# Nestment

Helping First-Time Homebuyers Navigate the Outdated Housing System.

- Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/nestment
- Entity ID: wefunder:company:160804
- Last updated: 2026-06-15T05:01:20Z
- Generated at: 2026-06-15T09:13:33Z

## Quick facts
- $100M in home transactions in our first year growing 30% month over month.
- 78% of customers are first-time homebuyers, and 65% are buyers from communities of color.
- Featured in national media such as the WSJ, Bankrate, Money, and a 5-minute segment on CBS Mornings.
- Reached first profitable month in Sept six months ahead of schedule ($11K per home at 80% margin)
- Accepted into multiple accelerators including Moderne Ventures ($500M proptech fund).
- Launched NestGen, the first-ever homebuying accelerator creating $100M tx pipeline in 2 months.

## Active fundraises
- wefunder:fundraise:120214: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)
- wefunder:fundraise:120213: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)

## Story
Solving Home Affordability is One of the Largest OpportunitiesAs of Nov 2024, the percentage of first time home-owners hit a record low of 24% of all homes (down from 36%) and the average age of a homebuyer was 56 (CNBC)A product of 50 years of increasing home prices while wages remained stagnant have created a market that feels unaffordable despite the fact that 75% view home ownership as more important than marriage, kids, even careerOver 86% of renters (109M) would like to buy a home (94M) with over 50% of those being capable of buying if they had creative solutions like co-buying or house hacking (60M) We Are Bringing House Hacking to the MainstreamOutside of forums and small investing clubs, there aren’t consumer tools available to access house hacking opportunities.Niles had to create his own spreadsheets, agreements, borrower strategy, and navigate co-buying on his own. Super cumbersome and time-intensive if you are starting from scratch.Co-buying with friends/family, buying a multi-family home, renting out units, and receiving family assistance are becoming critical pathways to afford a home.Nestment has Productized House Hacking for Gen Z and Millennials Why Homebuyers Love Nestment TLDR: Data + Humans guiding you through the entire buying process.We aren't an agent and we aren't a lender, we are like a wedding planner for buying a home. We are in the buyer's corner and give them confidence to navigate a scary world of lending, taxes, legal, financial analysis, and more. We are obsessed with making the outdated real estate industry more approachable and easier to navigate. Our buying planners are there to answer questions, create your roadmap, make introductions, and simplify confusing processes via text and email. Deep data distilled to be simple and consumable. In conjunction with a buying planner, we use industry-leading data science to paint the most accurate picture of a market and listings so homebuyers have a clear, reliable foundation to make early decisions that often trip up many first-time buyers.Our Buying Planners are Ready to HelpSome of the Happy Nestment Homebuyers Across the USThe OpportunityOur GrowthUnit Economics $11K per transaction at 80% Margins, $32K for Lifetime valueWhere We Are GoingSustained Profitability Near TermWhy We're Doing This - A Note From Our CEOAt Nestment, our goal has always been to build a generational company that would ensure the largest majority of Americans could benefit from the generational wealth of homeownership.  At the core of co-buying and house-hacking is the core principle of building wealth and building community.  We were also inspired by so many of our customers, partners, and networks asking if they could invest, it only seemed right to ensure we could open a community round and partner with WeFunder.  We already see this trend becoming a movement but with your partnership, we’ll bring this movement mainstream. We Are Delighted to Invite Our Customers to Invest in Our Community Round Alongside These Awesome VC InvestorsFAQDo I have to be an accredited investor to invest?No. Wefunder allows you to invest without being an accredited investor. All you have to do is sign up and invest.What is the minimum amount I can invest?$250.What's the maximum I am legally allowed to invest?With Regulation Crowdfunding, anyone can start investing with a maximum of $2,500. The amount you can contribute beyond that depends on your net income and net worth. To see your investment limit, simply enter those two figures under 'Investor Limits' on this page (after creating and logging into a Wefunder account).Please note that even if you're eligible to invest more, your actual investment may be adjusted based on overall interest in this funding round.Am I guaranteed to get the amount that I signed up for?If demand exceeds our funding limit, we may need to limit individual investments, and any reductions will be refunded accordingly. In the event of high demand, we’ll prioritize investments in the following order, taking tenure into account:Nestment customers who have completed a property purchase, partners, and investorsNew Wefunder investorsTo streamline the process, we suggest using the same email for both your Nestment and Wefunder accountsCan I invest if I don’t live in the United States?With a few exceptions, investments can be accepted from international investors as long as you represent that you are complying with the law in your country. Here's a step-by-step guide on investing from outside the US.The only exceptions are the Canadian provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta which have requested that Wefunder bar their residents from investing on Wefunder’s platform, as well as certain sanctioned countries.What fees do investors pay?For payments made by bank ACH, wires, or checks, Wefunder charges investors a transaction fee of 2%, with a minimum of $8 and a max of $100. For credit cards, Apple Pay, or Google Pay, Wefunder charges a 5% fee, with a minimum of $8 and no maximum.Fees are one-time and are not recurring.How will I make a return on my investment, and when?As an investor in an early stage technology start-up your return is typically made when the company experiences a liquidity event such as an acquisition or Initial Public Offering. There are occasionally other opportunities to sell your investment on a secondary market. The goal is to return, 10-100x your investment, but tech investments are risky and often go to $0 (risk vs. reward) with the typical timeline being 5-10 years before your return is realized.Where can I ask a question? You can ask any questions you have in the “Ask A Question” section of this page.

