What Matters This Week - 2.19.22

$100M for Evolve and another fund for Fifth Wall

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Fundings:

• Evolve, a vacation rental marketplace, raised a $100M round led by Durable Capital.

• Homebound, a tech-enabled homebuilder, raised a $75M C round led by Khosla.

• Northspyre, a construction finance tracking platform, raised a $25M B round led by CRV.

• Nomad, a short-term rental marketplace, raised a $20M A round led by SV Bank Capital.

• Eyrus, a construction workforce management platform, raised a $12M A round led by Spring Mountain.

• SiteKick, a construction site-monitoring platform, raised a $1.2M seed round led by Great North.

News:

• A Florida property backed an NFT sold for over $600K.

• Livly acquired Circuit.

• Fifth Wall raised $149M for its European fund.

Articles:

• TechCrunch thinks smart homes are hard.

• IBuyers are taking more offers from the market.

• Death of the plastic badge.

Listen:

• Brendan of Fifth Wall joins the StrictlyVC podcast.

Top Tech read of the week:

• New carbon emissions accounting initiative by Microsoft.

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