"Groundfloor"

To reach the elusive 10 year mark, a startup needs to be much more than just a good idea. It needs a team that can navigate the startup through economic…

The first microlending community for real estate announced this morning that they are making it even more accessible for the other 97% of us in the US to invest. Through the innovative application…

GROUNDFLOOR is the first microlending community for real estate that is accessible for investment to all. Through the innovative application of existing securities laws,  they have opened the market for non-accredited…

There’s been a lot of buzz in the startup world recently about the advantages of — wait for it — not raising venture capital dollars. With bootstrapped successes like MailChimp…

High home prices and low housing inventory has stopped many Americans from buying a home over the last year. That has been particularly true across the Southeast, as a recent…

Atlanta-based real estate crowdfunding platform GROUNDFLOOR has closed a round of funding raised through an “online public offering”, a unique fundraising route conducted through the startup’s own platform. In about…

GROUNDFLOOR, the country’s only equity crowdfunding platform for real estate loans, has closed on a second round of capital from public investors. In this offering, which it raised using its own…

During his 15-year startup career, Brian Dally has built successful companies from the ground up. With GROUNDFLOOR, a real estate lending marketplace open to non-accredited investors, CEO Dally has been…

Atlanta-based PadSplit and GROUNDFLOOR have been tackling real estate accessibility from two very different angles over the last few years. Perhaps it was only a matter of time before they…

Fintech startup Alto has raised a $2.8 million seed round, with participation from NerdWallet’s Jake Gibson, Foundation Capital, Sequoia’s Scout Fund, Amplify.LA, and First Check and Green D Funds. The…

It is the latest evidence of financial technology’s impact on traditional banking – not to mention new validation for the impressive Atlanta cluster of fintech startups. That’s two ways to view…

GROUNDFLOOR, a revolutionary real estate lending marketplace open to non-accredited investors, has closed a $5 million Series A, bringing its total financing to $7.5 million. The round was led by…

The housing market has certainly made its share of headlines during COVID.  While commercial real estate all but dried up for a time due to office closures, individual home mortgage…

Last year, the inaugural BuiltTech Week in Atlanta convened 500 experts and enthusiasts of a relatively-new tech field — “BuiltTech” encompasses any technology that assists or works within the built…

Atlanta-based real estate wealthtech platform GROUNDFLOOR has announced the launch of a new program designed to make sure that capital for residential real estate development keeps flowing during the COVID-19…

Have you been inside a bank branch office within the last month? Have you ever used your mobile phone to deposit a check? Kabbage co-founder Kathryn Petralia asked those questions…