Bullish or Bearish: Retail-Investor Oriented Real Estate Investment Managers (Fundrise, RealtyMogul, Cadre, etc.)

Hey All,

Coming up on about three years of experience working on the debt side of an insurance group's AM arm. While I like my current role, the transactions are extremely vanilla and I've been interested in moving to the equity side for some time now. I've spotted an opportunity I think I'd have an inside track on at one of the larger RE Investment managers out there that raises capital directly through consumers (Think Fundrise, Cadre, RealtyMogul) and I'm curious to hear the opinion of other industry veterans on these shops.

Although I'm not crazy about first mortgage lending, I do know that the brand-name of my current shop is taken seriously in the big leagues. My question is this: if someone applied to your shop and had robust and diverse deal experience at a "crowd-funded" investment platform like one of the aforementioned, would you take them as seriously as someone from your typical $1 -$5B REPE shop?