Seed Round · $500,000 · Confidential · 2026

SEED DECK · INVESTOR BRIEF

Owner-Finance Real Estate · The Buyer-Powered Marketplace

The Zillow of Owner Finance.

Two groups are desperate to reach each other. Buyers with cash and income the banks still reject, and sellers who cannot move their homes in a frozen market. We are the only place they meet.

SELLERSOwnFiBUYERS
The Big Idea

Uber did not own the cars.
Airbnb did not own the homes.

We do not own the real estate. We own the buyers.

Every great marketplace found two sides that could not reach each other and built the bridge, then stocked it with demand before supply ever showed up. In owner-finance real estate, that bridge does not exist yet. We are building it.

Uber marketplace
Marketplace
Uber

Drivers and riders who could not find each other.

Airbnb marketplace
Marketplace
Airbnb

Spare rooms and travelers, matched at scale.

Robinhood marketplace
Marketplace
Robinhood

Everyday people, finally let into investing.

OwnFi
Owner Financing Listings
OwnFi

Cash-ready buyers and stuck sellers, united.

The Problem · Both Sides Are Stuck

A market frozen on one side.
A pile of cash on the other.

Sellers cannot sell.

30-year lows

Existing-home sales bottoming.

  • Existing-home sales near 30-year lows. About 1 in 3 listings is cutting price.
  • Locked into cheap 2-4% loans. Owners cannot list without losing their rate.
  • Motivated, but no buyers. Almost none can find a qualified buyer at today's rates.

Buyers cannot qualify.

Subprime FICO < 670~83M
Credit invisible / unscored~32M
Self-employed / 109927.7M
100M+

Americans locked out of conventional mortgages.

  • ~83M with subprime FICO under 670. Auto-rejected before income is even reviewed.
  • ~32M credit invisible or unscored. Thin files, immigrants, cash earners (CFPB, 2025).
  • 27.7M full-time self-employed and 1099. Write-offs shrink bankable income; $400K of revenue underwrites as $80K.
  • Income is not creditworthiness. The Fed found an income-to-credit-score correlation of just 0.27. 1 in 3 households earning $250K+ live paycheck to paycheck.

Two highly motivated sides. No trusted bridge between them. Until now.

Why Now · Built for Every Market

Thrives in any market.
Dominates in this one.

When the market is hot, sellers stack premiums and buyers stretch into homes a bank would never approve. When it cools, sellers reach for creative terms to keep deals moving. Either way the deal closes, and the economics work for everyone.

5 Years

Sellers cash out on their terms.

Sell in a frozen market, often as-is, and cash out in as little as five years at a price today's market will not support with a mortgage.

40-80%

Above market rent.

It is a purchase, not a lease. Monthly payments run well above rent, with no maintenance, vacancy, or repair costs. The buyer owns those.

$29.5B

A proven, growing niche.

Seller financing is already a resilient market that becomes more relevant precisely when bank lending tightens.

A model that compounds in every cycle. Today's frozen market is the accelerant, not the reason.

NAR · J.P. Morgan · Note Investor · 2025-26

Our Solution

Everyone else sells visibility.
We sell access.

Zillow, the MLS, and listing sites show your home and wait. We do the opposite. We acquire buyers first, organize them into city-specific pools, and hand sellers direct access on day one.

The old model

Everyone else
Seller
Listing
Wait for traffic
Hope for inquiries
Maybe a sale

Our model

We flipped it
Seller
Listing
City buyer pool
Direct buyer access
Sale

We do not wait for buyers to find the property. Sellers reach buyers who are already searching their city.

The Gap No One Has Closed

A huge, fragmented market with no trusted brand.

Owner finance is not new. But no one has built the brand for it. It has been left to scattered individuals and risky channels.

86%

Completely fragmented.

Of seller-financed deals come from individual, one-time sellers. Not institutions. No Zillow, no incumbent, no standard.

It lives on Facebook.

Buyers and sellers transact in groups and DMs, where scams and fraud are rampant and trust runs low.

Millions would, if they knew.

Most people have never heard owner financing is an option. Our ads are the first time they are seeing it, and they are flooding in.

We become the single trusted brand. The safe, default place for owner-finance homes.

Note Investor Seller Financing Report · 2025

How It Works

Buyers raise their hands.
Sellers reach them instantly.

For Buyers
Buyers
  1. 1Browse owner-financed homes
  2. 2Apply for free
  3. 3Join their city's buyer pool
  4. 4Share income, down payment, timeline and location
For Sellers
Sellers
  1. 1List a property for free
  2. 2Get applications and matches in days
  3. 3Unlock direct access to the local buyer pool
  4. 4Choose how many buyers to contact

The seller instantly sees active buyers.

A seller lists a home and instantly sees active buyers with down payments, income, and buying timelines, then unlocks exactly as many as they want.

app.ownfi.com · Cape Coral buyer pool
OwnFi dashboard showing live buyer applications with income, deposit and readiness for a Cape Coral listing
Live
Our Engine and the Math

We acquire buyers for ~$2.50. Sellers pay up to $2,600 to reach them.

Paid Acquisition

Always-on campaigns building city buyer pools nationwide.

Organic That Spreads

Our social content is taking off on its own. Buyers arrive for free.

SEO and AI Search (next)

Capture everyone Googling and prompting AI for owner-financed homes.

The Spread
~$2.50
to acquire a buyer
$0
a seller pays to unlock a city pool

Every buyer we add makes the marketplace more valuable. And the spread is extraordinary.

