HurstX Solutions
HurstX Solutions is an advisory & consulting firm providing strategic value and operating expertise to companies focused on the real estate markets.
HXS was founded out of our passion for working with energetic and disruptive startups applying technology across all facets of the real estate industry. We establish long term relationships with founders and work alongside them to achieve their visions. From strategy to sales execution to fundraising, HXS evolves the set of services delivered to its clients most pressing needs.
Affordable Housing Tech
Solutions positively impacting housing affordability.
Construction Tech
Software and hardware innovation for architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management.
Property
Tech
Technology impact the people, processes, and ecosystems that interact with the built world.
Sampling of Our Clients
Side
Side is a next generation real estate brokerage, transforming agents into businesses..
Landed
Landed helps educators buy homes in the communities in which they teach.
3i.ai
3i.ai is the premier spatial data intelligence company.
HXS works with clients interested in a mutual long-term partnership.
Initial Engagement
Out of the gate, high value issues are identified and quickly engaged. HXS takes a roll up the sleeves approach, diving in and working alongside its clients to resolve issues.
Expanded Engagement
Building upon the success of the initial engagement, HXS and clients expand the scope of work to
Ongoing Advisory
Continued work to address clients longer term initiatives. HXS delivers increasing value as greater understanding of client is gained
Service Offering
Sales Strategy & Execution
Selling is hard. But sales success is possible with rigorous planning, strategy, and execution. HXS helps evolve its portfolio clients from sporadic sales wins to a predictable revenue machine. The foundation of this sales growth is achieved by establishing repeatable processes, implementing systems, and delivering ongoing training. Applying its deep subject-matter expertise, HXS delivers quick impact to its customers, and sustains it for the long term.
Fundraising
Fundraising for any entrepreneur or startup executive team is both a stressful and time consuming process. Leveraging its extensive fundraising experience, HXS advises, collaborates, and leads its portfolio clients through this process to significantly alleviate this burden and accelerate the timeline. HXS delivers results by working alongside its clients to craft a comprehensive fundraising strategy, develop the core fundraising assets, and provides introductions to its investor network.
Analytics & Metrics
Data driven decisions are the backbone of any successful organization. Determining what is critical to measure vs what are vanity metrics isn’t straightforward. HXS has extensive experience defining metrics and implementing analytics solutions to deliver critical data insights. HXS works together with its clients to build analytics driven organizations and achieve higher performance through data.
Mergers & Acquisitions
As a founder or CEO busy building a company, M&A is not on the top of your agenda. While you might not be actively shopping your company, your hard work and success will cause potential acquirers to take note, and they may engage you at anytime to see if you are receptive to an offer. HXS is an experience M&A advisor who can help you navigate this daunting and complex process, ensuring you maintain control of the process and paying attention to the important details of the transaction.
What clients are saying.
“Mark has been a part of my startup journey since the beginning, providing milestone guidance, objective feedback, and market insights that helped an initial concept evolve into a solution that solves a real world problem. Beginning our process as a solo founder, I found Mark’s counter-balancing especially effective. When I was ideating at 30,000 ft., Mark made sure I remembered to keep a foot on the ground by setting goals that objectively demonstrated progress. When I was down in the trenches focusing on product roadmap execution, Mark made sure that I examined a culture-centric approach to company building before selecting my founding team.
Mark continues to help me “see around corners”, so I can further prepare my team as we progress towards product launch. Looking back to where I began to where I am today, I would heartily recommend Mark’s services to any strategy-minded founder, at any stage of the business. He will challenge you in a uniquely complementary way, so that you are best equipped for what’s next.”
— Jason Kim, CEO, stealth startup
“Working with Mark has brought substantial value to our sales team as we’re building it out. He was able to quickly build rapport, be a strategic partner across a wide range of topics (budgeting, hiring, onboarding, prospecting), and add value from the moment we started working together.”
— Ian Macgruder, Head of Partnerships, Landed
“Mark is a very good mentor with deep domain expertise. He provides insightful advice across a wide range of issues, including strategy creation, planning, and tactical execution. It was my pleasure to work with him and I would recommend Mark to any growing technology company.”
— Ken Kim, Founder & CEO, 3i.ai
Former Founder / Recovering Investment Banker / Aspiring Investor
Over a career spanning 20+ years, I’ve worked as tech executive, investment banker, and management consultant. My passion around the convergence of technology and real estate led me to found HurstX Solutions (HXS), where I specialize in helping early stage startups in the proptech space.
Prior to HXS, I held sales strategy/operations and business development positions at HouseCanary, a leading residential real estate data & analytics company.
I’ve been fortunate to work work across a number of industries, functional groups, as well as companies in all stage of growth. I’ve been part of founding teams working out of garages and spare bedrooms, while also seeing the inner workings of billion dollar companies.
I received a BA in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and also took an extensive course load at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
For a detailed view of my career, please check out my LinkedIn profile.
Contact us.
mark@hurstx.com