Goldman Sachs recently announced a new platform built specifically to give its wealthiest clients and family offices something they’ve been asking for: direct access to private companies before they go public. It’s a notable move — one of Wall Street’s biggest names formally building infrastructure around private market access, reserved for a small circle of ultra-high-net-worth investors and family offices.
At RealtyMogul, we’ve been doing exactly that for everyday investors for over a decade.
The Trend Goldman Is Chasing, We’ve Already Built
Goldman’s rationale for its new platform is simple: the biggest gains increasingly happen before a company goes public, and investors who aren’t in early potentially miss out on the majority of the growth. That logic isn’t new to real estate. Institutional-quality commercial real estate deals — apartment complexes, office buildings, industrial space — have often created their biggest value for investors who get in during the private, pre-stabilization stage, long before an asset ever changes hands on the open market.
The difference is access. Goldman’s new platform is built for family offices and clients with tens of millions to deploy. RealtyMogul was built so that everyday accredited investors could get the same kind of direct, private access, with minimums starting at $25,000, and without needing a seat at Goldman’s table.
Parkway Venture Capital
Through our relationship with Parkway Venture Capital, RealtyMogul is extending that same kind of direct, private access beyond real estate into select venture capital opportunities and giving accredited investors another way to participate in private markets alongside our core real estate offerings.
This is the kind of opportunity that, a few years ago, might only have been available through a private banking relationship. Today, it’s available directly through RealtyMogul.
Skin In The Game
Since being acquired in late 2025 by The Wideman Company, a real estate and investment firm with more than 50 years in the business, RealtyMogul has added another layer of alignment: the new ownership has committed to personally co-investing alongside investors on every new deal going forward. The Wideman Company is putting its own capital into the same deals our investors do and on the same terms. It’s an added incentive to keep sourcing deals that perform, not just deals that close.
Why This Matters Now
RealtyMogul has facilitated over $1.2 billion in equity investments from 280,000+ platform members across more than 300 real estate projects — a track record built well before “private markets access” became a headline on Wall Street. Goldman’s move doesn’t create this trend; it reinforces one that’s been building for years, one RealtyMogul has been part of since day one.
The only question is who gets access to it, and we’ve spent over a decade making sure that answer includes everyday investors.
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