Starpointe Ventures

What Starpointe Ventures does

Starpointe Ventures is a privately held, founder-controlled real estate development, entitlement, brokerage, and consulting firm headquartered in Irvine, California. The company operates as both a principal developer and a fee-based consulting developer, processing commercial and residential projects — including office, multi-family, industrial, hotel, and retail land uses — through the public sector across multiple jurisdictions in Orange County and, historically, into Florida. Its core services are entitlement consulting (General Plan Amendments, Zone Changes, Master Plans, Tentative Tract Maps, Development Agreements), real estate brokerage under a California Department of Real Estate license, principal and fee development, asset management, and equity investments in real estate projects.

The firm's business model is project-based professional services and transaction fees. Entitlement work is billed as consulting fees, brokerage generates commissions on property transactions and transferable development rights sales (the firm reports over 1.8 million office-equivalent square feet of TDR sales exceeding $28 million in total consideration), and development engagements generate fee revenue plus equity participation in joint ventures such as Legacy I and Legacy II with The Irvine Company and the Campus Center Land Development work for The Prudential Insurance Company of America. Customers are institutional — insurance companies, REITs, public homebuilders (Lennar), master-planned community developers (Five Point Holdings, Heritage Fields El Toro), commercial REITs (Kilroy Realty, Equity Residential, AvalonBay), and corporate users (Broadcom, City of Hope, Amazon via Seefried, Hilton). Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed; the go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales leveraging principals' relationships with government entities and planning commissions rather than digital or channel-based marketing.

The company was founded circa 1999 by the Strader family and is led by Timothy L. Strader Sr. (Founder and Chairman), Timothy L. Strader Jr. (President), and Patrick B. Strader (CEO). Stated headcount is 1–10 employees, and over 25 years the firm has entitled more than 25,464 residential units, 10.6 million square feet of commercial and religious space, and 1,750 hotel rooms. No external funding, parent company, or M&A activity is disclosed.

Name

Starpointe Ventures

Legal name

Starpointe Ventures

Website

https://starpointeventures.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Starpointe Ventures is a privately held, founder-controlled Irvine, California firm providing real estate entitlement consulting, brokerage, principal and fee development, and asset management services to institutional property owners and developers across Orange County.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Real Estate Development & Entitlement Services

NAICS

Finance and Insurance (52)

SIC

Land Subdividers & Developers (No Cemeteries) (6552), Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531), Real Estate Dealers (For Their Own Account) (6532)

akta.pro primary industry

Land Brokerage (Raw Land & Development Sites) (FSAEAJAD)

Keywords

• Real estate development
• Entitlement consulting
• Real estate brokerage
• Government relations
• Master plan development

Headquarters

HQ city

Newport Beach

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Entitlement Consulting Services: Fee-based consulting for obtaining governmental approvals including General Plan Amendments, Zone Changes, Master Plans, Tentative Tract Maps, Development Agreements, and other entitlements required for real estate development projects.
2. Real Estate Brokerage: Brokerage commissions from facilitating real property transactions and transferrable development rights sales in Orange County.
3. Development Services: Acting as principal developer, fee developer, and consulting developer on commercial and residential projects, generating revenue through development fees and equity participation.
4. Venture Capital / Equity Investments: Providing equity investments to companies and projects in the real estate sector.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Starpointe Ventures is a private real estate development and entitlement consulting firm that acts as a principal developer, fee developer, and consulting developer for commercial and residential projects in Orange County, California. It secures governmental entitlements (General Plan Amendments, Zone Changes, Master Plans, Development Agreements), facilitates real estate transactions as a California-licensed broker, manages assets, and makes equity investments in real estate projects.

Product overview

Starpointe Ventures is a real estate development and consulting firm offering a unified suite of services: Entitlement Consulting, Venture Capital, Brokerage, Asset Management, and Development services. The company acts as both principal developer and fee-based consulting developer, processing projects through the public sector including office, multi-family, industrial, hotel, and retail land uses. Starpointe Ventures has entitled over 25,464 residential units, 10.6 million square feet of commercial, religious institutions, and 1,750 hotel rooms over 25 years, with recognized leadership in real estate-related government relations in Orange County, California.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Entitlement Consulting
• Real Estate Brokerage
• Development Services
• Asset Management
• Venture Capital / Equity Investments

Named customers14 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• The Irvine CompanycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint venture partner with Starpointe Ventures on Legacy I and Legacy II developments in the Irvine Spectrum area. The Irvine Company is a major real estate developer in Orange County, and this partnership has produced four Flex Tech buildings totaling 142,000 square feet and two High Tech buildings totaling 124,000 square feet.
• The Prudential Insurance Company of AmericacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProperty owner represented by Starpointe Ventures on the Campus Center Land Development project in Irvine. Starpointe managed the land development process including grading, site utilities, landscaping, environmental monitoring, and off-site improvements for delivery of buildable lots to purchasers.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Newmark Group: Global commercial real estate advisory and services firm with capital markets, leasing, and valuation capabilities. Overlaps with Starpointe's brokerage and owner-representation services, particularly for institutional and REIT clients.
• JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle): Global commercial real estate services firm offering brokerage, capital markets, development advisory, and asset management. Overlaps with Starpointe's full-service offering but operates at much greater scale across geographies and asset types.
• CBRE Group: Largest global commercial real estate services firm with investment sales, debt/equity placement, valuation, and development advisory. Provides overlapping services to Starpointe's institutional clients (Prudential, AvalonBay, Kilroy, Equity Residential).

Direct peers

• HR&A Advisors: Real estate economics and development advisory firm providing consulting on entitlements, master planning, and public-sector approvals. Highly comparable to Starpointe's entitlement and development consulting practice for institutional and public-sector clients.
• Seefried Industrial Properties: Industrial and build-to-suit development/brokerage firm that Starpointe has worked with on Amazon logistics projects. Comparable in operating model, combining principal development with brokerage across Southern California industrial assets.
• Lincoln Pacific Advisors: California-focused land brokerage and development advisory firm specializing in residential and mixed-use land sales. Comparable niche to Starpointe's transferable development rights brokerage and land/entitlement advisory work.

Emerging players

• Rincon Consultants: California-based environmental and land-use planning consultancy supporting entitlement, CEQA, and permitting work. Directly comparable as an entitlement-supporting consultant that developers and property owners engage alongside or instead of firms like Starpointe.

Regional players

• Lee & Associates: Commercial real estate brokerage with strong Orange County and Southern California coverage. Comparable in providing brokerage, principal advisory, and developer-representation services to property owners and tenants.
• NAI Capital: Southern California-focused commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm. Comparable in offering brokerage and owner-representation services to property owners and developers in the same Orange County/LA/IE footprint.
• Kidder Mathews: Large West Coast commercial real estate brokerage with deep Orange County and Southern California presence. Comparable as a licensed broker facilitating complex transactions and development advisory in the same regional market as Starpointe.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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