TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Compass , the real-estate brokerage startup backed by roughly $1.6 Other investors include the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Fidelity, Wellington Management, and the Qatar Investment Authority, according to Crunchbase. That financing valued Compass at $6.4 billion in venture funding , filed its S-1 Monday.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

is a weird world, and you should use end-to-end encrypted messages if you’re going to DM your friends about things that are potentially illegal. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 “Power”ing up Marqeta’s portfolio : Marqeta made its first acquisition, securing Power Finance in a $275 million all-cash deal, Mary Ann reports.

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Red Rocket

MAY 22, 2024

CB Insights, a leading research organization that tracks venture capital financings, recently released its report on t he state of the venture capital market in 2023. Gone are the days of “unicorn” creation (companies worth more than $1 billion), mega-sized financings, and excessive valuations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

A slew of investors participated in the financing, including MetaProp, Agya Ventures, Concrete Rose, Debut Capital, The Community Fund, Consonance Capital, Lightspeed Scout Fund and Jason Calacanis’ LAUNCH syndicate. Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

More debt financings means flat is the new up. Last week, I wrote about Founderpath , an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B startups. On August 8, Mexico City–based expense management startup Clara announced it had been approved for financing from Goldman Sachs for up to $150 million. Here in the U.S.,

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 30, 2024

$15 Million Series A supports the startup’s growth with a $10M Net Revenue Run Rate In 2021 real estate fintech startup Backflip launched an all-in-one platform for real estate entrepreneurs to support their acquisition and renovation of single-family homes. Over 400,000 homes are flipped every year in the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The three-day DX22 event will be filled with opportunities to network—both formally and informally–and feature intriguing keynote speakers on such topics as real estate, e-commerce and cryptocurrency. Who is the ideal attendee for DX22?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Rampell is on the company’s board, but is not involved in the day-to-day operations of the company. Point says that last year, it received over $1 billion in new capital commitments from real estate and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) investors. So, what exactly does Point do? Sign up here to get it in your inbox.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate. ibnAle is set to join the company’s board of directors. Alto last raised $17 million for its Series A in April 2021. .

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Berkonomics

MARCH 29, 2018

Ever take that advice without question because the person giving it was an investor, a superior in rank, the chairperson of your board? As the business expanded into a second city and then planned expansion into a third, there was a rift that became evident between these angel board members, played out in front of the CEO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

How to communicate with your board in tough times. In the graphic above, notice that most of these companies play in the largest, but notoriously archaic industries like banking, insurance, real estate, healthcare, etc. More posts by this contributor. Keys to ascending the consumer-internet throne. Justin Da Rosa. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Like many other online real estate brokerages, Homie pledged lower commissions and a more streamlined process. Also, like many other real estate brokerages, it has attempted to become a one-stop shop for home buyers and sellers by branching out into loan, insurance and title services. . YC-backed Duplo raised a $1.3M

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

By bringing Baer and Camhaji on board, Claure said in a statement, SoftBank will “be better able to identify high-growth companies and support them at every step of their lifecycle.”. He also served as the CEO of Adianta, a Brazilian B2B invoice financing company. QuintoAndar , a Brazilian real estate marketplace.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This past year was also the year that startup boards also got more disciplined about containing burn rates and pushing for companies to be run more pragmatically. Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI, excluding real estate) skyrocketed in 2016 as Chinese investors seek diversification out of their domestic markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Collective , an all-in-one back-office finance platform for the self-employed, which has raised over $28 million in funding, is hiring for five roles across engineering, marketing and member services (tax, accounting). He’s an investor in, and a board member of, companies such as Acorns, Figma, and Kabbage.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). If I could close with some advice for startups and boards ….

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. Many called us worried and scared that funding was drying up while some had boards telling them to fire people,” Requarth recalls. “I

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

And that’s been happening pretty clearly… Now, with that said, I think that there’s still a lot of appetite [for fintech] across the board. Robinhood expands into consumer finance while Apple steps up its fintech game. And instead of eight term sheets, you’re going to get two. Well, that’s it for this week!

