About Us

Our Story
and Mission

Our founders, Rob Bloemker and Gregor Watson, have a history of investing ahead of the curve. In a career spanning from Salomon Brothers on Wall Street to heading a $60bn investment division at Putnam Investments, Rob is an innovator of mortgage securitization and a leader in fixed income investing. Gregor has built a career identifying, and seizing, moments of opportunity in real estate markets spanning land development to property technology. Gregor was early in identifying the opportunity to purchase entitled land from regional homebuilders during the great financial crisis, and evolved the strategy to purchase thousands of single family homes at deep discounts to their intrinsic value. Rob was also a pioneer of Single Family Rental when he started FiveTen Capital to acquire 10,000 rental homes. Identifying and solving pain points of their own, and that they saw across the SFR market, Gregor and Rob have founded a series of successful technology companies. Gregor founded Roofstock, today the largest marketplace for single family home investment, relied on by both individuals and institutions. Together, they built Dwell Finance into a national bridge lender, selling the company to a unit of Blackstone in 2015.

Rob and Gregor began working together in 2014 during their time running parallel efforts in SFR. They first formalized their partnership with Dwell Finance.

1Sharpe was founded in 2016 as a partnership between Rob and Gregor to invest across the spectrum of real estate: from credit, to real estate private equity, to early stage property technology companies. Rob and Gregor have built a world class team of investment and operational personnel to support them in their mission of delivering superior returns to institutional investors.