SPECIAL 05 | Raising Millions: How to Attract & Secure Investors for Your First Syndication

Raising capital for a multifamily syndication isn’t just about the numbers—it’s about building trust, creating demand, and preparing well before you ever have a deal in hand. In this episode of Multifamily Revealed: An Emerald Point Mini Series, we’re diving deep into how we successfully raised $3M for our 76-unit acquisition in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Joining us for this conversation is William Liu, CIO of Give Rise Capital (and Anita’s husband!), who played a key role in structuring and executing the capital raise. Together, we unpack the biggest challenges new syndicators face when attracting investors, how we strategically built relationships and nurtured our investor base a year in advance, and the exact process we used to convert interest into hard commitments.

We’ll cover:
✅ The fundamentals of capital raising—what it is and why it’s critical to syndications
✅ How to attract and engage investors before you need capital
✅ Building credibility as first-time syndicators—how we leveraged our mentor, Tony Lin, to instill confidence in investors
✅ Investor objections and how we handled them—including a deep dive into a skeptical investor who questioned every aspect of the deal before ultimately buying in
✅ The mechanics of our raise—timeline, investment minimums, and structuring our capital stack
✅ Lessons learned—the biggest mistakes new capital raisers make and how to avoid them
✅ How these lessons will shape our future raises
We also share behind-the-scenes stories from our raise, including how we filled a standing-room-only event with investors (and 200 spring rolls!), how some early soft commitments didn’t materialize when it came time to fund, and why having a strong brand and pre-existing investor relationships was our biggest advantage.



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