TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Flat.mx, which wants to build a real estate “super app” for Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding. Anthemis and 500 Startups co-led the investment, which included participation from ALLVP and Expa. The real estate market in Mexico is broken,” said co-founder Bernardo Cordero.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Sundae , a residential real estate marketplace that pairs sellers of dated or damaged property with potential buyers, has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Fifth Wall and General Global Capital. 9 top real estate and proptech investors: Cities and offices still have a future.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

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. Existing backers Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures and Sapphire Ventures also participated in the new financing.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

. $82M Series A financing. According to the announcement the funding was co-led by Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Cure Ventures and The Column Group, with participation from Euclidean Capital and Saisei Ventures. Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), Juno Therapeutics (acquired by Celgene for approx. $9B)

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised “$50 million-plus” in a funding round that doubles its valuation to $2 billion. Matrix Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures and 8VC led its earlier rounds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Mudafy , a tech-enabled real estate broker operating in Latin America, has raised $10 million in a Series A round of funding led by San Francisco-based Founders Fund. It claims that it is doing more than 100 real estate transactions per month and is currently originating over 50% of the mortgage loans for its customers. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On It also offers tools including a business ledger for groups to track their investment performance. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

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 million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. 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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

But I do have some insight into how this will affect venture markets. So why invest in that period of uncertainty unless it’s early-stage and thus valuation matters less. If the next 30 days stays calm then investment will pick up. So, too, investments. I caution people from thinking this is necessarily a bottom.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

While markets grapple with the concept that the pandemic might not be entirely in the rear view mirror, investors are continuing to seek out investment opportunities outside public markets as they seek to diversify. Indiegogo founder launches alternative investments discovery platform Vincent. Today, there are more $3.5

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S., marking its highest level since 2017. Seed- and Early-Stage U.S,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. Axios reported that this was 211% over the number of dollars invested in 2020. ?.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Orbital Reef is claiming its slice of LEO real estate. Promus Ventures , a VC firm based in Chicago, closed a €120 million ($139 million) space fund, dubbed Orbital Ventures. ABL Space had a huge week, closing $200 million in funding from existing investors including Fidelity Management and Lockheed Martin Ventures.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Today we are thrilled to announce our investment in Orchard , a company dramatically simplifying the process of buying and selling a home with a modern, digital experience from search to close. Orchard’s customer service is also enhanced by their local real estate brokers who are hired full-time as home advisors (vs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Jordan Gonen and Jacob Schein had both worked in the tech industry for a few years when they realized they lacked a clear understanding of their own finances. Like many other tech employees, the two software engineers held equity in startups they had worked for, cryptocurrency investments and other illiquid assets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Startups operating in the financial side of the real estate tech market suddenly faced a surge in demand, and many departed on hiring sprees to keep up. Nima Wedlake, principal at Thomvest Ventures, agreed, noting that agility is a critical trait. Nima Wedlake , principal, Thomvest Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. So VCs made fewer investments at lower prices and generally on terms that were more favorable to investors relative to 2015. Baidu alone raised $3.2 billion into Uber.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While Adesanmi worked for years in Nigeria’s banking and fintech space, his family’s real estate background pushed him to establish a startup in proptech. This March, the company announced a pre-seed investment of $625,000. million seed funding led by Los Angeles–based early-stage VC firm MaC Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

La Haus , which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million in debt financing. Like the US, a two-tier venture capital market is emerging in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Keyway , a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of a $15 million equity raise. And 20% of transactions fall through because the buyer didn’t have guaranteed financing.” commercial real estate value.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Alternative investments are having a moment. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Property technology startup Nomad Homes is working to change that by creating a personalized real estate buying experience in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a region that represents $20 trillion in real estate, company CEO Helen Chen told TechCrunch. “We We are like Stitch Fix for real estate,” she added. “We

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

It helps me invest and advise the companies we are invested in. Like our investing, I will get some of these right and some wrong. In the US, we have racial equity issues that are longstanding, real and demanding to be addressed. I find it useful to think about what we are in for.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Even though they collected rent one year upfront, the default rate of the yearly system is very high because when people’s finances take a hit, they might not be able to pay subsequent rent,” he said. That’s one of the reasons we raise debt financing.”. That’s one of the reasons we raise debt financing.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow. according to Crunchbase), but especially for the real estate tech space (perhaps the largest ever). They were once rivals.

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HPA

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By creating one of the world’s largest repositories of commercial real estate data, Cohesion will lead the industry’s transformation to autonomous buildings. Investing in technology that ensures commercial real estate is a positive contributor to our world is central to our company ethos.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Co-leading the investment is Headline (formerly eventures). Also participating is Cherry Ventures, Soravia, Kreos Capital, TruVenturo and Scope Hanson. It has now raised an additional $45 million in growth capital, in a round led by DN Capital Group (which has also backed Auto1, HomeToGo, and Shazam, previously).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. The Japanese investment conglomerate has dramatically ramped up its investing in the region, and so have a number of other global investors.

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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. Some founders might be struggling to raise venture dollars, while others don’t want to — preferring not to dilute ownership. This could be for any number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. For example, Brex announced last week that it provided $10 million in growth capital via venture debt to Zesty.ai, a leading provider of predictive data analytics in the climate risk space. We’re seeing pretty big market changes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The startup’s co-founder and CEO Mostafa El-Beltagy told TechCrunch that the mortgage financing plan is part of their strategy to introduce new products that are aligned with clients’ needs, ensuring sustainability for their business. This leaves a financing gap for pre-owned mortgages that Nawy now aims to bridge.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Sunlight Financial, which offers point-of-sale financing for residential solar systems, has raised north of $700 million in venture capital, private equity and debt. There are enough SPACs on the hunt today that they would be noisy even if they were not time-constrained investment vehicles. Let’s find out.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Scott Lenet is president of Touchdown Ventures. Is there a creed in venture capital? Venture capitalists frequently say that valuing startups is “more art than science.” So venture capitalists lie to entrepreneurs and pretend that seed- and early-stage startups have intrinsic value. Scott Lenet. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Inspiration wants to help commercial fleets go electric, and it has already started by financing electric mobility company Revel’s ride-hail fleet of blue Teslas. The funding comes from ArcLight Capital Partners, a venture fund that invests in energy infrastructure.

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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. It was an expensive mistake, and one he wants to help Latin American entrepreneurs avoid with his new venture, Latitud. “I

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Many real estate technology companies are developing technology that is in competition with, or could potentially replace, real estate agents. Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s growth equity business led the investment, which included participation from 3L Capital. and Canada.

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