Jerry Kestenbaum

Founder, Aware Buildings

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Aug 2025
N3XT is a full-reserve digital bank built for the next generation of B2B payments. We believe money should move as seamlessly as information, across any platform or border, transparently and without delay. Our mission is to liberate money by making payments frictionless, immediate and cost-efficient. N3XT is advancing a new era of instant payments that empowers businesses to transact with confidence. With a long-term vision to modernize the financial system, we are building digital banking that is safe, easy and lightning fast.
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Feb 2017
Carson brings a new level of service, and convenience to non-doorman buildings. Through its mobile app and remote teams controlling and communicating with multi family entrance doors, Carson enables rental building owners and condo/co-ops to reduce management costs, increase the value of their units, and to upgrade their residential experience. It helps managers streamline operations and keep residents happy.
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Dec 2015
Our mission is to power more effective and accountable government. Contact Us: https://opengov.com/contact-us/ OpenGov is the leader in modern cloud software for U.S. local governments, state agencies, school districts, and special districts. With a mission to power more effective and accountable government, OpenGov serves more than 1,600 agencies across the U.S. and is built exclusively for the unique budgeting, permitting and licensing, procurement, and asset management needs of the public sector. The OpenGov Cloud makes organizations more collaborative and efficient and enables best-in-class communication with stakeholders and your community.
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Jun 2014
Enertiv is the Operational Intelligence Platform for triplet net properties, used by Starwood Capital, Prologis, LXP Industrial Trust, Global Net Lease, Namdar, Related, and more. We capture, verify & consolidate your energy consumption, tenant usage and equipment info in one place so you can: ▶ Get 100% data coverage for Energy Star, GRESB, BREEAM or LEED without pestering tenants ▶ Maximize utility cost recovery for water, electricity and gas by automating meter reading and invoice generation ▶ Centralize all equipment info including photos, nameplate, condition, lifespan, O&M manuals and access it with a QR scan Everything is handled for you from start to finish, with expert guidance, proactive QA and a 24-hour response time at every step.
Experience · 12 entries
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2025
Investor
Aug 2025
N3XT is a full-reserve digital bank built for the next generation of B2B payments. We believe money should move as seamlessly as information, across any platform or border, transparently and without delay. Our mission is to liberate money by making payments frictionless, immediate and cost-efficient. N3XT is advancing a new era of instant payments that empowers businesses to transact with confidence. With a long-term vision to modernize the financial system, we are building digital banking that is safe, easy and lightning fast.
2024
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Dec 2024
StorONE is doing for storage what virtualization did for servers. StorONE is a modernized software defined storage company that has eliminated complexity in the data center. Our unique approach was developed when we took an in-depth look at our customers’ business requirements and realized they were not being met. That drove us to build a high-performance storage software designed to meet these needs, which includes cost reduction, increased efficiency, and improving the ease of management… All without compromise to any critical storage requirement. We’ve removed the need for multiple storage subsystems, commitment to a singular type of hardware, and better yet, the need for frequent storage refreshes and migrations. We give our customers the power to manage their enterprise storage platform in one place with the confidence that they can run an efficient system, protect their company from ransomware attacks or system failures, and if need-be, recover their data quickly with minimal disruption and loss to the business. In an industry where legacy storage systems only allow them to make incremental changes to each storage silo separately, we took the time and invested the money to create a holistically improved enterprise storage platform approach: The StorONE Engine
2022
Board Member
Jul 2022
Jewish Communal Fund (JCF), established in 1972, is the largest Jewish donor advised fund (DAF) in the country, managing $2.6 billion in charitable assets for 4,500 funds. For 50 years, leading Jewish philanthropists have partnered with JCF to facilitate their charitable giving while receiving the highest caliber of personalized service. The JCF Private Client Experience The JCF Private Client Experience offers donors and their trusted advisors the ability to leverage the expertise and resources of one of the largest and most generous networks of Jewish donors in the country. Those who maintain a JCF fund of $1 million and above benefit from our Private Client Experience. Below are several highlights: ~Personal Relationship Contact at JCF’s Private Client Group ~Private advisory sessions with top-tier philanthropic, legal and investment experts ~Special expertise in mission-related investment options ~Guidance and tools to help you with legacy and succession planning ~Facilitation of international grant-making, including to Israel ~Educational opportunities and a wealth of knowledge to help you achieve greater impact through your philanthropic giving JCF Doubles Your Impact in the Jewish Community Every year, JCF awards a Community Gift to UJA-Federation of New York from its endowment and fees to promote the welfare of the Jewish community.
Founder
Jun 2022
Aware Buildings provides technologies that unlock building data and grant property managers the actionable insights needed to help reduce costs, and improve the quality of life for residents and staff. **Aware Buildings was incubated at, and spun off from, BuildingLink - the recognized gold-standard in residential real estate technology for over 20 years.
2017
Investor
Feb 2017
Carson brings a new level of service, and convenience to non-doorman buildings. Through its mobile app and remote teams controlling and communicating with multi family entrance doors, Carson enables rental building owners and condo/co-ops to reduce management costs, increase the value of their units, and to upgrade their residential experience. It helps managers streamline operations and keep residents happy.
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