## FAQ
1. **Do you partner with agents in different areas to help people solve this affordability issue?**
   - Hi Monique, we sure do. We have agent relationships with all the major brokerages. We ensure our groups are goal aligned, already know the time of property, have agreements in place and our pre-approved before passing them to an agent, which is why the close rates are so high. Thank you for the question!
2. **Hello, in the sustained profitability near-term chart, does the first month reflect Sep'23? What is the latest month of actuals / which columns represent a forecast?**
   - Hi Mariam, great question. We actually got our corporate brokerage license in July of 2023 and officially launched with our first beta cohort from BILT Rewards. The chart you're seeing is Sept 2024 through the following year. Sept is actual revenue booked - originally we had planned to hit that line in April 2025, so I adjusted Q4 based on resetting expectations with the goal to see a sustainable profitability. Happy to chat more niles@nestment.com
3. **what's your current revenue run rate?**
   - Hi Brian, great question because real estate is lumpy we typically report out quarterly to get a good picture of directional. Q3 we did $307K, in Q4 we're looking at about $385-405K so should end this year at $1.6M run rate
4. **Niles, I love the initiative. I am an angle investor and I am acutely familiar with Arrived model both owning properties and equity. I do have bunch of questions for you. To begin with - Are the leads called out in the campaign (Home Technology Investors, Westbound Equity Part...**
   - Hi Prakash, really great to connect - happy to run through our different investors as well as our model. We love Arrived and see it as giving more folks exposure to real estate as an asset class. Our focus is really around ownership between 1-4 folks most of the time and larger portions of equity. We have a lot of folks who are investors and others who live there. Grab some time on my calendar, happy to chat more! https://calendly.com/nilesnestment/30min?back=1 Also my email is niles@nestment...

## Team
- Niles Lichtenstein (Co-Founder & CEO )
- Jonathan Chu (Chief Product Officer)
- Mark DeMitchell (Co-Founder & COO)
- Rob Zimmerman (Co-Founder & CTO)
- Elena Tortora (Head of Marketing)

## Recent posts
- Three Nestment News Stories This Week (2026-03-13T13:38:21Z)
- Three Exciting Updates From Nestment (2026-02-02T16:46:01Z)
- Nestment 2min Survey (2025-10-15T17:07:14Z)
- Join us live: Nestment's expanded vision and demo of v2 platform (2025-08-24T20:52:18Z)
- Nestment Community Appreciation Party (SF) - May 3rd (2025-05-02T19:52:23Z)
- 5x Q1 YoY + Last Day to Join the Nestment Community Round! (2025-04-29T20:24:51Z)
- Is Nestment the next SoFi - 3 Days Left! (2025-04-26T15:39:12Z)
- We Hit $1M! 6 Days Left (2025-04-24T13:54:06Z)
- Finalizing our WeFunder! (2025-01-30T00:46:09Z)

