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Groundfloor steps up its real estate debt crowdfunding platform with fresh capital

TechCrunch

Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. Brian Dally, a former mobile network exec, and Nick Bhargava, a co-author of the bipartisan JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, founded Groundfloor in 2013.

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Vontive wants to be the Palantir of real estate investing

TechCrunch

residential real estate market has been booming because of the pandemic. Vontive , an embedded mortgage platform for investment real estate that just came out of stealth, is trying to streamline some of those processes by helping mortgage lenders upgrade their tech. housing crisis.

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Burn, baby, burn. Real estate-focused fintech startups feel the heat

TechCrunch

Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. Layoffs in the sector began — and they took place in a range of real estate tech companies, big and small. Low interest rates mean more purchases and refinances.

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Meet 5 YLAI Fellows Traveling as Youth Delegates to the Summit of the Americas

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Afroricas creates content on finance management, social networking, careers, and leadership to support black women in their personal and professional development. Luxia Labs offers services in architectural and technical design to real estate developers. Georgia Barbosa , Brazil, cofounder of Afroricas.

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Nigerian proptech Spleet gets $2.6M led by MaC VC to scale its property management products

TechCrunch

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. It was the landlords who needed convincing, but it helped that we already had a network of landlords,” said CEO Adesanmi in an interview with TechCrunch on the company’s takeoff. “So

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Why You Don’t Want to Miss the MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The DX event is so powerful because of the networking quality among the MyEO DX community. 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 can attend DX22?

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Columbus-based Tribevest bags $3M for its collaborative investing platform

TechCrunch

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 The groups source their own investment opportunities through personal networks or external platforms, as Tribevest is “investment-agnostic,” according to Smith. .