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David Robertson and the business behind the buildings
Before backing real estate operators, David Robertson helped run Aimco and founded a smoothie chain. At FrontRange Capital Partners, his work centers on the company that makes the property possible.
Al Rabil and the billion-dollar logic of ordinary buildings
Before a $1.393 billion acquisition agreement, there were student apartments. Al Rabil’s path from real estate banking to Kayne Anderson shows how a specialist business grows around the work of running buildings.
Cameron Lam retired at 33. Then came trash day.
A rental portfolio bought Cameron Lam time. A stubborn chore gave him a reason to build again: Crew, the business that gets the bins to the curb and back.
Marcia Kaufman learned to lend from the other side of the desk
After the mortgage crisis, Marcia Kaufman bought and renovated roughly 50 New York properties. Back in lending as Bayport Funding’s CEO, she brings the borrower’s experience to decisions about capital, construction and growth.
Abdullah Ahmad and the business of staying
From odd jobs on real estate projects to founding Provision Capital in Dallas, Abdullah Ahmad has built an investment business around homes, patient capital, and the people who live with the results.
Parry Singh and the business of finding what is missing
A search for familiar ingredients helped launch Parry Singh’s first internet venture. From Chicago to Indian business lending and used-car diagnostics, his career keeps returning to the gaps that make ordinary transactions difficult.
Teddy Kaplan and the business of staying put
For more than two decades, Teddy Kaplan has built a career around buildings their occupants need to keep. Now the New Mountain net lease executive is bringing a once-specialist corner of investing into public view.
Joshua Pack and the value of a second look
At Fortress, Joshua Pack backed businesses that needed time, capital and a capable team. At his alma mater, he made a similar case for veterans whose experience deserved a closer reading.
Danny Fishman and the value of a long walk
From Israeli privatization to a bankruptcy-court apartment deal, Danny Fishman built GAIA Real Estate by looking closely at places other investors were leaving. His next chapter is in Miami, but the questions still begin at street level.
Jared Hollinger’s bet on what needs tending
From a Nebraska property business to farmland and open-air retail, Jared Hollinger has built his career around the work that follows a purchase. At Sower Investment Partners, the deal is the beginning of the job.
Blair Richardson and the geography of patience
After a career spanning New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong, Blair Richardson built Bow River Capital in Denver. His story connects a regional investment thesis with a long-running interest in what people can do when they get a start.
Eric Panecki and the business of getting to yes
A New Jersey property investor learned to work both sides of a deal. Eric Panecki’s path from house flips to Brick City Capital runs through data, borrowed experience, and the discipline to turn an opportunity down.
Yieldstreet opened the door. Who holds the keys?
Now called Willow Wealth, the private markets platform has moved from picking individual deals to building portfolios. Its history explains why easier access still demands difficult questions.
Doug Brien and the Long Game
A placekicker learns to live with the lonely arithmetic of consequence. Then he carries the lesson from an NFL sideline into thousands of American houses.
Anish Malhotra Wants Real Estate to Move at Market Speed
After helping digitize financial markets, the Plotify founder turned to a slower target: the paperwork, financing and fragmented decisions behind owning a rental home.
Camille Renshaw Put a Trading Screen on the Strip Mall
She learned to code in seventh grade, bought property with the proceeds of a startup sale, then returned to software with a sharper question: why should commercial real estate feel less transparent than a stock market?
Jeff Carter Did Two Years of Homework Before He Lent a Dollar
A portfolio analyst turned developer studied private lending for two years, found the gap banks left open, and built Grand Coast Capital around speed, structure and aligned incentives.
Grand Coast Built a $470 Million Lending Machine in the Gap Banks Left Behind
Banks like tidy buildings and long timelines. Grand Coast found its business in the messy middle - the 12 to 18 months when a serious property investor needs money now, not after the opportunity is gone.
The $10 Door Into Wall Street's Private Room
Fundrise started by letting neighbors buy a piece of a Washington property. It now manages billions across real estate, credit and venture - an ambitious attempt to give ordinary investors institutional-style access without pretending private assets are as simple as stocks.
