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Making New Friends
Sourcing the best emerging operators

Little kids make new friends easily. They meet on the playground. They share snacks at school. They wear each other’s shoes home by accident on the first day of Kindergarten (true story!).
In business, it’s not as easy as wearing each other’s shoes home. You have to be out there pressing palms and heaven forbid and excuse the cliche, “adding value.” Maybe playing a little golf too!
It’s hard freaking work. And just as rewarding as sharing snacks in the lunchroom.
Part of the special sauce with what we’re building at Unwritten is the hundreds of venture investments that we’ve made into startups innovating in real estate and the built world.
Note - we are starting to have conversations for our next venture fund. Our first vehicle has a dozen plus breakout winners. Send us a note if you want to learn more.
We work with those portfolio founders daily.
We are also constantly speaking with real estate investors and owners.
This gives us an edge on both sides with companies and investors. OpCo and PropCo so to speak.
It also puts us in a unique (and fun!) position helping the companies build and also having first looks at the best emerging real estate platforms with these teams.
We love hearing about the latest and greatest. Tons of smart folks working on new and creative ways to play in the antiquated real estate industry we all find ourselves in.
If you’re an operator building the next big thing - we want to meet you.
Investors looking to get ahead of the next institutional real estate asset class – we’ll get the best deals in front of you.
Shoot us a note: [email protected]
PS. In the future, we’ll share more about some of these firms we’ve already partnered with - their thesis, operations, growth plans, etc. If there are things you want to hear more about, let us know and we’ll make it happen!
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