What Matters This Week - 3.28.21
Crazy busy week.
What Matters This Week is a summary of articles, news, and fundings that mattered this week in Property Technology. No hype or marketing.
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This week’s deals and data:
Fundings
Side, a Compass competitor, raised $150M from Coatue.
Notarize, a digital notary company, raised a $130M Series D led by Canapi Ventures.
Veev, a Modular and 3D printing home builder, raised $100M on TASE Up.
Pacaso, a second-home fractional ownership startup, raised $75M led by Greycroft.
Neighbor, a self-storage marketplace, raised a $53M Series B led by Fifth Wall.
Lev, a CRE Finance platform, raised $10m led by NfX.
Polly, a mortgage trading marketplace, raised an $8M A round led by 8VC.
Buildforce, a construction staffing startup, raised a $1.5M pre-seed round led by Mercury Fund.
News:
WeWork (not officially PropTech) is finally getting SPAC’d at $9B.
Quarters coliving is being acquired by Habyt.
Monetics, a debt-management platform for commercial mortgages, was acquired by Derivative Path.
Miami now has a PropTech Rolling Fund.
Articles:
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