Matt Ali

Principal, Ziggurat AI · 1 appearance on the record.

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founderoperatorengineerLinkedIn ↗appraiva.com ↗

Matt Aleali co-founded Appraiva, an applied-AI platform using computer vision to automate property discovery for real estate investors. He bootstrapped the company to seven-figure annual recurring revenue before exiting via Acquire.com.

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Matt Ali: Many real estate investors avoid buying properties on Zillow

“Like, cause a lot of real estate investors, they don't really buy stuff off of Zillow. Right. So they're looking for, Specific things that are off the market.”

Matt Ali Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 3:06 From Zero to a Business Ready to Sell

Disclosure

Matt Ali: Apreva shifted upmarket to become a marketing intelligence tool

“Over time, you know, we sort of moved in the direction of like, you know, being a marketing intelligence tool, pretty much trying to move up market, you know, just having these marketing datasets that, that people can use to do campaigns.”

Matt Ali Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 2:53 From Zero to a Business Ready to Sell

Disclosure

Matt Ali decided to sell Apreva to take chips off the table

“I think it was just a good time to take some chips off the table. You know, we were just going at this for a really long time. And yeah, I think it was a good opportunity to just, you know, take some chips off the table and you know, look at what's next. Cause…”

Matt Ali Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 5:25 From Zero to a Business Ready to Sell

What-if

Matt Ali: Holidays and buyer financing delayed the Apreva acquisition

“I think it would have been a lot faster if it wasn't the end of the year and we hadn't hit like Thanksgiving weekend and then, you know, the holidays, but I think the buyer had some financing that you needed to come through as well through like the sale of the…”

Matt Ali Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 9:17 From Zero to a Business Ready to Sell

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
From Zero to a Business Ready to Sell	Jan 13, 2026	3m

Matt Ali

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