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CrowdStreet

98 San Jacinto Blvd Ste 400, Austin, Texas, 78701, United States

Overview

CrowdStreet is an Austin, TX–based online real estate investing platform that gives investors direct access to a diverse range of commercial real estate opportunities. Led by CEO Tore Steen, the platform enables individual investors to invest in single-property deals, professionally managed funds, and separately managed accounts. Since inception the company has raised over $3.6 billion from individual investors for more than 670 commercial real estate projects across the U.S. In 2021 CrowdStreet's investor community funded $1.2 billion, the company's first billion-dollar year. As of August 2022, 138 investments had been fully realized, producing an average 17.5% IRR and a 1.50x average equity multiple. The company plans to use new funding to improve the technology that powers its platform and to expand into the wealth management channel so financial advisors can help clients add commercial real estate to portfolios. CrowdStreet operates an online marketplace that gives accredited investors access to institutional-quality direct equity investments in commercial real estate. The platform enables sponsors to raise capital through online fundraising and to manage investors both on the Marketplace and via a SaaS solution. Led by CEO Tore Steen and based in Portland, Oregon, the company also leveraged its own platform to facilitate fundraising and investing. CrowdStreet said it intends to use the $12M Series C proceeds to expand operations. The company was on track to raise over $500 million in real estate investment capital through its Marketplace in 2019, more than in its first five years combined. Since inception it has returned more than $80 million in cumulative distributions to thousands of investors across almost every state. CrowdStreet operates an online marketplace and software platform that helps real estate developers and operators raise capital, acquire investors and manage offerings, while enabling high-net-worth individuals to invest in commercial real estate. The company plans to use the new funding to continue building out its fundraising and investment management platform and to accelerate its next stage of growth. Led by CEO Tore Steen, CrowdStreet combines marketplace listings with tools for managing portfolios and investor relationships. The platform reports 100,000+ investors and more than $320 million in capital raised across 220+ offerings. The company is based in Portland, Ore., and positions itself as both a marketplace and software provider for commercial real estate fundraising. CrowdStreet operates an online commercial real estate marketplace and a SaaS-based investor lifecycle management solution. The marketplace enables investors to co-invest alongside commercial real estate developers, operators and capital providers with minimums starting as low as $10,000. Sponsors can publish opportunities on the public marketplace or use Sponsor Direct, a white-label version of the software to publish deals on their own sites. Investors receive access to a secure, sponsor-branded investment website where they can review performance, correspond with sponsors, and download documents. The company will use the $3.5M Series A to further innovate its products and core technology, develop key partnerships and scale its investment platform. Leadership includes co-founder and CEO Tore Steen and co-founder and VP of Business Development Darren Powderly; Jeff Hinck of Rally Ventures will join the board as part of the financing. CrowdStreet operates an online marketplace that connects accredited investors with institutional-quality commercial real estate investment opportunities. Through the platform, investors can find pre-screened commercial real estate opportunities, manage offers, track investment performance and build portfolios by product type, geographic region and targeted return. The company was founded in 2013 and is led by CEO Tore Steen from Portland, Ore. CrowdStreet closed an $800K seed funding round and plans to use the funds to grow its investor membership base, attract new real estate sponsors and continue enhancing its platform. The firm has added Ian Formigle as vice president of Investments and Steve Drew as vice president of Product and Marketing. Board additions tied to the round include Dino Vendetti of Seven Peaks Ventures and Simon Yoo of Green Visor Capital.

Total raised
$67M
Funding rounds
6
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Oct 2022

Industries

  • Crowdfunding
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • PropTech
  • Real Estate Investment
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Oct 2022

    $43M

  2. Series C

    Nov 2019

    $12M

  3. Series B

    Jul 2018

    $8M

  4. Series A

    Mar 2016

    $4M

  5. Seed

    Sep 2014

    $1M

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