The New Power Players: The AI Investors Leading Real Estate's Next Era
CREtech New York 2026
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42m
To close out CREtech New York 2026, we're bringing together four of the most influential AI investors shaping the built world — for the first time ever on the same stage. Philip Krim (Co-Founder & CEO, Montauk Capital), Steve Weikal (Managing Partner, MET Fund II, MIT Center for Real Estate), Fabrizio Serafini (Investment Partner, Andreessen Horowitz), and Darren Bechtel (Founder & Managing Director, Brick & Mortar Ventures) represent four distinct — and highly influential — models for backing the companies rewriting the rules of commercial real estate: a studio-style venture builder, an MIT-connected early-stage fund at the epicenter of proptech innovation, one of the world's most active AI-focused venture firms, and the founder of the world's largest and most prolific construction technology venture capital firm.
Each has built a reputation as one of the most active and consequential investors in the space, and together they'll unpack where AI is actually creating value across the built world today — from the shifting power dynamics behind AI infrastructure and energy demand, to the rise of robotics on the jobsite and in buildings, to the quiet reengineering of core real estate and construction workflows. This is a rare, high-stakes conversation between investors who rarely share a stage, let alone a panel — and a session no one working in the world's largest asset class can afford to miss.
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