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Natalia Karayaneva

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Contributor at Forbes
📍 United States

Natalia Karayaneva is the CEO of Propy, an AI-enabled platform revolutionizing real estate transactions. Leveraging her Masters in Sustainable Urban Development from Oxford and a background in software engineering, she is scaling the company through an M&A roll-up strategy to automate the homebuying process with blockchain and smart contracts.

Originally from Russia, Natalia started her first software company at 19 after moving to Bulgaria. A serial entrepreneur, her career is driven by a passion for technology, real estate, and sustainability. She moved to Silicon Valley in 2016 to found Propy, dedicating her career to solving transaction inefficiencies.

She was motivated to start Propy after years as a real estate developer, where she became frustrated with how time-consuming and prone to fraud property transactions were.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Contributor
Job Level
Leadership
Location
United States
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AI in Real Estate
Actively scaling Propy through an AI-led M&A strategy and recently launched an AI escrow officer, "Agent Avery, " to fully automate real estate closings.
Real Estate Automation
Her company's mission is to automate real estate transactions, aiming to increase the number of homes sold annually from 4 million to 20 million through technology.
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Work history

2-2019
Contributor
Forbes
1-2018 - 8-2023
Advisor
Arrington Capital
11-2016
CEO
Propy Inc.
3-2001 - 11-2016
Managing owner
MP Group Ltd.
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Education
Postgraduate Degree
University of Oxford
Master of Engineering - MEng
International University of Nature, Society and Human
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