Ryan Freedman

Ryan 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 and technology 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.