We set out to build a better way to invest Real estate has historically been one of the best performing investment assets and a core part of many of the most successful investor’s portfolios. 1 But investing in real estate (the way institutions do) traditionally hasn’t been available to most investors without either meeting high net worth requirements or going through a complex and inefficient process, riddled with high fees and outdated middlemen. 2 We started Fundrise with a simple idea: to use technology to make high-quality real estate investments available to everyone at a low cost. In the beginning, we faced our fair share of skeptics, especially within the institutional investment industry. They said our idea wasn’t possible. Turns out, they were wrong. Since launching our first offering in 2012, we’ve invested in more than $4 billion worth of real estate across the country. Today, we manage more than $1 billion of equity on behalf of more than 371,000 individual investors.