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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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Flat.mx raises $20M from VCs, proptech unicorn founders to fix Mexico’s ‘broken’ real estate market

TechCrunch

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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São Paulo’s QuintoAndar real estate platform raises $120M, now valued at $5.1B

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evolve into a one-stop real estate shop that also offers mortgage, title insurance and escrow services. To that end, e arlier this month, the startup acquired Atta Franchising, a 7-year-old São Paulo-based independent real estate mortgage broker. Last year, it also expanded into connecting home buyers to sellers.

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Deepki grabs $166 million to help real estate investors reduce carbon emissions

TechCrunch

The company is building a software-as-a-service platform for the real estate industry. Companies using Deepki can track and analyze ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) criteria, starting with carbon emissions generated by their real estate portfolio. This represents a huge market opportunity for Deepki.

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Developing A Winning Strategy For Real Estate Entrepreneurs

Strategy Driven

For the ambitious entrepreneur looking for a great idea, have you ever considered real estate? From rental properties to flipping homes, there are many options you can explore in the real estate industry. When you wholesale real estate , you agree to a purchasing agreement with a motivated seller.

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Cushman & Wakefield builds a foundation for enterprise-wide AI

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Cushman & Wakefield has cashed in on several key IT trends over the past few years, positioning the Chicago-based firm well to weather ongoing headwinds in the commercial real estate market stirred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our strategy is very solid,” she says. That’s not simply a goal; the firm is doing this today.