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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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Real estate CIOs drive deals with data

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The residential real estate industry may not be perceived to be as digitally aggressive as Wall Street titans and multinational manufacturing conglomerates. Augmenting real estate relationships with data Keller Williams, another leading residential player, also kicked off its digital transformation roughly seven years ago.

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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.

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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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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Real estate marketing software provider Luxury Presence raises $25.9M in a Bessemer-led Series B

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Luxury Presence, a startup selling marketing software to real estate brokerages, announced today it has raised $25.9 The company serves 3,700 customers, including individual and multi-agent real estate teams. Surging demand for second homes has also catalyzed the luxury real estate segment in the past year.

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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. Although the rise in home prices has shut many people out of the market, it’s been highly lucrative for those who own property. As a result, accessing capital can be a major hurdle for real estate investors, according to McKinney.