Real Estate Investment Is Changing For The Better With These Benzinga Global Fintech Awards Finalists

The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards are a yearly showcase of the greatest advances in fintech from leaders and visionaries in the worlds of finance and technology. This year, we have executives, developers and innovators from the likes of Facebook, Amazon, IBM, JP Morgan, Zelle, TD Ameritrade, TradeStation, Fidelity and so many more attending the Oscars of Fintech.

The BZ Awards are half party, half business development bonanza—they’re a rare chance to meet and network with everyone in finance from CNBC’s Josh Brown to the head of financial services at Facebook to the heads of trading at every major brokerage.

To offer more clarity on who is competing for the prize of most innovative in each category, Benzinga is breaking out the finalists in each category and offering more information about what they do.

The finalists for the Best Real Estate Platform category are:

CrowdStreet
CEO: Tore C. Steen
Description: CrowdStreet is the premium provider of online commercial real estate investment offerings, technology and services in the country. Its innovative online public marketplace gives investors direct access to a broad range of institutional quality commercial real estate assets to diversify their portfolios.

Income&
CEO: Brad Walker

Description: By offering a product with high levels of transparency and unprecedented customization options, Income& is doing the polar opposite of what the banking industry has been doing for many years.

RealtyShares
CEO: Ed Forst
Description: RealtyShares is a curated online investing marketplace for real estate. By marrying technology with the highly traditional real estate industry, RealtyShares offers a faster, more efficient source of capital for real estate investing, and makes it possible for investors to purchase shares in real estate deals for as little as $5,000.

Roofstock
CEO: Gary Beasley
Description: Roofstock is the first online marketplace created exclusively for investing in single-family rental homes that generate cash flow day one.