Obligo raises $35 million Series B to streamline rental experience

Fintech startup Obligo announced on Thursday a Series B funding round of $35 million led by investor 83North. Additional investors participating in the round include HighSage Ventures, 10D, Entrée Capital, Alumni Ventures, MUFG Innovation Partners, La Maison Partners and other strategic investors.

Behind Northspyre’s 3.5X Growth During the Pandemic

Spreadsheets may still be prevalent in real estate, but proptech startup Northspyre says its project delivery software is rapidly replacing such old tech, leading to the company’s 3.5X growth since 2020, with more than $30 billion in owner and developer capital projects now facilitated through its platform.

LEX Makes History With First Real Estate IPO Accessible To All US Investors

LEX Markets, a commercial real estate securities marketplace built for all investors, announced today that it is taking a building public through a novel securitization process in a first of its kind IPO. This is the platform’s first offering open to all investors, and represents a new way to invest in commercial real estate. LEX allows accredited and non-accredited investors to buy equity shares of individual commercial real estate assets and trade them, without fees or required holding periods…

Recognizing Early-Stage Value Trailer

Chirag Chotalia of Threshold VC discusses technology trends, disruptions, and how to navigate the competitive landscape of Venture Capital.

Al Gore on ESG, Climate Change Commitment, Carbon Bubble

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore discusses green investments, U.S, commitment to climate change, and warns of a $22 trillion subprime-like carbon bubble. He speaks with Francine Lacqua from the sidelines of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, Scotland on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”

Nextdoor Surges in Trading Debut

Shares in Nextdoor Inc. surged Monday in their first day of trading as the free social-networking app aimed at connecting local neighborhoods began life as a public company. The San Francisco-based company that was founded a decade ago made its name helping people scout locally for dog walkers or gripe about neighbors. During the height of the pandemic, with people stuck at home, users took to the platform to check on and stay connected with their neighbors. User numbers shot up to 58 million…

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Our Continued Investment in Mosaic

With the current record housing shortages leading to an unprecedented residential market, there is more need than ever to be building more homes and to be building them more efficiently. Mosaic is on a mission to make this happen by leveraging technology. Mosaic’s software underpins project execution in a way that streamlines process flows, boosts repeatability, and enables tailored designs—in other words, letting general contractors manage construction more efficiently so that they can build mo…

Welcome to the herd, The Sandbox

Technology building the metaverse aims to create a robust economy that allows the physical world and virtual worlds to interoperate with one another. By converging realities, the metaverse can transform long-standing industries and markets such as finance and banking, retail and education, health and fitness, and more. While metaverse-oriented technology is still nascent, the gaming industry is already familiar with shared virtual worlds for consumers to interact in — and benefits greatly from b…

How Co-Living Has Grown Within The Property Market with Brad Hargreaves

Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co Founder of LMRE the leading Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property industry. This show will focus on connecting the proptechs, real estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the built environment.