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EasyKnock let you sell your house. The hard part was staying.
EasyKnock offered cash without a moving van by turning homeowners into tenants. Its December 2024 closure exposed the question behind the convenience: how secure was the way back to ownership?
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?
Clarus Capital Put a $100 Million Ceiling on the Machine Room - Then Banks Stepped Back
The Boston lender built a private-credit business around an unfashionable truth: factories, fleets and data centers still need expensive physical things. Its playbook pairs leveraged-credit judgment with equipment expertise - and turns those contracts into repeatable capital-market fuel.
The Broker Who Turned Triple-Net Real Estate Into a Trading Floor
Camille Renshaw sold a tech startup, bought net-lease buildings, and got bored waiting three weeks for a comp. So she built the exchange she wished existed - and used it to move $324 million of Cabela's stores.
The Man Who Built the Keg Empire, Then Built Its Rival
A brewer's cash gets trapped in steel that spends half its life empty. Chris Sapyta helped invent the fix at one company, then spent a decade out-flexing it at his own.
The $1 Billion Machine Behind the Machines
36th Street Capital turns forklifts, servers and factory floors into financial flexibility. Its quiet advantage is a hybrid funding engine built for deals that do not fit neatly inside a bank's credit box.