What Matters This Week - 4.19.25
Some smaller rounds and a few acquisitions
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Fundings:
Onfly, a LatAm travel mgmt platform, raised a $40M B round led by Tidemark.
Tracera, an ESG software provider, raised a $12M A round led by Foundry.
Homelend, a homeownership platform, raised an $8M Debt round led by RBR.
viAct, a constr mgmt software, raised a $7.3M A round led by Venturewave.
FridayHarbor, an AI mortgage platform, raised a $6M Seed round led by Abstract.
Prosperty, a Greek RE marketplace, raised a €5.5M A round led by Eurobank.
Homemove, an AI-driven moving service, raised a $5M Seed round led by Fuel.
CosmicRobotics, a construction robot for solar farms, raised a $4M Pre-Seed round led by Giant.
Hammer, a constr. drone mapping software, raised a €1.6M round led by ACF.
BuiltAPI, a RE data infrastructure startup, raised a round led by SCV.
News:
Smart Safety acquired SCTI & Trinity Safety Management. (BusinessWire)
FINEXITY acquired Crowdli. (FinTech News)
Better restructures $530M SoftBank Deal. (Axios Pro)
Articles:
AI Dominates Q1 VC With 58% Share. (Pitchbook)
Long Reads:
50 Things I’ve Learned Writing Construction Physics. (Brian Potter)
Top Tech Read of the Week:
The 3-Person Unicorn Startup (James Currier - NfX)
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Source: The Growth of Industrial Robots by Country. (Visual Capitalist)
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