Institutional real asset investing
Offered free of management fees for the first time in history.
The Alternative Asset Management Industry Is Lagging in a World of AI
Every investment firm is a factory for documents, models, reports, and reconciliations. For decades, producing those things required teams of people, and the cost of those teams became the fees investors pay.
That changed. The work that consumes most of the industry’s payroll can now be produced by AI at near-zero cost, with senior leaders reviewing and deciding instead of producing. No incumbent has rebuilt their firm around this fact, because their fees depend on not doing so.
Videre was built on a conviction that the asset management industry and its capital partners deserve better. An organization that utilizes the abundant intelligence of technology to deliver superior returns. Cost savings no longer pad founders’ net worths. They are the product we offer to you.
Our Fees Versus the Competition
4.2%
Typical sponsor fee stack
1.4%
Videre
Total Expense Ratio (TER)
The comparison assumes typical sponsor fees including:
a 2% asset management fee, a 20% promote over an 8% preferred return, and a 0.5% acquisition fee.
Modeled on identical assets.
Six Core Operating Pillars
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Zero Percent Management Fee
That’s right: for the first time in history, an asset manager that charges zero percent in fees, allowing invested capital to grow faster. No catch. Our ventures charge no asset management fee and no markup. Capital partners only bear the actual operating costs of operating the platform.
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AI-Built Investor
Videre is an investment firm built AI-first, from a blank page. AI produces the underwriting, the reporting, the analysis, and the administration; senior leaders direct, review, and decide. The result is an organization that moves faster, sees more, and costs a fraction of its peers, and every dollar of that difference belongs to our capital partners.
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Radical Transparency
We provide investors with complete access to information behind all the numbers (models, expenses, appraisals, and more). Full general ledger access for complete auditability. Nothing withheld. We believe radical transparency to your money is the way of the future.
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Investor-First Fairness
We don’t charge fees, so we never profit at your expense. We commit to never over-distributing to chase a headline yield that leads to more capital calls in the future if the market underperforms. We commit to fair, published valuation principles that the world can inspect. And we commit to no hidden loads: no acquisition, disposition, financing, or markup fees buried in the fine print.
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Pure Alignment
We invest alongside our capital partners, and we are only paid if the venture performs exceptionally well: above an 8% return per annum.
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Social Impact
Videre is an Indigenous-owned and led firm, and we treat the environmental and social quality of the assets we own as part of the return, not a side report.
AI-Enhanced Real Estate Investing Means Real Upside for Investors
Videre runs on a simple division of labor: AI produces, senior leaders decide. Our systems source and screen opportunities across our markets, assemble underwriting, monitor every asset against the plan we bought it with, and run the reporting and administration that consume conventional firms. People set the strategy, walk the communities, and make every investment decision. The outcome is not a story about technology. It is a set of numbers:
- Timelines accelerated: months → weeks
- Operating costs: ~95% lower
- Capital wasted: $0
Current Strategies
Actively Investing
Manufactured Housing Communities
- Target Returns
- 18% net IRR
- Hold Period
- 10 years
- AUM Target
- $200 million
- Structure
- Joint ventures with institutional and family office partners
Target returns are net of all costs and performance economics, are a target only, and are not a guarantee of future results.
Actively Investing
Industrial Outdoor Storage
- Target Returns
- 16% net IRR
- Hold Period
- 10 years
- AUM Target
- $150 million
- Structure
- Joint ventures with institutional and family office partners
Target returns are net of all costs and performance economics, are a target only, and are not a guarantee of future results.
Needs-Based Retail
Grocery and service tenants on short drive times.
Coming soon
Seniors Housing
Needs-driven occupancy against a fixed demographic curve.
Coming soon
Real Estate Credit
Lending against assets we would be content to own.
Coming soon
Distressed Multifamily
Basis repair where the capital structure, not the asset, failed.
Coming soonInvestment Focus
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Deal Profile
Assets bought at an attractive basis (below market value); a value gap we can close with work, alongside financing that pays us to hold (positive leverage).
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Economic Stability
Markets with diversified employment, durable population fundamentals, and demand that holds through cycles.
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Sustainability
Energy and efficiency upgrades that cut operating costs, improve communities for residents, and secure inexpensive agency-backed financing.
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Risk Profile
Margin of safety first: conservative leverage, stress-tested underwriting, and downside math done before upside dreams.
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Necessity Demand
We own what people need, not what they splurge on: affordable housing and necessity-anchored real assets that stay occupied in good times and bad.