Fundrise
Connect API
The Fundrise Connect API gives financial platforms and investment apps the ability to natively offer access to institutional-grade, private-market alternative investments.
Why Fundrise Connect API
One-time integration,
tech-forward solutions
The Fundrise Connect API is a first-of-its-kind set of APIs that allows any platform to natively offer Fundrise products to their investors, delivering access to billions of dollars worth of institutional-quality private market investments without the typical high costs or accreditation requirements.
As Fundrise continues to develop additional investment vehicles, our API will expose them automatically, giving any platform the option to be at the bleeding edge of alternative assets.
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Why alternatives
The demand for alternatives is at an all-time high
Demand for alternative investments is exploding. We make it easy for you to natively offer the asset classes your clients want but typically can't access, increasing investor satisfaction and keeping more dollars on your platform.
Capture the growing demand
Over the past several years changing external macro conditions have exposed the limitations of a traditional 60/40 portfolio.
As a result, many asset managers are now looking to alternative assets as a source of both greater diversification and stability.
For decades, large institutional investors have adopted a more modern version of portfolio theory, allocating anywhere from 20-50% of their total portfolio away from public markets and towards private-market alternatives. However, most individual investors have still yet to adopt this strategy with a recent 2023 Bain report suggesting that while individual investors hold roughly 50% of the world's total assets, they only hold roughly 16% of the world's alternative assets.
Average allocation to alternatives
Sources: Preqin; GlobalData; Bain analysis
| Category | Private markets | Public markets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regulation | More limited | SEC regulated | High |
| Liquidity | Little to none | Quarterly liquidity | Instant / Daily |
| Volatility | Lower | Low | Higher |
| Returns | Typically higher | Typically higher risk-adjusted | Typically lower |
| Fees | Higher | Lower | Lower |
| Access | UHNW / Institutional | Anyone | Anyone |
A unique mix of the private and public markets
As this strategy for producing more stable returns has become increasingly mainstream, the demand for alternatives has grown rapidly.
However, without the same systems as public markets the question becomes: How can individual investors access the same kind of investments as family offices and institutions?
And how do today's modern investment platforms and apps make these types of investments available without the need for excessive overhead costs or other transaction related fees?
The answer: The Fundrise Connect API
Why Fundrise
Leverage our billion-dollar scale and technology
Fundrise's history of regulatory and technological innovation gives us a unique position to offer The Connect API.
Fundrise is one of the first and largest, technology enabled alternative investment platforms in the world and from day one was designed specifically to serve individual investors. We manage more than $7 billion worth of assets and serve more than 2 million people. We've also engineered the industry's first end-to-end, fully integrated technology platform — a proprietary software system that manages everything from investor servicing to fund management and asset management.
The Fundrise Connect API is both a first-of-its-kind and the culmination of over a decade of enmeshing industry-leading technology with world-class asset management.
Get set up
Fundrise's Connect API is organized around REST. Our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs, accepts form-encoded request bodies, returns JSON-encoded responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.
You can use the Connect API in test mode, and it won't affect your live data or interact with your custodian or other related third parties.
We have worked with a majority of the top banks, sponsors, and capital brokers in the market, establishing a reputation as a good partner.
