Brendan Wallace

Founded in 2017, Fifth Wall is the largest & most active investor in technology for the real estate industry. Fifth Wall’s portfolio has had 8 IPOs and 16 exits, returning over $750 million in gains to its investors from companies like Procore, ServiceTitan, Blend, Opendoor, Hippo, SmartRent and Industrious. Fifth Wall also has accumulated large positions in many of the largest Proptech companies like Bilt, Aurora Solar, Lessen-SMS Assist, Juniper Square, and others. Fifth Wall has become the most sought-after VC in Proptech because of its ability to accelerate the revenue of its portfolio companies through distribution to its network of 115 strategic real estate LPs. Since inception, Fifth Wall has added over $1 billion in direct revenue to its portfolio companies from its strategic LPs. Fifth Wall's strategic LPs include: CBRE, Mariott, Hilton, Starwood Capital, Related, Equity Residential, Blackstone, Prologis, Public Storage, MGM Resorts, Kimco, Invitation Homes, Hines, British Land, Camden, Greystar, UDR, Kilroy, Mitsubishi Estate, Hudson Pacific, Lennar, DR Horton, Macerich, Toll Brothers, Lowe's Home Improvement, Kilroy, Federal Realty, Kite, and Host Hotels.

Before its acquisition by Workday, Identified pioneered an artificial intelligence solution to organize the world's professional information. While at Stanford University, Brendan Wallace & Adeyemi Ajao developed Identified's patented machine learning solution called Systematic Mass Normalization (SYMAN), which went on to revolutionize workforce analytics, recruiting, and talent management. In 2014, Workday, Inc. (WDAY) acquired Identified for $101 million in stock. Identified’s platform and team became Workday Recruiting, which grew to become the most widely used cloud-based recruiting software in the world, generating over $1 billion in annual revenue. Today, more than 50% of Fortune 500 companies use Workday Recruiting to process 36 million job listings and 284 million job applications per year. Identified raised $21 million from notable investors such as Google’s Eric Schmidt, Capricorn Investment Group, and Bill Draper, the founder of the first venture capital fund in the U.S

Cabify is the second largest ridesharing company in Latin America and Spain (after Uber). Cabify has raised $620 million over multiple financing rounds, generates $850 million in revenue, and has been profitable since since 2019. Cabify has 50 million registered users and 1.5 million drivers and taxi operators across 40 cities in Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Cabify is the first carbon-neutral mobility platform in Europe and Latin America. It offsets 100% of its CO2 emissions through wind projects and forestry initiatives. Its goal is to fully decarbonize its Spanish fleet by 2025 and its Latin American fleet by 2030.

Transactions: -Equity Office Properties (EOP) $39 billion LBO by Blackstone. The largest LBO in history at the time. - Hilton Hotels $26 billion LBO by Blackstone -Harrah’s Entertainment $31 billion LBO by TPG, Apollo, Blackstone

Transactions: -GMAC $9 billion LBO by KKR -Las Vegas Sands $10 billion IPO -Mervyn’s $1.4 billion LBO by Sun Capital

B.A. in Political Science

MBA - Business