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Ben Miller Co-founder & CEO. Although our business and the technology we build has continued to evolve, our mission has always remained the same: to empower the individual investor. That’s why we obsess over things like cost efficiency, minimizing fees, frequent candid communication, and developing smarter tools that provide better insights.
- Invading Private Equity’S Turf
- Lessons from Crises
- A Rental-HOME Epiphany
Traditional private equity players cater primarily to pension funds, endowments, and other institutions, as well as to “qualified” individuals who often are required to harbor a net worth in the millions. Their minimum investments are typically set at several hundred thousand dollars or more. By contrast, the average Fundrise member is staking just...
Miller’s rollercoaster pre-Fundrise career taught him that in real estate, you need a strategy built to surmount hard times. As a student at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1990s, Miller worked as an analyst for renowned Philadelphia property investor Ira Lubert. After graduating, Miller told Lubert he’d decided to join a glamorous brick...
Until 2015, Fundrise remained a crowdfunding operation, with investors buying into individual loans or properties only. Most of its investments comprised loans to developers renovating apartment complexes in emerging neighborhoods, notably in Brooklyn and Washington. But Miller saw that urban housing was becoming less and less affordable, and in 20...
- Shawn Tully
- shawn.tully@fortune.com
Sep 6, 2021 · Founding Fundrise and the growth of Fractional Investing: Fundrise is now the 20th largest real estate investor and has 200,000 investors on its platform. Fundrise allows for retail...
Feb 13, 2024 · For Ben Miller, CEO of direct-to-consumer asset manager Fundrise, this challenge points to a different kind of strategy: investing in the data infrastructure that will power the evolution...
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Jul 9, 2021 · CEO Ben Miller told Insider that he went from being seen as "crazy" to partnering with some of the largest institutions, while others like Blackstone and KKR follow behind.
- Alex Nicoll
Fundrise was founded in 2010 by brothers Ben and Dan Miller and launched in 2012 before the passing of the JOBS Act, which enacted securities regulation to streamline the process of equity crowdfunding in the United States.
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Aug 1, 2023 · “Who is Ben Miller from Fundrise?” you asked. He is a visionary who dared to challenge the status quo and make real estate investing accessible and profitable to anyone. This led him to the innovative idea of creating Fundrise, a breakthrough platform in real estate investing.
