BLEND Funding, Investors & Competitors

Willow Wealth is an online investment platform focused on private markets. Users access opportunities in real estate, private credit, private equity, and diversified funds through a digital interface. The service offers individual deals alongside automated portfolio management for retail investors seeking alternatives to public markets.

Snapdocs is a San Francisco-headquartered digital closing platform automating mortgage transactions for lenders and title companies across the United States. The solution streamlines pre-closing coordination, eClosing, and post-closing through patented AI for document handling and notary matching via extensive settlement networks. Snapdocs integrates with leading loan origination systems and title production software, serving over 400 enterprise clients to reduce cycle times and enhance borrower experiences.

Nesto is a Montreal-headquartered digital mortgage provider founded in 2018 that scans Canadian lenders for competitive rates without broker commissions. The platform offers online pre-approvals, document uploads, and advisor support for home purchases and refinancing. Nesto serves Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia through its app and website, processing thousands of applications monthly.

Homeward is an Austin, Texas-headquartered real estate technology firm that issues cash offers to homebuyers. The platform allows agents to help clients purchase desired properties without contingencies while selling existing homes at market value post-close. Operating in Texas, Georgia, and Colorado, Homeward manages transactions through its mortgage subsidiary and title services. The company aims for nationwide expansion, streamlining the buying process for over 10,000 transactions with integrated financing and relocation support.

Arrived Homes is a real estate investment platform headquartered in Seattle that enables fractional ownership of rental properties. It acquires, renovates, and manages single-family homes across markets like Atlanta and Phoenix, allowing investors to buy shares starting at $100 for passive rental income. The firm handles all property operations and distributes quarterly dividends.

HouseCanary is a San Francisco-headquartered real estate technology company founded in 2013, providing home valuation, analytics, and forecasting tools powered by four years of property data. Accessible via app and API, its platform delivers insights for investors and lenders using geospatial analytics and market predictions across the United States.

Charles Schwab is one of the largest retail-oriented financial-services companies in the US, with $11.9 trillion in client assets across its brokerage, banking, asset management, custody, financial advisory, and wealth-management businesses at the end of 2025. While best known for its retail brokerage offering, Schwab generates the lion’s share of its revenue and profits through its Charles Schwab Bank and asset management segments. The firm is a dominant player in registered investment advisor custody, with over 40% market share, and has recently pushed into wealth management with robo-advisory, direct indexing, and other managed-investment solutions.

Robinhood Markets Inc is creating a modern financial services platform. It designs its own products and services and delivers them through a single, app-based cloud platform supported by proprietary technology. Its vertically integrated platform has enabled the introduction of new products and services such as cryptocurrency trading, dividend reinvestment, fraud detection, derivatives, fractional shares, recurring investments, and others.

Brookfield Corp is an investment firm focused on building long-term wealth for institutions and individuals. It has seven operating segments: Asset Management, Wealth Solutions, Renewable Power and Transition, Infrastructure, Private Equity, Real Estate and Corporate Activities. It invests in real assets that form the backbone of the economy to deliver risk-adjusted returns to stakeholders. The company generates the majority of its revenue from Asset Management. It has a geographic presence in the UK, the United States, Australia, Canada, Brazil, India, Colombia, Germany, Other Europe, Other Asia, and other countries.

Brookfield Asset Management is one of the world's largest alternative-asset managers, with USD 1.151 trillion in total managed assets, including USD 580.7 billion in fee-earning AUM, at the end of September 2025. The company has three main business segments: private credit (USD 349.0 billion in total AUM and USD 262.8 billion in fee-earning AUM), private equity (USD 151.0 billion/USD 46.3 billion), and real estate/real assets (USD 651.0 billion/USD 271.6 billion). The firm primarily serves institutional investors (90% of AUM) and high-net-worth individuals (10%), and is diversified globally, with 67% of revenue from the Americas, 20% from EMEA, and 13% from Asia-Pacific. Canadian-based Brookfield Corporation owns 73% of Brookfield's outstanding Class A shares.