Donald

What Donald does

Donald is a U.S.-based, privately held marketplace platform founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York. Its stated function is to enable landlords to sell their tenant leases to investors in exchange for immediate cash, positioning it as a two-sided transactional intermediary between commercial or residential leaseholders seeking liquidity and investors acquiring yield-bearing lease contracts. The company operates with a small team (11-50 employees range) and has no disclosed technology stack, product roadmap, or platform architecture details in the available data.

The company's only documented capital raises occurred in January 2015: a $500,000 round followed two weeks later by a $1,000,000 round, both with undisclosed investors. Total disclosed funding is $1.5M. Go-to-market, customer segments, and pricing mechanics are not documented in the source material. The named executive is CEO Charles Polanco.

A material red flag is the current status of the company's branded domain: hidonald.com is listed for sale on HugeDomains (a third-party domain marketplace) for a $595 one-time purchase or a $24.79/month 24-month payment plan. This is typically indicative of a company that is no longer actively operating the domain, is in dormancy, or has wound down operations. The absence of any disclosed funding, product launch, or hiring signal since January 2015 reinforces this read.

Name

Donald

Website

https://hidonald.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Donald is a New York-based, privately held marketplace founded in 2015 that allows landlords to sell their tenant leases to investors in exchange for immediate cash. The company has disclosed $1.5M in early funding and no recent operating activity.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Real Estate Lease Marketplace

NAICS

Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (5312), Rental and Leasing Services (532)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531), Real Estate (6500)

akta.pro primary industry

Commercial Real Estate Brokerage (Leasing & Sales) (FSAEAJAB)

Keywords

• Lease marketplace
• Tenant lease sales
• Landlord liquidity
• Real estate investing
• Lease monetization

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Pricing tiers

Core offering

Donald operates a tenant-lease marketplace platform that allows landlords to sell their tenant leases to investors in exchange for immediate cash. The platform matches landlords needing liquidity with investors seeking to acquire income-generating lease receivables, providing an alternative financing mechanism tied to underlying real estate cash flows.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tenant Lease Marketplace

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Lofty AI: Tokenized marketplace for fractional ownership of rental properties, letting investors buy into income-producing real estate. Comparable to Donald because both turn landlord rental cash flow into a tradable/transferable financial product aimed at retail investors.
• Roofstock: Operates an online marketplace for buying and selling rental (single-family) properties, pairing landlords and investors around income-producing real estate. Most comparable to Donald in concept — a digital marketplace that converts landlord cash-flow assets into investor opportunities — though Roofstock focuses on whole-property sales rather than lease-receivables sales.
• Arrived Homes: Allows individuals to buy shares of rental homes and earn rental income, essentially securitizing residential rental cash flow for retail investors. Conceptually aligned with Donald's pitch of routing landlord rental income to outside investors, even if Arrived operates at the property-equity layer rather than the lease-receivable layer.

Broad incumbents

• LendingHome: Digital lender and real estate investment platform focused on residential investment property loans. Comparable to Donald because both serve the small/mid-sized landlord's capital needs, but LendingHome's product is debt-based rather than lease-asset sale-based.
• Fundrise: Large online platform that lets investors access private real estate income via eREITs and funds, including rental income exposure. Comparable in that it routes landlord/rental cash flow to outside investors, though Fundrise pools capital at the fund level rather than running a per-lease marketplace.
• PeerStreet: Real estate debt marketplace that connects individual investors with private real estate loans, monetizing real-estate-related receivables. Adjacent to Donald's model: PeerStreet intermediates mortgage debt, while Donald intermediates lease receivables — both convert illiquid real estate cash flow into investor products.
• Cadre: Online commercial real estate investment platform connecting investors to institutional-quality real estate opportunities. Thematically comparable — investor access to real estate cash flow — though Cadre operates at the equity-investment level on larger assets.

Emerging players

• Belong: Tech-enabled residential leasing and home-services platform for landlords and renters, providing flexible 'rent-to-own' and management tooling. Comparable to Donald because both operate at the intersection of landlord cash-flow management and tenant-lease innovation.
• PadSplit: Marketplace and operating platform for shared rental housing, sitting between small landlords and tenants. Comparable to Donald because both operate rental marketplaces where landlord-side economics and tenant relationships are central, even though PadSplit doesn't sell lease receivables to investors.
• Groundfloor: Retail-accessible real estate debt marketplace funding fix-and-flip and rental property loans. Comparable to Donald in that both repackage real-estate-linked cash flows into investable securities for non-institutional investors.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Hidonalddotcom

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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