W7 Investments · 21 years of proven returns

Wealth, built from
the ground up.

For over two decades we've turned tangible projects — homes built from the foundation up, commercial real estate, private schools, transportation, and community care — into lasting returns for the people who invest alongside us.

21
Years investing across full market cycles
6
Sectors — real estate, healthcare, community care & more
2
Asset classes — residential & commercial
Full
Cycle — we source, build, manage & exit
What we do

Real assets, run with real expertise.

We don't chase paper. Every W7 investment is anchored to something tangible — a building, a campus, a fleet, a community — and now backed in-house by the accounting and advisory that keeps it all optimized.

Real estate

Ground-up home builds and commercial buildings — acquired, developed, and sold for profit across multiple cycles.

Education

Private school projects that serve communities and generate durable, mission-aligned returns.

Transportation

An operating transportation company — real revenue, real routes, real assets on the balance sheet.

Community Care

Community-based programs — including our licensed adult day program — delivering stable, needs-based income with a genuine social return.

Healthcare

Investing in and developing medical and care facilities — our newest focus as we expand into the healthcare space.

How it works

From introduction to income, in four steps.

We built the process to be transparent enough for a first-time investor and rigorous enough for a seasoned one.

1

Request access

Tell us who you are and what you're looking for. We'll review and open your investor portal.

2

Choose a project

Browse vetted opportunities and portfolios. Pick a single deal or spread across sectors.

3

We build & manage

Our team executes hands-on — sourcing, building, operating — with our own capital in beside yours.

4

Earn returns

Track progress in your portal and receive distributions as projects produce and exit.

The marketplace

Open opportunities & what's coming next.

A live look at where W7 capital is going — recently realized, in development now, and coming to partners next. Live deal terms are shared with approved investors through the portal.

Gresham Spec Home
Ground-up single-family build · built & sold
Residential
Asset
Build & sell
Strategy
Realized
Horizon
Sold & exited
Community Care Home
Ground-up residence for adults with developmental disabilities · community care
Community Care
Asset
Develop & operate
Strategy
Near term
Horizon
In development
Private School Campus
Development & long-term lease · education
Education
Asset
Yield
Strategy
Long term
Horizon
Coming soon
Transportation Fleet Expansion
Growth capital for the operating company
Operating
Asset
Cash flow
Strategy
Medium term
Horizon
Coming soon
Residential Portfolio · 2024 Vintage
Acquired, renovated, sold for profit
Residential
Asset
Build & sell
Strategy
Realized
Horizon
Funded & exited

Opportunities shown are illustrative of W7's strategy. Access to live deal terms is granted to approved investors through the portal.

Portfolios

Don't want to pick? Invest by goal.

Prefer diversification over single deals? Choose a managed portfolio and we'll allocate across W7 projects to match your objective — like a private-market index of everything we build.

Income

The Yield

For steady cash flow
  • Weighted to income-producing assets
  • Community Care, transport & leased real estate
  • Regular distributions
Most chosen

The Balanced

Growth with a floor under it
  • Blend of build-and-sell & income
  • Spread across every sector
  • Our flagship allocation
Growth

The Builder

For maximum appreciation
  • Weighted to ground-up development
  • Residential & commercial upside
  • Longer horizon, higher target
Impact

The Cornerstone

Returns with a social return
  • Schools & community care focus
  • Mission-aligned, needs-based
  • Do well by doing good
Track record

Twenty-one years of turning projects into profit.

We've owned and sold residential rentals for gain, repositioned commercial buildings, and built operating businesses — through every kind of market.

21 yrs
Building & operating
$3.1M
Latest realized exit
Six
Active sectors
In‑house
Sourced to sold

Residential, bought & sold for profit

Acquired rental homes, improved them, and exited at a gain — repeated across cycles and neighborhoods.

Commercial, repositioned & realized

Took on commercial buildings, added value through leasing and improvements, and turned them for profit.

Ground-up development

Built homes from the foundation up — controlling cost basis and capturing the full developer's margin.

Operating businesses

Beyond property: a transportation company and a licensed day program producing real, recurring revenue.

Aligned capital

We invest our own money in the projects we bring to partners — our returns move with yours.

Hands-on, every step

Sourcing, building, operating, and exiting in-house — not a fund that outsources the hard part.

Own real things. Run them well. Everything else follows.
Why W7

A firm that builds, not just buys.

W7 Investments was founded on a simple conviction: the surest way to build wealth is to own real things and run them well. Twenty-one years on, that conviction still drives every decision we make.

We open the kind of private-market opportunities that used to be reserved for institutions — to investors of every size who want their capital doing something real.

W7 is privately held and principal-led: its founders invest their own capital in every project and manage it directly. That continuity now extends to a second generation, with partner Adia Williams leading one of the firm's active investments — reinforcing long-term ownership and oversight.

Vetted, not volume.
We pursue few projects and know each one intimately.
Tangible by design.
Every dollar is anchored to a real, sellable asset.
Open to all classes.
From first investment to family office — there's a way in.
Meet the founders

The people behind W7.

W7 Investments is built and run by a hands-on team that invests its own capital alongside yours — and we've brought accounting and advisory in-house so nothing about your money is outsourced.

Ayanna and Thomas Williams, founders of W7 Investments
Ayanna & Thomas Williams
Founders of W7 Investments
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Founder

Ayanna Williams

W7 began as Ayanna's idea. She imagined a firm that could build schools, homes, and human-services programs with the same care and creativity — and founded it. Pairing a background in special education and child development with a decade of building organizations from the ground up, she sets the firm's vision and leads its education and human-services platform alongside its in-house accounting & advisory practice.

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Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Dr. Thomas Williams

An educator-turned-builder with a Ph.D. in educational leadership, Thomas spent two decades founding and leading schools before applying that same discipline to real estate — developing ground-up homes, acquiring commercial and residential property, and building the operating companies that now sit under W7. He directs the firm's strategy and capital across every sector.

Adia Williams
Partner

Adia Williams

A 2026 political science graduate of Sacramento State — now entering a master's program — Adia already leads one of W7's investments day to day. She brings the next generation of the family's discipline to the firm: hands-on with the operation, and learning the business of building from the ground up.

Request investor access

Start building with W7.

Tell us a little about yourself and what you're interested in. We'll be in touch to open your investor portal and walk you through current opportunities.

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Thank you — we've got it.

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Based inNorthern California