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Upright Turned One Flipper’s Funding Headache Into a $3 Billion Lending Machine - Then Its Payment Rail Broke
Matt Rodak built the lender he wished he had when banks moved too slowly and hard-money shops charged 14 percent plus four points. A decade later, Upright’s best lesson is not merely how to scale a niche - it is how a single invisible vendor can put the brakes on the machine.
RRA Capital Waited for Banks to Say No - Then Originated $2.46 Billion in CRE Loans
The Phoenix firm began by cleaning up other lenders' real-estate mistakes. Its more useful trick was knowing when not to buy - and when to turn that workout education into a nationwide bridge-loan business.
Meixin (MX) Global
Meixin (MX) Global is a New York-based cross-border financial technology and wealth-management platform founded in 2015. It connects Asian wealth managers, independent advisors, private funds and family offices with a curated menu of global alternative investments - real estate debt and preferred equity, hedge funds, private equity, private debt and more - backed by tech-enabled infrastructure for asset analysis, due diligence, custody and reporting. Positioned as a turnkey asset-management platform for the Greater China wealth ecosystem, the company has reported over $2 billion in assets under administration and 1,600+ investable products.