Paul Hurst

Orbital is purpose-built AI for real estate legal work. We support teams across the US and UK as they navigate complex, document-heavy transactions with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence, without losing the nuance that real estate demands. Built for the realities of real estate practice, Orbital handles jurisdictional nuance, spatial complexity, and transaction-specific risk. Our AI is grounded in how real estate professionals operate day to day, turning large volumes of documents into reliable, deal-ready insights. Hundreds of law firms—including Am Law 100 and Magic Circle firms such as Vinson & Elkins, BCLP, and Goodwin—as well as in-house legal teams, REITs, and other institutional real estate operators, use Orbital in their real estate legal work across large, complex portfolios. Teams report more efficient review of complex, document-heavy real estate matters, as well as improved visibility into key issues and risks across transactions.

Rice Park Capital Management LP is a Minneapolis-based private investment firm founded by CEO and co-CIO Nick Smith in 2019. Rice Park’s investment focus is to deliver cycle-resistant returns to its limited partners by unlocking value in complex opportunities in the residential and commercial mortgage and real estate sectors. Our partners and employees have held senior investment, operational, legal, and regulatory roles at leading institutions in the real estate, mortgage, and financial services industries. We bring deep experience in whole loans, asset backed securities, mortgage servicing rights and operating companies and employ transparent and relationship-oriented strategies to craft customized capital solutions tailored to the market opportunity. We don’t do trades. We build businesses through collaboration and a shared goal to build durable businesses that generate value for all stakeholders. This is not to be construed as an offer to buy or sell any financial instruments and should not be relied upon as the sole factor in an investment making decision.

Keyway is a generative AI company building the future of real estate

Tomo is slashing the cost of getting a mortgage with some serious AI and automation muscle. The result? Faster closings, fewer headaches, and a way to make homeownership something everyone can get in on. Wanna know more? Check us out at tomo.com. NMLS #2059741

Vesta is the next generation mortgage LOS, helping financial institutions transform their lending process with customizable workflows, open architecture, and intuitive, easy-to-use experiences. Vesta was founded in 2020 by early Blend employees and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Zigg Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Conversion Capital and Index Ventures. Interested in joining us to change the future of the mortgage industry? We’re a remote-first team hiring across multiple functions. Check out our open roles here: vesta.com/careers

We didnt just set a new bar in product and pricing technology; we redefined it. Polly has pioneered the next generation of mortgage capital markets technology with its cutting-edge, data-driven platform. Its enterprise-grade solutions, including the industrys only cloud-native, commercially scalable product, pricing, and eligibility (PPE) engine and first-of-its-kind Polly/™ AI platform, empower the nations top banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders to increase profitability, automate workflows, and revolutionize the loan officer and broker experiences. As a mortgage technology trailblazer, Polly is committed to driving meaningful value and ROI through best-in-class innovation that enables unlimited configurability, flexibility, granularity, and scalability. Recognized as a pioneer in mortgage capital markets, as well as in culture and career development, Polly was named to Forbes Americas Best Startup Employers in 2025 and 2026. This evaluation was based on three key criteria: employer reputation, employee satisfaction, and company growth.

Up&Up is building a new way to live where renters build wealth like owners. Instead of having a large portion of their cash stuck in a security deposit and making their landlords rich by paying off their mortgage, our renters build their wealth as the real estate market appreciates and as their rental home generates income. Renters have control over the income their rental generates by paying rent on time and keeping property expenses low. At the end of their lease renters can use the wealth theyve accumulated to purchase the home or cash out. If we’re successful in changing the way people live before they own, we’ll unlock a decade of compounding wealth creation that will drastically change our customers’ financial futures. To pull off this ambitious mission, we’ve built an incredible early team and are backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and strategic angels from Opendoor, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and Millennium

Landed helps employers recruit and retain key talent by developing, launching and running programs that increase access to homeownership amongst your employee population. We do this by unlocking the power of shared appreciation to create down payment assistance programs tailored to the needs of each institution. Unlike other programs, shared appreciation is mutually beneficial to funders and buyers, creating a self-renewing pool of capital that recycles as homebuyers exit the program. Together, we’ve helped 1,100+ homebuyers overcome the down payment savings barrier without increasing their monthly mortgage payments. Of them, nearly 45% are Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and about 22% have incomes below 80% Area Median Income (AMI). Get in touch to see how launching a customized down payment program can support affordable homeownership for your employees or community.

Ribbon is on a mission to make homeownership achievable. We empower buyers, sellers, their agents and loan officers with cash-backed solutions to enable homeownership for everyone.

