Capital partners · Investor Relations
Invest alongside operators who put their own capital in first.
BuildUp Capital partners with investors who want disciplined, real-estate-secured lending — underwritten by people who have actually built, bought, and run businesses. We invest at least 10% of our own money in every loan we make, and we discuss partnership details only in direct conversation, not online.
Who we partner with
Capital partners come to us for different reasons
What they share is a conviction: that disciplined, real-estate-secured lending is how serious capital should be deployed. Which sounds most like you?
Dependable income, not management
Wealth concentrated in a 401(k) or home, looking for dependable income from something other than the stock market.
A second source of income
Professionals building income beyond a single paycheck, who want a hedge that isn’t tied to the market’s mood.
Disciplined, secured deployment
Stewards of serious capital who want it deployed against real collateral by people who have actually run businesses.
How we earn the trust
Aligned, disciplined, and built for the hard moments
Our money moves first
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.
Selectivity over volume
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.
Downside managed by specialists
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.
Understand it before you invest
Educational groundwork, not a pitch
How real-estate-secured lending works, how it compares to equity, and the vehicles sophisticated investors use to hold it. Educational content only — nothing here is investment, legal, or tax advice.
For Capital Partners
- 1Why Invest in Secured Asset LendingWhere this fits in a portfolio, in plain terms.
- 2Equity vs. Debt InvestingLiquidity, lockups, and how the two behave differently.
- 3Building Multiple Sources of IncomeWhy a single paycheck is the riskiest position of all.
- 4Investment Vehicles & StructuresSelf-directed IRAs and how investors hold this asset class.
Investor Relations
Start a conversation
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.