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Established in 2009, W5 Group is the family office of global real estate entrepreneur, Ralph Winter. The firm engages in a broad range of investment activities and has flexibility to invest in a wide array of asset classes, including real estate, growth equity & venture. Ralph Winter is the Founder and Principal of W5 Group. He is a global real estate investor and entrepreneur spanning various industries. He invested, developed and managed student housing and micro apartments in Europe before they became mature, institutional asset classes. Ralph amassed a portfolio in excess of 40,000 units and generated over EURO30 billion in investment transaction volume through multiple market cycles and across the capital structure. W5 Group is a single-family investment office that makes innovative investments across residential real estate sectors. W5 Group targets equity, preferred equity, or mezzanine investments of $20 million or greater in ground-up developments and existing assets/portfolios in innovative real estate sectors including multifamily, student housing, single-family rentals, co-living and micro-apartments in major urban and high-growth markets in the United States. Target markets include but are not limited to New York, Boston, Washington, D.C. Miami, and high growth cities in Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, and Arizona. W5 Group also runs a Growth equity and Venture capital team which seeks to make investments in companies from early stage to growth equity. The firm is sector agnostic but focus investments on businesses that embrace technology within their value chain. W5's preference leans towards the consumer-tech and prop-tech verticals.
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