Dan Lifshits & Ilia Drozdov, Co-founders of Dwelly: Entering the London market.

Dwelly is acquiring traditional lettings and real estate agencies across the UK and integrating them into an AI-enabled platform to automate workflows and scale them more efficiently.

Dan Lifshits and Ilia Drozdov, Co-founders of Dwelly, talk about Dwelly entering the London market, which represents around 40% of the UK rental market, marking a major step in scaling their model and consolidating the largest part of the market.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:28 - Entering the London market

0:58 - What Dwelly acquires and why

1:21 - Why London and why now

3:24 - The first acquisition and moving to Hull

5:42 - Why AI-driven consolidation is getting attention

9:40 - The first priority after an acquisition

11:00 - Building culture across acquisitions

13:27 - London and UK expansion

19:19 - Building an AI-native company

23:09 - How Dwelly deploys capital and operates