CAC and time-to-buyer are current internal metrics.

Business Model

Three ways we already make money.

Buyer Unlock Packages

Sellers buy access to buyers already searching their city.

30 buyers$990
60 buyers$1,800
90 buyers$2,600

Application Unlocks

A few free applications, then sellers pay to unlock buyer contact details.

Free tierIncluded
ThenPay per unlock

Guaranteed Buyer Packages

Premium, accelerated service with a guaranteed down payment in 30 days.

$15K down$4,000
$25K down$6,000
$40K down$10,000
NextFeatured listings · subscriptions · city exclusivity · financing partnerships · buyer verification.
Early Traction

Already live. Already working.

~$2.50
buyer acquisition cost (current)
~2 wks
avg. time to locate a buyer with unlock packages
Live
platform - organic apps, matches and city pools today
~$50K
total founder investment to reach this stage
Early results on a shoestring. Proof the demand and the model are real before a dollar of outside capital.
Why Capital and Why Now

A two-sided market has to be lit on both sides at once.

Sellers only pay when buyers are waiting. Buyers only stay when listings appear. Neither side ignites alone. So we flood both at the same time. Capital is the spark.

OwnFi
More Buyers
More Sellers List
Sellers Buy Access
More Buyer Ads
First to scale both sides becomes the default. And in marketplaces, the default wins the category.
The Ask
We are raising

$0

A seed round to ignite both sides of the marketplace and lock in category leadership. Released in milestone-based tranches tied to performance, so capital deploys against proof.

Tranche 1
$200K
Ignite the Core

Data & infrastructure upgrades. Saturate top metros with buyers and sellers.

KPIs
Pool depth + listing volume
Tranche 2
$150K
Scale the Engine

Launch AI matching on live data. Scale acquisition to top metros. Hold CAC low as spend grows.

KPIs
Unlock revenue + retention
Tranche 3
$150K
Multi-Market Lead

Expand nationwide. Deepen seller retention. Compound the flywheel across markets.

KPIs
Revenue run-rate + coverage

Tranche structure is illustrative. Final amounts, milestones, and terms set by agreement.

Use of Funds

Most of it buys buyers and sellers. The rest builds the machine.

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0
0
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40% - Marketplace Acquisition

Paid ads on both sides, amplifying organic social, plus SEO and AI search.

20% - Product, Engineering & AI Matching

Engineering team, infrastructure, data analyst, and AI matching.

30% - Operations & Team

Customer success, sales support, and training.

10% - Working Capital / Reserve

Buffer for testing, opportunities, and runway.

Growth Strategy

Density first. Then dominance.

01
Next 90 Days

Metro Density

Build deep buyer pools across major U.S. metros so every new listing has buyers waiting from day one.

02
12–24 Months

Market Leadership

Become the largest owner-finance buyer and seller marketplace in America.

03
36+ Months

The Default Brand

The trusted national name people search, and prompt AI, for owner-financed homes.

Team

Operators who have already
built and scaled.

Eric Schmidt, Operations & Growth at OwnFi
Eric Schmidt
Operations & Growth

Serial real estate entrepreneur and creator. Applies operational execution, deal-making experience, and audience reach to support business growth and execution.

Vlad Raush, Chief Marketing Officer at OwnFi
Vlad Raush
Chief Marketing Officer

Leads customer acquisition across paid and organic channels. 15+ years scaling performance marketing systems and managing $50M+ in ad spend.

David Melnichuk, Lead Developer & Systems Architect at OwnFi
David Melnichuk
Lead Developer & Systems Architect

Architect of scalable SaaS platforms. Has shipped multiple successful SaaS products leading system architecture, automation, and infrastructure.

Kent Raush, Conceptual Designer & Conversion Architect at OwnFi
Kent Raush
Conceptual Designer & Conversion Architect

Leads conceptual design, brand strategy, UX, messaging, and conversion architecture to improve acquisition, engagement, and revenue across the customer journey.

Why this team wins: most startups are missing one leg, marketing, tech, ops, or conversion. We have all four at the founder level, plus ~$2.50 buyer economics and a proprietary, growing buyer database no one else holds.
The Vision

Whoever owns the buyers owns the market.

We are building the largest network of active owner-finance buyers in America.

$500,000
$500K to build the largest owner-finance buyer pool in America.

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Sources & Disclosures

Sources & important notes

• Existing-home sales near 30-year lows. National Association of Realtors (2026).

• Listing price cuts & days on market. HousingWire / Realtor.com (2026).

• 2026 home-price outlook. J.P. Morgan Global Research.

• Subprime FICO share (~36% under 670). FICO Score Credit Insights (Oct 2025).

• Credit invisible / unscored (~32M). CFPB Technical Correction (June 2025).

• Self-employed (~16.8M) and full-time independents (27.7M). U.S. BLS (2024) / MBO Partners State of Independence (2024).

• Income-to-credit-score correlation (~0.27). Federal Reserve FEDS Notes (2018). $250K+ paycheck-to-paycheck: LendingClub/PYMNTS (2022).

• Seller-financing market size (~$29.5B) & fragmentation. Note Investor Seller Financing Industry Report (2025).

• Company performance figures (CAC, time-to-buyer, traction) are current internal metrics.

Disclaimer: This presentation is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. It contains forward-looking statements and illustrative projections that involve risk and uncertainty. Actual results may differ materially. Figures marked illustrative are planning estimates, not guarantees. Prospective investors should conduct their own due diligence and consult their own legal, tax, and financial advisors before making any decision.

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