# Ryan Freedman

> Ryan Freedman is a seed investor at Alpaca VC (New York) backing E-Commerce and Marketplace. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanfreedman1
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ryanfreedman_
- Website: http://www.alpaca.vc

Ryan Freedman is a seed investor at Alpaca VC in New York focused on E-Commerce and Marketplace. Ryan Freedman founded Corigin in 2010 on the principles of conscious capitalism with a mission to build an opportunistic real estate owner, operator, and developer of residential real estate. He, together with a talented team of real estate executives, accomplished this through patience, agility and resourcefulness, and the use of data andtechnology to elevate investment performance. Corigin’s success has been achieved by prioritizing its most important stakeholders, including tenants, investors, team members, the community and the environment.Today, Ryan is Corigin’s Chairman. In this role, he sits on the firm’s investment committee and is responsible for guiding Corigin’s strategic direction and promoting its values-based culture.Ryan began his career shortly after graduating from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a BA in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, developing condominium projects in South Florida. The next step in his professional journey led to New York City where he continued developing condominium projects while running Coral Realty, a student-housing operator exclusive to New York University.Naturally curious with a penchant for creative problem solving, Ryan has been at the forefront of analyzing and adopting real estate technology to enhance operations and investment decisions. Ryan’s passion for innovation led him to found Corigin Ventures in 2013, which has since spun out as Alpaca VC, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the people, products and processes that power commerce in the physical and digital world. As a full-time General Partner at Alpaca VC, Ryan has led investments in PropTech companies such as Compass, Latch, The Guild, Bowery Valuation, ToolBx, Doorkee, Morty, Paintzen, Loftsmart and Trade Hounds.Ryan is a regular speaker on the real estate and venture capital conference circuits and is an active member of the leadership team of the Young Presidents’ Organization. He is also a board member of Zeel, a technology and logistics company servicing the wellness space, and Prevu, a digital home buying platform.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 17% |
| Marketplace | 3 | 13% |
| Beauty | 2 | 9% |
| Mobile | 2 | 9% |
| Big Data | 2 | 9% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 52% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 17% |
| Series A | 3 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 74% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Diamond Age | Diamond Age is automating new home construction for the production housing industry. Our Robotics-as-a-Service system combines 3D printing, mechatronics, and robotics to unlock the industry's enormous growth potential by backfilling the massive labor shortage and driving construction cycle times down from 9 months to 30 days. | $50M | Series A | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| Diamond Age | Diamond Age is automating new home construction for the production housing industry. Our Robotics-as-a-Service system combines 3D printing, mechatronics, and robotics to unlock the industry's enormous growth potential by backfilling the massive labor shortage and driving construction cycle times down from 9 months to 30 days. | $50M | Series A | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| Diamond Age | Diamond Age is automating new home construction for the production housing industry. Our Robotics-as-a-Service system combines 3D printing, mechatronics, and robotics to unlock the industry's enormous growth potential by backfilling the massive labor shortage and driving construction cycle times down from 9 months to 30 days. | $8M | Seed | Aug 19, 2021 |  |
| doorkee | Doorkee is the first all-in-one solution to streamline the apartment rental process. The company’s peer-to-peer rental platform connects departing tenants, apartment seekers and landlords by aligning incentives to provide a better moving experience for everyone. Landlords save money on vacancy, departing tenants get paid to show their unit, andapartment seekers move-in fee free, all through a seamless, automated, and safe process. With Doorkee, everybody wins! | $5.9M | Seed | Jun 25, 2020 |  |
| Trade Hounds | Trade Hounds is a mobile application for the hard-working trades people of America. If you're in the trades, join our community to share job site experiences with people like you across the country. Store, organize and share your work photos with both friends and employers. Our mission is to serve as a valuable resource for the workers thatare building a better America! | $3.2M | Seed | Jun 12, 2020 |  |
| Innovation Department | Innovation Department builds next-generation wellness companies hands-on, from the ground up. Our team of brand strategists, marketers, operators and builders are obsessed with reducing the time to product-market fit and creating repeatable success for the launch of early-stage businesses. The Innovation Department family of brands includesWellPath, Finn, DojoMojo and our newest brand, Grummies. We’ve also invested in exceptional companies including Pinterest, Dropbox, Lyft, ClassPass, Daily Harvest, Databricks, DigitalOcean and hims. | $3.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 10, 2020 |  |
| Prevu | Prevu's Smart Buyer™ service enables homebuyers to receive a commission rebate of up to 2% of their purchase price. Our end-to-end platform allows you to seamlessly search for properties, easily communicate and share with your dedicated salaried agent, as well as make offers. Prevu's Smart Seller service enables homeowners to sell theirhome for a fair, 0.5% listing agent commission while receiving full-service, expert advice of our agents. | $2.2M | Seed | Aug 12, 2019 |  |
| Perch | Perch they provides Insights for our merchandising and marketing products, digital content, and sales conversion for real-time shopper marketing. | $2M | Seed | Jul 17, 2018 |  |
| Transfix | Transfix drives modern supply chain performance with The Transfix Intelligent Freight Platform™. By bringing together AI-driven many-to-many freight matching with modern, intuitive software and best-in-class freight experts, Transfix is enabling organizations to deliver with high performance and high reliability, drive long-term strategy andcapacity planning, take empty miles off the road, and optimize their networks, at scale. | $22M | Series B | Jul 25, 2016 |  |
| Transfix | Transfix drives modern supply chain performance with The Transfix Intelligent Freight Platform™. By bringing together AI-driven many-to-many freight matching with modern, intuitive software and best-in-class freight experts, Transfix is enabling organizations to deliver with high performance and high reliability, drive long-term strategy andcapacity planning, take empty miles off the road, and optimize their networks, at scale. | $22M | Series B | Jul 25, 2016 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Dolby Family Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dolby-family-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Prime Movers Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prime-movers-lab) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Canvas Prime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canvas-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Suffolk Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/suffolk-construction) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Suffolk Construction](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/suffolk-construction-9aca) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Alpaca VC

VC Fund · New York, United States

Alpaca VC leads Seed rounds in founders that are reshaping the real world. We believe that layering technology over daily life transforms how the real world works, so we invest in the people, products, and processes that power commerce in the physical world. Led by a diverse team of company builders, operators, and analytical thinkers, Alpacadevelops a repeatable playbook to help its entrepreneurs most efficiently progress from Seed to Series A.

5 contacts available at Alpaca VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Fetner | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-fetner |
| David Goldberg | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-goldberg-7 |
| Ray Updyke | VP Operations & Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ray-updyke |
| Ryan Freedman | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-freedman |
| Aubrie Pagano | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aubrie-pagano |

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## FAQ

### What does Ryan Freedman invest in?

Ryan Freedman invests primarily in E-Commerce, Marketplace and Beauty startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ryan Freedman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ryan Freedman closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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