About reapit
Build and grow with Reapit
People and property connected through innovation and technology.
- 15k+estate agency branches worldwide
- 78k+sales & lettings agents
- 1m+properties under management
- 25+YEARS SUPPORTING AGENCIES LIKE YOURS
The path
Our story
Reapit is the original, end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies of all sizes. We’ve been helping sales and lettings agents to build relationships and grow their businesses for more than 25 years. Our technology connects property professionals in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand with buyers, sellers, tenants and landlords to power the relationships that change lives.
Reapit founded
Founded by George Stead, a successful London estate agency director.
The business expands
Opened second UK office in Solihull.
Further UK growth
Opened third UK office in Leeds.
Sales and lettings combined
Launched a combined front office sales and lettings CRM platform.
A move into Scotland
Opened fourth UK office in Edinburgh.
UK’s first agency software suite
Launched the UK's first full estate agency software suite (sales, lettings, property management, and client accounts).
Analytics and value reports
Introduced analytics software and value reports.
New London HQ
Moved to our current UK head office in Farringdon.
Backed by Accel-KKR
Backed by US-based private equity firm, Accel-KKR.
Expansion into Australia
Went global, joining forces with Australia's leading real estate CRM provider, Agentbox.
An open platform
Became the UK's first property technology provider to open its platform to third party developers.
The Reapit AppMarket
Opened the UK's first PropTech app marketplace, the Reapit AppMarket.
More Australian growth
Expanded the Australian business, acquiring PropTech marketing agency, Agentpoint.
Further global expansion
Australian property software company, Console, and Danish marketing technology provider, Mindworking, became part of Reapit.
New lettings innovation
Inspect Real Estate, a provider of innovative time-saving workflow productivity software for lettings professionals, joined the business.
Reapit and PayProp join forces
Leading automated payment and reconciliation platform provider, PayProp joined forces with Reapit to deliver greater value and innovation to estate and lettings agents worldwide.
Voted the industry’s most trusted property technology provider
OUR BOARD
Board members and advisors
Mark has 30+ years’ experience in enterprise technology, within diverse sectors such as enterprise application support, application development, SaaS, and business process management. He's held senior leadership roles at Rimini Street, a market leader in third-party support; Progress Software, a leading platform provider for developing and deploying strategic business applications; and LexisNexis Visualfiles, where he was responsible for driving many of the property industry’s data integration standards.
Prior to Accel-KKR, Rob worked in the technology investment banking practice at Deutsche Bank and Stephens Inc. Rob started his career as a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Alex Brown & Sons in Baltimore, MD in 1990. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University.
Maurice founded Accel-KKR's London office and has headed the firm’s European activities since 2010. Prior to joining Accel-KKR, Maurice was a member of Deutsche Bank’s Mergers & Acquisitions team. Maurice previously worked at Needham & Company where he worked with emerging enterprise technology businesses, Robertson Stephens, a growth sector focused investment bank, and Excite.com, a leading web services portal. He received a B.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.
Prior to joining Accel-KKR, Park was a Principal at The CapStreet Group, a lower middle market private equity firm. Prior to CapStreet, Park worked with Technology Crossover Ventures and 3i Group focused on originating and executing late stage growth equity investments in leading information technology companies. Park started his career in the technology investment banking group of Robertson Stephens & Company. He received his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his B.S. from Cornell University.
Prior to joining Accel-KKR, Johnny founded EarnSmart and Zypae, two distinct payments focused technology businesses. Prior to EarnSmart and Zypae, Johnny was an Analyst in the Technology Group at Stifel and the Diversified Financials Group at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. While at Stifel/KBW, Johnny was involved in a variety of M&A advisory and financing transactions in the technology and financial services sectors. He received his B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies from Amherst College.
After training as a Chartered Accountant, Adrian spent more than 20 years as a Director of the UK's largest estate agencies including Connells, LSL and Leaders Romans. Adrian is now Chairman of Autoenhance.ai, who use AI to enhance property photos. In addition, he is a non-exec Director for a number of other PropTech businesses, including Reapit.
