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Fractional
Fractional is a San Francisco company that lets groups of friends, followers, or strangers co-own investment properties and other assets together through member-run investment clubs. Instead of raising money as a securities offering, each club is a member-owned LLC where everyone is an active participant with voting rights, sidestepping the expensive PPMs and accredited-only rules of traditional syndications. Fractional handles the back office - LLC formation, compliance, bookkeeping, distributions, and K-1 tax filings - so ordinary people can pool small checks into real estate, private lending, and even the occasional laundromat or candy store.
Eric Norman
Eric Norman is a General Partner at Pioneer Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that pools resources from 500+ Y Combinator alumni to back top-performing YC startups. A former hardware founder himself - he built and led Cinder Precision Cooker through Y Combinator - Norman brings firsthand operator experience to his investing, with recent portfolio activity in AI identity, healthcare AI, and enterprise tooling.