Charlotte, September 19, 2025
News Summary
Linxy, a Charlotte-based location-aware event app, launched this year to help attendees skip small talk by matching people around shared interests using its Social Linx system and micro-experiences. After prototyping in 2022, the company has hosted over 50 events and is available in Charlotte, Nashville, Cincinnati and Miami while pursuing aggressive city expansion. Linxy has 20 employees, has raised crowdfunding via Wefunder, and is closing a $750,000 SAFE note. The report also highlights major Charlotte center-city investments and growing national proptech activity as cities and startups adapt underused spaces and speed construction.
Startup Linxy expands after spring launch as Charlotte redevelopment heats up
A Charlotte-based app that helps event attendees skip small talk and connect around shared interests officially launched in March of this year (article context indicates 2025) and is moving quickly to grow users, events and investor support. The company has hosted more than 50 events since launch, operates in four U.S. cities, has 20 employees and is pursuing an aggressive city growth strategy for 2025 while seeking to close a $750,000 SAFE note.
Top takeaways
- Linxy officially launched in March of this year (article context indicates 2025) and put a prototype out in 2022.
- The company has hosted over 50 events ranging from music festivals to tech networking events to tailgates.
- Linxy is available in Charlotte, Nashville, Cincinnati, and Miami and has an aggressive city growth strategy set for 2025.
- Center City districts are seeing major investment in adaptive reuse and new projects that aim to rebalance work, living and entertainment in uptown, midtown and South End.
- Proptech activity remains robust with a wide range of startups offering software, robotics, marketplaces and novel finance products for real estate and construction.
What Linxy does and where it stands
The company builds a location-based social connection and experience app designed to give event hosts, community leaders and business owners more situational awareness about nearby attendees and to speed introductions into useful, real conversations.
Its signature system, called the Social Linx, lets users identify interests, passions, hot topics and professional alignment with precision so attendees can connect around shared goals rather than idle small talk. Linxy also supports micro experiences that facilitate real-time engagement at events.
The founder and CEO grew up in Ohio, started professional work in North Carolina with a program that helps college students learn entrepreneurship, and later built both a consulting firm and a construction company before launching the app. The team describes its culture as electric and says the team is the company’s top asset. The company currently has 20 employees, half based in Charlotte and the remainder in Atlanta, Miami, Cincinnati, Nashville and across the Middle East and South Asia.
Funding and growth targets are explicit: Linxy has brought on over 40 crowdfunding investors through a Wefunder campaign, is focused on finding aligned investors to finish raising a $750,000 SAFE note, and secured $150,000 of that SAFE note over the last two months (relative to the article). The startup’s 2025 goals include bringing in 250,000 new users and $1,000,000 in revenue while proving the product’s value to business owners and event hosts.
Charlotte center city redevelopment by the numbers
Downtown planning and development leaders are pushing adaptive reuse as a central strategy. About $1.7 billion will be invested into reimagining aging spaces this year (article context: 2025) to shift parts of the districts from business-heavy to destination districts that blend work, living and play. Office vacancy concerns have driven the push: office vacancies throughout last year sat between 22% and 24%, with a record high of 24.7% in July (the year prior to publication) and a Charlotte-only rate at 22.4% according to a report cited in the coverage.
Renovation and reuse activity has picked up and is expected to help bring workers back to the office through improved amenities and mixed uses. Examples of major projects and investments include modernization of large towers, stadium and arena upgrades, the conversion of a 100-year-old downtown building into a roughly 245-room hotel with retail, and a new 1.5-acre arts studio in an industrial district. The center city group also reported roughly $3.7 billion in new developments under construction or set to break ground in 2026 that are expected to deliver about 7,110 apartments, 2.2 million square feet of office space, 338,800 square feet of retail and 1,630 hotel rooms.
At the same time, the current development pipeline shows about $700 million less in projects than the previous year and totals roughly half of the 2023 peak. Planners attribute this decrease to completed projects in the prior year and the broader slowdown in new starts caused by higher monetary costs. Big planned efforts named in the coverage include a large mixed-use Iron District on a 55.5-acre site with initial plans for residential units, retail, hotel rooms, office space and parking; a new medical-school campus on 20 acres that will include affordable housing and healthcare headquarters; and a planned tech hub in partnership with a state university focused on innovation in AI, fintech and cybersecurity.