Based in Orange County, California and UK born and raised, Mark boasts more than 35 years of software and SaaS experience including his current role as CEO of isolved and his most recent role as President and CEO of Episerver (now Optimizely). He also held the position of Chairman of the Board, President and CEO at Kana Software, Inc. and was President and COO of Epicor Software Corporation. Mark is known for his operational expertise, strong financial stewardship, and importantly customer- and sales-centric leadership, having started his career in sales and never forgetting its critical role in customer experience and company growth.
Rachel provides strategic guidance and commercial leadership across Accel-KKR’s portfolio. Prior to joining Accel-KKR, Rachel was SVP and CMO for Ariba, Inc. (acquired by SAP). Before that, she worked in executive roles with cloud software and Internet-related companies including IBM and KnowledgeStorm Inc. With 30+ years' experience in general management, marketing leadership and business development for growth-oriented companies, Rachel has spent the past 25 years focused on the B2B technology sector. She holds an MBA with honors from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM
Global leadership team
Mark has 30+ years’ experience in enterprise technology, within diverse sectors such as enterprise application support, application development, SaaS, and business process management. He's held senior leadership roles at Rimini Street, a market leader in third-party support; Progress Software, a leading platform provider for developing and deploying strategic business applications; and LexisNexis Visualfiles, where he was responsible for driving many of the property industry’s data integration standards.
Jeff is a chartered accountant with 30+ years’ experience within the technology, corporate finance and venture capital industries. He's held CFO roles at businesses such as Kana Software, an Accel-KKR backed CRM software business that was acquired by Verint Systems for over $500 million in 2014; and Meridio, acquired by Autonomy in 2007. He has also worked as part of EY and IBI Corporate Finance.
A chartered accountant with more than 20 years’ experience, Hans has operated as CFO and at senior levels in SaaS companies and financial institutions, leading large international teams. In these capacities, he has effectively supported companies in numerous transactions, facilitating rapid growth, fulfilling fundraising requirements, and serving as a corporate finance advisor. His extensive background in financial, regulatory and liquidity reporting also allowed him to successfully lead and implement multiple change programs in these areas.
Josua has 12+ years’ experience in a broad range of legal services that include advising, serving as a legal consultant, and providing project management capacity on legal projects to companies, governments and international organisations. He previously served as the Head of Legal and Compliance and Chief Legal Officer for PayProp. He is passionate about helping people, through technology and otherwise, and previously also worked in human rights. Josua holds a doctorate in law and loves to teach and write.
Julian is passionate about helping companies to achieve their growth ambitions and empowering their sales and marketing teams to make it happen. He has held several marketing leadership positions with technology and business services firms, including SAS Institute, JAGGAER, Freemarkets/SAP Ariba (procurement software) and Morgan McKinley (executive search and recruitment). When not working he enjoys cooking and keeping up with his three daughters! He enjoys boating in Dublin Bay and learning new languages – he currently speaks five!
Matt founded, grew and exited his own business in 2013. Since then, he's held various senior leadership and advisory roles, all focused on moving the revenue and profitability dials of technology businesses. His areas of expertise include product development; marketing; sales; onboarding and support; and management reporting.
Dawson is a distinguished technology leader with over 20 years' experience managing global companies. He has held prominent roles such as CTO and VPE at DPD Group, Rolls-Royce, and EMBL, and Head of Engineering at True Corporation. His expertise includes innovation through M&A and R&D, technology architecture, risk management, and corporate strategy. Dawson excels in scaling operations, driving digital transformation, and implementing advanced technologies to optimise business performance.
Andrew loves making tech to help property people. He has 25+ years’ experience operating his own businesses, particularly within the property and technology sectors. He's delivered numerous presentations at property industry events, where his honesty and openness deliver pragmatic insights into the challenges faced by estate agencies. Andrew’s innovative systems, processes and procedures were ground-breaking when they were developed and are still effective today.
Steve has 20+ years’ experience in finance and operational roles at technology companies. His previous roles include Commercial Finance Director at legal intelligence provider, LexisNexis; and most recently Revenue Operations Director, EMEA and LatAm for Rimini Street, a market leader in third-party support.
Alison is an experienced President/Managing Director with P&L accountability for revenues up to £1bn and over 11 years on the Boards of Microsoft UK & Australia, Access Technology Group APAC, and global NGAHR Management Boards. She has 20+ years' experience working as a change agent to evolve existing businesses, grow new businesses and establish effective go-to-market strategies.
