Wharton Equity Partners is a New York-based real estate investment firm and venture investor founded in 1987 with $5.0 billion of investment activity. It invests across U.S. real estate strategies including residential, industrial, urban and hospitality assets, with work spanning development, acquisition, repositioning and asset sales. For venture fundraising, it is most relevant to PropTech and built-environment technology companies, with additional stated interest in big data analytics, robotics, and consumer hardware/software tied to e-commerce.