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Sumutasu secures $10M to digitize Japan’s real estate market

TechCrunch

Sumutasu , a Tokyo-based proptech startup that offers a direct online real estate purchase service, has secured $8.2 Takahiro Sumi (CEO) and Tomoya Ito (COO) co-founded Sumutasu four years ago to streamline the buying and selling of residential real estate. million in equity and $1.6 million in debt. and the U.K.,

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Get Your Money for Nothing and Your Bitcoins for Free

This is going to be BIG.

First of all, it''s a real estate term, obviously. Shifts in population, transportation, and economic opportunity produce land grabs. The more real estate you could secure, the better off you were--sort of. Is there a North Brooklyn real estate bubble? It applies to a finite, physical resource.

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Real estate developer turned prefab home builder Veev closes on $400M in fresh funding

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Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

It had been written that NYC was built by industries of zero sum games like finance and real estate, and that DNA wouldn’t work in the startup community. They need to be focused on housing cost, transportation crime, and the kind of zoning that enables a critical mass of interesting local businesses to thrive.

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The Next Wave of Climate Tech

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While many think achieving that goal is unlikely, as investors with capital to put to work, we have to have a ‘challenge accepted’ mindset.” — Kristin “I look for tech opportunities that enable sustainable B2B change versus small lifestyle changes. What industries are ripe for transformation from a sustainability standpoint?

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Daily Crunch: Snap lays off one-fifth of its workforce after missing revenue and growth targets

TechCrunch

Slumdog $5-illonnaire : Landa is the latest startup to attract venture capital, in this case $33 million, to democratize real estate ownership, Mary Ann writes. It’s a really good read from the TechCrunch transportation desk with an undertone of “the power of great pivots.” The TechCrunch Top 3.

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

TechCrunch

As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. 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.