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

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And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. Does everyone want to be a landlord, or what?

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

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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. You can’t reduce what you can’t measure.

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Fractional lands $5.5 million to let friends (and strangers) invest in real estate together

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As teammates at buy now, pay later fintech Affirm, Stella Han and Carlos Treviño bonded over their shared background of growing up in real estate families. Fractional , a San Francisco-based startup, wants to make real estate ownership more accessible. Community is the new AI. Or another refuses to upgrade the kitchen?

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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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Casa Blanca raises $2.6M to build the ‘Bumble for real estate’

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Co-founder and CEO Hannah Bomze got her real estate license at the age of 18 and worked at Compass and Douglas Elliman Real Estate before launching Casa Blanca last year. Casa Blanca , which aims to develop a “Bumble-like app” for finding a home, has raised $2.6 million in seed funding.

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How much is ‘link in bio’ real estate worth? Linktree’s new valuation says $1.3 billion

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“We started back in 2016 with a really clear use case to solve this problem for musicians and artists that needed a better way to link out of socials to all their different revenue streams, and we really needed to unify that experience for them to help drive monetization,” Zaccaria told TechCrunch.

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“Link-in-bio” company Linktree raises $45M Series B for its social commerce features

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Linktree’s latest funding will be used on tools that make social commerce easier. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. . Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight, link-centric user profiles.

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