Proptech surge: selected startups and trends
Investors poured record sums into real-estate technology in earlier years, and many firms built tools to respond to pandemic-driven shifts such as remote work, supply-chain strain and rising home prices. A sampling of startups and their offerings from a recent industry survey includes flexible coworking concepts, home-acquisition and rent-to-own finance, robotics that print on-site construction layouts, office-management platforms, contractor-supplier supply-chain software, marketplace services for furniture resale, tools to simplify home inspections and platforms that create a system of record for job-site imaging.
Notable examples covered: a flexible coworking operator founded in 2020; a home-acquisition and rent-to-own company with substantial funding and a claimed high buyer conversion rate; a robotics company that prints construction models on site; and a construction and site-imaging company that pins 360-degree images to floorplans and trains AI to measure progress. Several firms in the roundup reported fast revenue growth, substantial funding rounds or distinctive business models such as investment-backed home equity alternatives, co-ownership of second homes and lease-to-own programs for commercial space.
Why this matters now
The combined picture shows local tech startups aiming to speed human connection at events while downtown investment shifts toward adaptable spaces and mixed uses. For founders, event hosts and property managers, this mix means more tools to connect people in the moment and more places being designed to draw them downtown for reasons beyond the 9-to-5 workday.
FAQ
When did Linxy officially launch?
Linxy officially launched in March of this year (article context indicates 2025).
How many events has Linxy hosted since launch?
Since launch, Linxy has hosted over 50 events.
Where is Linxy available?
Linxy is available in Charlotte, Nashville, Cincinnati, and Miami.
How many employees does Linxy have and where are they located?
Linxy currently has 20 employees. Half of Linxy’s employees are in Charlotte. The other Linxy employees are spread across Atlanta, Miami, Cincinnati, Nashville, and across the Middle East and South Asia.
What investor goals and progress does Linxy report?
Linxy is focused on finding aligned investors to finish raising a $750,000 SAFE note. Linxy secured $150,000 of the $750,000 SAFE note over the last two months (relative to the article). Linxy has brought on over 40 crowdfunding investors through its Wefunder campaign.
What are Linxy’s 2025 targets?
Linxy’s 2025 goals include bringing in 250,000 new users and $1,000,000 in revenue.
How much will be invested into reimagining aging spaces this year?
Approximately $1.7 billion will be invested into reimagining aging spaces this year (article context: 2025).
What development totals did the center city group report for projects under construction or set to break ground in 2026?
The center city group reported about $3.7 billion is being invested in new developments that are either under construction or set to break ground in 2026. Those projects are expected to bring about 7,110 apartments, 2.2 million square feet of office space, 338,800 square feet of retail, and 1,630 hotel rooms to the downtown districts in upcoming years.
What is the size of the Iron District site?
The Iron District is a mixed-use project on the former Charlotte Pipe & Foundry Company site in uptown and South End. The Iron District site is 55.5 acres in total.
Key features table
| Topic | Key features | Numbers |
|---|---|---|
| Linxy app | Location-based social connection app with Social Linx system and micro experiences for real-time attendee connections | 20 employees; available in 4 cities; 50+ events |
| Funding & goals | Wefunder crowdfunding, seeking aligned investors to close SAFE note | $750,000 SAFE note target; $150,000 secured recently; 250,000 users and $1,000,000 revenue target for 2025 |
| Center city redevelopment | Focus on adaptive reuse, mixed-use projects, and new hubs for innovation and education | $1.7 billion invested this year in reimagining aging spaces; $3.7 billion in projects breaking ground/under construction in 2026 |
| Office market | High vacancy rates leading to conversions and renovations | Office vacancies 22%–24%; record 24.7% in July (year prior); Charlotte 22.4% |
| Proptech highlights | Wide range of startups: robotics for construction, site imaging with AI, marketplaces, finance alternatives, property-management platforms | Examples include firms founded 2015–2020 with funding from millions to over $1B |
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Additional Resources
- Hypepotamus: Linxy eventtech in Charlotte
- Wikipedia: Linxy
- Charlotte Ledger: The Pearl & med innovation district
- Encyclopedia Britannica: medical innovation district
- WSOC-TV: Charlotte drone startup aims to disrupt cleaning
- Google Scholar: drone building cleaning startup
- Charlotte Observer: downtown redevelopment & office market
- Google Search: Charlotte center city redevelopment 2025
- Business Insider: hottest proptech startups
- Google News: proptech startups 2022
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