Jointer tried to turn commercial property into something you could buy by the dollar and leave by the click. The twist was realizing that a digital deed was not enough - liquidity had to be designed as the product.
A Saint Paul private equity shop is betting that warehouses, refrigerated trucks and neighborhood restaurants - not startups - are where patient money still compounds. Its promise to investors is a structure where the firm wins only when they do.
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.