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ServiceTitan’s IPO: an Innovation Fund milestone

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ServiceTitan’s IPO: an Innovation Fund milestone

ServiceTitan celebrates its transition to a public company becoming the first innovation fund portfolio company to IPO.

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Why Venture

Same problem, different asset

Like real estate, the world of investing in private technology companies has remained almost entirely inaccessible to individuals, despite the fact that as an asset class it has proven to be one of (if not the) best performing investment strategies of the past 50 years.

Vast majority of returns accrue in the private markets

With companies staying private longer, the vast majority of the returns from private tech has accrued to the private investors before the public offering. Plus, access is gated, with hefty tolls, by fund managers and growth equity firms, just as in the real estate private equity world.

During the 90's and early 00's, companies like Amazon and Google went public relatively soon in their growth cycle, while companies today are waiting on average 10 years longer. The result: individual investors confined to the public markets are missing out on a substantial portion of the returns generated by the next generation of industry leaders.

Hear about how we plan to transform venture
Created with Highcharts 9.0.1Standard Deviation (Percent)Annual Return (Percent)Risk and reward for asset classes, 1984‑2015InflationInflationTreasury billsTreasury billsBuyout fundsBuyout fundsTreasury bondsTreasury bondsCommoditiesCommoditiesLarge cap equitiesLarge cap equitiesMid cap equitiesMid cap equitiesVenture capitalVenture capitalInvestment grade bondsInvestment grade bondsREITsREITsSmall capequitiesSmall capequitiesNon-U.S.equitiesNon-U.S.equities0510152025-50510152025

Source: Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson, and Steven N. Kaplan, “How Do Private Equity Investments Perform Compared to Public Equity?” Journal of Investment Management, Vol. 14, No. 3, Third Quarter 2016, 1-24; Steve Kaplan, “What Do We Know About Private Equity Performance?” Guest Lecture at Miami Herbert Business School, January 31, 2020; Steve Kaplan, “What Do Venture Capitalists Do? How Well Have They Done?” University of Chicago Booth School of Business; FactSet; NAREIT; Refinitiv; and Aswath Damodaran.

Note: Past performance is no guarantee of future returns; All asset classes reflect 1984-2015 except for VC, which reflects 1984-2013; Return for Buyout and VC is measured by weighted average internal rate of return (IRR); All asset classes are for the U.S. except for Non-U.S. Equities and Commodities (Buyout and VC have a North American focus).

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Individuals only
able to participate
after IPO
Venture capital
consumes most
of the upside
pre-IPO

Source: University of Florida Warrington College of Business

Featured Fund

Innovation Fund

Our Innovation Fund intends to invest in a diversified portfolio largely composed of private high-growth technology companies, with an initial focus on several sectors that we believe have exceptional macro tailwinds.

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$252M+

dollars raised

74K+

active investors

Sectors

  • Modern Data Infrastructure

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  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

  • Development Operations (DevOps)

  • Financial Technology (FinTech)

  • Real Estate & Property Technology (PropTech)

Figures as of 7/31/2025

The Fundrise Difference

Founders and engineers

With growth equity investing, it’s harder to participate in blue-chip private funding rounds than it is to identify the blue-chip companies. However, we believe Fundrise has a distinct advantage in the crowded space of venture funding.

Technical expertise

Our decades of first-hand experience building and operating tech companies gives us a deep understanding of the daily challenges and trade-offs a growing company faces. With over 100 software engineers and product managers on staff, we have more software depth and expertise than most venture funds.

Extensive reach

As the largest direct-to-investor alternative asset manager in the country, we offer portfolio companies in-app exposure to nearly 2 million people—many of whom work in technology. Not only can this potentially drive new customers, recruiting, brand recognition, and near-term revenue for our portfolio companies, it can also provide critical name recognition for when it’s time to IPO.

Patient and passive capital

We’ve engineered our investment infrastructure to enable us to be the most patient and passive source of capital on the market, eliminating any incentive to meddle with a founder/CEO’s long-term vision for the sake of our own short-term image or profits.

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