Sally has worked in the property industry for more than 20 years. Her unmatched understanding of PropTech innovation and customer requirements in combination with the trust of our customers has led Mindworking to its current position as the Danish market leader. She lives in Aarhus with her family. In the summertime, you will find Sally cruising with her husband and two sons in a customised auto camper.
Steve is a dynamic industry expert, having worked with estate and letting agencies for more than 30 years. He joins from LSL Estate Agents, part of the UK’s second largest chain of estate agents, where he served as Chief Operating Officer since 2015. Prior to joining LSL, Steve had been Managing Director, Operations, at Countrywide Residential Lettings, the UK’s largest, award-winning lettings agency. Steve has a proven ability to guide, lead, mentor, and challenge in driving business forward.
After qualifying as chartered accountant with PwC, André moved into the financial services world focusing on risk management activities. Following his nose for entrepreneurial activity, he joined the founders of PayProp to help build the business first in South Africa and then in the UK, Canada and the USA. Working with banks, regulators and FinTech's, André is responsible for finding innovative and compliant structures and processes to continue improving the way residential letting transaction processing is facilitated in all the markets we operate.
OUR UK & IRELAND TEAM
UK & Ireland leadership team
Steve is a dynamic industry expert, having worked with estate and letting agencies for more than 30 years. He joins from LSL Estate Agents, part of the UK’s second largest chain of estate agents, where he served as Chief Operating Officer since 2015. Prior to joining LSL, Steve had been Managing Director, Operations, at Countrywide Residential Lettings, the UK’s largest, award-winning lettings agency. Steve has a proven ability to guide, lead, mentor, and challenge in driving business forward.
Nick has worked for Reapit in multiple geographies and across multiple products. He's built a deep understanding of the property industry and Reapit’s range of products and technologies. As well as contributing directly to the development of Reapit technology, he has also managed development teams in the UK and Australia.
Stuart has strong property industry experience and was responsible for all group change at Countrywide, one of the UK’s leading property services groups. He has 18+ years’ experience leading major change initiatives and transforming operational functions, with a proven track record of building and leading successful teams.
Sugs has 25+ years in technology, leading and supporting large scale services teams, and driving strategic change and transformation programmes. His previously roles include leading the Professional Services and Support functions at LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions.
Stuart is responsible for our Customer Engagement strategy, leading the UKI Customer Success and Training functions and working to ensure that Customers can fully utilise the products and services available. Stuart has a strong, award-winning background in customer engagement strategy and stakeholder management. He takes pride in his ability to establish and develop long and successful relationships with customers.
Louise is an accomplished marketing leader with a speciality in building new marketing teams from within innovation labs to post-merger and acquisition companies. Known for her 'join-the-dots' approach, Louise has held senior roles leading strategic marketing initiatives across tech, financial services, and recruitment sectors. Outside of work, she loves cooking, the theatre, and early morning bouldering sessions with her husband and son.
Peter is an accountant with wide-ranging experience, initially gained during a 10+ year audit career in London with EY, Moore Stephens and BDO. During this time, Peter advised anything from owner-managed SMBs to international FTSE-100 companies across numerous sectors including technology, real estate and natural resources. Peter joined PayProp in 2014, prior to the platform's launch into the UK market and is excited by the opportunities ahead for Reapit in the UKI.
Our investors
Accel-KKR
Accel-KKR is a technology-focused investment firm with $19 billion in cumulative capital commitments. The firm focuses on software and tech-enabled businesses well-positioned for top-line and bottom-line growth.
At the core of Accel-KKR’s investment strategy is a commitment to developing strong partnerships with the management teams of its portfolio companies and a focus on building value alongside management by leveraging the significant resources available through the Accel-KKR network.
Accel-KKR focuses on middle-market companies and provides a broad range of capital solutions, including buyout capital, minority-growth investments, and credit alternatives.
Accel-KKR also invests across various transaction types, including private company recapitalisations, divisional carve-outs and going-private transactions. Accel-KKR’s headquarters is in Menlo Park, with offices in Atlanta, London and Mexico City.