Prime Highlight
- Atlas Invest secured $25 million in funding led by BlackRock, showing strong confidence in its AI-powered real estate lending platform.
- The investment will help Atlas expand its bridge-lending platform and modernise commercial real estate credit with continuous data-driven monitoring.
Key Facts
- Atlas uses AI to source deals, assess credit risk, and track loan performance in real time, unlike traditional lending models.
- The platform provides senior loans backed by commercial real estate assets and enables institutional-level oversight at the speed of technology.
Background
Atlas Invest, a technology-based lender specialising in commercial real estate, has raised $25 million in a funding round led by global asset manager BlackRock. This investment shows strong confidence in Atlas’s data-driven method for real estate lending and portfolio management.
The fresh capital will help Atlas expand its bridge-lending platform, which provides senior loans backed by commercial real estate assets. The company uses proprietary artificial intelligence to source deals, assess credit risk, and track loan performance. Atlas aims to modernise real estate credit by addressing what it sees as the limits of traditional lending models.
In private real estate credit, due diligence often happens only at the start of a deal. These processes can be slow, costly, and based on limited information. Atlas says its platform offers a different approach by running institutional-level checks at regular intervals throughout the life of a loan. This allows the company to track changes in asset quality and borrower risk in real time.
By using continuous data analysis, Atlas claims it can give investors clearer visibility into how loans are performing and flag risks earlier. The firm also says this system helps it manage portfolios with consistency and discipline, similar to large financial institutions, while operating with the speed of a technology company.
Nir Peled, co-founder and chief revenue officer of Atlas Invest, said investor expectations are changing. He noted that the market now demands lending strategies that offer strong security, stable returns, and professional oversight. Peled added that Atlas was built to deliver institutional-quality underwriting and monitoring “at software speed,” combining automation with a conservative credit approach.
The investment from BlackRock reflects growing interest in technology-driven solutions across private credit markets, especially as investors seek more transparency, control and efficiency in commercial real estate lending.
