Women In Tech: Top 8 Women In Proptech In 2026

For years, property lagged behind other sectors in adopting technology, leaning on paper files and broker intuition instead. Proptech is changing that old approach, and many women are at the forefront of the shift.

The market they’re building in is large and growing quickly. Future Market Insights values the global proptech market at $19.6 billion in 2023 and expects it to reach $47.8 billion by 2032, which would be more than double.

This list picks out eight of the women behind some of this growth, including AI investment tools in Dubai, co-buying agreements in New York, energy-efficiency software in Berlin and sustainability data with global reach. Some run seed-stage startups, others lead platforms that serve millions of renters and cover billions of square feet of property, and they’re doing it in a sector where funding for female founders is still limited.

Proptech’s Funding Maths Has A Gender Problem

The Center for Real Estate Technology & Innovation estimates that 10% to 13% of the approximately $16.7 billion invested in proptech in 2025 went to companies with female founders. Sienam Ahuja, one of the founders on this list, notes that a small number of large rounds skews the figure.

The same body found that female-founded proptech firms received $1.5 billion in 2023, against $11.38 billion for the industry as a whole. Ahuja calls access to funding “the most significant structural barrier” for women founders.

Top 8 Women In Proptech In 2026

The featured founders operate across the United States, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and Germany, heading businesses that range from early seed-stage ventures to platforms supporting millions of tenants.

Here’s a list of the top women in proptech in 2026:

1. Ranime El Skaff, Co-Founder And CEO At Prop-AI

Ranime El Skaff co-founded Prop-AI in 2023 alongside Christian
Kunz. Based in Dubai, the platform uses artificial intelligence to streamline property discovery, valuations and investment decisions for buyers and brokers. Her ambition centres on building the “Bloomberg of Real Estate”, and she points out that real estate is “the world’s largest asset class yet remains one of the least digitised and data-driven”.

In June 2025 Prop-AI raised a $1.5 million pre-seed round led by Plus VC, with Joa Capital, Select Ventures, Oraseya Capital and Plug & Play taking part. The company says revenue more than tripled in the first quarter of 2025, and it’s described as the first proptech company to win an AI Excellence Award from the Dubai AI Centre.

2. Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder Of LMRE

Louisa Dickins started out as a surveyor at an estate agency chain, then helped build an executive search product into a market leader before spotting that real estate and tech were talking past each other. In early 2019 she launched LMRE with a co-founder, a recruitment firm dedicated to proptech companies.

Since launching in the United Kingdom, LMRE has expanded into Europe while establishing offices in New York and Dubai, earning a reputation as one of the premier specialist proptech recruiters worldwide. Dickins notes that female candidate placements are climbing by 5% every month, even with men still accounting for about 80% of applicant pools in advertised roles.

3. Sienam Ahuja, Founder And CEO At Bryckel AI

Sienam Ahuja founded Bryckel AI, a Mountain View, California venture building artificial intelligence software for commercial real estate teams. Its software automates lease abstraction, lease review and compliance analysis, work that has traditionally meant people reading long contracts line by line.

Ahuja is also one of the sharper voices on who gets funded. She says most women in proptech work in multifamily instead of commercial real estate, which makes a woman running a commercial lease-tech company a clear exception to the norm.

4. Bella Campise, Co-Founder And CEO At Aigentless

Bella Campise came up with Aigentless while hunting for an apartment as a Northwestern student, pitched it to her father Frank Campise, managing principal of JAB Real Estate, and dropped out to get the app running. Renters can take self-guided tours with a lockbox code outside office hours, chat with an AI assistant and work with property managers to sign a lease.

The company raised $2 million in pre-seed funding and has since closed a second round, with the size undisclosed. It had around 30,000 units on its platform before signing student housing operator Cardinal Group, which takes the total to nearly 70,000.

5. Nikki Merkerson, Founder And CEO At Pairgap

Nikki Merkerson was a mortgage broker in New York City when she couldn’t qualify for financing alone, so she bought a Brooklyn brownstone with a coworker under a formal partnership with defined ownership shares, and later bought her partner out. That experience became Pairgap, a New York-based co-buying platform.

In June 2026 Pairgap unveiled its Real Estate Prenup Builder, which spells out ownership shares and exit procedures before a purchase closes. The company points to National Association of Realtors data showing that more than one in four first-time buyers purchase with a co-buyer.

6. Catherine Wong, COO And Chief Product Officer At Entrata

Catherine Wong joined Entrata in early 2023 as COO and chief product officer, bringing more than 20 years of technical and leadership experience to the AI-enabled operating system for multifamily housing that the company has been building since 2003.

She’s helped launch Homebody RXP, the Operations Experience Platform and ELI+, an automation platform with AI tools for leasing and operations. Entrata CEO Adam Edmunds says her passion for building cutting-edge technology and advancing AI is “unmatched”, and she’s a 2026 Women of Influence honouree in the proptech category.

7. Tatiana Wotzasek, Co-Founder And CPO At Wallround

Tatiana Wotzasek brings 13 years of product experience to Wallround, a Berlin startup founded in 2024 that manages energy-efficiency upgrades from property analysis through to procurement and construction. Its platform draws on 3D building and geospatial data to estimate renovation costs and carbon emission savings for small and medium-sized landlords.

In August 2025, Wallround raised an oversubscribed €4.2 million seed round led by Revent, with impact fund GGF and continued support from Vonovia. The business is addressing a major market shortfall. Meeting national 2045 targets demands an annual building renovation rate of about 2.5%, whereas current figures sit closer to 0.7%. A franchise model is set to support its growth from 2026.

8. Maureen Waters, CEO At Measurabl

Maureen Waters was named CEO of Measurabl in December 2025, succeeding co-founder Matt Ellis, who moved to executive chairman. She’d joined in 2023 as chief growth officer and became president in 2024, after roles including partner at proptech investor MetaProp and chief strategy officer at Cushman & Wakefield.

Measurabl, a San Diego sustainability data platform founded in 2013, helps real estate owners and asset managers measure and report data for climate risk and regulatory compliance. Its platform covers more than 22 billion square feet of real estate valued at over $3 trillion across more than 90 countries.