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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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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. The trend of space companies heading to the public markets via SPAC mergers is not over yet. Amazon has a new agreement with telecom giant Verizon for its Project Kuiper internet satellite project. Image Credits: Orbital Reef (opens in a new window).

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Blockchain in Real Estate: A Comprehensive Overview of Use Cases and Benefits

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The real estate industry is one of the most highly anticipated uses of blockchain. Historically, the real estate industry has been slow to adopt new technologies, but this is not due to a lack of desire to improve. It is predicted that the global tokenization market will reach $4.8 What is Blockchain?

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Playhouse is TikTok meets Zillow for the next generation of homeowners

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The feed shows videos of homes on the market, as well as a price tag. As you scroll, you can guess whether the price Playhouse showed you is higher or lower than the actual listing price, helping to educate future buyers about the market (… and also it’s fun, even if you’re not looking to buy a $2 million home in San Francisco).

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

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Keys to ascending the consumer-internet throne. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. Each stage of this evolution unlocked billions of dollars in value, and many of the names listed above remain the largest consumer internet companies today. Going after very large markets.

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

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There’s no escaping SPACs for a bit, so if you are tired of watching blind pools rip private companies into the public markets, you are not going to have a very good next few months. There are nearly 300 SPACs in the market today looking for deals, and many will find one. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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Even decacorns have their challenges

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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.