Steven Bettinger is a seasoned entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience across real estate, specialty finance, technology, health insurance, and consumer products. He has founded and scaled multiple companies with a focus on asset-backed lending and capital deployment.
He co-founded Casa Finance, a direct lender providing flexible capital solutions to professional real estate investors in fix-and-flip, ground-up construction, and rehabilitation projects. He also leads Swift Lending, a real estate bridge financing and development firm with operations in Florida and Puerto Rico.
Steven’s prior ventures include Insurance Specialist Group, a national health insurance distribution platform acquired by AmeriLife in 2021; Swift Funding, a specialty finance firm acquired by Priority Payments in 2021. He also co-founded Acquire Real Estate, one of the first real estate crowdfunding platforms launched under the JOBS Act, which was later acquired by RealtyShares. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Ascendia Brands, an AMEX publicly traded health and beauty company with global distribution and $250 million in annual revenue.
He is currently the co-founder and managing partner of Onrail, a next-generation platform building on-chain infrastructure for real estate credit. By deploying capital and recording loan, borrower, and asset data transparently on the blockchain, Onrail is establishing a new foundation for real estate finance—one that is open, efficient, and programmable.
Steven has spoken at conferences and universities on real estate investing and capital markets, and in 2011 was recognized as one of Florida’s “40 Under 40” rising stars. He earned his degree from the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, where he was a two-time NCAA National Lacrosse Champion.