What Matters This Week - 1.16.21
Tons of Fundraising and a (Potential) IPO.
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Fundings:
JobNimbus, a home services startup, raised $53M from Mainsail Partners.
Landing, another player in the STR space that seems to have survived 2020 quite nicely, raised a $45M Series B led by Foundry Group as well as a $50M debt facility.
La Haus, a residential marketplace in Latin America, raised a $35M Series B led by Greenspring Associates.
Regorra, a residential appraisal startup, raised a $30M Series B led by Spark Capital.
Neat Capital, a residential mortgage startup, raised a $22.5M Series B led by Left Lane.
Lex Markets, a fractionalized ownership marketplace for CRE, raised a $6M Seed round from a slew of big name investors.
News:
Articles:
Check out NfX’s predictions (via survey) for 2021. Particularly interesting are the thoughts on Remote Work, Coworking, and Blockchain.
Forbes’ PropTech/ConTech predictions.
The WSJ talks about remote work’s effect on PropTech startups. ($)
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