Occupier
“Can a tenant-built lease platform become the system of record for every dollar of corporate real estate spend?”
Founded2018
HQNew York, NY
FoundersMatt Giffune, Andrew Flint, Erik Pearson
Total raised$31.5M+
Latest roundGrowth, 2025
IndustryVertical SaaS / Real Estate
The story
Founded in 2018 by VTS and JLL alums as a tenant-side counterweight to the landlord-dominated CRE software market. Originally focused on offices, the platform expanded across retail, restaurants, healthcare, and fitness as ASC 842 / IFRS 16 created urgent demand for lease accounting automation. The 2025 leadership change and $16M growth round mark a push into AI-powered lease abstraction, repositioning Occupier from a workflow tool to a lease intelligence platform.
Product timeline
2018
Founded by VTS and JLL alums to build lease management software for commercial tenants· founding
2021
Raised $5M seed led by Alate Partners and MetaProp· funding
2022
Raised $10.5M Series A; expanded from offices to multi-industry tenants· funding
2025
Raised $16M growth round from Unbundled Capital· funding
2025
David Axler appointed CEO; AI lease management product launched· pivot
The stack
2 layers disclosed in Occupier’s embedded-finance stack
Unified APIs
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
1 more provider across 1 layer, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.