TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

residential real estate market has been booming because of the pandemic. The attractive returns in this sector have lured more investors into the market, but the processes associated with buying an investment property are still costly and fairly antiquated. housing crisis. So far, their approach seems to be working.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Flat.mx, which wants to build a real estate “super app” for Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding. Anthemis and 500 Startups co-led the investment, which included participation from ALLVP and Expa. The real estate market in Mexico is broken,” said co-founder Bernardo Cordero.

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Revolution

MAY 23, 2023

Unpacking Proptech: A data-driven series on advancing built world innovation As mentioned in Part 1 , an outsized portion of the proptech investor base comes from the real estate community — a reality I would argue is complicating the industry’s growth. Strategics in this space typically have a portfolio of hard assets (i.e.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

evolve into a one-stop real estate shop that also offers mortgage, title insurance and escrow services. To that end, e arlier this month, the startup acquired Atta Franchising, a 7-year-old São Paulo-based independent real estate mortgage broker. Last year, it also expanded into connecting home buyers to sellers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

WeWork co-founder and former chief executive Adam Neumann ’s career arc has felt synonymous with the rise and eventual fall of unicorn dreams. The entrepreneur, whose fall from grace has attracted global interest, just found a ladder in the form of a check from storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Buying and selling residential real estate is a complex business, no matter where you live. But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. In 2020, Loft saw the number of listings on its site increase “10 to 15 times,” according to co-founder and co-CEO Mate Pencz.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

We’ve seen a big wave of proptech startups emerge to reimagine how houses and bought and sold, with some tapping into the opportunity with distressed property , and others exploring the “ iBuyer ” model where houses are bought, fixed up and resold by a single startup to homeowners who don’t want to invest in a fixer-upper.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As teammates at buy now, pay later fintech Affirm, Stella Han and Carlos Treviño bonded over their shared background of growing up in real estate families. Fractional , a San Francisco-based startup, wants to make real estate ownership more accessible. Fractional co-founders Stella Han and Carlos Treviño.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. Groundfloor’s platform offers investments in real estate debt to its 150,000+ users, with a minimum investment of $10.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Luxury Presence, a startup selling marketing software to real estate brokerages, announced today it has raised $25.9 Bessemer Venture Partners led the round alongside fellow existing investors Toba Capital and Switch Ventures. The company serves 3,700 customers, including individual and multi-agent real estate teams.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The real estate and infrastructure sectors contribute about 40% of global carbon emissions , and part of solving the climate crisis is fixing how those industries work. Accacia gives large property owners a way to track their carbon impact in real-time by integrating with ERPs and property management systems like Yardi.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has created all sorts of real estate issues for companies as it forced so many employees to work from home, leaving empty space all over the globe. And while there is no shortage of technology out there for landlords, there are fewer options for commercial real estate tenants and brokers.

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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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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

MARCH 31, 2022

The company is building a software-as-a-service platform for the real estate industry. Companies using Deepki can track and analyze ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) criteria, starting with carbon emissions generated by their real estate portfolio. You can’t reduce what you can’t measure.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Headquartered in Singapore, proptech startup Propseller is on a mission to make real estate transactions more efficient and data-driven for sellers and buyers alike. Today Propseller announced it has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India. . Propseller’s team.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Commercial real estate has been slow to embrace technology ; though it has an addressable financing market of more than $40 billion, putting together a deal is still mostly manual, paper-heavy and complicated. Lev founder and CEO Yaakov Zar previously co-founded Boston-based Dispatch, which built tools for home services businesses.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Commercial real estate tenants and property managers have to abide by strict liability rules that any vendor entering the property must have insurance certificates and meet other requirements. This new investment brings Jones’ total raised to $20 million, according to Crunchbase data. Enter Jones. days — from 12 days — with 99.9%

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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

