LOS ANGELES—Realty Mogul is ringing in its first anniversary with investments of $104 million in commercial real estate property values. The crowdfunding platform, which launch in March 2013, is the largest investment network of its kind.

Realty Mogul CEO and co-founder Jilliene Helman, who will be speaking at RealShare Los Angeles on March 25, attributes the company's success to its quality stock of properties. “We have a really strong supply of real estate properties that have gotten us to the point we are at so far, and we are continuing to look for high-quality real estate opportunities for our investors,” Helman tells GlobeSt.com. “There are a lot of competitors, but we are the largest—the largest by the number of properties funded, by the number of states that we are in and by the capital rates in the market place.” Of the investment capital placed by the company in its first year, 71% went towards equity investments and 29% toward debt investments. To date, Realty Mogul's private investors have placed $14.6 million with 58 properties in 14 states. “For us it is about scale. We just crossed $100 million in property values and we are looking to do hundreds of millions of dollars in 2014,” says Helman.

Realty Mogul has a unique perspective of crowdfunding. Where most companies think about the platform as democratization of access to capital, Helman says they think of crowdfunding as democratization of access to deal flow. “We want to get hundreds of millions of dollars of deal flow in front of investors who would otherwise not have access to it,” she adds. It seems to be working. The company is on a roll, hitting major benchmarks throughout the year. In February, the company announced it had $85 million worth of properties funded nationwide.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.