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Hustle Fund backs Fintor, which wants to make it easier to invest in real estate

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Eight out of 10 said they would like to invest in real estate but were deterred by all the barriers to entry. There is clearly a large demand for access to real estate,” Yousefi said. million in seed money to continue building out its fractional real estate investing platform. And now Fintor has raised $2.5

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Commercial real estate lending startup Lev brings in $30M on a $130M valuation

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Commercial real estate has been slow to embrace technology ; though it has an addressable financing market of more than $40 billion, putting together a deal is still mostly manual, paper-heavy and complicated. The latest financing comes four months after the company raised $10 million in seed funding led by NFX.

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Global Founders Capital leads $9.3M investment into Awning, a real estate brokerage for individual investors

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And today, the San Francisco-based real estate brokerage is coming out of stealth with $9.3 Awning works by using machine learning and data analytics in an effort “to surface the best nationwide single-family rental properties for investors, with estimations of their financial returns.”

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Kapacity.io is using AI to drive energy and emissions savings for real estate

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is on a mission to accelerate the decarbonization of buildings by using AI-generated efficiency savings to encourage electrification of commercial real estate — wooing buildings away from reliance on fossil fuels to power their heating and cooling needs. Y Combinator-backed Kapacity.io And Rauhala names the U.K.

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Real estate CIOs drive deals with data

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The residential real estate industry may not be perceived to be as digitally aggressive as Wall Street titans and multinational manufacturing conglomerates. And the crew is using AWS SageMaker machine learning (ML) to give its agents the best local leads and prospective buyers.

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HomeLight closes on $100M Series D at a $1.6B valuation as revenue surges

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HomeLight , which operates a real estate technology platform, announced today that it has secured $100 million in a Series D round of funding and $263 million in debt financing. Over the years, like many other real estate tech platforms, HomeLight has evolved its model. ” Image Credits: HomeLight. “I

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Generative AI is building the foundation of proptech’s next wave

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Kunal Lunawat Contributor Share on Twitter Kunal Lunawat is co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures , a venture capital firm focused on real estate tech, blockchain, AI and sustainability. We believe this represents a significant opportunity for real estate tech entrepreneurs.