TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised “$50 million-plus” in a funding round that doubles its valuation to $2 billion. The company plans to enter 15 new states by year’s end.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In a press release , c o-founder and chairman Amit Haller said “the challenging real estate and financial market conditions and unfavorable capital-raising environment” led to the decision to wind down operations. Their goal was to make “the real estate buying and selling process more transparent, honest and professional.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Founded by an expert on geography and globalization, Climate Alpha’s AI-based platform helps real estate owners and investors analyze the impact of climate change on their portfolios.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. Layoffs in the sector began — and they took place in a range of real estate tech companies, big and small. Low interest rates mean more purchases and refinances.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The stealthy startup is trying to reinvent real estate (again), but instead of commercial properties, which WeWork focused on, Neumann is looking into revolutionizing rental properties. As far as visions go, renovating the rental real estate market isn’t a unique idea. It’s a playbook that they never change.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

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.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours. As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But this doesn’t mean AI can do everything, cautions Rudy Wolfs, CTO at Anywhere Real Estate. AI to enable better listings According to Wolfs, Anywhere Real Estate’s Listing Concierge offering gives agents a highly intuitive toolset to promote listings.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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. So far this year, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2024

commercial banks being overexposed to commercial real estate (CRE) have intensified as the global pandemic upended long-held economic assumptions of perpetually subdued inflation, low interest rates, and in-office work. The risks of U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Once valued at over $2 billion, rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes conducted its third round of layoffs in a year's time.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

We previously wrote about Propy using blockchain technology to smooth real-world real estate sales by introducing the concept of smart contracts. Now the company is pushing the boundaries again, by auctioning a real apartment as an NFT. The NFT created by Propy will, it says, transfer real ownership of the property.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Who would’ve thought that an entire swath of startups would spring up all because Instagram, TikTok and Twitter only let you link to one website in your bio? Apparently, Linktree co-founder and CEO Alex Zaccaria did. “There was nothing else like [Linktree] that existed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Last year we covered how early blockchain startup Propy planned to use the technology to smooth real-world real estate sales by introducing the concept of smart contracts. Propy’s plan is to scale this offering globally, providing a single framework for purchasing real estate using blockchain technology.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Last Tuesday, Fidelity National Financial, or FNF, a real estate services company that bills itself as the “leading provider of title insurance and escrow services, and North America’s largest title insurance company,” announced that it had experienced a cyberattack.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

It’s safe to say that millions of Americans dream of becoming real estate investors but can’t or don’t due to a variety of challenges, including lack of accreditation, capital and time. CEO Yishai Cohen and CTO Amit Assaraf started Landa in 2020 in an effort to make real estate ownership more inclusive. residents. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The concept of fractional ownership in real estate is not new, and in recent years we’ve seen a flurry of startups focused on the space. In the past 14 months alone, for example, TechCrunch has reported on Fractional and Fintor , which are also focused on residential real estate. And so Arrived was born.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

In an emailed statement, Loft — which says it uses technology to simplify and enable real estate and credit transactions — described the move as “a reorganization of its operation.” That would mean that Loft has let go of nearly 540 workers this year so far. It currently has about 3,200 employees.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Keyless locks = Peloton for real estate. The SPAC is associated with Tishman Speyer, a commercial real estate investor. You can see the synergies, as Latch’s products fit into the commercial real estate space. Are they more like the Bakkt SPAC , which led us to raise a few questions?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Fidelity National Financial, or FNF, one of the largest real estate services companies in the United States, said it “contained” a recent cyberattack that engulfed its many subsidiaries and customers in a state of chaos for more than a week. In a filing with the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Most real estate agents charge a commission — in many cases up to 6% of the sale price of a home — for listing and selling a house on behalf of a homeowner. Enter HomeLister , a digital brokerage and real estate site that gives homeowners a way to list and sell their properties online, with support.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Opendoor co-founder Eric Wu is stepping down from the real estate tech company, according to an SEC filing. In a statement, Wu said: “After ten years, I am called to get back to my startup roots and create and build again. I’m humbled by this accomplishment and grateful for all my teammates who helped shape […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

So she partnered with real estate investment groups and property management companies to build an app for residents of apartments and those communities who might be feeling isolated and disconnected from their neighbors. Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The traditional role of the real estate agent has long been challenged as the internet has made it easier for people to search for, and tour, homes. Historically, agents have received 6% commission on home sales — a practice that is increasingly being called into question.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The company works with parking real estate owners and offers a full-stack software and management service for their lot or garage. The way much of the parking industry works is by parking garage operators or managers leasing the space from the actual real estate owner. That’s where AirGarage comes in.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In the long term, the proptech plans to use the data it collects to offer real estate advisory services, forge funding partnerships and provide insights into the trends and other market factors. That would kind of complete the suite of what we do — by offering core real estate products,” said El-Beltagy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

We don’t need to look online for real estate anymore,’” explained Perelman. Both Perelman and his co-founder Nathan Shinder previously worked at PeerStreet, a real estate tech company based in Los Angeles. If Playhouse facilitates a sale, the app gets a cut of the transaction. What are the neighbors doing?”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Deng asserts that many companies are flying blind when it comes to real estate. “The pandemic brought home the need to understand occupancy and utilization data for real estate executives,” Deng told TechCrunch in an email interview. ” To date, Burlingame-based Butlr has raised $29.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The letting agreement is handled via the startup’s app and platform that plugs into rental marketplaces and real estate CRMs on the backend to provide a fully digital experience. So, for example, if a tenant causes damage or ends up in debt, the property owner is covered. It can be paid by the tenant or by the landlord.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

While technological progress has been on an encouraging trajectory in energy and in transportation thus far, we are nowhere near done, especially in real estate and critical infrastructure. Specifically, just deploying the existing technologies in the built environment/real estate will not be sufficient.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The company was co-founded by CEO Shiv Gettu, a former real estate consultant, and president Kendrick Bradley, a former Boeing and SpaceX engineer who left his job in 2018 to work at a property management company. Today, the company, which adds artificial intelligence to sales engagement, exited its beta phase with $6.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives spent $8 billion worth of customer funds on real estate, venture capital investments, campaign donations, endorsement deals and even a sports stadium, according to testimony from former senior FTX executive Nishad Singh.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

“Generally, sale-leasebacks on the long tail of commercial real estate take 13 months to close, with 10-15% of the transactions go towards fees. The company said the majority of real estate investment trusts (REITS) focus on deals above $10 million, but properties valued at less than that price account for one-third of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

VCs clamor to fund real estate investing startups. We’ve been seeing a lot of interest — and funding news — in the real estate and proptech spaces lately. For a deeper dive into real estate tech and how it’s changing the investing landscape, check out my article in TC+ this week: Got $5? Weekly News.

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