Meet our team
Tech & home construction vets
Isaac Lidsky
General Partner
Six-time tech startup founder. $230m adtech exit. $200m+ construction services company; NYT Best Selling Author; TED Talk with 3m+ views. Active PE angel with focus on technology and healthcare; U.S. Supreme Court clerk (O’Connor, RBG)
Harvard Law School, J.D. magna cum laude; Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society; Editor, Harvard Law Review; Harvard College, Math and Computer Science A.B. cum laude.
Erich Wasserman
General Partner
Cofounder & CRO MediaMath; Executive Director national civil liberties NGO. Startup investor, advisor in adtech, fintech.
Univ. of Virginia, B.A. Political Theory and Classical Piano
Julia Wasserman
General Partner
Product strategy and operations leader with a particular expertise in and passion for aligning organizational values and principles to business practice
Led Responsible AI for Google Cloud’s AI and Industry Solutions; Google for EDU product strategist; Portfolio management for $9b AUM asset manager
Univ. of California, Berkeley Haas MBA
Univ. of Virginia, B.A. Economics
Tech, operations, home finance expertise
Dan Halperin
CTO
Former software developer for Israeli Defense Force’s intelligence unit; Cofounded multiple web2 startups; Founded a web3 development studio servicing high tier clients.
Elliott Conway
Product Manager
Web3 and DAO enthusiast; has a deep passion for decentralized software, and the potential it has for improving coordination.
Member of multiple DAOs, through which he has managed the development or been a core contributor to over a dozen web3 projects. Beyond web3, has operated a web2 development agency for 5 years, and before that, managed a media production studio.
Emerson College B.A. cum laude
Dan OneTree
Lead Developer
Software developer with a focus on web3 technologies. Currently contributing to the development and maintenance of several open-source codebases while working with multiple DAOs.
Passionate about using technology to create a postive change, with a particular interest in blockchain, DAOs, and NFTs.
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, B.Tech
Joe Tennant
Financial Management and Operations Support
Web3 Finance Professional. A member of several DAOs and a true believer in DeFi and its potential to reshape our society for the better.
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith MBA
West Virginia University, B.S. Industrial Engineering
Paul Gozzo
Business Development Lead
20 years of residential real estate investing experience; head of business development for RESICAP where he helped to grow RESICAP's services beyond Atlanta HQ to 38 states and 59 cities; early stage investor in service-related real estate companies.
Graduate of Amherst College
Zach Prater
Community Manager
Business Development and Ecosystem Growth at Cartesi, an L2 scaling solution; financial analyst; community development enthusiast; passionate about DeFi and its real world applications; chef.
Invest in the earliest stage of
home value creation
Collective is the first fractional equity platform to enable investors to earn compelling equity returns on the construction of new single-family homes. Investors easily invest in new homes and profit from their sale.
Buy equity in new home construction projects
Invest in the construction of new homes from the ground up, realizing gains from the earliest point in the value chain when those homes sell.
Collective makes it easy
Collective’s Project Sponsors create, manage, sell new home construction projects for you. To align incentives, they invest alongside you — on the same terms — and typically group multiple homes into each project, further mitigating and diversifying risk.
Help close the housing gap
Millions of people need homes that do not exist. Collective attracts new capital to new home construction so that we can build more homes, together.
The first Project Sponsor on Collective is focused in high-demand areas in Central Florida
State:
Florida (FL)
Region:
Central Florida
Advantages of the area for investment:
Focused on building in Marion, Lake, Brevard, Citrus, and Orange counties, hosting thriving markets. Housing data as of March 2023 saw YoY home appreciation in these counties ranging 12-22% according to Rocket Homes analysis of public MLS data and ranging 5-10% as of March 2023 according to Zillow’s ZHVI index. Data available includes sales and home values of both existing and new construction.
Population increase (est. 1,000 ppl/week moving to Central Florida)
46% of new Orlando residents who moved from outside Florida within the last year are prime working age – between the ages of 25 and 54 – and only 12% are over the age of 65
As of Q1 2023, ~50-60% homes sold in under 30 days; ~30% sold in 30-90 days across counties of focus
Trusted, existing building supply chain with a strong history in Central Florida
What drives us
The U.S. faces a housing shortage of 5.5 million homes. Among the biggest reasons: it's hard for homebuilders to secure the financing they need to build new homes.
Complex, opaque financing practices prevent everyday investors from accessing the market for new home construction, despite historic demand.
No longer. Collective features compelling investment opportunities and makes it easy for accredited or non-U.S. citizens and non-U.S. resident investors to finance new home construction projects directly.
Collective gives the power to build more homes to the communities that need them.
A chronic undersupply of homes with no systemic solutions, until now
