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. This March, the company announced a pre-seed investment of $625,000. Then in July, it became the first African startup to join New York’s MetaProp Accelerator.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Investors include NFX, Daol Investment, Hana-Magna, Hana Financial, MetaProp, Fursys, Han River Partners, Flybridge and Maple. Shampine noticed residential real estate was big in South Korea but also knew he didn’t know enough, especially about the local proptech space, he said. million to digitize real estate in South Korea.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In this confidential deck, consider providing as much information as possible to accelerate the diligence process, including details about any underlying technical platform, your intended near-term pipeline targets and substantive program-specific data (e.g., key in vivo data results). If you’re building a horizontal business model (e.g.,

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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. Predictably, home buyers made hay, taking full advantage of the favorable financial environment to pick up new homes and refinancing mortgages on their existing homes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

There are a number of ways to make money in the metaverse by participating in play-to-earn games, buying virtual real estate, or creating 3D assets on metaverse platforms like Roblox, AltspaceVR and VRChat. billion KRW) round to accelerate its growth. The Seoul-based startup recently has raised a $5.2 million (6.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Architect Capita l provided the debt investment. In Schrimpff’s case, spending more time with friends and family became a top priority and he accelerated his plans to find a vacation home. So if the property value goes up, so does someone’s investment. But he was disappointed as he explored options. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

“The climate-oriented investment in Biden’s new plan would be roughly ten times what came through ARRA,” wrote Shayle Kann, a partner with the investment firm, Energy Impact Partners. Real estate consumes 40% of all energy. ” Climate resiliency .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Additional investors also joined, including Saga VC, as well as leading artists, art collectors, museums, gallerists and trustees at institutions such as MOMA and Guggenheim as well as Shalom McKenzie, an online gambling entrepreneur and investor who also invests in NFTs. The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Opendoor co-founder and CEO Eric Wu said his company, a publicly traded real estate fintech, was navigating “one of the most challenging real estate markets in 40 years.”. Opendoor announced it was letting go of 18% of its staff. This is around 500 people. Chargebee has laid off about 10% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Cosi Group , a Berlin-based startup offering an alternative to boutique hotels and managed short-stay apartments, is disclosing €20 million in new investment. Backing the round is Vienna-based Soravia, a leading real estate group in German-speaking countries. We simply activated new demand channels.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

With the move, Life House has essentially evolved from a tech-enabled hotel operator into a (70-person) SaaS company. “Our investment will help accelerate innovation and the expansion of Kayak’s hotel initiatives,” said Hafner. “We We’ve been pretty efficient,” said CEO Zeidan. “In

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

The Maine-based payment technology company has created a mobile-first platform to enable renters to pay on time, in full, each month. That’s when she and her co-founder, Heman Duraiswamy, who has a background in residential real estate ownership, took a look at the pain of paying bills and started Circa in 2019.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The new investment is in partnership with Enlightened Hospitality Investments, the growth equity fund co-founded by Danny Meyer, the founder of Union Square Hospitality Group and Shake Shack. This is EHI’s third investment this year, according to Crunchbase data. The new funding gives ConverseNow total funding of $28.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

So while its original focus was helping co-working spaces and commercial real estate better manage the use of their shared work locations, since the pandemic struck the startup says it’s seen a big surge in demand from companies looking for tools to help them switch to a more flexible and hybrid office routine.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company plan to strengthen its capabilities in local commerce with Danggeun Pay, or Karrot Pay, which is set to launch this year, and Danggeun’s platform Karrot enables approximately 300,000 local SMB partners to go digitalized by offering offline to online (O2O) service.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To be clear, Kyte isn’t working on the software or hardware that will enable teleoperated or autonomous car delivery — there are plenty of companies already doing that, and Kyte says it’s in advanced conversations with multiple companies in the space with the goal of partnering on pilot deployments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Most of those are product buys to drive or accelerate revenue growth with the secondary benefit of getting new talent, Ruark said. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Philippines-based fintech PayMongo, which enables merchants to accept digital payments, raised $31 million in Series B funding with an eye on regional expansion. i80 Group, an investment firm that provides credit to growth and venture-backed companies, announced a multi-year fund commitment from ICONIQ Capital. I love this concept.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. We have come back and invested with founders we originally declined.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

