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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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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.

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

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As we all know, the housing market goes through cycles. 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.

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Proptech in Review: Investors predict slower growth in 2023

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But in the past few decades, the lens through which we view real estate and property development has slowly blurred. So in order to pull back that veil, towards the end of 2022, we decided to take an in-depth look into the trends and tech in property development and construction.

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Can China’s venture capital market help it reignite growth?

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As China looks to reignite growth, what role will its technology industry play? Is there enough capital flowing to support a new generation of tech startups that could keep China competitive? The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Can China’s venture capital market help it reignite growth?

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

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While on these “diligencing” visits, De Gruchy spotted what he describes as a lack of real-time digital data and visibility into “operational inefficiencies,” as well as health risks and environmental concerns surrounding buildings and facilities.