What Matters This Week - 2.26.22

Big week for ICON and Camber Creek

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Fundings:

• ICON, a 3D home-printing startup, raised a $185M B round led by Tiger Global.

• Groundfloor, a resi crowdfunding platform, raised a $118M B round led by Medipower.

• Funnel Leasing, a MF leasing platform, raised a $36.5M B round led by RET Ventures.

• Facilio, property operations software, raised a $35M B round led by Dragoneer.

• Exodigo, a drone mapping platform for construction, raised a $29M seed round.

• RouteThis, a smart-home Wifi connectivity startup, raised a $25M A round led by Inovia.

• Leko Labs, a carbon-negative construction startup, raised a $21M A round.

• Siteline, a construction finance startup for contractors, raised a $18.4M round.

• Canary Technologies, guest management for hotels, raised a $15M Series A led by F Prime.

• Piñata, a rental payment rewards platform, raised a $13M A round.

• Lavanda, a resi flexible rental platform, raised a $7.25M B round led by Finch Capital.

• Lula, a maintenance platform for MF, raised a $3M round led by RET.

• Jetty, a renters FinTech company, raised an undisclosed amount led by Wilshire Lane.

News:

• Camber Creek raised $325M for its latest fund.

• Wilshire Lane Capital raised $40M of its debut fund.

• Clutter acquired MakeSpace.

• Brookfield Retail is getting into BNPL with Klarna.

Articles:

• Big Tech still wants office space.

Long-read:

• Fifth Wall isn’t ready to invest in the Metaverse.

Listen:

• Nexus interviewed our friend Joe about M&A.

Top Tech read of the week:

• What is the tech industry's response to Russia invading Ukraine.

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