VC Spotlight: Camber Creek
Camber Creek was early enough in PropTech to feel like time travel. When Casey Berman founded the firm in July 2009, real estate still ran on clipboards, gut instinct, and the kind of workflows that made dial-up look modern. Casey Berman saw a $18T asset class starving for real technology, not gimmicks, and built a venture platform that treated PropTech like core infrastructure. That conviction turned into nearly $1B AUM, 70+ investments, 17+ exits, and a reputation for finding category winners before the category existed.
The team reads like a roster assembled by someone who understands that real estate only trusts experience. Jake Fingert brought a White House pedigree and oversight of a 350M-square-foot federal portfolio. Jeffrey Berman added 20+ yrs of operating depth across startups, venture, and one of the largest private real estate firms in the D.C. region. Partners Elliot Wertheimer and Alexandra Nicoletti layered in billions in transactions from Goldman Sachs, Brookfield, Norges Bank, and Apollo. The investor bench runs equally deep: Isabelle Granahan-Field from Wharton, Easton Ewy with $6.5B in data center projects, Ellison Taylor with $1B+ in private credit, Alyce Ge with CB Insights and Cherre, J.P. with Morpheus Ventures, and Lionel Foster shaping platform strategy with a background spanning Urban-Brookings and Georgetown Law.
What separates Camber Creek is the Beta Lab, a testing ground that puts products in front of LPs representing billions of square feet. No single demo. No optimism without evidence. Every company is tested against its closest competitors until the strongest signal wins. That is how Proof, formerly Notarize, became a $760M company modernizing real estate transactions, how VTS hit a $1.7B valuation, how Arcadia scaled to $1.45B, how Flex handled $8B+ in annual rent payments across 6M+ units. It is how the firm led the $45M seed for Serhant.Technologies, backing a brokerage and media engine expanding across 8 states with $1B+ in YoY sales growth.
The thesis has never drifted. Back technology that makes or saves real money. Top-line expansion or cost reduction with measurable ROI. No amenities pretending to be innovation. Founders must know the pain, quantify the impact, and navigate the long institutional sales cycles that break unprepared teams. Camber Creek’s 300+ LP network turns those founders into contenders the moment diligence ends.
Portfolio companies across the network are hiring in product, engineering, sales, ops, and data.
Proof (formerly Notarize) – https://www.proof.com/careers
Arcadia – https://www.arcadia.com/careers
Latch (now DOOR) – https://door.com/careers
Measurabl – https://www.measurabl.com/careers
Bowery Valuation – https://boweryvaluation.com/careers
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