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 19, 2023

But if it was coined ‘Sunnyside’ by the real estate industry you can assume it’s foggy AF. Voting structures aside (which I know is close kept to the non-profit Board), how do you prevent a handful of venture capitalists from influencing and benefitting from this organization. might be up for grabs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general partner at the fintech fund of 500 Startups, and Jake Gibson, co-founder of personal finance startup NerdWallet, were a little taken aback by investor interest in their fintech-focused early-stage venture firm, Better Tomorrow Ventures , or BTV.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Oklahoma’s Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP) Seed Fund is a nationally recognized best practices example of legislated early stage capital that has stood a 20-plus year test of time. Certain industries, for example real estate or finance, may be excluded. Some credits are transferable.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

For years, the real estate technology company has touted itself as using its pricing technology to provide “more accurate offers and lower costs,” said the FTC. Apple alum’s finance operations startup Bluecopa raises funds to expand globally. Adamic most recently served as SAP Concur’s chief revenue officer. And elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Concreit , a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. . Concreit gives everyone access to a real estate portfolio and the ability to have access to withdrawals when they need them.”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Given the shifting landscape, it’s helpful for you as a CEO and/or founder—or for your finance and capital markets teams, if you have those hires to help you through this process—to know who the key players are at each stage so you can spend your time and energy speaking to the right firms. small business loans for their customers).

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Absolutely not.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

However, the site classified companies such as Better.com in the “Real Estate” category. I did not speak to Better CEO Vishal Garg but he did provide a canned statement conveying his excitement about all the new folks — who come on board after a flurry of senior exec departures and amid a tumultuous environment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Paytm said it will discuss with the board on December 13 the proposal to buy back the fully paid-up equity shares of the company, the Noida-headquartered firm disclosed in a stock exchange filing.” Ocho wants to rethink (and rebrand) personal finance for business owners. Gilgamesh Ventures’ Paula You. Funding and M&A.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million. Impressed with Polly’s traction even at that point, the firm still participated in that financing with a smaller check and stayed close to the company. “ The next year or two is going to be a really exciting time for us,” Carmel said. “We

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Pinto has other side hustles in real estate – all this on top of his consulting firm. His teaching side hustle has clued him into young artists to star in his productions, taught him about marketing for emerging media and “provided interns that we’ve brought on board for editing and marketing.”. The network effect.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Monetizable mood boards might sound like the moonshot idea that no one asked for, but when you think about it, the vision is already informally happening in various corners of the internet. million in financing, in a round led by Aileen Lee at Cowboy Ventures. Lee will be taking a board seat.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Determine who will serve on the Board of Directors and in executive officer positions (usually founders). Appoint Newco’s initial Board of Directors. Advisory board agreements. With a few exceptions such as certain standardized commercial real estate leasing documents, none of these could be described as “boilerplate.”

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

It was thrilling for these angels to find a young entrepreneur with an idea for a business that seemed so destined for greatness that the angels invested over $1 million on the condition that the group receive two board seats and one observer seat on the start-up’s board. Email readers continue here.]

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Returning backers Jefferies Financial Group, New Residential Investment Corporation — an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group LLC — and 166 2nd LLC ( the family office of WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann) also participated in the financing. Valon previously raised $3.2 Soros, Kairos and Zigg Capital. . residential loans.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Lower , an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. The financing also marks the previously bootstrapped Lower’s first external round of funding in its seven-year history. “We This round is notable for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The week of Thanksgiving turned out to be less boring than I expected — I reported that three of alternative financing startup Pipe’s co-founders were stepping down as the company searched for a “veteran” CEO to take the company to the next level. Eric Wu, co-founder of Opendoor , stepped down from his role as CEO of the real estate fintech.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

And based on his perception of the startup’s growth prospects, he can choose to bring his friends and acquaintances on board to fill the round. The HNIs that would’ve thrown money into real estate are looking for startups. “ All of a sudden, everyone is interested in what’s happening in the space.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

They ignore their finances. If you want to bring your vision to life, you need operational partners who can take care of the details and execute, especially when it comes to your finances. Mike Calhoun, founder and CEO of Board of Advisors ; connect with Mike on Facebook and LinkedIn. They listen to too many people.

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