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Real estate investing giant Fundrise breaks into venture capital

TechCrunch

Fundrise , a company that allows anyone to invest in real estate with a minimum investment of just $10, is making a splashy entry into the venture capital market with the goal of raising a new $1 billion growth equity fund to invest in late-stage tech startups, it announced today. Fundrise manages over $2.8 Fundrise manages over $2.8

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

TechCrunch

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

TechCrunch

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

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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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Enabling a data-driven IT modernization strategy

CIO

While formulating their IT modernization strategies, they’d do well to regard data assets with business opportunities in mind. An older bank, grown through acquisition, with one custom-built system supporting its real estate business, while another supports its insurance business.

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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.