation. Carol Gregory-Fugate is dialing up client success. Dani Black is scaling revenue with precision. The playbook? There isn’t one. Just smart moves and sharper instincts.

AppWork didn’t just show up to the PropTech party. It rebuilt the venue, rewired the lighting, and installed a smarter HVAC system while it was at it. And now, with Resolve in the mix, it’s scaling the operation without losing an ounce of that street-level understanding. That’s not a pivot. That’s a power move.