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Sundae closes on $80M for residential real estate marketplace

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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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Burn, baby, burn. Real estate-focused fintech startups feel the heat

TechCrunch

Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. In 2020, historically low interest rates led to a surge in both rates and purchases. Layoffs in the sector began — and they took place in a range of real estate tech companies, big and small.

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Neighbor raises $53M for self-storage marketplace after 5x YoY revenue growth

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A16z led Neighbor’s $10 million Series A in January of 2020. At a time when the commercial real estate world is struggling, self-storage is an asset class that continues to perform extremely well. And that increased demand led to Neighbor’s commercial real estate footprint growing 10x in 2020. .

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Ripe For Disruption: The Asset Management Business

David Teten VC

Joe Reilly , CEO of Circulus Group and a longtime contributor to Family Wealth Report , interviewed me to share views on disruption in asset management, my research into the field, and where the industry needs to be headed. Reilly: What do you find is most disruptive in the industry right now? What prompted you to explore this space?

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UpEquity raises $25 million in equity and debt for its cash-pay mortgage lending service

TechCrunch

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. After the Navy, Herman went to Harvard Business School and met his co-founder Louis Wilson.

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Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups

TechCrunch

Latin America, they believe, has historically been ripe for disruption, especially in the fintech and proptech sectors, due to the significant underbanked and unbanked population in the region and the relatively unstructured real estate industry. Some are even seeing more opportunity than in the U.S.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption. Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers? Under-heated.