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Investment thesis
RWT Horizons is a strategic venture platform that invests in seed and early-stage financial and real estate technology companies. It focuses on startups whose technologies are accretive to Redwood Trust's residential and business purpose lending platforms. By leveraging deep insights into housing finance and real estate, the fund offers entrepreneurs access to its ecosystem plus flexible financing solutions. Investments aim to drive innovation that reduces inefficiencies, promotes scalability, and benefits Redwood's customers, counterparties, and investors.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 27, 2026.
Team · 1 people
from public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 25 of 33 portfolio companiesPropTech ×14Fintech ×12SaaS ×10AI & Machine Learning ×9Enterprise Software ×7Data & Infrastructure ×3Marketplaces ×3B2B Marketplaces ×2
HQs:United States×17
Who they back
founder profiles across 16 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×52 founders×23 founders×54+ founders×4
Where their founders studiedfrom 20 founders with education data
Stanford University ×4University of California, Berkeley ×3Harvard University ×2Princeton University ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 18 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×7Business & Management ×4Engineering ×4Economics ×3Mathematics & Statistics ×3Finance & Accounting ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 19 founders with career history
Google ×4Goldman Sachs ×2Microsoft ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 33 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12023 · 12022 · 22019 · 15 dated
An ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling people and computers to work together creatively
Enterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
David Luan(Founder)inAshish Vaswani(Founder)Niki Parmar(Founder)Augustus Odena(Co-founder)Maxwell Nye(Co-founder)inErich Elsen(Co-founder)
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAdditionAir Street CapitalAtlassian VenturesGeneral CatalystGreylock Partners+10 more
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Aerwave provides managed Wi-Fi infrastructure solutions for multifamily residential properties, serving apartment communities and property owners through retrofit, new construction, and takeover deployment models.
IoTPropTechPlano, US
Alexander Wey(Chief Executive Officer)Jeffrey Pennett(Chief Technology Officer)Daniel Jensen(Chief Revenue Officer)inJeffrey Kok(Chief Operating Officer)inEd Wolff(Chief Executive Officer)inRobert Grosz(Director)
Co-investorsModerne Ventures
Amenify builds a platform that connects residents in apartment communities with local services, merchants, and online brands, enabling in-home shopping and service delivery.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesPropTechSaaS
Everett(CEO)
Co-investorsRET VenturesDreamit VenturesMontage CapitalShadow Ventures
Beams is an AI project management tool that transcribes desktop meetings and automatically tracks decisions, action items, and project risks, turning discussions and project data into a searchable knowledge base.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechSaaS
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesCanaan Partners
Bonus Homes offers a financial product that allows homeowners to access immediate liquidity from their home equity while retaining ownership and participating in future appreciation.
FintechMarketplacesPropTech
Co-investorsEast 11 VenturesNextView VenturesRareBreed VenturesAlpaca VC
Closinglock provides a platform for title and settlement companies to prevent real estate wire fraud, handle secure digital payments (earnest money deposits and cash to close), verify identities, and manage closing communications.
CybersecurityFintechPropTechAustin, US
Andrew White(Executive Officer, Director)Andy White, Ph.D.(Founder)inWeston Conway(Executive Officer)inAbigail Holloway White(Executive Officer)Abigail White(Founder)Andy White(Founder)
Co-investorsLiveOak VenturesSageview CapitalGTMfundHeadline
Cortex is an AI workspace that runs locally on accountants' devices to automate bookkeeping, bank reconciliation, month-end adjustments, and financial reporting without uploading client files to the cloud.
AI & Machine LearningFintechFuture of WorkSaaS
Crosslayer Labs provides cybersecurity solutions that discover, analyze, and monitor network infrastructure vulnerabilities across multiple layers to protect HTTPS websites and APIs from attacks.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Henry Birge-Lee(Founder)inGrace Cimaszewski(Founder)inPrateek Mittal(Founder)in
Co-investorsVectro FundY CombinatorArray Ventures Management LlcBlast.ClubCleo CapitalFounders Factory+4 more
Los Altos, US
Jonas Bordo(Executive Officer, Director)inRosalind Bordo(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlackhorn VenturesUlu Ventures
Flock Homes is a real estate investment platform that provides individual investors access to professionally managed residential rental properties across multiple U.S. markets.
FintechPropTechDenver, US
Ariel Rubin(Executive Officer, Director)Ari Rubin(Founder)inJake Sparkman(Founder)Matt Litovitz(Founder)
BoardAlex Rampell(Director)inBradley Svrluga(Director)in
Co-investors1Sharpe VenturesAndreessen HorowitzBoxGroupFJ LabsHuman CapitalMVP Ventures+7 more
Freemodel operates a software-based marketplace that handles pre-sale home renovations for homeowners, managing design, contractor coordination, and project delivery.
B2B MarketplacesConsumerMarketplacesPropTechCalifornia, US
Jesse Lindeman(Founder)inJohn Garner(Founder)
Co-investors1Sharpe VenturesCore Venture CapitalFJ LabsQED InvestorsCrossbeam Venture Partners
FutureProof is a Managing General Agent offering AI-based property insurance for condos, homeowners, and commercial properties, focusing on Excess & Surplus lines in areas exposed to hurricane wind, wildfire, severe convective storms, and flood.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechInsurTech
Co-investorsBlackhorn VenturesCarnrite VenturesCLAI VenturesDangerous VenturesKeiki CapitalMS&AD Ventures+5 more
Haven is a digital platform that simplifies home financing and mortgage management for homeowners by connecting them with mortgage companies.
