Real estate and construction startup launches

1 company on the record below, and 7 with a launch page of their own. Every line links to the record it was read from.

Real estate and construction launch pages

Alloovium
The company brain for construction companies
Atlia
The AI-native property management company
CentralComs
AI agent platform for home services companies.
FlowManual
AI for Construction's Back Office
RealPact
AI-native OS for Real Estate Brokerages
SubVysion
Autonomous rovers to make the ‘Google Maps’ of underground utilities
Vestris
AI native platform for real estate closings

AquaShield

AI water leak detection for buildings

Batch: Y Combinator Spring 2026 (source)
Industry: Real Estate and Construction (source)
Team size: 3 (source)
Based: San Francisco, CA, USA (source)

Founders

Paul Beckers · Founder/CEO
Marguerite Benoist · Founder/CTO

What they shipped

From its YC profile: AquaShield protects large real estate portfolios against water damage (losses of up to hundreds of millions per year). (source)
Its own site describes it as: "AquaShield helps large commercial & residential operators detect leaks early with water intelligence." (source)
Homepage headline: "Make hidden water networks visible" (source)

Who is behind it

Paul Beckers, Founder/CEO: Co-founder & CEO @ AquaShield | Prev. Robotics Researcher @ MIT (source)
Marguerite Benoist, Founder/CTO: Co-founder & CTO @ AquaShield | Prev Robotics Researcher @ Harvard (source)
1 open role listed on its YC jobs page when the profile was read (2026-09-05). (source)

Timeline

2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
2026-05-20: Launch YC post "AquaShield - AI protection against water damage in buildings", tagline "Protect every building in your portfolio at a fraction of one major claim", 323 upvotes when read. (source)

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