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Former Zillow execs raise $70M seed round for Tomo, which wants to simplify the mortgage process

TechCrunch

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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MakeSpace Raises an Additional $17.5 million and Unveils Strategy to Make Public Storage the Next Blockbuster Video

Both Sides of the Table

Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

TechCrunch

While working for strategic advisory firm Drystone Strategy, De Gruchy routinely visited companies that he was “diligencing” for private equity deals, including dairies, roofing companies and distribution warehouses. Infogrid helps our clients to provide exactly this, which improves their rental yields and asset values.”

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Bob Ruark, principal and banking and fintech strategy leader for KPMG US, noted that pricing is difficult now given the rapid decline in valuations. For years, the real estate technology company has touted itself as using its pricing technology to provide “more accurate offers and lower costs,” said the FTC. And elsewhere.

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Polly snags $37M in Menlo-led Series B to automate workflows for mortgage lenders

TechCrunch

While it invested mostly on its product in 2021, it plans to put some of its new capital toward its go to market strategy while continuing to be “heads down focused on product.” The startup has increased its customer count by nearly “3x” over the past year and signed several of the country’s top 100 lenders.

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Startup playbook: reverse-engineering Clay Christens’s market disruptions

Tomasz Tunguz

Instead of reviewing the incumbent’s strategy, I’m going to flip these around to reverse engineer these defenses and build a startup’s playbook for disruption with examples from our portfolio. Startups need to build and master their go-to-market strategy. The ecosystem barrier: Products don’t exist in a vacuum.

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Why I Quit My Job at Google to Work In Crypto

Entrepreneur's Handbook

ETH killers, BTC killers and all kinds of other projects with lofty promises and ambitious roadmaps to build better blockchains than the incumbents. identity, voting, real estate, tickets, receipts, music rights, medical records?—?there there are all kinds of real-world use cases for NFTs. Buy and sell options on crypto.