Templum is the roughly 30-person infrastructure company quietly wiring private markets - the reason a SoFi member can now buy into OpenAI, Anthropic, or Stripe without a private banker.
Borgman Capital buys the kind of profitable, founder-led companies that rarely become household names. Its twist is structural: no traditional fund, capital raised one deal at a time, and a real-estate team that can buy the building along with the business.
Car washes, oil-change bays and small industrial buildings rarely make glamorous pitch decks. QC Capital thinks that is precisely why they deserve a closer look.
Most venture firms wave off small checks from individuals. Alumni Ventures built a business out of taking them - roughly $1.5 billion of them.
The Indiana firm has turned apartment operations into an investment product for accredited investors. Its wager is simple: in private real estate, the unglamorous work between acquisition and exit matters as much as the deal itself.
Driftwood Capital does not merely buy hotels. It assembles the capital, builds or renovates the property, lends into the gaps and then operates the rooms - a tightly linked model now spanning about $3.5 billion in hospitality assets.
Hamilton Point Investments built a private-markets machine around an unfashionable idea: the people raising the money should stay close to the people fixing the boilers, leasing the apartments and reporting the results.
Attack Capital is a New York based, Y Combinator alumni founded AI venture studio and seed-stage fund. It builds vertical AI companies from scratch on a 30-day build cycle - spinning out products like OpenMic (AI phone agents), PowerDialer, and HealOS - while also giving accredited investors direct, diversified access to vetted YC startups. Founded by Thiel Fellow Kaushik Tiwari and Saumik Tiwari, it pairs a company factory with a fund.
SDAX is a Singapore-based, MAS-regulated digital asset exchange that tokenises and fractionalises institutional-grade real-world assets - from real estate and private credit to securitised gold - so investors can access private-market deals from as little as SGD1,000 and trade them on a regulated secondary market.
Masterworks is a New York fintech that lets everyday investors buy fractional shares in multimillion-dollar blue-chip paintings by artists such as Basquiat, Picasso, Warhol and Banksy. Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Scott Lynn, the company buys individual artworks, registers each as a public offering with the SEC, and sells shares for as little as $20, then holds the work for several years before selling it and distributing proceeds. It reached unicorn status in 2021 after a $110M Series A and has grown to more than one million members.
Percent is a New York-based fintech company building the technology infrastructure for the private credit market. Its platform digitizes the full lifecycle of private credit transactions - sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing - connecting corporate and asset-based borrowers, underwriters and accredited investors on a single, transparent marketplace. Founded in 2018 (originally as Cadence) by Nelson Chu, Percent has powered roughly $2 billion in transaction volume and offers short-duration, high-yield private credit deals with lower minimums than traditional channels.
Plotify is a New York-based wealthtech, proptech and fintech company that lets sophisticated and high-net-worth investors around the world buy, finance and manage income-generating residential rental homes in the US and UK through a single app. Its signature 'Plot' - a single tenanted property held in its own single-owner LLC/SPV - bundles underwriting, optional point-of-purchase financing, property management, tenant management, insurance, tax and accounting into a tradable unit, compressing a single-family-rental purchase from an industry-average 52 days to about 10 minutes.
Equitybee is a financial technology marketplace that connects startup employees who can't afford to exercise their vested stock options with accredited investors willing to fund the exercise in exchange for a share of the future upside. Founded in 2017 by three childhood friends and headquartered in Palo Alto, the platform lets employees convert paper equity into real ownership - or cash - without waiting for an IPO, while giving investors a rare way to buy into pre-IPO companies they otherwise couldn't reach.
Equi is part hedge fund, part technology platform - an alternative investment manager that gives high-net-worth individuals, wealth advisors and family offices access to the kind of uncorrelated, absolute-return strategies that were historically reserved for institutions and billionaires. Founded in 2020 by Tory Reiss, Itay Vinik and Jeremy Smith, the company pairs Wall Street investing expertise with Silicon Valley software, screening thousands of private funds to build diversified portfolios designed to perform across market cycles. Equi reached roughly $100M in assets under management within its first year and has raised about $25M in venture funding.