It’s been less than two years since WeWork announced the acquisition of SEO and content marketing company Conductor — but those two years have been bumpy, to say the least. Briefly: Parent organization The We Company’s disastrous attempt to go public resulted in the ouster of CEO Adam Neumann, an indefinite delay of its IPO and reports that the company was weighing...
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Second Century Ventures, the strategic investment arm of the National Association of REALTORS®, has announced its inaugural REACH Australia cohort. REACH is a technology growth accelerator program designed to launch and propel companies into the real estate industry. Second Century Ventures announced the global expansion of its award-winning REACH accelerator in July of 2019 to further support th...
Zippin, a San Francisco, CA-based startup enabling cashierless checkout for brick and mortar retail, closed a $12m in Series A funding. The round, which brought total funding to $15m, was led by Evolv Ventures, with participation from SAP.iO, Scrum Ventures, major Latin American distributor Arca Continental, and Nomura Research Institute and NTT DOCOMO Ventures from Japan and existing investors Ma...
Hometap, a Boston, MA-based provider of a smart, new loan alternative for tapping into home equity without taking on debt, secured $100m in new financing. Backers included Iconiq Capital, and current investors General Catalyst, G20, Pillar and American Family Ventures, the venture arm of AmFam Insurance. The company intends to use the funds to continue its nationwide expansion, and grow its cross...
As one of Atlanta’s most affluent submarkets, Roswell can be a good choice for apartment investors. Atlanta itself is the 10th largest metro economy in the US and Roswell boasts a steady population growth, a lower unemployment rate and higher median income per capita when compared to the US average. But such fundamentals were not enough for one investor as it weighed whether to buy a 396-unit, ...
Eight months after selling his office-services firm to WeWork for $220 million, Dan Teran is raising money to buy Managed by Q back at a fraction of the price. But another interested bidder is threatening his successful takeover. Eden, a San Francisco-based startup and one of Managed by Q’s biggest competitors, has bid on the sale of the company, people familiar with the matter told The Rea...
RealPage, Inc. (NASDAQ:RP), a Richardson, Texas-based global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, acquired Investor Management Services, a provider of an Investor Relationship Management (IRM) platform. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. The combination of IMS with the RealPage AIM platform will service nearly 600 general partn...
Investment banking titan Goldman Sachs has agreed to arrange a $1.75B line of credit for WeWork, Bloomberg reports. SoftBank is listed as the primary borrower in the deal, reportedly so that Goldman can sell the loan to potential partners as a safer bet. WeWork is named as a co-borrower. The credit would replace $1.1B worth of previous loans, one of which had terms onerous enough to place WeWork a...
Property owners once saw short-term rental listing sites like Airbnb Inc. as a threat. Now, some are embracing them. Startups like Sonder Corp., Domio Inc. and Lyric Hospitality Inc. typically lease blocks of furnished apartments on the same floor or even entire buildings under long-term deals. Then they turn around and rent them out to travelers for stays of a few weeks or as short as one night....
The Swedish real estate technology firm Datscha joins property data provider Real Capital Analytics (RCA) in one of the largest European PropTech transactions of 2019. Combining Datscha’s technological skills in linking complex public and private datasets with RCA’s global reach across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific will lead to increased market transparency and will deliver innovative...