Steve Carroll named to Inman's 2026 Future Leaders in Real Estate
Findigs Co-Founder and CEO Steve Carroll has been named to Inman’s 2026 Future Leaders in Real Estate, recognizing the most promising professionals under 40 driving innovation across the industry.
Key takeaways
- Findigs CEO and co-founder Steve Carroll was named to Inman's 2026 Future Leaders in Real Estate, which recognizes top professionals under 40 driving industry innovation.
- This year's program drew over 80 nominations, its largest and most competitive class in the three years since launch.
- Carroll built Findigs on one idea: every rental application deserves a real decision, not a score, and the platform now approves applications in minutes across more than 500,000 units.
- Findigs backs every decision with the only contractual fraud guarantee in the category and has helped operators cut evictions by up to 90%.
Steve Carroll, Co-Founder and CEO of Findigs, has been named to Inman’s 2026 Future Leaders in Real Estate list, which recognizes the most promising professionals under 40 driving innovation across the industry.
This year’s program drew over 80 nominations from across the real estate ecosystem, making it the largest and most competitive class since the program launched three years ago.
Steve built Findigs on one core idea: that every rental application deserves a real decision, not a score. Today, Findigs processes approvals in minutes, backs every decision with the only contractual fraud guarantee in the category, and has helped operators reduce evictions by up to 90%. The platform now serves over 500,000 rental units across the country.
The recognition reflects what we see in the work every day: operators who used to trade occupancy for safety no longer have to. Decisioning makes that trade-off obsolete.
We’re proud of Steve and grateful to be building something worth noticing.
Steve Carroll co-founded Findigs in 2018 and runs it as CEO. He writes about strategy, fraud accountability, and where leasing decisioning is headed.
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