Index Industries Raises $50 Million in Funding to Reinvent How the World Invests in Real Estate

• Index Industries is co-founded by Josh Rosenthal, formerly the President of Polychain Capital, joining as CEO, and Brian Hardecker, CEO of Longmark and formerly of Blackstone, joining as Chairman.
  
  
• The round is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, Polychain Capital, Wintermute Ventures and more.
  
  
• Index Industries will launch the USHP Index, a proprietary benchmark for U.S. home prices, made investable through USHP, a liquid index product, issued by USHP Limited.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2026 — Index Industries emerges from stealth with a $50 million seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Polychain Capital, Galaxy Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, and other institutional investors. The company is building the technology and infrastructure to transform U.S. housing into a broadly investable asset class. Its platform combines a daily-reporting index with tokenization technology and real estate and capital markets services to power third-party housing-linked investment products. USHP, based on Index Industries' U.S. Home Price Index and issued by USHP Limited (BVI), will be the first investment product built on the platform.

U.S. housing is a $55 trillion market, making it one of the largest asset classes in the U.S. Yet despite its scale, broad-based investment exposure to U.S. home prices has remained difficult to access through traditional financial products. Index Industries was founded to close that gap.

Index Industries' first offering will be the U.S. Home Price Index (USHP Index), a proprietary benchmark for U.S. home prices. Calculated daily, it integrates data from the major housing indices into a single national measure, providing a continuous and comprehensive read on home prices. The index is intended to support housing-market research, reporting, and portfolio monitoring and housing-related financial products.

Index Industries is co-founded by Josh Rosenthal, who joins as CEO following his role as President and General Partner of Polychain Capital, and Brian Hardecker, a former Principal at Blackstone and the Founder and CEO of Longmark, a leading residential real estate platform formed in 2021 that has $2 billion in assets under management. Index Industries combines two worlds of expertise to bring breakthrough tokenization technology to new real estate assets.

"Indexing is one of the most important and least celebrated innovations in modern finance. It reduces the expertise and cost barriers to investing in an entire market, which is what U.S. housing needs," said Josh Rosenthal, co-founder & CEO of Index Industries. "I've spent my career looking for industry-shaping financial technology, and Index Industries is exactly that. It has the potential to change how the world sees housing: not just as a roof over your head or something that is out of reach, but as an investable asset class."

"U.S. housing is a massive market. It accounts for roughly a quarter of the aggregate value of the U.S. economy, yet it draws far less attention because there haven't been accessible ways to take a position in it," said Brian Hardecker, co-founder and chairman of Index Industries and CEO of Longmark Group. "Housing is uniquely inflation-protected, uncorrelated to other asset classes, and has arguably been one of the most stable paths to wealth accumulation. It hasn't seen the benefits of financial innovation that other sectors have. That's beginning to change with USHP, and we're proud to play a role."

"Real estate is one of tokenization's biggest opportunities, but bringing a $55 trillion asset class onchain requires traditional institutional infrastructure no crypto-native team has ever had. That's the gap Index Industries closes. It's rare to see two worlds of expertise converge at this caliber: traditional institutional rigor paired with scalable, secure, compliant technology that will unlock access and liquidity for the world's largest asset class. Index Industries' partnership with Longmark made leading this investment an easy decision for Lightspeed," said Justin Overdorff, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Tokenization is a defining innovation in financial markets today, and the world's largest institutions are racing to adopt it. Index Industries applies tokenization to one of the most sought-after asset classes and is designed to create entirely new financial products that unlock access, income, and liquidity at institutional scale.

The USHP Index is expected to launch imminently. USHP Limited plans to release USHP in 2026 on Ethereum and expand to Solana in 2027. For more information, visit indexindustries.com.

SOURCE Index Industries