Nuveen invests in real estate investing platform CrowdStreet

Nuveen has invested in CrowdStreet, the real estate investing platform.

CrowdStreet raised $43 million in equity and debt capital to help fund the company’s growth and make the market for online real estate investing.

Equity capital came from a prominent group of strategic investors including Fortune 100 financial services company TIAA, which is making an investment through its newly launched TIAA Ventures program that seeks investments in promising fintech companies, as well as commercial real estate industry heavyweights such as Cypress Equity Investments, The Dinerstein Companies and Foulger-Pratt. Existing venture capital partners Grotech Ventures, Rally Ventures, Seven Peaks Ventures and Green Visor Capital also participated in the funding.

"We are pleased to count so many of these leaders from across the industry as customers, partners and now, with their participation in this fundraising round, strategic investors. They know us better than anyone and sh