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Lofty

Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2019 · 7 employees

Building the NASDAQ for Real Estate.

About Lofty

Where is Lofty headquartered?

Lofty is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

What does Lofty do?

Building the NASDAQ for Real Estate.

What problem does Lofty solve?

Traditional real estate investing involves headaches, lockups, and waiting periods that make it hard to get liquid rental income and appreciation.

What's Lofty's solution?

Lofty is a fractional real estate investing platform where users buy, sell, and own shares of individual rental properties.

What makes Lofty different?

The site emphasizes no lockups and the ability to sell shares anytime, citing specific scale claims of $100M+ invested, $5.2M+ distributed to investors, and 40K+ investors.

What makes Lofty notable?

A Y Combinator (S19) company founded in 2018 by Max Ball and Jerry Chu, based in Los Angeles.

Industry
Fintech
Founded
2019
HQ
Los Angeles, CA
Employees
7
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