About CrowdStreet
The CrowdStreet Story
Making the markets work better for everyone.
During the Great Recession, our co-founders Tore Steen and Darren Powderly saw how many people were overly reliant on Wall Street for their investment opportunities. Realizing the importance of diversification outside of public equities, combined with the rise of a new investment vehicle known as equity crowdfunding, the two co-founded CrowdStreet in order to give individual investors better access to real estate, the 3rd-largest asset class in the U.S.

We’re reinventing real estate investing to deliver better financial outcomes.
Together–the investors, sponsors, and partners of CrowdStreet–we are reinventing real estate investing end-to-end. Fundamental to this transformation is a major shift, not only in how investors and sponsors connect online, but also in how we can create a more efficient, transparent, and trustworthy market for all participants.
By combining our team’s commercial real estate investment expertise with our proprietary technology, CrowdStreet gives individual investors direct access to a range of investment opportunities and all the online tools needed to manage those investments. As of 7.7.2023 , thousands of investors have invested over $4.16 billion in more than 777 projects.

Deliver the best online real estate investing experience and make it easy for individual investors to diversify their portfolios.
With direct access to commercial real estate opportunities, CrowdStreet enables accredited investors to diversify their portfolios with the 3rd-largest asset class in our country.
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The CrowdStreet team has 120+ years of combined experience in real estate, software development, online marketing, and private equity.

Jack Chandler
Interim Chief Executive Officer

Darren Powderly
Co-Founder, Chief Business Development Officer

Ian Formigle
Chief Investment Officer

Kristen Howell
General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

Sheldon Chang
President, CrowdStreet Advisors

Genni Combes
Chief Financial Officer

Jack Chandler
Interim Chief Executive Officer

Tore Steen
Co-Founder

Dino Vendetti
Seven Peaks Ventures

Jeff Hinck
Rally Ventures

Lawson DeVries
Grotech Ventures
Meet our Board of Advisors

Tom Byrne
Real Dynamics

Lew Feldman
Heritage Commercial Real Estate & Technology Ventures

Chris Keber
Shelter Acquisition Corp.

Shawn Lese
Nuveen Real Estate
Crowdstreet in the News
CrowdStreet Announces the Next Phase in Its Evolution
Broker-Dealer Designation, Planned Launch of First Brokered Offering Unlocks Institutional-Level Services for Accredited Investors
Read MoreCelebrating Nine Years of Reinventing Real Estate Investing: a Journey Through CrowdStreet's Milestones
Democratizing access to private real estate investments and creating a positive impact
Read MoreNuveen’s Shawn Lese Joins CrowdStreet Board of Advisors
Industry leader in commercial real estate investment management and financial services brings perspective as an innovator to online investing platform CrowdStreet
Read MoreFinancial Titans Invest $43 Million in CrowdStreet to Fund Growth and Accelerate Demand for Online Real Estate Investing
TIAA Ventures, Dinerstein Companies, Foulger-Pratt and others back CrowdStreet. With this support, "we can accelerate our efforts to provide even more investing products, helping our investors build their financial freedom through direct real estate investing," CEO says.
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