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After seeing 200%+ ARR growth, Occupier raises $10.5M to become the OS for corporate real estate teams

TechCrunch

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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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. 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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Even decacorns have their challenges

TechCrunch

By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be two days away from TechCrunch Disrupt! I am doubtful that I could ever be a venture-backed startup founder. VCs clamor to fund real estate investing startups. We’ve been seeing a lot of interest — and funding news — in the real estate and proptech spaces lately.

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Codi lands $16 million, led by a16z, to prove that we never really actually liked co-working

TechCrunch

These days, the startup’s most disruptive belief is one that disagrees with the co-working model popularized by WeWork. The investment occurred weeks before the firm announced that it invested in Flow, WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s next bet — both investments show the firm’s interest in a more flexible, yet turnkey future of real estate.

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

TechCrunch

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. How to communicate with your board in tough times. Justin Da Rosa is a vice president with Battery Ventures in San Francisco. Share on Twitter. Justin Da Rosa.

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Tech-enabled homebuilder Homebound raises $75M Series C led by Khosla

TechCrunch

And today, the Santa Rosa, California-based startup is announcing it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures toward its efforts to help address those inventory shortages with its technology. In addition to the equity, Homebound also secured “hundreds of millions” in debt from Goldman Sachs. But with a 5.5

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How do you attract family offices and other large investors to your direct investing platform?

David Teten VC

Real estate , e.g. AcreTrader , Alphaflow , Brickvest , Cadre , Crowdstreet , Fundrise , PeerRealty , RealCrowd , RealtyMogul , Republic Real Estate*, SmallChange. Arno Niazi, CEO, GoingVC said, “Take, for example, our Venture Capital learning and development program, which now has more than 250 global alumni.

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