ATLANTA – cove, the full-service AI-powered architecture firm built for what’s next, is proud to announce that CEO and Co-Founder Sandeep Ahuja has been named to the Commercial Observer 2025 Power Proptech: Most Influential Leaders in Proptech list. The annual ranking highlights the innovators transforming how the built world is planned, designed, operated, and optimized.

This year’s Power Proptech list marks a major turning point for the sector. After several years of contraction, venture funding, market confidence, and technological momentum surged in 2025. According to the Center for Real Estate Technology and Innovation (CRETI), global proptech firms raised $11.5 billion in the first nine months of the year—outpacing both 2024 and even the strong performance of 2023. Much of that revival has been driven by advancements in artificial intelligence, which nearly every honoree cited as the catalyst behind their growth, expansion, and new product development.

Ahuja’s recognition reflects cove’s leadership at the intersection of architecture, real estate strategy, and AI. By combining architectural expertise with proprietary intelligence tools, cove is redefining how real estate leaders understand feasibility, reduce risk, accelerate timelines, and make higher-quality decisions across the entire building lifecycle.

“Being recognized among the industry's most influential proptech leaders is both humbling and energizing. This wouldn't be possible without the incredible ecosystem we're all building together,” said Sandeep Ahuja, CEO of cove.

As the proptech sector embraces AI at an unprecedented scale, cove stands out for delivering practical, high-impact solutions already deployed across hundreds of projects. The firm’s proprietary intelligence platform, Vitras.ai, equips architects and real estate partners to solve complex design challenges from early feasibility through final documentation—streamlining workflows, reducing rework, and improving cross-team coordination.

With more than half a billion square feet of completed work and a rapidly expanding global client base, cove is helping push the broader real estate and design industries into a new era of intelligence-driven decision-making.

About cove

cove is a full-service AI-powered architecture firm built for what’s next.
The firm partners with real estate leaders, combining deep architectural expertise with artificial intelligence to enable smarter decisions, reduce risk, and create long-term value. cove’s architects leverage the firm’s proprietary intelligence platform, Vitras.ai, to solve complex design challenges from early feasibility through final documentation, accelerating timelines, reducing rework, and improving decision-making across teams. With hundreds of successfully completed projects totalling more than half a billion square feet, cove brings clarity to complexity and consistently drives better outcomes for clients and communities.