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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. Japan Finance Corporation led the debt financing.

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Moonshots, Momentum, and Legislative Tailwinds Beyond Silicon Valley

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Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. To make it easier to toggle between the three, there needs to be significant policy, financing, and physical transformation. Infrastructure touches everything. There are untold impacts of climate change many of us don’t see.

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What Happened In 2020

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

We are seeing structural declines in the importance of massive sectors like carbon based energy, commercial real estate, retail, and more. And that makes sense, particularly in a dense urban region where transportation options are crowded and time consuming. And they finance the trend that they are directionally correct about.

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

TechCrunch

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.” ” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million.

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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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Einride founder Robert Falck on his moral obligation to electrify autonomous trucking

TechCrunch

He grew up on a farm, but has degrees in finance, economics and mechanical engineering. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. ” Robert Falck.

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S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups

TechCrunch

Fast-forward to today, and we have fintech, insurtech, proptech, logistics and transportation, all capital-intensive businesses that Tacora is focused on. The firm, which is geographically agnostic, can help with funding their assets; for example, houses, options on real estate and regulatory capital often used by insurtech companies.