Top Real Estate Investors Startups in 2024

Investor demand for exposure to residential real estate is rapidly increasing. The percentage of homes sold that were flipped has increased by 50% over the past 5 years. However, as more and more inexperienced investors enter the market, the average profit and ROI is decreasing. homebldr empowers real estate professionals with a turnkey solution for maximizing the ROI of residential real estate investments and renovation projects. Their solutions enable real estate professionals to source high-quality investment opportunities and take full advantage of those opportunities. We provide advanced data analysis & underwriting, competitive financing options, and access to the trade partners to decrease the time taken to evaluate and close on investment opportunities and increase the likelihood of successful and profitable exits.

Divvy Homes is a tech-enabled real estate platform that facilitates rent-to-own home purchases. Divvy is backed by GIC, Lennar, Caffeinated Capital, a16z, SciFi VC. Divvy was incubated in Max Levchin's startup studio HVF by Adena Hefets, previously of Square, and Brian Ma, previously of Zillow - along with cofounders Nick Clark and Alex Klarfeld. We founded Divvy to make homeownership, and all the power that comes with it, accessible to everyone. Because a home of your own isn’t just a resting place. It’s freedom, and it’s security. It’s a legacy—and a chance to build wealth for everyone who comes after you.

NAI Northern California is the full-service outpost of NAI Global, the world’s largest network of commercial real estate brokers. With three offices in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, we lead commercial real estate investments throughout the Bay Area, across Northern California, and around the country and the world thanks to the far-reaching NAI platform. Here locally, our team delivers CRE services with a heightened awareness of the technology that drives our region. Our advisors are the most tech-empowered of any under the NAI brand, maximizing the value we create for our clients, the industry, and our community. But we share more than just the tech of our neighbors. We share a mindset. Here it’s not enough to just be aware of what is. We’re also keenly focused on what could be. In Northern California, entrepreneurial thinking is habitual, and it’s a built-in mentality that we bring to every transaction. Since our founding in 2004, we’ve lived through booms and busts, recessions and crises, technological and social upheaval, and have continued to grow year after year. We credit our growth to our diverse client base and the practice of solving every real estate challenge they can present. The Bay Area attracts the entire world, and with this comes countless experiences, backstories, and points of view. Our clients give us the perspective to see a path through any challenge. Our three offices have us surrounding the Bay, and we are annually recognized as a Top-10 CRE Firm by the San Francisco Business Times and the East Bay Business Times. We employ more than 70 people organized into lean mutually-supportive divisions, offering the following services: Acquisitions, Dispositions, Leasing & Subleasing, Marketing Services, Market Research, Property Management, Landlord Representation, Tenant Representation, User Purchases, Build-to-Suit, Site Analysis/Due Diligence, Sale/Leaseback, Consulting & Planning, Receivership & REO, Disposition, and more.

EquityMultiple is a commercial real estate investment and technology firm whose mission is to build investor wealth through streamlined access to diverse real estate investment products. To date, EquityMultiple’s investors have participated in over $4 billion in commercial real estate transactions through its online investing platform. The firm pairs innovative technology with real estate experience and industry-leading investor services to offer an unparalleled investing experience. For more information, please visit equitymultiple.com.

GROUNDFLOOR was born out of the belief that there is a fundamentally better way to capitalize America. We believe a critical mass of individuals can keep an important part of our economy moving. Concentrating capital allocation among the few unnecessarily constricts liquidity in times of financial stress. When lending is financed through millions of individual decisions, we are free. GROUNDFLOOR is the first and only company qualified by the SEC under Regulation A that offers debt-secured residential real estate investment opportunities to accredited and non-accredited investors alike. Our unique positioning within the wealthtech industry stems from our innovative use of existing securities law to structure a private debt market -- real estate loans -- as simple investment securities that everyone can access simply and directly, regardless of their wealth or financial status. GROUNDFLOOR is strategically positioned to deliver unique value, especially in these uncertain times. We were built for this. Since our inception seven years ago, investors have enjoyed average annualized returns of over 10% each year (10.60% in 2019). This past year, registered users on our platform exceeded 75,000 and annual investment volume topped $100M (a 110% YoY increase from 2018), signaling the public’s overwhelmingly positive response to our industry-disrupting model. We have also originated 1,542 loans in 31 states, including 640 in 2019 alone.

Tellus is a financial technology platform on a mission to help users build wealth through our line of passive income products. We offer a variety of high-yield cash accounts that pay 5.20% APY (as of July 7, 2023), all while keeping you completely out of the stock or crypto markets. Transfer any amount and start immediately with 5.20%-5.90% APY compounded daily. We use bank-level AES-256 encryption to protect your money and provide peace of mind. With us, you’re liquid. So you can move your money to and from your bank account whenever you choose without fearing fees. Since its founding in 2016 by two Stanford and Berkeley grads, Tellus has remained true to its mission of envisioning a world where wealth creation through real estate is available to everyone. With recent funding from leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, we look forward to continuing to forge together an enriching journey of asset and wealth management for the world.

Unlock the potential of every investment partnership. Juniper Square empowers GPs and LPs to focus on building enduring relationships and exceptional investment opportunities. Our partnership enablement solutions empower investment partners to connect and communicate seamlessly across every interaction, freeing teams from the disjointed and siloed systems, operations, and processes holding organizations back from realizing their full potential today.

Zweispace is helping real estate industry with the power of technology and to improve the customers beyond. We develop real estate applications, include in Robot Architect AutoCalc and Earthquake Resistant Measurement Application Namazu, and patented blockchain applications in real estate industry. In 2019, we are awarded Top PropTech Company in APAC region, also awarded Smart Contract patens, Robot Architect AI and IoT patents, including earthquake solution technologies. We developed inheritance smart contract with our Smarter Contract platform, and started to provide solutions in construction and financial industry as well. Zweispace was selected as Plug and Play batch and won the start up award in real estate and construction domain at the summer summit . Zweispace will keep providing industry standard solutions in blockchain and AI industry, with our ability to invent and build to fit.

For the last 3 years, Rabbu has partnered with property investors to generate higher yields on their Real Estate portfolio through short-term rentals (<30 day stays). Their team now has unlocked solutions to capture increased demand for furnished mid-term (30 to 180 days) and long-term (180+ days) rentals and is able to simultaneously market homes under those 3 strategies to capture the highest demand and revenue for its investor clients. Their in-house operations and marketing technology stack allows them to underwrite/procur properties, market the properties, seamlessly transition between tenant types, report on financials, automate access,and more. Rabbu is a total Asset Management solution.

Real estate is not only serving the needs of residence but has become an industry attracting trillions of dollars worth of investments. With high cost of entry, expensive research/accessibility into deals and limited liquidation options; every investor was facing elevated overhead. Realesto is going to solve all that. Using our token-based web3 platform and access to most lucrative real estate deals, we are going to make it easy for every investor to be successful in achieving their net return goals and earn consistent income.