Season 4, Episode 11: Jack Stone and Alex Gornik sit down with Yaakov Zar, Founder & CEO of Lev, to unpack how a former tech entrepreneur is changing the way commercial real estate deals get done. Before launching Lev, Yaakov built and sold his first company, Dispatch, to Vista Equity Partners.



Today, he’s at the center of CRE’s tech transformation—blending capital markets expertise with AI and automation to simplify how investors and developers secure financing. He shares the story behind Lev’s pivot from brokerage to software, what’s next for AI in real estate, and how data and design will define the next generation of real estate technology.



TOPICS

00:00 – Introduction

03:00 – Startup Roots and Dispatch Exit

08:44 – How Mortgage Frustration Became Lev’s Origin

14:25 – Digitizing the Financing Experience

19:45 – AI and the Future of CRE Software

25:02 – How Lev Memo Is Changing Deal Execution

31:10 – Agentic AI and Workflow Automation

36:47 – Harnessing Data and Unstructured Information

41:00 – Brokers, Efficiency and Industry Adoption

45:18 – Building Great Software and Leading Through Change









Shoutout to our sponsor, Lev. The AI-powered way to get real estate deals financed.





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