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Relive -
Techstars '22Ourem, PT · Founded 2017 · 75 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
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Relive is a real estate brokerage that helps customers rent, buy, and sell properties through agents who combine local expertise with technology and social media marketing. The company operates across major U.S. cities and targets a technology-forward generation of homebuyers and renters.
Also known as Relive Real Estate Inc. · Relive Realty · Relive Realty LLC
Founders & leadership
Relive - was founded in 2017 by José Costa Rodrigues.
Investors · 4
How we know: Bynd Venture Capital's portfolio page · funding news · proptechconnect.com · the VCSheet dataset · open dataset · 5k.vc investor directory · Not right? Tell us
How we know: Shilling VC's portfolio page · proptechconnect.com · Not right? Tell us
How we know: the Techstars portfolio · open dataset · Top 3000 Accelerator Startups (no YC) 2026-08 · open dataset · 5k.vc investor directory · Not right? Tell us
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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$5.5M disclosed across 1 round · 2025
- $5.5MSeries AFeb 2025 · 3 sources
Indico Capital Partners (lead), Bynd, Shilling
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Sep 2026Relive is a real estate brokerage operating under the Relive Realty brand that helps clients rent, buy and sell residential property. Its stated positioning is to serve a younger generation of renters and first-time homebuyers through agents who pair local neighbourhood knowledge with technology and social media distribution. Service lines cover rentals (including apartment locating), purchases with guidance for first-time buyers, and listings/sales where agents use social media reach to attract offers.
The company also functions as a platform for agents themselves: it recruits licensed agents with a commission-split model, an in-house mobile app, CRM and AI tools, content-creation support and a revenue-share referral programme. Portugal Ventures, an investor, describes Relive as empowering a next generation of real estate entrepreneurs with a mobile app that lets them work for themselves from anywhere. Corporate entities include Relive Real Estate Inc. and Relive Realty LLC, both registered as Texas real estate brokers, with an address in Austin, Texas.
Founding story
The founders' experience of moving from Portugal to the U.S. in 2022 — spending a month moving between short-term rentals before an agent curated suitable properties for them — shaped the company's emphasis on serving renters, on the premise that renters who trust an agent return to that agent when buying.
Business model
Relive operates as a licensed brokerage that earns through real estate transactions handled by its affiliated agents across rental, purchase and sale services, while recruiting agents onto a commission-split arrangement supported by proprietary technology and marketing tools.
Agent commissions are split with the brokerage, starting at a 70/30 split and moving to 100% to the agent after $15,000 in a quarter; agents can also earn a 10% revenue share for referring other agents.
Traction
The company reports more than 600 active licensed agents, over 8,000 clients helped and more than 1,800 five-star Google reviews.
Latest developments
The company's site lists eight U.S. metropolitan markets and continued agent onboarding, with brokerage licences held in Texas under Relive Real Estate Inc. and Relive Realty LLC.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positioned against legacy brokerages as a technology- and social-media-led alternative focused on the rental market and younger clients; Portugal Ventures cites recognition among the fastest growing bootstrapped companies in Europe in a Sifted / Financial Times listing.
Differentiators claimed by the company include a rental-first focus in a segment it says most brokerages overlook, an in-house app with CRM and AI tools, social-media-driven lead generation, and an agent commission model reaching 100% with revenue sharing.
Technology
Relive provides its agents with an in-house mobile app, CRM and AI-powered tools intended to let them manage their business remotely, alongside content-creation and brand-building support for social media.
Go-to-market
Client acquisition leans on agents' social media content, which the company says generates millions of monthly views, supported by Google reviews and agent recruiting campaigns that market the commission model and technology stack.
Renters, first-time homebuyers and home sellers described as a younger, technology-oriented generation, as well as licensed real estate agents recruited to the brokerage.
Geography
Originating in Portugal and scaling to the United States from 2022, with markets listed as Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, San Antonio and Miami, and a U.S. office address in Austin, Texas.
History
According to the company, José Costa Rodrigues and Henrique Brás founded Relive in 2020 after observing that successful agents were using technology and social media to reach large online audiences, and launched a brokerage aimed at that new generation of agents. By 2022 the team had built an app, assembled a team and a business plan, and moved from Portugal to the United States; their own difficulty finding housing on arrival led them to focus on the underserved apartment rental segment as an entry point to later home-purchase relationships.
Compiled by commissioned research from 6 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsPortugal Ventures cites Relive's inclusion in a Sifted / Financial Times ranking of the fastest growing bootstrapped companies in Europe.
After building a team, an app and a business plan, the founders relocated the business from Portugal to the U.S. market.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 6
primary sources listed
- Relive -relive.pt · web
6 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Relive - do?
- Relive is a real estate brokerage whose agents use an in-house app and social media to help clients rent, buy and sell homes.
- Who founded Relive -?
- Relive - was founded by José Costa Rodrigues in 2017.
- Who are Relive -'s investors?
- Relive -'s investors include Bynd Venture Capital, Shilling VC, Techstars, Indico Capital Partners.
- How much funding has Relive - raised?
- Relive - has disclosed $5.5M raised across 1 round.
- Where is Relive - headquartered?
- Relive - is headquartered in Ourem, PT.