MEET ZACH AARONS

Co-founder & Partner at MetaProp

Zach Aarons has been working at the intersection of real estate and venture capital for the past decade. Zach is the most active early-stage PropTech investor in the United States, having funded over 60 startups in the space as an individual as well as 40 startups (and counting) through MetaProp's venture capital funds. In addition to early-stage investing, Zach has worked on large scale mixed-use development projects in cities like Boston and Los Angeles with Millennium Partners. He has experience with real estate development, commercial asset management, property marketing, and commercial leasing.

Prior to joining Millennium and founding MetaProp, Zach was a Senior Associate at ENIAC Ventures, a seed-stage mobile technology fund and the founder of Travelgoat, an online and offline walking tour business. He began his career as an analyst at boutique investment bank Peter J. Solomon Company.

Outside of work, Zach currently serves on the Board of Trustees of The Tenement Museum. Zach is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He serves on the Technology Committee for the Real Estate Board of New York and the Technology and Real Estate Council for the Urban Land Institute. Previously, Zach was the Treasurer of the Board of Directors for The Lowline and Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with an A.B. from Brown University in Ancient Studies and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School.

“Zach Aarons has proven invaluable at helping us secure the right strategies, talent and, most importantly, investments as we build RXR into a top-tier PropTech investor and innovator.”

— Jason Barnett, Vice Chairman, RXR

WeWork's parent company is still aiming to go public but it seems like the longer they wait, the lower the valuation becomes. Zach Aarons, co-founder and partner at MetaProp, and Geoff Lewis, founder of Bedrock Capital, join "Squawk Box" to discuss.

Zach has been featured in dozens of international publications and media, including The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Real Deal, Curbed, Commercial Observer, Propmodo, The Information, TechCrunch, Bisnow, Forbes, The Real Estate Weekly, Crain's, and Cheddar. He is a frequent speaker at global PropTech events including the Urban Land Institute, MIPIM, Realcomm, Argus Connect, SuperReturn International, and the Columbia/Goodwin Real Estate Capital Markets Conference.

Zach’s Speaking Topics

Entrepreneurship Real Estate (Design, RE Dev, RE Finance)
VC
Angel Investing
Startup Acceleration
PropTech Market and Global Trends

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Dealmaking in the second half of 2020 has been primarily in the tech sector, from Airbnb's imminent IPO to reports that Salesforce may be acquiring Slack. Za...

While exploring MIPIM PropTech New York, PlaceTech chatted to senior figures from specialist funds MetaProp and JLL Spark to reflect on the main events of 2019 and what they will be focusing on in 2020. Zach Aarons, cofounder and partner of MetaProp David Gerster, vice president of JLL Spark

MetaProp partner and co-founder, Zach Aarons shares his predictions for the future of real estate.

MetaProp's Zach Aarons reveals his brutally honest proptech forecast for 2019 and beyond.

Zach Aarons Co-Founder of MetaProp talks to Steve Nson founder of AnySizeDeals about using Blockchain and Tokens in Opportunity Zone funds.

To attend one of our AWS Loft events, visit us at one of our many locations - https://amzn.to/2HJsXic PropTech, the convergence of property and technology, is changing the face of the real estate industry and enhancing the property ecosystem with efficient alternatives to traditional practices thanks to technological innovation - but to what extent?

Transcript: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. My name is Zach Aarons, Co-founder and Partner of MetaProp NYC. I'm here today to tell you about one of our most exciting investments, a company called Enertiv. But before I go into what Enertiv does and their super special sauce, let me take a step back and talk a little about macroeconomic conditions.

Zachary Aarons, Co-Founder and Partner of MetaProp, steps on to the New York Launch Pod to discuss his real estate technology accelerator, venture fund, and advisory business- all wrapped into one. Founded in 2015, Zach and his Co-Founders, Aaron Block and Clelia Peters, realized that entrepreneurs and real estate executives were not connecting with each other.