will have the ability to use Square in English or Spanish, “including key products like Square Banking to unlock access to financial services and Square for Restaurants to enable seamless, bilingual communication between front- and back-of-house staff.”. Indian fintech Cred to invest in lending partner Liquiloans. And elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It’s not just e-commerce: New restrictions on data sharing and collection will raise customer acquisition costs for everything from auto sales to real estate. As valuations soar and IPOs accelerate, the public is taking on more startup risk. “And the exchanges aren’t even the swingiest of crypto-themed investments.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

When we first shared LatAm’s digital acceleration story in last year’s Latin America Digital Transformation Report , we believed we were at the peak of digital growth catalyzed by the pandemic. Much has been written about Latin American fintechs, which last year drew 40% of the region’s venture capital investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Addepar , which makes software to track investment performance, is also actively hiring with roughly 50 open roles across the U.S., 401(k) provider Human Interest , which recently increased total funding to $500 million, including an investment from BlackRock, has 23 open roles, including in engineering, product and revenue.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? We are active in construction with investments such as HOVER and Fieldwire and believe the entire sector is right for a digital and automation overhaul. About 10 percent of our time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

We believe BNPL adoption at the point of sale will accelerate rapidly given consumer familiarity. In most emerging markets where Quona invests — including Latin America, the region I lead for the firm — BNPL remains relatively open, with a few market leaders beginning to emerge, such as ADDI in Brazil and Colombia, and Zest Money in India.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

The Oakland Black Business Fund is an investment platform that provides services to Black-owned businesses found in the Oakland, California area. It provides funding to such businesses to address any existing gaps when it comes to real estate and how possible it is for these businesses to access capital. Acceleration Grants.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

To that end, Valon Mortgage , a tech-enabled mortgage servicer, announced this morning it has raised $50 million in a Series A round of funding — which is large for its stage even by today’s standards. The pandemic highlighted the stress in the market and greatly accelerated the need for a new-age mortgage servicer,” Wang said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights. Sequoia apparently was fairly active overall last year despite the global downturn, with over 100 investments. But wasn’t that true for every sector?

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. Image Credits: Sonoma home / DANIEL KELLEGHAN PHOTOGRAPHY. But with a 5.5

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

Crestline”) and included participation from real estate technology venture capital firm RET Ventures and multifamily industry leaders Essex Property Trust and UDR, Inc. (“UDR”); founded in 1997 and based in Fort Worth, Texas, is an institutional alternative investment management firm. About Crestline Investors, Inc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2022

Controlling the transaction from the issuer to the card network through its processing partner further enables Zact to capture all of the interchange and share more of it with its partners and customers, he added. The company plans to launch the new product, Step Investing, sometime early this summer.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The commercial real estate brokerage market in South Korea is fragmented, which makes finding a new office for tenants a challenge due to inaccurate listing information, high brokerage fee and complex paperwork. Rsquare has invested in a Vietnamese proptech startup Propzy in 2020 and an Indonesian proptech company Mamikos in 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

aren’t finished taking big swings at the commercial real estate business in the U.S. Even after the collapse of WeWork, the investors are doubling down on a similar business model as part of a syndicate investing $700 million into REEF Technology. It seems like SoftBank and the Mubadala Corp.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

As the name suggests, Urban Innovation Fund invests in companies building technology to shape the future of cities, while VMG targets commerce. Prior to starting Urban Innovation Fund, Brenner was in commercial real estate development and met Lein, who was doing political polling and consulting, at business school at MIT.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We are excited to invest in fast-growing consumer and techsumer companies doing over $10 million in revenue, are quickly scaling and need growth capital. I would be thrilled to find an investment based in Miami, however Clerisy is not focused on a specific geography. David Goldberg, general partner, Alpaca.

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