## Q&A
- Q: What is your 2024 revenue?
- Q: Niles, what's the end goal (exit strategy) for Nestment? Acquisition or IPO?
- Q: Hi there. Congrats on your success so far. Just a few questions: 1. What do you consider your competitive moat to be? 2. Do you have any patents either granted or pending? 3. You mentioned a lifetime value of $32,000. What are your customer-acquisition costs? How do you plan to lower those costs as you scale? 4. Apologies if I missed this somewhere, but how do you market your service to prospective buyers? 5. How much are you aiming to raise through this crowdfunding round? Is there a deadline to invest? Thanks!
- Q: Niles, I love the initiative. I am an angle investor and I am acutely familiar with Arrived model both owning properties and equity. I do have bunch of questions for you. To begin with - Are the leads called out in the campaign (Home Technology Investors, Westbound Equity Partners, New York Angels) invested in the same terms as this raise? - If couple of customers pool together and buy a duplex, one wants to live in the unit and another wants to rent it out, would Nestment help with rentals? This may be a simple use case, what happens when more than 2 owners are involved in this use case? - Arrived makes everything transparent with customers getting regular dividend check. I presume your platform brings your customers and partners together, the hassle of closing the deal and getting loans are still in the hands of customers right? - Is the SAFE valuation Post or Pre? - Are there any preference overhang and liquidation preference senior to this raise? Would love the possibility of getting on a call to deep dive as I am interested in making sizable investment. Thanks in advance for your response.
  - A: Hi Prakash, really great to connect - happy to run through our different investors as well as our model. We love Arrived and see it as giving more folks exposure to real estate as an asset class. Our focus is really around ownership between 1-4 folks most of the time and larger portions of equity. We have a lot of folks who are investors and others who live there. Grab some time on my calendar, happy to chat more! https://calendly.com/nilesnestment/30min?back=1 Also my email is niles@nestment.com
- Q: Hello, in the sustained profitability near-term chart, does the first month reflect Sep'23? What is the latest month of actuals / which columns represent a forecast?
  - A: Hi Mariam, great question. We actually got our corporate brokerage license in July of 2023 and officially launched with our first beta cohort from BILT Rewards. The chart you're seeing is Sept 2024 through the following year. Sept is actual revenue booked - originally we had planned to hit that line in April 2025, so I adjusted Q4 based on resetting expectations with the goal to see a sustainable profitability. Happy to chat more niles@nestment.com
- Q: Can istill invest in Nestment? Ben benny@oval-csi.com
- Q: I’m Zac Stahlhut with D3VC, a venture fund specializing in investment crowdfunding. As we continue to review your offering, we have a few key questions we’d appreciate your insights on. How do you differentiate and compete within the real estate marketplace, particularly with emerging competitors addressing similar challenges in the market? What are the legal barriers you encounter across different states, and how do you plan to navigate these challenges as you scale? Looking at your long-term strategy, which vertical in real estate do you foresee being your core focus, and where are you prioritizing your investment? Could you provide your projected revenue per transaction, and do you have any partnerships in place that will help facilitate your growth? Lastly, are the agreements you’re structuring with partners based on equity or junior debt, and how might this impact liquidity for your platform moving forward?
- Q: If I understand your answer to Mariam correctly, the "Sustained Profitability in Near Term" chart shows actual revenue for the first bar in September 2024, then everything else is a forecast? Is that right?
- Q: Few questions. 1) What makes ur model unique.... can Zillow r Redfn or others do the same thing (like splitting buying between multiple buyers) 2) How does u make money ..as ur not lending or broker. Is it a fixed fee 3) How will you play role in mediating (as you know when there r more than 1 people, there is always issues...lol). So in other words r you protected from the hassle between 2 friends/enemies now buyers Best Murali
- Q: what's your current revenue run rate?
  - A: Hi Brian, great question because real estate is lumpy we typically report out quarterly to get a good picture of directional. Q3 we did $307K, in Q4 we're looking at about $385-405K so should end this year at $1.6M run rate
- Q: Do you partner with agents in different areas to help people solve this affordability issue?
  - A: Hi Monique, we sure do. We have agent relationships with all the major brokerages. We ensure our groups are goal aligned, already know the time of property, have agreements in place and our pre-approved before passing them to an agent, which is why the close rates are so high. Thank you for the question!