Propexo vs Bruno
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Boston YC W23 unified API for multifamily property management connecting 9+ systems (Yardi, MRI, RealPage) in weeks; $10M total ($3.3M Fifth Wall/Prudence/YC seed) competing as Plaid for CRE enabling proptech integrations into all major property management platforms.
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Propexo is a Boston, Massachusetts-based commercial real estate API platform — backed by Y Combinator (W23) with $10 million in total funding including a $3.3 million seed from Prudence, Fifth Wall, Y Combinator, RXR ARDEN, PropTech Angel Group, and 10 additional investors — providing proptech companies, real estate technology vendors, and property owner-operators with a unified API that standardizes connections to 9+ property management systems (Yardi, MRI Software, RealPage, AppFolio, Entrata, and others), enabling technology builders to integrate once and access data across all major multifamily and commercial property management platforms rather than building separate integrations for each system. Founded in 2022 by Nick Johnson, Ben Keller, and Remen Okoruwa, Propexo compresses the 9-18 months of typical property management system integration timelines down to weeks.
Open-source offline-first API client with git-native Bru file storage; solo-founded, declined 8 VC offers, competing with Postman and Insomnia for developers seeking privacy-respecting local API testing tooling.
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Bruno is an open-source API client and testing tool — a lightweight, offline-first, git-friendly alternative to Postman and Insomnia — enabling developers to explore, test, and document APIs with collections stored as plain-text Bru files in the project filesystem rather than in cloud-synced proprietary formats. Created by a solo founder in 2022 and growing to a 9-person team by late 2024, Bruno operates with an unusual philosophy: the founder publicly declined 8 venture capital offers to preserve product freedom and build toward profitability, with the core Bruno client remaining free and open-source (MIT license) while the Golden Edition provides enterprise features for commercial revenue. Pro and Ultimate paid editions launched in 2024.
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