# First American

> First American is a VC fund in Santa Ana backing Real Estate and FinTech. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Ana, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/first-american/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/FirstAmNews
- Website: http://www.firstam.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/First.American.Financial

First American is a VC fund in Santa Ana focused on Real Estate and FinTech. First American provides financial services through its Title Insurance and Services segment and its Specialty Insurance segment. The First American Family of Companies' core business lines include title insurance and closing/settlement services; title plant management services; title and other real property records and images; valuationproducts and services; home warranty products; property and casualty insurance; and banking, trust, and investment advisory services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Real Estate | 9 | 50% |
| FinTech | 4 | 22% |
| Marketplace | 4 | 22% |
| Real Estate Investment | 4 | 22% |
| Internet | 3 | 17% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 17% |
| Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abder Boukour | Chief Enterprise Architect, Strategy and Innovation | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abder-boukour |
| Calvin Powell | Vice President of Technology | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calvin-powell |
| Gwen Sorensen | Vice President, Client Services | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gwen-sorensen |
| Jeremy Hart | Director of IT Professional Effectiveness | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeremy-hart |
| Jody Mulkey | Chief Technology Officer | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jody-mulkey |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Knock | Knock is an online home selling platform that makes buying or selling a home simple and certain. Launched by founding team members from Trulia.com, the company uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell homes quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide homeowners through the selling process. | $70M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| Roofstock | Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes in a transparent and low-friction way. The company provides its clients with research, analytics, and insights to evaluate and purchase independently certified properties at set prices. It enables its investors to treat their real estate investments more likestock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation, rather than researching, and buying vacant homes that need to be repaired and leased.Founded in 2015, Roofstock gets its funding from Bain Capital, Ron Conway, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, and other investment companies. It is headquartered in Oakland, California. | $240M | Series E | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| Polly | PollyEx is a loan trading platform that improves loan sale execution for efficient trading. It offers a cloud-based platform that connects buyers and sellers of mortgage loans through API integration, increasing liquidity, and automating capital market functions. PollyEx was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $37M | Series B | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| Polly | PollyEx is a loan trading platform that improves loan sale execution for efficient trading. It offers a cloud-based platform that connects buyers and sellers of mortgage loans through API integration, increasing liquidity, and automating capital market functions. PollyEx was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $37M | Series B | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| Endpoint Closing | Endpoint is a digital Title and Escrow company, built from the ground up to deliver a radically improved closing experience for real estate agents and their buyers and sellers. Through its platform, Endpoint keeps everyone effortlessly and securely in the know throughout the transaction, while streamlining the process to make closing simple, fastand transparent | $150M | Corporate Round | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Landed | Landed helps essential professionals (including those working in education and healthcare) buy homes and build financial security near the communities they serve through financial solutions, a network of trusted agents and lenders, and homebuying education and support. | $31M | Series B | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Ribbon Home | Ribbon provides alternative home financing to make home ownership achievable by giving homeowners the freedom to buy before they sell, obtain a same-as-cash home loan, or buy even if they don't quite qualify for a conventional loan. Our financing programs are designed to give buyers greater certainty and enable real estate professionals toclose more deals. Today, as a division of Hurst Lending, we’re expanding that mission across the country — combining Ribbon’s buyer-empowerment platform with Hurst’s proven alternative home finance offers. Together, we help buyers, sellers, mortgage brokers, and agents succeed in today’s housing market with solutions designed for real people. | $150M | Series C | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| Orchard | Orchard transforms the way people buy and sell their homes by bringing simplicity, convenience, and certainty to the process. Simplifying it, to the way it should have always been; fair and true to market, straightforward, and easy. Traditionally, homeowners who are looking to purchase their next home face a stressful and uncertain process - theyhave to either sell their old home first and move twice or buy as a contingent buyer and risk not getting their dream home. Orchard solves this problem by enabling homeowners to buy before they sell. With Orchard, customers secure their dream home first using Orchard's cash, while having the certainty of selling their old home with Orchard - all for the same fee as a traditional broker. Orchard is transforming the end-to-end home buying experience with an AI-powered home search and a modern, all-digital mortgage and closing.Orchard is headquartered in New York City and offers its services in Colorado, Georgia, and Texas. | $100M | Series D | Sep 09, 2021 |  |
| Sundae | Sundae provides a residential real estate marketplace intended started to help sellers get a fair price for their house. It offers an alternative to the unpredictability of the traditional real estate agent sales process. Users can sell as-is on their timeline. That means they do no clean-up, repairs, showings, or any work at all. It is the onlymarketplace connecting home sellers with a large network of local investors, ensuring that homeowners get the highest possible off-market price for their homes. | $80M | Series C | Jul 20, 2021 |  |
| Lev | Lev provides a technology platform for digitizing commercial real estate transactions. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in New York, New York, USA. | $30M | Series A | Jun 20, 2021 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Parker89](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parker89) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Fifth Wall](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fifth-wall-ventures-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acrew Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrew-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does First American invest in?

First American invests primarily in Real Estate, FinTech and Marketplace startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at First American?

The team at First American includes Abder Boukour (Chief Enterprise Architect, Strategy and Innovation), Calvin Powell (Vice President of Technology) and Gwen Sorensen (Vice President, Client Services), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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