As one of the emerging leaders in real estate technology, Ranime El Skaff is thriving in an area where ambition and innovation coexist. Ranime is reinventing what it means to be a founder in the MENA startup scene as the co-founder and CEO of Prop-AI, a PropTech company situated in Dubai. In addition, Ranime is transforming the way properties are assessed and marketed using artificial intelligence.
Earlier this year, Prop-AI secured $1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round, led by Plus VC and joined by Joa Capital, Select Ventures, Oraseya Capital, Plug & Play, and notable angel investors from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. This early-stage capital, while a significant milestone for the company, also marks the growing confidence in Ranime's leadership, vision, and deep-tech capabilities in a traditionally low-tech industry.
Founded in 2023 by Ranime El Skaff and Christian Kunz, Prop-AI was born out of a simple yet powerful question: What if buying and investing in property could be as seamless, data-backed, and intelligent as managing a stock portfolio? With this vision in mind, the duo began building what they now describe as the "Bloomberg of Real Estate."
The platform uses AI and machine learning to automate property discovery, evaluation, and transaction workflows for investors, brokers, and buyers. Under Ranime's leadership, Prop-AI has already tripled its revenue in Q1 2025 and gained distinction as the first PropTech company to earn the Dubai AI Seal of Excellence.
In a sector long resistant to change, Ranime is leading the charge with a combination of technical insight, relentless curiosity, and strategic empathy. She's not just digitizing real estate; she's re-engineering its logic to make it smarter, faster, and more inclusive.
The newly raised capital will support deeper regional data integrations, rollout of advanced enterprise APIs, and the launch of Prop-AI Business — an intelligent platform for professionals. But at its core, Prop-AI is an expression of Ranime's belief in democratizing data and creating transparency in an industry often marked by opacity.
Those who work with Ranime often describe her as "intensely focused but widely empathetic." She brings together the engineering sharpness of a product builder with the soft power of a storyteller. During internal discussions and public AMAs alike, Ranime is known to listen first, ask the right questions, and lead without ego.
This ethos will be on display as she joins the upcoming AMA roundtable hosted by PropTechBuzz, where she’ll share insights on fundraising, scaling in deep-tech, and balancing innovation with execution. The event, part of the Global Founders Forge series, offers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to thrive in PropTech today.
“Our mission is to build the ‘Bloomberg of Real Estate’,” said Ranime El-Skaff, CEO of Prop-AI. “Real estate is the world’s largest asset class yet remains one of the least digitised and data-driven. At Prop-AI, we are truly transforming how real estate investment decisions are made, not just for the region, but globally."
As a woman building in deep-tech, Ranime’s presence is both rare and radical. Her success sends a message to a global community of entrepreneurs: real leadership is not about conforming to expectations but about reshaping them.
In her recent interaction with proptech founders from around the world, she laid out best practices on fund raising drawing from her own fundraise experience. She demonstrates giving back and offering a helping hand to the entrepreneurial community.
She stands as a role model for emerging founders — especially women in tech — who are navigating their own journeys through innovation, funding, and impact. She builds with precision and purpose, always returning to the fundamental question: How do we make something that truly matters?
In the dynamic realm of PropTech, where hype often surpasses reality, Ranime El Skaff is a trailblazer. Not only is she creating a startup, but she is also creating a new, human-centered, and intelligent logic for real estate.
She is also serving as a reminder to the world—the most effective technological solutions are those that are spearheaded by individuals who have the courage to experiment.
By Proptechbuzz
By Ravi Kumar