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Plotify closes $12.5M Series A to scale globally One property. One LLC. One investor - meet the "Plot" US home purchase in ~10 minutes vs. 52-day industry average Active investors across 7 countries, 8 US & UK cities Financing underwritten against the asset, not the person Founded 2018 in New York by Anish Malhotra Plotify closes $12.5M Series A to scale globally One property. One LLC. One investor - meet the "Plot" US home purchase in ~10 minutes vs. 52-day industry average Active investors across 7 countries, 8 US & UK cities Financing underwritten against the asset, not the person Founded 2018 in New York by Anish Malhotra
Company Dossier · Proptech · Fintech · New York

Plotify.

Turning a single-family rental home into something you can buy, finance and sell as fast as a share of stock.

Single-Family RentalsWealthtechUS & UKSeries ASPV / LLC
Plotify company logo

PLOTIFY, NEW YORK. The company logo - a city skyline framed by an arc. A finance-and-real-estate crossover built for investors who want the house, not a fraction of it.

2018
Founded
$12.5M
Series A (2023)
~10 min
To Buy A Home
7
Investor Countries
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A house you can trade like a stock

Plotify is a New York company sitting at the crossroads of three industries that rarely speak the same language - real estate, finance and software. Its aim is narrow and specific: let a qualified investor anywhere in the world buy an income-generating rental home in the United States or the United Kingdom, arrange the financing, and hand over the keys of management, all from a single app.

The mechanism is a structure the company calls a "Plot." Each Plot is one residential property, held inside its own single-owner limited liability company, with a single investor behind it. The title, the management contract, the insurance and the mortgage are all tied to that LLC. Because everything lives inside the company rather than being attached to a person, the entire property can change hands by transferring the LLC - no drawn-out closing, no re-papering of the loan.

That is the quiet idea underneath the marketing. Real estate is the largest asset class on earth and one of the slowest to transact. Plotify's answer is to wrap the friction into a container that can move. The company says a buyer can complete a US purchase in roughly ten minutes, against an industry average it pegs at 52 days.

It is not a fund, and it is not fractional ownership. Investors own whole properties and keep control over the decisions that matter - when to renovate, when to refinance, when to sell. Plotify's role is to remove the operational burden while leaving the ownership intact.

"Our platform not only compresses an SFR transaction into minutes, it includes optional and instantaneous point of purchase financing." - Anish Malhotra, Founder & CEO
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How a Plot comes together

Behind a single tap sit more than 150 back-end processes - bank integrations, KYC and AML accreditation, ownership-structure tracking and regulated due diligence - coordinated into one investor experience.

STEP 01

Screen

Proprietary algorithms select locations and underwrite cash-flow-positive homes, scoring markets for risk and return.

STEP 02

Structure

Each home is placed in its own single-owner LLC - the Plot - bundling title, insurance and management.

STEP 03

Finance

Optional point-of-purchase financing from private lenders, underwritten against the asset with no personal guarantee.

STEP 04

Manage & trade

Tenants, tax, accounting and insurance run in the background; investors sell Plots on the marketplace when they choose.

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The problem it attacks: time

Plotify's central claim is about speed. Here is the gap it says it closes on a US single-family-rental purchase.

Traditional purchase~52 days
52 days
On Plotify~10 minutes

Figures are the company's stated approximations - a claimed ~99% reduction in transaction time.

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Products & services

Core structure

The Plot

A single rental property in a single-owner SPV/LLC. Transferable in full because the loan, title, insurance and management all sit inside the entity.

Marketplace

Plotify Marketplace

Instantly acquire underwritten, tenanted, cash-flow-positive homes in the US and UK - and list existing Plots for resale to other investors.

Financing

Point-of-purchase loans

Optional, instant financing via private lenders. No personal guarantee, interest-only and 30-year options, and the loan can travel with the property when sold.

Management

Full-service asset management

Property and tenant management, insurance, accounting and tax services bundled into every Plot - the operational work handled end to end.

