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Real estate investing giant Fundrise breaks into venture capital

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Fundrise , a company that allows anyone to invest in real estate with a minimum investment of just $10, is making a splashy entry into the venture capital market with the goal of raising a new $1 billion growth equity fund to invest in late-stage tech startups, it announced today. Fundrise manages over $2.8

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Vontive wants to be the Palantir of real estate investing

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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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Flat.mx raises $20M from VCs, proptech unicorn founders to fix Mexico’s ‘broken’ real estate market

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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. That September, the proptech startup had raised one of Mexico’s largest pre-seed rounds to take the Opendoor real estate marketplace model across the Rio Grande. Previously, Flat.mx

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

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Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. in convertible notes.

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Sundae closes on $80M for residential real estate marketplace

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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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Real estate platform Loft raises $425M at a $2.2B valuation in one of Brazil’s largest venture rounds

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Buying and selling residential real estate is a complex business, no matter where you live. But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. real estate tech company with the closest model to Loft’s is probably Zillow, according to Pencz.

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

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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. Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI, excluding real estate) skyrocketed in 2016 as Chinese investors seek diversification out of their domestic markets.