Fundrise
Fundrise is a Washington, D.C.-based real estate investment platform founded in 2012 by brothers Ben and Dan Miller, pioneering the democratization of private real estate investing through technology. As one of the first companies to offer direct real estate investment opportunities to non-accredited individual investors through the JOBS Act Regulation A+ exemption, Fundrise has since grown into one of the largest direct-to-investor real estate platforms in the United States, with over $3 billion in assets under management and more than 300,000 individual investors on its platform. The firm is an SEC-registered investment adviser and structures its investment vehicles as non-traded REITs and other registered entities accessible to a wide range of investors.
Fundrise's investment platform provides individual investors with access to diversified portfolios of private real estate assets, including multifamily residential, industrial, and commercial properties primarily across Sun Belt and high-growth markets in the United States. The firm's investment strategies span core-plus and value-add real estate equity, private real estate debt, and opportunistic development projects, with the goal of providing investors with current income, capital appreciation, and inflation protection through direct real estate ownership. Fundrise also offers an Innovation Fund that invests in high-growth private technology companies, reflecting the firm's broader ambition to democratize access to multiple categories of private market investments beyond real estate.
Fundrise has been instrumental in changing how individual investors think about and access alternative investments, demonstrating that technology can dramatically reduce the minimum investment thresholds and operational complexity historically associated with private real estate. The firm's low investment minimums, transparent fee structure, user-friendly digital platform, and regular performance reporting have attracted a large and loyal investor base that has historically been excluded from private real estate markets. As an innovator in the democratization of private market investing, Fundrise continues to expand its platform and product offerings, serving as a model for how technology-driven alternative investment platforms can make institutional-quality strategies accessible to a broader universe of investors.