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Funding and backers

Total raised
$14.7M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$10M
Seed · Feb 2026 · 7 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Fresh money
7 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
48/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 19 Raised a round Seed $10M Jun 23, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $4.7M · SEC Form D 2025 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Seed Feb 2026 $10M — axios.com
Venture round Jun 2025 $4.7M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Grotto, Inc. its site
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Nick DeveauExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview

Grotto is an AI software startup that helps leasing teams convert more leads to leases through AI-powered coaching and intelligence in prospect interactions. It was founded by Nick Deveau and Ben Epstein and hires business development representatives, a behavioral scientist and forward deployed engineers. The company is headquartered in New York, United States.

News

News Pizza Marketplace 26 days ago
Grotto Pizza opens first Pennsylvania location
Grotto Pizza has expanded its Pennsylvania footprint with the opening of a restaurant in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, according to a story on Fox 43.
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News Hoodline 28 days ago
Grotto Pizza Opens First Central PA Location in Manheim Twp
Grotto Pizza, the Delaware beach chain famous for sauce-swirled pizza, has opened its westernmost restaurant yet at Manheim Township's Shoppes at The Pointe.
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News Pulse 2.0 2 months ago
Grotto AI: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Nick Deveau About AI Coaching For Multifamily Leasing Teams
Grotto AI provides an AI coaching platform that helps multifamily leasing teams improve prospect interactions, personalize calls and tours, and identify the behaviors that drive conversion. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Grotto AI Co-Founder and CEO Nick Deveau to
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News Insights by Blueprint 7 months ago
Where AI Is Falling Short in Multifamily Leasing - and Where It's Headed Next
AI has quickly become embedded in the multifamily leasing process, promising faster response times, greater efficiency, and a more streamlined prospect…
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News Commercial Observer 7 months ago
Nick Deveau of Grotto AI: 5 Questions
Fresh off a $10 million seed round, the startup plans to expand its proprietary tech that helps multifamily agents close more deals.
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News AlleyWatch 7 months ago
Grotto AI Raises $10M to Help Leasing Agents Close More Deals with Real-Time AI Coaching
A team of AI researchers spent years analyzing hundreds of thousands of apartment leasing conversations to find out what actually makes agents close deals - and the answer had nothing to do with scripts, product knowledge, or response time. The single str
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News Multifamily Executive 8 months ago
Grotto AI Raises $10M Seed Round to Boost Leasing Performance
Grotto AI, an artificial intelligence platform for multifamily operators, has raised a $10 million seed round to help leasing teams unlock $500 billion in lost property value due to vacancy.
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News axios.com 8 months ago
Exclusive: Grotto AI raises 10M to cut rental vacancies Feb 2026
Exclusive: Grotto AI raises 10M to cut rental vacancies
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News Boing Boing 1 year ago
Shell Grotto: England's mysterious underground seashell chamber
Shell Grotto: England's mysterious underground seashell chamber
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News keralaarticles.blogspot.com 5 years ago
Cosquers Cave
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Grotto over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
95/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
TypeScript
SQL
Developer tools
Copilot
AI & ML
Claude
LLM
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People

Nick Deveau
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
50/100
Stable
Open positions
1
1 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
221 days
faster than 8% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
100% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
New York United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Feb 2026 job postings

Financials

Total raised
$14.7M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Seed 2026 $10M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $4.7M Details