Matt Ryan
A Little About Matt Ryan:
A Little About Matt Ryan:
Matt Ryan started his first company in 2010 in Charlotte, NC, focusing on energy efficiency and green building in residential and light commercial buildings. He did this after learning that a mere 3% reduction in energy demand would mitigate the need for a controversial coal plant in my home state of South Carolina. Highlights of that endeavor were:
● Matt broke profitability in my third year, coming off the Great Recession with no prior experience in the field.
● Landed four grant/research projects:
● South Carolina Electric Cooperatives – (Columbia, SC) Completed energy modeling, building diagnostics, and built scopes of work analyzing the feasibility of energy efficiency and home performance improvement measures in existing residential and historical buildings. This included overseeing retrofits of mobile homes that often saw a 30-50% reduction in energy costs.
● Sustainability Institute – (Charleston, SC) Completed energy modeling, building diagnostics, and built scopes of work analyzing the feasibility of energy efficiency and home performance improvement measures in existing residential and historical buildings.
● NEPDEER Research Project – (Charlotte, NC) similar scope of work as above.
● HUD (Kingstree, SC) – similar scope as above.
Matt Ryan started his first company in 2010 in Charlotte, NC, focusing on energy efficiency and green building in residential and light commercial buildings. Matt Ryan did this after learning that a mere 3% reduction in energy demand would mitigate the need for a controversial coal plant in his home state of South Carolina. Highlights of that endeavor were:
● He broke profitability in my third year, coming off the Great Recession with no prior experience in the field.
● Landed four grant/research projects:
● South Carolina Electric Cooperatives – (Columbia, SC) Completed energy modeling, building diagnostics, and scopes of work analyzing the feasibility of energy efficiency and home performance improvements in existing residential and historical buildings. This included overseeing retrofits of mobile homes that often saw a 30-50% reduction in energy costs.
● Sustainability Institute – (Charleston, SC) Completed energy modeling, building diagnostics, and built scopes of work analyzing the feasibility of energy efficiency and home performance improvements measures in existing residential and historical buildings.
● NEPDEER Research Project – (Charlotte, NC) similar scope of work as above.
● HUD (Kingstree, SC) – similar scope as above.
● Worked with dozens of track and custom home builders certifying homes under the Energy Star program, among other Green Building programs (NAHB Green, Earthcraft, LEED). Also worked to certify and perform subcontracting duties on two hundred multifamily retrofits across three different projects.
● Certified the first-ever “green” Habitat for Humanity project in South Carolina. Built the spec, which helped them qualify for a $5,000 grant, only costing them an additional $2k in costs.
● We launched a home performance residential subcontracting arm for homeowners. One of the first in the country to implement data collection via tablet along with estimated energy savings, including comfort, air quality, and durability improvements. Was able to produce reports and customer proposals in real-time: this reduced data collection and reporting timeframe by 35%.
● Matt has been in over five hundred residential and light commercial buildings as a subcontractor, contractor, inspector, and investor.
He started re-viv in 2016, capitalizing on my passion for high-performance construction, community development, and sustainable buildings. The catalyst was a community member in the neighborhood where I bought my first investment property: Ms. Pam. Ms. Pam walked every day to the elementary school where she worked and took the bus to her night shift job to provide for her granddaughter. As I grew to understand how more investment and development could change the neighborhood and potentially push out the Ms. Pams of the world, he felt a desire to find a better balance. In 2015, Matt moved to San Francisco to base my new endeavor with the idea of revitalizing communities through impactful investment real estate investment strategies. To me, affordable housing that is walkable, bikeable, and close to necessary retail and job centers shouldn’t be just for the affluent.
Below is a list of our accomplishments to date:
● Started with $95,000 in 2013 and currently own $4.5 million dollars of real estate with another $2.0 million in phase two build-outs via lot splits and ground-up residential.
● Average IRR of approx. 22% across realized projects with $1 million of equity invested.
● We have grown our construction pipeline by 5x over the last year.
● Launched our Opportunity Zone Fund in 2019 and raised initial funding of $2 million in equity.
● The current pipeline
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