FintechMarketplacesPropTechSaaSNew York City, US
Aditya Acharya(Founder)inNipun Kant(Founder)inJonathan Chao(Founder)in
Co-investors1Sharpe VenturesConversion CapitalEmles Venture PartnersGoAhead VenturesSoma CapitalY Combinator+16 more
Ihab Ilyas(Founder)Justin Levandoski(Founder)
Co-investorsPage One Ventures
Hum provides white-label internet shopping and enrollment solutions for residential property managers and operators, allowing them to offer internet services to residents while retaining brand control and revenue.
Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkPropTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Dann Petty(Founder)
Co-investorsID VenturesMichigan RiseY Combinator
Laminr provides AI-powered bank statement analysis for income verification in non-qualified mortgage lending.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investorsReformation Partners
LeaseLock offers Zero Deposit, a product that replaces upfront security deposits for renters while providing risk protection and bad-debt coverage for property owners and managers.
FintechInsurTechPropTechMarina Del Rey, US
Derek Merrill(Executive Officer, Director)inReichen Allen Kuhl(Executive Officer, Director)Reichen KuhJanine Steiner Jovanovic(Chief Executive Officer)inOliver Gratry(Chief Financial Officer)inGreg Willett(Chief Economist)in
Co-investors500 GlobalAmerican Family VenturesClocktower VenturesEvolution VC PartnersMucker CapitalNiya Partners+6 more
LiquidFi builds blockchain-based infrastructure for the lending ecosystem, maintaining verifiable histories of loan data, documents, payments, and ownership for use in loan trading, servicing, compliance, and audit.
Crypto & Web3FintechPropTech
LiquidFi builds an ecosystem platform for the post-origination mortgage market, addressing transparency, efficiency, and cost challenges across loan purchasing, servicing, securitization, and trading.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Ian Ferreira(Founder)in
Credit card that gives rewards on mortgage payments
Co-investorsClocktower VenturesFJ LabsRed Sea Ventures
AI agents that learn on the job to become domain experts for reliable and scalable intelligence
Palo Alto, US
Xiang Deng(Founder)Yu Su(Founder)
Co-investorsCambium CapitalWalden CatalystCelesta Capital
Purlin provides an integrated platform for real estate professionals that consolidates customer relationship management, listings, marketing, transactions, and website management into one system powered by AI workflows.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwarePropTechSaaS
Ilya Dorfman(Founder)in
Rent Butter provides tenant screening and verification software for landlords and property managers.
PropTechChicago, US
Tom Raleigh(Founder)inChristopher Rankin(Founder)inChris Rankin(Founder)
Co-investorsRET VenturesGreat Wave Ventures
Rentroom is property management software for landlords and property managers that automates rent collection, maintenance requests, tenant screening, leasing with eSignatures, and portfolio management.
FintechPropTechSaaSNew York, US
Alex Britton(Founder)inAustin Brooks(Director)Robert Abelson(Director)
Sentient develops open-source AI research and tools that enable AI agents to self-improve, reason, and learn autonomously using benchmarks and datasets.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Himanshu Tyagi(Founder)Kenzi Wang(Founder)Pramod Viswanath(Founder)Sandeep Nailwal(Founder)
Co-investorsPantera CapitalCanonical CryptoDelphi VenturesFounders FundFramework VenturesHack VC+2 more
Tongo provides financial products for 1099 professionals in the commission economy, offering commission advances and tailored financial solutions to help independent contractors grow their businesses.
FintechPropTechSaaS
Luis Scull(Executive Officer, Director)Jackson Feder(Director)Brandon Wright(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsElizabeth Street VenturesGood FriendsLAB VenturesLaunchpad CapitalMetaPropMetaProp Ventures+3 more
TrustPointAI provides software and AI solutions for construction finance lending.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Co-investorsFINTOP CapitalNavitas CapitalOPAMP CAPITALUNION Labs Ventures
Voyage AI provides embedding models and reranker technologies for unstructured data retrieval, enabling semantic search and improved contextual information retrieval with optimized performance for specialized domains.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Hong Liu(Founder)inKaidi Cao(Founder)Tengyu Ma(Founder)
Co-investorsCRV (Charles River Ventures)FusionPear VCTectonic VenturesWingDatabricks Ventures
Witness Chain runs a decentralized network, built on EigenLayer's security, that generates cryptographic proofs for real-world events and data through mechanisms like Proof of Location.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeep Tech
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Canopy RentConnected Resident PlatformMemoriouspicket site
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesCrosslayer Labs · techcrunch.com · Mar 26, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has RWT Horizons made?
- RWT Horizons has 33 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does RWT Horizons invest at?
- RWT Horizons invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does RWT Horizons focus on?
- RWT Horizons focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Construction Tech, Crypto & Web3, Fintech, InsurTech, PropTech.
- Where is RWT Horizons located?
- RWT Horizons is headquartered in Orange, US.
- Who does RWT Horizons co-invest with?
- RWT Horizons most often shares deals with 1Sharpe Ventures, FJ Labs, Y Combinator, among 81 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 2
MS&AD Ventures is the corporate venture arm backed by MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, investing in early-stage technology companies across insurtech, fintech, digital health, AI and related sectors.
Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture fund that invests in founders and supports venture creation through pre-team and pre-idea programs. The firm provides portfolio companies with access to mentors, advisors, and an entrepreneur ecosystem.
Firms observed investing alongside RWT Horizons, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with RWT Horizons's recorded portfolio.
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