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Max Q: Sierra Space, Blue Origin, Boeing and others stake out space real estate

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Orbital Reef is claiming its slice of LEO real estate. Image Credits: Orbital Reef (opens in a new window). Image Credits: ispace (opens in a new window). Email me at aria.techcrunch@gmail.com or find me on Twitter at @breadfrom. Don’t forget to sign up to get the free newsletter version of Max Q delivered to your inbox.

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

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As a shark get hungrier while the clock winds down on its deal-making window, it may get less choosy about what it eats (take public). Keyless locks = Peloton for real estate. The SPAC is associated with Tishman Speyer, a commercial real estate investor. Think of SPACs are increasingly hungry sharks.

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Proptech startup States Title, now Doma, going public via SPAC in $3B deal

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Real estate tech startup Doma, formerly known as States Title , announced Tuesday it will go public through a merger with SPAC Capitol Investment Corp. The startup has facilitated over 800,000 real estate closings for lenders such as Chase, Homepoint, Sierra Pacific Mortgage and others. billion.

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Even decacorns have their challenges

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VCs clamor to fund real estate investing startups. Image Credits: Edwin Remsberg (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. We’ve been seeing a lot of interest — and funding news — in the real estate and proptech spaces lately. These startups allow for investments in slices of real estate. Weekly News.

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

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Many of these businesses have reached meaningful scale across industries: Image Credits: Battery Ventures (opens in a new window). In the graphic above, notice that most of these companies play in the largest, but notoriously archaic industries like banking, insurance, real estate, healthcare, etc.

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Arrenda emerges with Adelanta, a financing offering for landlords in Latin America

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Arrenda , a Mexico City-based fintech company, is offering digital financial services to the real estate market of Latin America and closed on $26.5 Joe Merullo, founder and CEO, grew up in Boston and started his first business in real estate at 19 years old. million in a pre-seed round of equity and debt.

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How to achieve seamless collaboration

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HP IT was then able to assess the workplace and optimize the meeting space’s design, maximizing real estate usage. To register for access, visit [link] Some features and capabilities may require additional purchase of HP services and/or commercial hardware capable of supporting the HP Insights agent for Windows, Mac, & Android.

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