Manifest is building a financial protocol that brings U.S. residential home-equity private-equity investments on-chain, letting anyone buy exposure in under 30 seconds. Its flagship product, $USH, is a token backed by Home Equity Investments (HEIs) that offers private-equity-style exposure to owner-occupied U.S. housing with the liquidity, composability and transparency of stablecoins. Capital is deployed swiftly, enabling property purchases at roughly 50% discounts to fair-market home values while every position is recorded on-chain for real-time auditability. The company targets the $35 trillion U.S. home-equity market and allows tokens to be borrowed, leveraged, or integrated across DeFi protocols, promising perpetual tax deferral and lower fees versus traditional real-estate funds. Founded by Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward (previously built and exited mortgage platform Roostify) and Robert V. Lee, Manifest graduated from crypto accelerators CV and Alliance. With its new funding, the team plans to launch $USH publicly, cement DeFi integrations, and craft additional real-world-asset financial instruments. No revenue or user counts were disclosed, but the firm positions itself as the first to make U.S. private-equity real estate globally investable at blockchain speed.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Mar 2025