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Who We Are

Institutional CRE experience meets published AI researchers.

A selective AI engineering firm built by CRE operators and AI engineers, not consultants who discovered real estate last year.

Who founded Pacific Software Ventures?

Pacific Software Ventures (PSV) was founded in 2023 by Zed Truong, Aidan Scudder and Gedeon Baende.

The Team

Three partners, three advisors.

Every engagement is led by a partner, never handed off to a junior on a managed portfolio. Our advisors have already built and scaled the kind of company we are building, and they keep us honest about what institutional adoption actually requires.

Partner

Zed Truong

Commercial Real Estate

PGIMVoit Real Estate

Zed Truong is a co-founder and partner of Pacific Software Ventures (PSV), the AI firm for commercial real estate, and the founder of the CRE AI Institute, PSV's AI training program and community for CRE professionals. He previously worked in institutional real estate at PGIM Real Estate and in brokerage at Voit Real Estate. He has closed $1B+ in commercial real estate transactions and underwritten $11B+ across asset classes. An active real estate investor, he brings operator-level insight into which workflows are worth automating first and which ones demand human judgment.

Aidan Scudder

Partner

Aidan Scudder

AI & Systems Engineering

KochavaHewlett Packard Enterprise

Aidan is a Partner at Pacific Software Ventures and a longtime custom-software builder. At Kochava, he worked on high-throughput infrastructure for Fortune 500 customers in ad tech, and co-authored physics-informed neural network research that won an NSF grant and university recognition. That mix of production-scale engineering and applied AI shapes how PSV builds for scale and reliability.

Gedeon Baende

Partner

Gedeon Baende

AI Infrastructure

Goldman SachsAWS

Gedeon is a Partner at Pacific Software Ventures. A former Goldman Sachs engineer and AWS AI Scholar, his work on AI battery degradation models earned recognition and a feature in an AWS documentary. He brings Goldman's data-security rigor and AWS-scale reliability discipline to the infrastructure PSV's systems run on.

Curtis Chambers

Advisor

Curtis Chambers

AI PhD · UC Berkeley / UCSF

UberAkamaiExpensify

Uber's 7th employee and first Head of Engineering. Built the real-time dispatch system that scaled Uber from a few thousand rides a day to millions, and led engineering across Uber, UberEats, and UberFreight for seven years. Earlier: Expensify and Akamai. Now researches applied AI at UC Berkeley / UCSF.

Andrew Luong

Advisor

Andrew Luong

Co-founder & CEO · Doorvest

Doorvest

Co-founder and CEO of Doorvest, the vertically-integrated platform for buying and operating single-family rental homes online. Raised ~$98M across equity and debt, including a $50M asset-backed credit facility from Pollen Street, to deploy institutional capital into single-family rentals at scale.

Niles Lichtenstein

Advisor

Niles Lichtenstein

Founder & CEO · Nestment

NestmentEnwoven

Founder and CEO of Nestment, the platform that lets friends and family co-buy real estate together. Previously Executive Chair at Enwoven (NYT-backed SaaS) and co-founder of Ansible Mobile (acquired by Mediabrands). Multi-time proptech operator and exited founder, investing and advising across AI and real estate.

Featured by AWS

Watch Gedeon featured on AWS AI documentary

AWS filmed our partner Gedeon Baende for Future Self, its series on the engineers coming out of the AWS AI & ML Scholarship. The film follows the work that earned it: AI models that diagnose electric-vehicle battery degradation and decide what a used pack is still good for.

Watch on AWS

Our Thesis

As much time as possible on relationships. As little as needed on the screen.

Commercial real estate runs on judgment and relationships. AI can take the operational weight off: OMs, rent rolls, IC memos, comp pulls, follow-ups. But the read on a sponsor across the table, the trust-building call with an LP, and the discretion to bend a buy-box for the right deal stay with you. AI as the copilot, you as the principal.

Only people who understand both halves of the problem should be building this. Deep AI expertise without institutional CRE experience produces demos that do not survive IC. Institutional CRE experience without research-grade AI produces faster wrong answers. We sit at the intersection on purpose: the AWS AI Research Award and NSF-funded peer-reviewed work on one side, institutional real estate at PGIM and brokerage at Voit on the other.

Which is why every system we build escalates rather than guesses. When it cannot verify a number or an action with sufficient confidence, it hands the decision back to a person. That one is not negotiable.

01

Company Brain + Custom AI Agent Builds

Systems built around the way your team already works, giving them capabilities once available only to the largest institutions.

02

AI Consulting

The clarity to decide what to build, where to invest, and how to lead your firm through the next chapter of the industry.

03

AI Training

So the people who spent their careers learning real estate become the ones shaping how AI is used in it.

Built with CRE professionals. Built for CRE professionals. Built to make sure the future of the industry belongs to the people who understand it best.

CRE AI Instituteby PSVLive

You've met the team. Now learn how we work.

The CRE AI Institute is the AI MBA for commercial real estate, taught by this team: workflows built end to end on real deal files, with live builds and a community of CRE operators.

Our members come from teams at

CBRE
Kimco Realty
JLL
Thompson Thrift
Newmark
ZRS Management
Marcus & Millichap
Morgan Group
Greysteel
KLNB
William Wright Commercial
7-DAY FREE TRIAL, CANCEL ANYTIMEFOUNDING RATE $69/MO, LOCKED FOR LIFE30-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

Need it built for you instead? Talk to PSV about advisory and engineering.