About Us
Why We Started Aspera Capital Solutions…
We started Aspera Capital Solutions because we kept seeing the same problem from different angles.
David spent years on the institutional side of real estate — managing alternative investment portfolios at Goldman Sachs, underwriting hundreds of CRE deals at a private equity fund, and working the brokerage side of acquisition and development transactions. Tanner built his career on the ground — managing construction projects, navigating entitlements, and developing real estate throughout the Intermountain West. From both perspectives, the gap looked the same: experienced operators with sound projects and clear business plans, stuck waiting on conventional lenders who couldn't move fast enough, didn't understand the deal, or simply wouldn't do it.
Bridge lending isn't new. But most of the capital available to small and mid-size borrowers comes from shops that treat every deal like a commodity — rigid terms, opaque processes, and decision-makers who've never walked a job site or underwritten a development pro forma. We thought there was room for something different: a lender that combines institutional discipline with the speed and flexibility of a principal making direct decisions. That's what Aspera is.
We're early-stage and deliberate about it. We're not trying to be the biggest lender in the market. We're trying to be the most reliable one for the borrowers we serve — and to build a track record that earns trust over time, one deal at a time.
The Aspera Team
David Jangro - Principal
David's career in real estate and capital markets has spanned the institutional, operational, and transactional sides of the business — which is a polite way of saying he's sat in enough different chairs to know what matters and what doesn't when a deal needs to get done.
After graduating from Dartmouth College, David started on the portfolio management and capital markets desks at EverBank during the aftermath of the financial crisis — a formative experience in understanding credit risk when it's not theoretical. He earned his MBA from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, where he focused on investment management and entrepreneurship, then spent several years in private wealth management at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs, advising high-net-worth individuals and families on their investment portfolios.
At Goldman, David transitioned to the firm's Alternative Investment Group, working with institutional clients on their hedge fund and alternative investment allocations. That led him to Salt Lake City in 2018, and eventually to the principal side of real estate — first as an investment sales broker at Colliers International, where he worked on acquisition and development transactions across multifamily, adaptive reuse, retail, and industrial, and then as Managing Director of Investment and Portfolio Management at Axia Capital Partners, a private equity real estate fund. At Axia, David led acquisitions, dispositions, and investment strategy across multifamily, self-storage, outdoor hospitality, and industrial development, helping grow the portfolio to over $100M in assets under management.
He started Aspera Capital Solutions to put all of that experience — institutional investment discipline, transaction structuring, and real-world underwriting — to work as a direct lender, co-investing his own capital alongside every loan Aspera originates.
Outside of work, David is usually somewhere in the mountains — snowboarding, mountain biking, rock climbing, or otherwise finding ways to justify living in Utah.
Tanner Webster - Principal
Tanner comes at real estate from the ground up — literally. His background is in real estate investment management through development and heavy value add, understanding what it actually takes to execute a project, not just what the spreadsheet says.
Following his studies at University of Utah, Tanner built his early career in brokerage and across a variety of residential and commercial developments throughout the Intermountain West. That work covered the full spectrum- budgeting, subcontractor management, timeline oversight, entitlement navigation, and the kind of on-site problem-solving that only comes from being the person who has to make the project work.
That operational foundation eventually led Tanner into creating his own real estate development and investment management company, where he built a reputation as a resourceful, well-connected operator with a sharp eye for deal feasibility. He brings particular depth in acquisitions, entitlements, due diligence, and construction oversight - understanding borrowers from their perspective.
At Aspera, Tanner oversees borrower relationships, deal sourcing, and project evaluation. His ability to assess not just the real estate, but the borrower's plan and their capacity to execute it, is central to how we underwrite. When Tanner says a project pencils, it's because he's evaluated it the way a contractor would - not just the way a lender would.
Complementary Perspectives
Between us, we've underwritten deals from the GP side, the LP side, the brokerage side, and the construction side. We've managed institutional portfolios and we've managed job sites. That combination — institutional rigor and operational reality — shapes how Aspera evaluates every deal.
We don't just ask whether the collateral value supports the loan. We ask whether the borrower can actually execute the plan, whether the timeline is realistic, and whether the exit makes sense in the current market. Most of those answers don't come from a spreadsheet. They come from experience.
How We Operate
"Transparency" We tell borrowers and partners exactly where they stand — on pricing, on timeline, and on whether a deal works for us. No hidden fees. No last-minute surprises. No ambiguity about who we are or what we can do.
"Discipline" We say no to more deals than we say yes to. Conservative underwriting isn't a constraint — it's what allows us to move with confidence and speed when we do commit.
"Accountability" We have significant personal capital at risk in every deal we originate. That means every decision carries personal consequence, which is exactly the kind of alignment borrowers should want from their lender.
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If you're working on a project that could benefit from a direct lending partner, or if you'd like to learn more about Aspera, we'd welcome the chance to connect.