TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

residential real estate market has been booming because of the pandemic. Vontive , an embedded mortgage platform for investment real estate that just came out of stealth, is trying to streamline some of those processes by helping mortgage lenders upgrade their tech. housing crisis.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Sundae , a residential real estate marketplace that pairs sellers of dated or damaged property with potential buyers, has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Fifth Wall and General Global Capital. 9 top real estate and proptech investors: Cities and offices still have a future.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. Venture dollars flowed into proptech after proptech. At the same time, as the venture market slowed dramatically and suddenly, raising capital was much harder. Then 2022 came.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, announced Monday that it has raised $150 million in Series D funding. Existing backers Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures and Sapphire Ventures also participated in the new financing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised “$50 million-plus” in a funding round that doubles its valuation to $2 billion. Matrix Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures and 8VC led its earlier rounds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Mudafy , a tech-enabled real estate broker operating in Latin America, has raised $10 million in a Series A round of funding led by San Francisco-based Founders Fund. It claims that it is doing more than 100 real estate transactions per month and is currently originating over 50% of the mortgage loans for its customers. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

. $82M Series A financing. According to the announcement the funding was co-led by Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Cure Ventures and The Column Group, with participation from Euclidean Capital and Saisei Ventures. Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), Juno Therapeutics (acquired by Celgene for approx. $9B)

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Arrenda , a Mexico City-based fintech company, is offering digital financial services to the real estate market of Latin America and closed on $26.5 million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. Joe Merullo, founder and CEO, grew up in Boston and started his first business in real estate at 19 years old.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Orbital Reef is claiming its slice of LEO real estate. Promus Ventures , a VC firm based in Chicago, closed a €120 million ($139 million) space fund, dubbed Orbital Ventures. ABL Space had a huge week, closing $200 million in funding from existing investors including Fidelity Management and Lockheed Martin Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

But I do have some insight into how this will affect venture markets. When many venture investors are seeing their personal public portfolios tank it creeps into their business lives and creates an emotion that is less risk tolerant whether they’re aware of it or not. I caution people from thinking this is necessarily a bottom.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. It was a great place to live and work, and I believed that over time, it would be a growing venture opportunity.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Startups operating in the financial side of the real estate tech market suddenly faced a surge in demand, and many departed on hiring sprees to keep up. Nima Wedlake, principal at Thomvest Ventures, agreed, noting that agility is a critical trait. Nima Wedlake , principal, Thomvest Ventures.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S., To make it easier to toggle between the three, there needs to be significant policy, financing, and physical transformation. marking its highest level since 2017. Seed- and Early-Stage U.S,

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

La Haus , which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million in debt financing. Like the US, a two-tier venture capital market is emerging in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Jordan Gonen and Jacob Schein had both worked in the tech industry for a few years when they realized they lacked a clear understanding of their own finances. People should globally optimize their finances rather than locally optimize them for particular situations,” Gonen said. . How much can they afford to angel invest?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Keyway , a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of a $15 million equity raise. And 20% of transactions fall through because the buyer didn’t have guaranteed financing.” commercial real estate value.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While Adesanmi worked for years in Nigeria’s banking and fintech space, his family’s real estate background pushed him to establish a startup in proptech. million seed funding led by Los Angeles–based early-stage VC firm MaC Venture Capital. monthly to finance rent payments. Now it is announcing the completion of its $2.6

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI, excluding real estate) skyrocketed in 2016 as Chinese investors seek diversification out of their domestic markets.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2020

We are seeing structural declines in the importance of massive sectors like carbon based energy, commercial real estate, retail, and more. 3/ Technology based commerce solutions gain when less people venture into stores to buy groceries, clothes, and other consumer products. That’s just how things are.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Property technology startup Nomad Homes is working to change that by creating a personalized real estate buying experience in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a region that represents $20 trillion in real estate, company CEO Helen Chen told TechCrunch. “We We are like Stitch Fix for real estate,” she added. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On Investors in the round include I2BF Global Ventures, Mucker Capital, Gaingels, Vibe Capital, and singer-songwriter Ryan Leslie.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow. according to Crunchbase), but especially for the real estate tech space (perhaps the largest ever). They were once rivals.

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HPA

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By creating one of the world’s largest repositories of commercial real estate data, Cohesion will lead the industry’s transformation to autonomous buildings. Investing in technology that ensures commercial real estate is a positive contributor to our world is central to our company ethos.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

is a weird world, and you should use end-to-end encrypted messages if you’re going to DM your friends about things that are potentially illegal. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 “Power”ing up Marqeta’s portfolio : Marqeta made its first acquisition, securing Power Finance in a $275 million all-cash deal, Mary Ann reports.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Also participating is Cherry Ventures, Soravia, Kreos Capital, TruVenturo and Scope Hanson. NUMA’s business model offers an attractive risk-reward profile for real estate partners, operators – and, most importantly, a completely new travel experience for modern travelers.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The startup’s co-founder and CEO Mostafa El-Beltagy told TechCrunch that the mortgage financing plan is part of their strategy to introduce new products that are aligned with clients’ needs, ensuring sustainability for their business. This leaves a financing gap for pre-owned mortgages that Nawy now aims to bridge.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Sunlight Financial, which offers point-of-sale financing for residential solar systems, has raised north of $700 million in venture capital, private equity and debt. Keyless locks = Peloton for real estate. The SPAC is associated with Tishman Speyer, a commercial real estate investor. Let’s find out.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

More debt financings means flat is the new up. Last week, I wrote about Founderpath , an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B startups. Some founders might be struggling to raise venture dollars, while others don’t want to — preferring not to dilute ownership. This could be for any number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. For example, Brex announced last week that it provided $10 million in growth capital via venture debt to Zesty.ai, a leading provider of predictive data analytics in the climate risk space. We’re seeing pretty big market changes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Even though they collected rent one year upfront, the default rate of the yearly system is very high because when people’s finances take a hit, they might not be able to pay subsequent rent,” he said. That’s one of the reasons we raise debt financing.”. That’s one of the reasons we raise debt financing.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Inspiration wants to help commercial fleets go electric, and it has already started by financing electric mobility company Revel’s ride-hail fleet of blue Teslas. The funding comes from ArcLight Capital Partners, a venture fund that invests in energy infrastructure. ” Inspiration aims to cater for three types of customers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Naval Academy graduate and former fighter pilot, Herman saw real estate as the only avenue to true wealth creation open to him and his family given their years on the road and lack of available investment capital. million in venture and $17.5 million in venture debt to start making loans.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Specifically, the new firm aims to provide non-dilutive or less-dilutive financing options to asset-rich fintech, e-commerce and SaaS companies in the U.S. The region, Architect maintains, does not have a plethora of institutional financing available against assets. and Latin America, but with an emphasis on the latter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Many real estate technology companies are developing technology that is in competition with, or could potentially replace, real estate agents. For one, prior to this financing, Place says it had not raised any external capital. This round and company caught our attention for a couple of reasons. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

And it has just closed on $6 million equity and $50 million debt financing to advance on that goal. One way it is different from the concept of timeshares , the executives say, in that participants actually own a part of the real estate, not just the use of time. That’s what I thought. Image Credits: Kocomo.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Scott Lenet is president of Touchdown Ventures. Is there a creed in venture capital? Venture capitalists frequently say that valuing startups is “more art than science.” So venture capitalists lie to entrepreneurs and pretend that seed- and early-stage startups have intrinsic value. Scott Lenet. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. It was an expensive mistake, and one he wants to help Latin American entrepreneurs avoid with his new venture, Latitud. “I

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