2023

Plotify Insights

In-app market intelligence for analyzing global and local housing trends, supporting data-driven property selection.

iOS & Android

Plotify mobile app

Explore and compare cities, review app-exclusive Plots, track portfolio performance and invest from anywhere in the world.

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Where it sits, and how it differs

The single-family-rental technology field is crowded - names like Arrived, Roofstock, Fundrise, Lofty and Here all promise easier access to rental property. Most take one of two routes: fractional shares of a home, or units in a pooled fund. Both trade control for convenience.

Plotify runs the other way. Investors own whole, wholly-owned properties and keep authority over tenants, renovations, financing and timing of a sale. The company's argument is that fractional models strip out exactly the decisions serious investors want to keep.

Its stated mission is to give individuals and family offices the same economies of scale in data, asset management, financing and due diligence that the largest institutional players already enjoy - then wrap them in a structure liquid enough to trade.

"There is no control of asset management decisions such as tenants, renovations, or financing" in fractional ownership - a deliberate contrast to Plotify's model.- Anish Malhotra, on why whole ownership matters
The platform "securitizes these assets to eliminate the majority of friction typically found in real estate transactions."- Mike Self, General Partner, StageDotO Ventures
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The expertise behind it

Plotify was founded in 2018 by Anish Malhotra, who has spent more than two decades across technology, real estate and investments. He was an early team member at Bloomberg Tradebook, working on trading platforms, and later contributed to a product that helped raise more than $7bn for US real estate investment trusts.

By his own account, Plotify grew out of frustration. Investing in real estate part-time alongside colleagues, he found there were no consolidated tools for building and managing a diversified portfolio. The team decided to build what did not exist. Malhotra also co-founded Ahimsa Capital, a venture builder for real estate and hospitality technology - which is itself among Plotify's investors.

His management notes are plain-spoken. "Perfection is the enemy of progress," he says of team velocity, and "the job of a good leader is to build more leaders, not followers." The roughly 18-person company pairs finance and real-estate veterans with product and data-science talent, and worked with product studio OAK'S LAB to build its apps, website and internal operations portal.

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Funding & backers

RoundAmountDateNote
Series A$12.5MApril 20, 2023Eight-investor syndicate; used to scale globally and expand US/UK inventory
Total raised (reported)~$29.6Mto dateAcross prior rounds and Series A
StageDotO VenturesCeloxForum VenturesAhimsa CapitalStormbreakerVenture CatalystsLendEastCapital Eleven
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Timeline

2018

Founded in New York

Anish Malhotra starts Plotify Financial to strip friction out of residential real estate investing.

2021

Apps and marketplace launch in private beta

iOS and Android apps ship; members buy tenanted single-family rentals with integrated financing. Inman reviews the product.

2023

$12.5M Series A and Plotify Insights

An eight-investor round funds global expansion, alongside a new in-app market-intelligence tool.

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Questions, answered

What does Plotify do?

Plotify is a real estate investment platform that lets sophisticated and high-net-worth investors buy, finance and manage income-generating single-family rental homes in the US and UK through a single app.

What is a "Plot"?

A Plot is a single residential rental property owned by a single-owner LLC/SPV with a single investor. Title, management, insurance and mortgage are tied to the LLC, so the whole property can be transferred or sold without a traditional closing.

How fast can you buy a property?

Plotify says a US property purchase can be completed in about 10 minutes, compared with an industry average of roughly 52 days.

Who can invest with Plotify?

The platform is for self-certified sophisticated and high-net-worth (accredited) investors and family offices. Property investment is high-risk and investors should be prepared to lose the money they invest.

How much has Plotify raised, and who backs it?

Plotify closed a $12.5M Series A in April 2023 with investors including StageDotO Ventures, Forum Ventures, Venture Catalysts, Ahimsa Capital, Celox, Stormbreaker, LendEast and Capital Eleven.

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Risk note: Plotify is intended for self-certified sophisticated and high-net-worth investors only. Property investment is high-risk; investors are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong and should be prepared to lose the money they invest. Figures such as transaction times, investor counts and funding totals are drawn from public sources and company statements and are approximate.