Properly is a Canadian real estate technology company that enables homeowners to buy when they find the home they love, move in, and then sell their old home from the comforts of their new one. Properly also offers Canada's most accurate home valuation report - homeowners can obtain a free and instant assessment of their home’s value that is always up-to-date. Since launching in 2018 with the goal of simplifying life’s most important transaction for Canadians, Properly has worked with thousands of homeowners, and has raised more than $190 million in equity and debt capital from leading investors. Properly is headquartered in Toronto. We have a foundation of experienced operators on our team, with team members joining us from Uber, Blackberry, Wealthsimple, Shopify, Zillow, Bain, and more. We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diverse experiences and perspectives because they make our team more successful. We are also proud to be recognized as part of Great Places to Work Canada!

Commercial real estate financing, reimagined.

Our mission is to build the world’s best home buying and selling experience. Whether you are buying, selling, or both, our team of industry experts and local agents will provide you with the education, guidance and technology you need, all in one place. Wherever you are in your real estate journey, our approach to homebuying helps buyers search with confidence, decide with certainty, and negotiate with clarity. Combined with our innovative financial products, Flyhomes Cash Offer and Buy Before You Sell program, we make it easy to move in and move on. Home lending products offered by Flyhomes Mortgage, LLC NMLS #1733272 | NMLS Consumer Access (https://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org/)

Pacaso is a service that creates a more accessible category of second-home ownership. The company helps people buy and own a second home through a property-specific LLC, and reduces the cost and hassle of ownership. Pacaso manages the property and uses proprietary technology to make scheduling easy. Pacaso was founded by Zillow executives, including co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff and founder and former CEO of dotloop, Austin Allison. The company raised $17 million in Series A funding from leading venture capital firms such as Maveron, Crosscut and Global Founders Capital. Additionally, Pacaso has secured $250 million in debt financing to purchase shares of homes. 

Side is the industry’s only real estate brokerage platform, empowering the very best agents, teams and indie brokers to create and grow their own companies — without the time, cost or risk of operating a brokerage. Unlike consumer-facing brokerage brands, Side works behind the scenes to provide our partners with time-saving technology and premier support services. This way, they’re free to focus on what matters most: serving their clients and communities.

Proof℠ is the worlds first identity-assured transaction management platform. Developed by the same market leaders and experts who brought notarization online with Notarize℠, Proof offers trust in a digital world by verifying identities and securing transactions to protect your business and its customers. When risk is low and speed matters, get it signed. When the law dictates it, get it notarized. When trust matters, you need Proof.

At First Title, our mission is to streamline mortgage fulfilment, removing complexity, friction and time, to deliver the best customer experience and outcome. We provide Mortgage Fulfilment Services and Title Insurance to Lenders, Solicitors and Conveyancers. And we provide Title Insurance to consumers buying property. Our products are backed by exceptional customer service, an efficient claims process as well as legal and technical expertise. First Title is part of the international services division of the First American Financial Corporation, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:FAF). We currently provide Title Insurance products and services in more than 40 countries.

Orbital is purpose-built AI for real estate legal work. We support teams across the US and UK as they navigate complex, document-heavy transactions with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence, without losing the nuance that real estate demands. Built for the realities of real estate practice, Orbital handles jurisdictional nuance, spatial complexity, and transaction-specific risk. Our AI is grounded in how real estate professionals operate day to day, turning large volumes of documents into reliable, deal-ready insights. Hundreds of law firms—including Am Law 100 and Magic Circle firms such as Vinson & Elkins, BCLP, and Goodwin—as well as in-house legal teams, REITs, and other institutional real estate operators, use Orbital in their real estate legal work across large, complex portfolios. Teams report more efficient review of complex, document-heavy real estate matters, as well as improved visibility into key issues and risks across transactions.

Rice Park Capital Management LP is a Minneapolis-based private investment firm founded by CEO and co-CIO Nick Smith in 2019. Rice Park’s investment focus is to deliver cycle-resistant returns to its limited partners by unlocking value in complex opportunities in the residential and commercial mortgage and real estate sectors. Our partners and employees have held senior investment, operational, legal, and regulatory roles at leading institutions in the real estate, mortgage, and financial services industries. We bring deep experience in whole loans, asset backed securities, mortgage servicing rights and operating companies and employ transparent and relationship-oriented strategies to craft customized capital solutions tailored to the market opportunity. We don’t do trades. We build businesses through collaboration and a shared goal to build durable businesses that generate value for all stakeholders. This is not to be construed as an offer to buy or sell any financial instruments and should not be relied upon as the sole factor in an investment making decision.

Keyway is a generative AI company building the future of real estate

Tomo is slashing the cost of getting a mortgage with some serious AI and automation muscle. The result? Faster closings, fewer headaches, and a way to make homeownership something everyone can get in on. Wanna know more? Check us out at tomo.com. NMLS #2059741