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Real Estate Startup Investors Are Still Bullish About These 4 Themes

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real estate-related startups. Notably, these are all themes that play into the current real estate market climate, characterized by higher lending costs, lower affordability and fewer homeowners opting to sell and move. Earlier this week, we wrote about the sharp decline in venture funding to U.S. has around 43.5

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Real Estate Startups Aren’t Seeing Much Love

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residential real estate industry is in a much different place compared to a few years ago. These market shifts mean more bad news for real estate unicorn startups funded during the boom cycle a few years ago. Startup investors have also cut back on new real estate-related financings.

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Sumutasu secures $10M to digitize Japan’s real estate market

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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. million in equity and $1.6 million in debt. While the U.S.

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Concreit closes on $6M to allow more people to invest in the global private real estate market

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Concreit , a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. . Concreit gives everyone access to a real estate portfolio and the ability to have access to withdrawals when they need them.”.

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São Paulo’s QuintoAndar real estate platform raises $120M, now valued at $5.1B

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evolve into a one-stop real estate shop that also offers mortgage, title insurance and escrow services. To that end, e arlier this month, the startup acquired Atta Franchising, a 7-year-old São Paulo-based independent real estate mortgage broker. Last year, it also expanded into connecting home buyers to sellers.

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

TechCrunch

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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Real estate investing giant Fundrise breaks into venture capital

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Investing in private markets has long been reserved for the ultra-rich. Ben Miller founded Fundrise in 2012 to give retail investors access to the private real estate market, and the company has since become one of the top 20 investors by size in that space, Miller, who serves as CEO, told TechCrunch in an interview.