APRIL 4, 2023

No founder event would be complete without pitches! TechCrunch editorial is looking for 6-7 founders to take part in a Pitch Deck Teardown. Founders can apply here. At TC Early Stage, founders will get to pitch in front of an expert panel of judges and secure essential insight before you step up to bat.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Still, there are a lot of downsides to taking venture money—the push to grow at all costs, our desire to be all up in your business, literally, and sometimes, we’re kind of obnoxious. These are people that didn’t make their money through a tech startup or startup investing. They might not have even made their own money.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Latino founders of early-stage companies based in the U.S. L’Attitude Ventures announced today that it has closed on its first institutional fund, raising more than $100 million from several financial services heavyweights, including a “strategic anchor investment” from JPMorgan Chase. just got a new potential source of capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Tribevest founder Travis Smith went on a fishing trip with his brothers in 2008 that he says they couldn’t afford. 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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

While markets grapple with the concept that the pandemic might not be entirely in the rear view mirror, investors are continuing to seek out investment opportunities outside public markets as they seek to diversify. Indiegogo founder launches alternative investments discovery platform Vincent. Today, there are more $3.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Obie , a real estate-focused insurance technology company, has raised $25.5 million in a funding round led by Battery Ventures. While the startup declined to share its valuation, COO and co-founder Aaron Letzeiser said Obie “was able to achieve a significant increase in valuation” from its 2021 Series A round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Early-stage proptech startups have a potential new source of capital in 1Sharpe Ventures , which recently closed its $90 million inaugural fund. Roofstock co-founder and chairman Gregor Watson and real estate investor Rob Bloemker started the venture firm in 2021, and had their first close last year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The commercial real estate industry is facing its share of challenges, considering the fact that so many people are working from home (and not in offices) and retail is riding a slippery slope as more people shop online. In other words, the company’s self-proclaimed mission is to become the “LendingTree for commercial real estate.” (For

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 2, 2023

How Azibo’s Vikas Gupta is on a Mission to Streamline Property Management for Independent Real Estate Investors I had the pleasure of interviewing Vikas Gupta the CEO of Azibo , a unified financial and property management platform for independent real investors. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception. JLL Spark, Vertex Ventures, Anim, K50, Foundamental and Green D Alumni Ventures also participated in the Series A investment.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S., marking its highest level since 2017. Seed- and Early-Stage U.S,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world , especially ones geared toward newer investors. The seed funding, which was made in two closes, included participation from Saison Capital, Venturra Discovery, 1982 Ventures, 500 Startups, Nextrans, and angel investors like executives at Google and Netflix.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Today we are thrilled to announce our investment in Orchard , a company dramatically simplifying the process of buying and selling a home with a modern, digital experience from search to close. Orchard’s customer service is also enhanced by their local real estate brokers who are hired full-time as home advisors (vs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Early-stage venture fund New Stack Ventures just raised $42.6 million for its second fund aimed at injecting capital into founders that don’t come from the educational pedigree or location that we typically see with entrepreneurs. TC: The current portfolio is largely enterprise/B2B, with a few notable investments in food tech.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Arrived has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Forerunner Ventures to give people the ability to buy shares in single-family rentals with “as little as $100.”. The concept of fractional ownership in real estate is not new, and in recent years we’ve seen a flurry of startups focused on the space.

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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. Axios reported that this was 211% over the number of dollars invested in 2020. ?.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Adam Neumann, the infamous entrepreneur behind WeWork, raised a stunning $350 million from Andreessen Horowitz for a yet-to-launch real estate company called Flow. The news [of Neumann’s raise] was not shocking to me,” Nicole Tinson , the founder of the inclusion platform HBCU 20×20, told TechCrunch. “I

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Revolution

MARCH 6, 2024

Buoyed by that iconic New Mexico experience, we gathered for breakfast alongside local founders, investors, and civic leaders to delve into the city’s expanding innovation landscape. We started the day at sunrise watching hundreds of balloons prepare for one of Albuquerque’s most spectacular events: the mass ascension.

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