We're making homeownership more valuable for everyone

Our mission

We’re working together towards one common goal: making homeownership more valuable and accessible.

I would recommend this company to anyone that is looking for a resolution to your financial situation. We had a lot of equity and we wanted to do upgrades to our home. This is a wonderful way to financially achieve our goals.

Kathy

from Temecula, CA

Point helped me get a portion of my equity when I needed it most. Otherwise it would've been hard to get it through conventional ways. Point relieved the pressure on my debt, emotional and mental health.

Yong

from Fullerton, CA

Being a retired senior citizen was no problem for Point. The necessary funds received have alleviated much stress in accessing the equity in my home.

Denessa

from Surprise, AZ

Point’s values

We strive to live up to our values in every interaction, whether it’s between team members, with homeowners and home buyers, or with partners.

Meaningful transparency

“Point's culture of transparency means that I have a clear understanding of where Point is headed, and the opportunities we face as an organization. It makes it easy to give and expect clear direction, and assume the best of intentions from others.”

Josh Hohman

Product, joined in 2021

Total alignment

“A statement I've heard often from Pointers is, ‘We do well when our customers do well.’ Everyone at Point is working towards a common goal. This results in a focused drive to develop solutions that directly impact our customers.”

Mawulom Nenonene

HR & Talent, joined in 2022

Inclusion at every level

“Inclusion at Point means the company makes sure that – not only are your ideas for improvements at work listened to – but they’re often executed on thoughtfully and methodically as well. There is a clear social inclusion at the company as well. When we know and get along with our co-workers personally, it trickles down to our ability to collaborate well at work too.”

Van Nguyen

Underwriting, joined in 2018

Point’s team

Each employee at Point is empowered to make an impact on the future of the company and the lives of customers.

Work with us

We’ve built a team that we’re incredibly proud of at Point. It’s a diverse group – people coming from a wide range of experiences, backgrounds, and geographic locations – unified by the belief that we’re building something that makes a real difference in people's lives.”

- Eddie Lim

Becoming Point

The inspiration

The members of Point’s experienced founding team are inspired by their own interactions with traditional home equity financing. Eddie Lim, between successful startups, is looking for some liquidity while deciding on his next venture. His bank rejects his application for a HELOC due to a lack of conventional W2 income.

Meanwhile, Eoin Matthews receives a proposition from some friends who are trying to purchase their dream home in Boston, but don’t have enough for the down payment – would he consider investing in their home in exchange for a share of the future appreciation?

The beginning

Eddie Lim, Eoin Matthews, and Alex Rampell come together to create Point, a home equity platform. Point’s flagship product, the HEI (Home Equity Investment), empowers homeowners to unlock their equity when they need it most.

Series A

Point raises a $9.1M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. At the time of funding, the tiny (but mighty) team has just seven employees!

Series B

With headcount passing 30, Point outgrows their first office, and moves into a new space, which has housed a number of startups over the years, in Palo Alto, CA.

Point raises a $42M Series B led by Prudential Financial and DAG Ventures. The team grows to over 50 people, and Point funds its 1,000th homeowner!

Big changes

Just a month after moving into a state-of-the-art new office in downtown Palo Alto, Point goes remote during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our recruiting efforts go national as our team expands to Dallas, New York City, and all over the country.

Securitization

Point, with partner Redwood Trust and underwriter Nomura, complete the industry’s first securitization backed entirely by Home Equity Investments. Point also announces over $1B in capital commitments from financial institutions buying the HEI. The new asset class has officially arrived.

Series C

Point raises a $120M Series C led by WestCap. Point funds its 5,000^th customer in February.

A rated $1B asset

Point funds its 10,000th homeowner and surpasses $1B in Home Equity Investment originations. DBRS Morningstar creates a rating methodology for HEIs, and Point and Redwood Trust complete a $139M rated securitization, opening HEI access to a new class of investors.

We partner with investors aligned with our mission to unlock home wealth

10,000+

Homeowners Helped

$175M+

Equity Funding

160+

Team Members

Our Investors

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Our mission-driven team loves working at Point!

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Great place to grow

Lots of transparency from the top down. Everyone is eager to collaborate and share ideas. Great benefits and tons of room to grow.

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Training Manager

Continuously impressed with the quality of people and work

The quality of person that Point employs is continuously impressive. From the high standard of work to the genuine care they have for each other shine through daily.

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Product Marketing

Driven, purposeful team all working towards a common goal

The transparency is on another level – I've never had leadership be so open about the inner workings of the company at a job before in my life.

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Content Strategist

I love working for this company!

My co-workers are all phenomenal! Everyone that I have had the pleasure of meeting in person or via zoom has been extremely friendly, knowledgeable, and always willing to help, no matter how busy we all are.

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Account Manager

A highly rewarding job, with an impressive team

My team celebrates competence but also helps get things done as needed. I feel that opinions are taken seriously, and don't feel pressure to fabricate them.

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Design Leader

Professional growth with work life balance

The importance of work-life balance is always the theme, with a relaxed but still aggressive sales culture to help prompt career growth!

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Account Manager

Point in the media

Our innovative products have been featured in top publications.

Point CEO, Eddie Lim made Business Insider's 100 people who are transforming business

Every year, Insider surfaces 100 leaders across 10 industries who are driving unprecedented change and innovation. Lim, the CEO and cofounder of Point, wants to make it easier for people to tap into that wealth. Lim’s company, which he founded alongside Eoin Matthews in 2015, offers homeowners lump sums of cash in exchange for a stake in their home.

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Point closes on $115M to give homeowners a way to cash out on equity in their homes

Historically, homeowners could only tap into the equity of their homes by taking out a home equity loan or refinancing. But a new category of startups has emerged in recent years to give homeowners more options to cash in on their homes in exchange for a share of the future value of their homes.

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