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As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform

TechCrunch

It has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours. This is 30% lighter, charges faster and comes with 500 GB of on-board storage. Back in 2020, another player, Giraffe360, raised $4.5

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Side raises $150M at $1B valuation to help real estate agents go it alone

TechCrunch

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. 9 top real estate and proptech investors: Cities and offices still have a future.

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Accounting firm Proper banks $9M Series A to automate property management

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“Property managers don’t often come from an accounting background — usually they have a real estate license, so that lack of expertise can put them in a position where they can’t scale their portfolio, or if they try to, things break.”. As part of the investment, QED Partner Matt Risley is joining Proper’s board of directors.

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NJEDA Board Awards $3M in Grants to Support Public Space Activation in Atlantic City & Newark

American Entrepreneurship

program aims to bring businesses & workers back to NJ’s commuter hubs after pandemic Second tranche of funding for real estate projects to be awarded in early 2024 TRENTON, N.J. In 2024, the NJEDA will announce Real Estate Rehabilitation and Development grants under the A.R.T. $10M A.R.T.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

not building your own pipeline and rather seeking to enable a partner biopharma organizations), projections on deal volume and average deal size are a must. Providing access to raw data for few key experiments to enable plot replication will send a positive signal on your underlying position on data transparency.

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Sugar raises $2.5M in seed funding to connect apartment residents

TechCrunch

Also participating were angel investors such as SquareFoot CEO Jonathan Wasserstrum, Ben Zises, Diran Otegbade, Oleksiy Ignatyev and Zillow board member Claire Cormier Thielke, also of Sequoia Scout Fund. . Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech. Sugar’s product has two components.

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Even decacorns have their challenges

TechCrunch

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. Additionally, when looking across the board at the top MSAs, major institutional investors have seen a near 50% jump in renewal rent growth. Weekly News.