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Our Story Brevitas, located in San Francisco, is a real estate collaboration and workflow platform. We originally served as a software solution for private real estate transactions. In 2016, we created a marketplace branch and began listing property for sale globally. Now we offer marketing, collaboration, and deal management software with a marketplace aspect. There are currently thousands of properties offered for sale exclusively on the platform, with $13 billion in assets for sale in total. By providing our members with collaboration tools and privacy controls, Brevitas helps them network and transact more efficiently.
Founding Team Ardian Zagari CEO & FOUNDER Worked as a real estate developer Co-founded a digital marketing agency Developed and sold golf club to Callaway Raymond Pressley COO & FOUNDER Experienced real estate agent Worked in investment sales at Coach Capital Partners and Brooktree Partners. Max Kaplan CTO & FOUNDER CTO of large real estate investment company for 8 Years Decade of experience with web technologies William Wharton SENIOR FULL STACK ENGINEER Over 10 years of enterprise level experience as a data scientist working with Apple, Coca Cola, and Intuit
The Best Deal Management Software for Brokers
Advisory Team Jitu Virwani, Embassy Group Chairman & Managing Director Fast-rising property baron Jitendra Virwani's Embassy Property Development, Bangalore's biggest developer of office parks with partners such as private equity firm Blackstone, has moved into building industrial parks and warehousing spaces in a $250 million joint venture with American private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Vivek Seth, Raymond James Vice Chairman of Investment Banking Vivek has over 21 years of corporate finance and real estate experience, and has been involved in over 250 transactions in excess of $40 billion. He currently serves as the head of Raymond James Real Estate Investment Banking Group. Sachin Duggal, Shoto Co-Founder Sachin is an innovator, serial entrepreneur, and an advocate of enterprise that touches lives and benefits the world at large. Sachin s the co-founder of SD Squared, a business spanning Cloud Consultancy; Engineering-as-Service and a dynamic portfolio of investments that touch Social, Content, Wearable and Augmented Reality. He exited his last company Nivio after taking it to $100m and sits on the Indian Prime Minsters extended counsel for Technology. Jim Huang, Sperry Commercial Affiliates CEO & President Mr. Huang is the president of Sperry Commercial Global Affiliates, Principal and Founder of BRC Advisors, and CEO of BRC Bellaire Holdings, LLC, a real estate private equity firm. He is the former National Commercial Real Estate Chair for AREAA (Asian Real Estate Association of America)
Who s on Brevitas Sourcing an investor for a $260m development deal in LA has been difficult. After having our deal published for a week, we re now under contract and have plenty of other prospects. Alan Forrester BROKER Brevitas allows me to control and streamline my deals all in one place. It s a unique platform connecting me with qualified investors and provide me access to exclusive investment opportunities Michael Sherman BROKER So far we ve had more activity on this listing in a few days with Brevitas than we ve had marketing through our internal system in 3 months Rick Lozano BROKER
Member Demographics 70% 30% Brokers Qualified brokers make up 60% of the of marketplace, 25% of which come from the 10 largest brokerages Direct Buyers Vetted principals make up 40% of the marketplace, with over over 1500 companies represented 20% International International members make up 20% of the marketplace, with over 50 countries represented
How to Reach Us For members of the media interested in writing about Brevitas and / or it's members, Please Contact: Brevitas, Inc Raymond Pressley CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER 415-272-9723 rpressley@brevitas.com (415) 993-8886 contact@brevitas.com www.brevitas.com 780 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA