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Express Building

Financing Southeast Asia's ~$1 trillion housing backlog

Y CombinatorSummer 2022ActiveReal Estate and ConstructionHousing and Real EstateFintechReal EstateB2BProptech

What they do

Problem

Small and medium residential developers in Southeast Asia struggle to secure financing to scale pipelines of pre-sold affordable housing projects.

Solution

Express Building provides financing that enables small and medium residential developers to expand and execute pre-sold affordable housing developments.

Who it's for

Small and medium-sized residential property developers in Indonesia and the Philippines.

Founders

Joseph Tan
Founder

Former real estate executive who has invested & developed $3B+ in commercial and residential real estate in North America. Scaled a Canadian self storage platform to a $310MM exit.

Emmanuel Rex Rodriguez
Founder

A highly experienced hands on developer who is always on the forefront of change. Has handled million dollar infrastructure budgets as well as hands programming on applications serving tens of thousands of concurrent users.

Company timeline

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