Today Fifth Will is proud to announce the launch of Fifth Wall Securities, a FINRA registered broker-dealer focused on delivering high-quality advisory services to its clients. Most recently, Fifth Wall Securities served as an advisor to @IndustriousHQ, a Fifth Wall portfolio company and a leading provider of flexible workplace solutions, in its definitive agreement to be acquired by @CBRE, announced on January 14th, 2025. Fifth Wall has a long history of accelerating the growth of our 150+ portfolio companies through highly strategic engagements with our 110+ strategic LPs. Since the Firm’s inception in 2016, we have helped raise $670M+ of strategic capital across our portfolio and formed 36 SPVs for our portfolio companies. We have also worked across our portfolio and LP network to help form strategic partnerships, such as the Opendoor-Lennar partnership, CBRE-VTS investment, and Lessen-SMS Assist merger. We’ve also been involved in advising successful businesses with our LPs like Pathway Homes with Invitation Homes. Additionally, Fifth Wall affiliates have successfully sponsored and executed two SPACs, Fifth Wall portfolio company SmartRent's merger with Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. I and Mobile Infrastructure Corporation’s merger with Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. III. For more about Fifth Wall Securities, please read our full press release: prnewswire.com/news-releases…

Announcing our latest Flagship Fund.

As a firm proudly founded in Los Angeles, we are deeply concerned and saddened by the devastation of the fires in Los Angeles this week. Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected and who have lost loved ones, lost their homes, lost their businesses, or have been displaced. As of Thursday morning, all of Fifth Wall's team is safe, although our Santa Monica office has been evacuated. We'd encourage everyone to follow updates on the fires on Watch Duty: app.watchduty.org/i/40471 We also encourage others to join us in donating to the CA Fire Foundation: cafirefoundation.org/what-we…

We'd like to congratulate Fifth Wall portfolio company Mojave on raising their $9.5M Series A! axios.com/pro/climate-deals/…

Yesterday we hosted Fifth Wall AI Day to hear from leading real estate owners, investors, and technology entrepreneurs on artificial intelligence's impacts on real estate—today and in the future.

🪨 Fifth Wall CEO & CIO @BrendanFWallace will be giving a fireside chat with @BrimstoneEnergy Co-founder and CEO Cody Finke, Ph.D. at HackSummit on December 13th in at @Newlab in Brooklyn. Brimstone is working hard to make a carbon-negative alternative to ordinary Portland cement commercially viable, that also meets the industry standards for use and safety. In this video, Brendan and Cody discuss Brimstone meeting the ASTM C150 standard, and why this key nod of approval is a big step on their journey to making their cement ubiquitous.

Congratulations to our CEO & CIO @BrendanFWallace and Partner Sarah Liu for being named to @Inman's Best of Proptech List.

💼 What should proptech entrepreneurs focus on when starting and building their companies? Fifth Wall CEO & CIO @BrendanFWallace and @MetaPropNYC Co-Founder and General Partner Zach Aarons discuss what founders should be thinking about. 1. Domain expertise matters. Prior experience in real estate or at a technology startup goes a long way, and it's a great thing to see in a founding team. (Of course this is not a golden rule, and good ideas can come from anywhere.) 2. Product, marketing, and sales all matter. Don't focus on one too much, at the detriment of another: you shouldn't be all sales and no marketing, nor should you be all marketing and no product. They might not all be a 10 out of 10, but it's a balance. They're all key things, and Zach has seen this mistake made a lot. 3. Speak the language of the real estate industry, and understand that your end user wants to see near-immediate return-on-investment when adopting your tech product. Master articulating how your product creates efficiency and improves margins for your end user.

We led @fractionalapp's $15 million Series A.

Our team had a great time featuring our portfolio companies building climate tech for the built environment at VERGE 24 in San Jose, California! Thank you to @trellisgroup_ for hosting this event, and for our portfolio companies for joining us: @Merlin_Solar, Twelve, Mojave Energy Systems, @evrealtyus, @emrgyinc, @SOLARCYCLEUS, @Electric_H2, @WildcatBattery, and @BrimstoneEnergy.

We led Merlin Solar Technologies's $31 million Series B. Saint-Gobain and Ayala Corporation also invested. Merlin makes flexible solar panels that are much more lightweight than a traditional solar panel, meaning they can be installed (via an adhesive sticker) in places that other solar panels can't be. We are excited to work with the Merlin team in their next phase of growth. techcrunch.com/2024/10/27/me…

On our latest investment, Purpose Green

💰 Congratulations to our portfolio company @CyclicMaterials on their $53 million Series B equity round, led by @ArcternVC. New investors in the round include BCD Capital Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Zero Infinity Partners, Climate Investment (CI), and Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund. Existing investors joining the round include Fifth Wall, BMW i Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, and Planetary Technologies. Cyclic is focused on bringing rare earth element production to North America, taking electronics as a feedstock which they can sell as rare earth elements to manufacturers in the United States and Europe. They will use this capital to build out rare earth recycling infrastructure in the U.S. and Europe and grow their team. 📰 Release: lnkd.in/enjrQPhH

Blueprint Main Stage: @_KevinMarchetti of @OneLineage with our CEO & CIO @BrendanFWallace