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Fractional lands $5.5 million to let friends (and strangers) invest in real estate together

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As teammates at buy now, pay later fintech Affirm, Stella Han and Carlos Treviño bonded over their shared background of growing up in real estate families. Fractional , a San Francisco-based startup, wants to make real estate ownership more accessible. Community is the new AI. Or another refuses to upgrade the kitchen?

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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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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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We Reali don’t know when real estate will get Better

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Then Mary Ann walked us through issues at real estate-focused fintech startups , namely that they are burning too much money. If you are coming to Disrupt, use the code “ EQUITY ” to save 15%. And, speaking of the pod, Equity is back next Tuesday, not Monday, due to the American holiday. billion in assets.

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Burn, baby, burn. Real estate-focused fintech startups feel the heat

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Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. Factor in that more people were spending more time at home than ever due to COVID shelter-in-place orders, home took on new meaning. You can read my story on that here ).

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Sugar raises $2.5M in seed funding to connect apartment residents

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As people began quarantining due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dicko saw an opportunity to help make it easier for people living in apartments and residential communities to “engage with one another in a safe and efficient way.” Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech.

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Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial

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Keyless locks = Peloton for real estate. New York-based Latch sells “LatchOS,” a hardware and software system that works in buildings where access and amenities matter. The SPAC is associated with Tishman Speyer, a commercial real estate investor. Let’s find out. from 2019 to 2020.