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Once the gatekeepers to sales listings, real estate agents are increasingly in front of another key aspect of the home-buying process: the financing. To help clients increase their purchasing power, a number of residential brokerages have launched bridge loan programs that let clients borrow money to pay for a new home before they sell their old one. In addition to boosting sales, the programs are...
S3 Ventures, Altos Ventures, Operating Venture Capital, and Darren Bechtel of Brick & Mortar Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the New Orleans-based company’s total raised since it was founded in 2008 to $47 million. (Levelset ranks among the most-funded startups in Louisiana today, according to Crunchbase data.) CEO Scott Wolfe founded Levelset after Hurricane Katr...
The network will be based on Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol. According to the Seoul government, the Smart Seoul Network, or “S-Net,” will provide all citizens with the basic right to Internet access. The main aims of the S-Net project are the establishment of a municipal broadband network, deployment of free-to-use wi-fi networks and increased integration of IoT infrastructu...
Levelset, the New Orleans-based tech company that helps construction contractors manage and complete the tangle of compliance paperwork needed to secure payment in a timely manner, announced today a $30 million round of funding led by Horizons Ventures with participation from S3 Ventures, Altos Ventures, Operating Venture Capital, Michael Gollner and Darren Bechtel of Brick & Mortar Ventures, ...
HomeLane, a Bangalore-based startup that helps people manage home renovations and interior design, today announced it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its proprietary technology.
The financing round, dubbed Series D, was led by Evolvence India Fund (EIF), Pidilite Group and FJ Labs. Existing investors Accel Partners, Sequoia Capit...
Take a character from Mad Men out of the 1960s and plop him down in most U.S. office spaces until about 2010 and — except for desktop computers and women in positions of authority — things would look pretty similar to him. Bring him forward to today, however, and he'd be in much less familiar terrain. Fundamental change has come to the office sector over the last 10 years, in the way it l...
CompStak recently completed a $14 million Series B fundraise and is looking to break into new markets and take on new customers. Mandel said that Fano’s connections in the real estate business will certainly be an asset, but said CompStak will benefit as much from Fano’s expertise in how to manage that growth internally. While at WeWork, Fano helped to double annual revenues for four consecut...
Bill Rudin spent time this summer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard — not exactly one of his haunting grounds. In its 94 years, his family real estate firm had never done a project in Brooklyn, let alone in an out-of-the-way industrial campus — and with an anchor tenant about to plunge into crisis. T
China’s biggest co-working company has filed plans to go public on the New York Stock Exchange, an early test of investor faith in flexible-office startups since We Co. pulled the plug on its IPO plans. Ucommune, which says it is the largest co-working firm in China based on the number of workstations and square feet it manages, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that ...
WeWork encapsulates everything that was good and bad about the world in 2019. That's why we couldn't keep our eyes off it. On it's way up, WeWork was described by The Atlantic as a company that "perfectly captured the Millennial Id" — tapping into the unconscious needs and desires of a whole generation. But once the public became conscious of the company's financial performance, shar...