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  • The Rise of Digital B2B Payments and Why We’re Excited about AvidXchange

    Sapphire Ventures

    The global payments market is enormous. The industry is $240 trillion in size, which is larger than the global GDP of roughly $85 trillion*. Over the past decade, startups and established players have capitalized on this opportunity by modernizing the payment process for consumers. But the business-to-business payments space, which is actually much larger than consumer payments, remains antiquated and ripe for disruption.

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  • Opendoor discloses that it’s under federal investigation

    Housingwire

    Opendoor has officially filed its announcement to go public after announcing its merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II in September. But the filing also revealed that Opendoor is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission over its advertising practices. According to the filing, Opendoor in 2019 received a civil investigative demand….

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  • Largest Rental Homeowner Adds Funding to Purchase More Houses

    Wall Street Journal

    Real-estate investors have a mountain of money looking for a home. Lately a lot of it is ending up in suburban single-family houses. Invitation Homes Inc., INVH 1.44% the country’s largest rental-home owner, on Wednesday disclosed a joint venture with Boston property investor Rockpoint Group LLC that will result in more than $1 billion for the landlord’s ongoing house hunt….

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  • Prescriptive Data Selected By KPMG For Climate Accounting & Carbon Trading Program

    Prescriptive Data

    Prescriptive Data, a privately-held smart building technology company focused on using artificial intelligence to optimize tenant comfort and decrease carbon emissions, announced yesterday that KPMG LLP (KPMG) has selected its flagship building operating system, Nantum OS, to be deployed as part of its new patent-pending blockchain capability, Climate Accounting Infrastructure (CAI).

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  • Newmark Group Rejects Cushman & Wakefield Offer

    The Real Deal

    Newmark was not interested in the deal, in part because Cushman carries a high debt load, sources with knowledge of the offer told Bloomberg News. Cushman has about $3.8 billion in debt, which is larger than its market capitalization of roughly $2.6 billion.

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  • Announcing Dealpath Connect data integration with JLL Investment Center

    Dealpath

    Dealpath Connect will replace the need to constantly (and manually) review and process deal flyers, teasers, and OMs sent in from brokerage firms. The integration will enable Dealpath clients to directly receive the offerings in a digital format, in their Dealpath accounts – qualified listings can be moved into the deal pipeline for CA signing and due diligence, streamlining the engagement between the buy-side and sell-side.

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  • VTS debuts real-time data for commercial leasing

    The Real Deal

    As companies wrestle with the return-to-work question, VTS is arming landlords with a new tool: data that captures fluctuating supply and demand in real time. The New York startup said VTS Data, which launched today, is a first-of-its-kind product for investors and owners, who have historically relied on anecdotal information and dated market reports.

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  • Compass Buys Title Startup Modus

    The Real Deal

    Compass is getting into the title and escrow business — two ancillary service lines that could boost its earnings as it works toward profitability. On Monday, the residential firm said it signed a definitive agreement to buy Modus, a title and escrow startup that’s raised $12.5 million. …

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  • Opendoor Filing Reveals Lower 2020 Revenue, Smaller Loss

    Crunchbase

    The San Francisco-headquartered company posted a net loss of $118 million on $2 billion in revenue for the first half of 2020, according to a Monday filing with U.S. securities regulators. That’s a decline from the same period last year, when Opendoor had revenue of $2.27 billion and a net loss of  $158 million.

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  • Greycroft has rounded up $678 million in capital across two new funds

    TechCrunch

    Greycroft, the New York and LA-based venture firm founded in 2006 by investors Alan Patricof, Dana Settle, and Ian Sigalow, has closed on two new funds totaling $678 million in capital commitments. One of those funds is its sixth flagship early-stage fund, which closed with $310 million. The firm also collected $368 million in commitments for a third growth-stage fund that it will use to support breakout startups from its early-stage portfolio….

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