BuildUp Capital partners with investors who believe disciplined, real-estate-secured lending — underwritten by people who have actually built, bought, and run businesses — is how serious capital should be deployed. We discuss partnership details only in direct conversation, not online.
How we earn the trust
We invest at least 10% of our own capital in every loan we make. We never ask our partners to take a risk we haven’t already taken ourselves.
We verify everything, lend only in markets we know firsthand, only against assets we’d be comfortable owning, and structure multiple exit paths before a dollar moves. We’d rather pass on a hundred deals than force one.
Our co-founder and Chief Investment Officer, Donna Cangelosi, is a former federal trustee and one of the nation’s specialists in complex real estate workouts. The judgment that unwinds hard situations is the same judgment that keeps our portfolio out of them.
Some are looking for dependable cash flow in retirement; others are building a second source of income beyond a single paycheck; others still are family and private offices seeking disciplined deployment against real collateral. What they share is a conviction about how serious capital should be put to work — and a preference for partners whose own money is in the deal first.
We keep this page deliberately quiet. There are no rates, returns, or projections here, because those belong in a direct conversation with our Investor Relations team and in definitive documentation — not on a public web page.
Investor Relations
Investor conversations start with a few details, then a call. Tell us a bit about you and pick a time that works — we talk partnership details by phone, not online.
We discuss partnership details only in direct conversation, not online. Nothing on this page is an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security; any such offer is made only to qualified investors through definitive documentation.