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Arrenda emerges with Adelanta, a financing offering for landlords in Latin America

TechCrunch

Arrenda , a Mexico City-based fintech company, is offering digital financial services to the real estate market of Latin America and closed on $26.5 The funding round was a mix of $1.5 Joe Merullo, founder and CEO, grew up in Boston and started his first business in real estate at 19 years old.

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General Catalyst, Tiger Global lead $25M investment into Blank Street’s micro specialty coffee shops

TechCrunch

There were a lot of cool businesses coming out of Asia and being efficient in real estate, which enables you to cut down and save money on rent and push customers to order ahead,” Menda told TechCrunch. They added some technology to improve the consumer ordering experience while also building in quality, speed and convenience.

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Location data analytics startup Placer.ai raises $50M Series B

TechCrunch

It’s been a very tough year for Placer.ai ’s core customer segments of retail and commercial real estate, to put it mildly. But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence.

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SwiftConnect, which lets employees use their phones to access the office, raises $17M

TechCrunch

“SwiftConnect also tapped into the fact that administrators were also seeking to use physical space and real estate more efficiently.” Using SwiftConnect, employees and tenants can add their employee badge to Apple Wallet on the iPhone or Apple Watch after an initial set-up process.

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Kocomo raises millions to give people a way to co-own a luxury vacation home

TechCrunch

The company aims to allow for cross-border co-ownership of luxury vacation properties that goes beyond the historical use of timeshares. Architect Capita l provided the debt investment. So if the property value goes up, so does someone’s investment. But he was disappointed as he explored options. .

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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What goes up must come down

TechCrunch

Real estate fintech Redfin announced on November 9 that it was laying off 13% of its staff , or 862 people, in response to the continued slowing of the housing market. Interestingly, Kelman appears to be putting his own personal bets into real estate markets outside the U.S. But I digress. Pymnts has more here.