BrickVest reached a buyout after it expanded their product suite and powered it with AWS
During a 7-year partnership, BrickVest launched 3 products for real estate investors and ran 6+ stack upgrade projects. In the end, an European investment management company recognized their strong software base and bought out the business.
About BrickVest
BrickVest was a real estate investment platform that connects investors with all kinds of investment opportunities. Through BrickVest Classic and BrickVest Debt, the company provided various services for both private investors and large sponsors and lenders. It also offers a range of tools for real estate brokers. In 2020, BrickVest was acquired by Patrizia, a leading investment manager in the real estate market.
BrickVest continues to innovate the fintech sector by creating new, disruptive fintech products and encouraging the development of new fintech apps.
Country
United Kingdom
Industry
Fintech
Timeline
1.2015 - Ongoing
BrickVest was a real estate investment platform that connects investors with all kinds of investment opportunities. Through BrickVest Classic and BrickVest Debt, the company provided various services for both private investors and large sponsors and lenders. It also offers a range of tools for real estate brokers. In 2020, BrickVest was acquired by Patrizia, a leading investment manager in the real estate market.
BrickVest continues to innovate the fintech sector by creating new, disruptive fintech products and encouraging the development of new fintech apps.
€788M+
in loans listed on platform as of July 2021
100+
verified lenders on platform
2020
acquired
Business context
When the project started, BrickVest put The Software House in charge of developing their first digital platform for real asset investments.
Gradually, the concept evolved into a range of specialized platforms we developed together BrickVest Classic targeted large-scale real estate investors and BrickVest Debt opened up commercial real estate opportunities for a bigger crowd.
BrickVest also wanted to create a high-level framework for fintech development to create new financial applications with little custom coding at a speed.
Partnership goal To help transform BrickVest’s competitive fintech ideas into modern scalable web applications ready for market success
Before
BrickVest had rich expertise in the field of finance and many exciting ideas, but it needed a reliable technological partner to reach their growth milestones.
After
By working with an added development team BrickVest launched, maintained, and grew multiple new products for the British real-estate market
The Software House hand picked professionals who worked for BrickVest as a full-stack Scrum team
We worked on:
Team formation
The number of experts from The Software House involved in the project scaled up and down according to the business needs.
At its peak, the team included 22 specialists of various kinds. Among them were 12 Node.js developers, 3 DevOps experts, 2 Project Managers, 2 Technical Writers, 2 QA specialists and a Designer.
“The Software House is providing exceptional developers and technical knowledge that allowed us to build the next generation platform. Something that, especially in the industry we are operating, was unseen.”
Our partnership
Over the course of over seven years, BrickVest’s partnership with us resulted in the release of multiple fintech web applications for various clients. They made BrickVest a major disruptor in the world of fintech and led to the company’s successful acquisition by Patrizia in 2020.
The development
The team at The Software House was involved in almost every aspect of the software development in the course of the project.
Beside the actual development, our specialists managed the AWS infrastructure and provided UX/UI expertise. Our development team closely cooperated with the BrickVest business team and Product Owner in order to best reflect the client’s vision. We carried out all the activities in accordance with best practices of Scrum development.
How Brickvest used AWS
Amazon EC2
Hosted the K8s cluster to ensure high availability, scalability, and flexibility in choosing virtual machines.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Privatized access to K8s or services like RDS to block out unauthorized actors.
Amazon S3
Stored documents used by the product and data backups as a reliable and easy-to-manage and configure service.
Amazon RDS
Automated the management of Brickvest’s PostgreSQL and MySQL databases.
Amazon ElastiCache
Automated the product’s cache use. Used to ensure security, stability, and availability.
The future
The development works continued through October 2021. At the same time, The Software House team provided DevOps support, which still continues. Our cooperation with BrickVest gave us the opportunity to experience some of the most ambitious fintech projects yet.
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