The $671 Billion Machine Built on Private Credit
Ares grew from a Los Angeles credit shop into a sprawling private-markets platform by learning to lend where banks pulled back - then carrying that playbook into property, infrastructure, secondaries and insurance.
Sunwater Capital Built a Portfolio Where Warehouses, Health Data and Medicare Share an Address
The Maryland investment firm makes an unusual promise: patient capital, operator experience and permission to cross category lines. Its portfolio connects buildings, care delivery and data in ways a conventional sector fund rarely attempts.
Revolution’s Bet: The Next Great Startup Won’t Need a Coastal ZIP Code
For two decades, Steve Case’s Washington investment firm has argued that venture capital’s map is too small. Its answer is a three-stage fund platform, a bus-tour-born national network, and a willingness to treat geography as an edge rather than a handicap.
Stella Han
Stella Han is the co-founder and CEO of Fractional, a San Francisco startup that lets friends and strangers pool money to co-own investment real estate for as little as a few thousand dollars. A Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate and former senior software engineer at Affirm, she left fintech to attack a problem she grew up around: real estate is a great way to build wealth, and almost impossibly clunky to buy with other people. Fractional went through Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, raised a $5.5M seed led by CRV with backing from Will Smith and Kevin Durant, and a $15M Series A led by Fifth Wall in late 2024.
Landa
Landa was a New York fintech that let anyone buy fractional shares of single-family rental homes for as little as $5 through a mobile app, collecting monthly dividends from rent and any appreciation. Founded in 2019 by Yishai Cohen and Amit Assaraf, it packaged each property into its own LLC, managed the homes with proprietary software, and ran a secondary marketplace for trading shares. After raising $33M in equity and roughly $62M in debt and surpassing 200,000 registered users, the platform went dark in 2025 amid lender lawsuits, missed dividends, and a court-ordered receivership over 119 properties.
Plotify
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.
Yishai Cohen
Yishai Cohen is the co-founder and CEO of Landa, a New York fintech that tried to turn houses into stocks - letting anyone buy a share of a rental home for as little as $5. A teenage entrepreneur from Jerusalem who sold his first company (a bus-booking marketplace) before finishing military service, Cohen raised roughly $100M and amassed some 400 properties across seven U.S. markets. By 2025 the platform had gone dark amid lender lawsuits, missed dividends, and the loss of much of its portfolio.
Deferred
Deferred is a technology-powered Qualified Intermediary (QI) that facilitates 1031 real estate exchanges without charging a service fee. Instead of billing customers, it holds exchange funds in FDIC-insured, segregated accounts and shares a portion of the interest those funds earn back with clients. The platform pairs veteran QI staff with software that drafts exchange documents, tracks the strict 45- and 180-day IRS deadlines, and offers ARTE, an AI assistant trained on thousands of pages of tax law. Founded in 2024 by the team behind Open Listings and Balance Homes, Deferred aims to give individual real estate investors access to a tax strategy long dominated by institutions.
Tirios
Tirios is an Austin-based proptech platform that lets everyday investors buy fractional shares of single-family rental homes for as little as $100. It uses AI to source and underwrite properties, records ownership on blockchain via tokenization, and manages the homes end-to-end - collecting rent, paying expenses, and distributing quarterly dividends. Founded in 2021 by former Icahn Enterprises executive Sachin Latawa, Tirios is SEC-qualified under Regulation A+ and pitches itself as a vertically integrated, low-fee way to make real estate investing accessible to millennials and first-time investors.
Sachin Latawa
Sachin Latawa is the founder and CEO of Tirios, an Austin-based proptech platform that lets everyday people invest in single-family rental homes for as little as $100. Before building Tirios, he ran real estate for Carl Icahn's empire as CFO of Real Estate at Icahn Enterprises, where he managed more than $1.1 billion in assets across homebuilding, distressed assets, resorts, offices and industrial property. He now pairs that institutional pedigree with AI-driven underwriting and blockchain tokenization to crack open a $10 trillion asset class that, by his own count, only about 5% of people can actually reach.
Dealpath
Dealpath is a San Francisco-based cloud platform that serves as the system of record for commercial real estate investment teams. It centralizes deal pipelines, files, tasks and analytics for firms like Blackstone, AEW and Oxford Properties, and has supported more than $10 trillion in transactions globally.