What Matters This Week - 7.24.21
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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Fundings:
Sundae, a resi sellers platform, raised $80M in a Series C round co-led by Fifth Wall and General Global Capital.
Block Renovation, a home renovation platform, raised a $40M Series B led by Giant Ventures.
Properly, a resi brokerage startup, raised $35M in Series B funding led by Bain Cap.
Lev, a CRE lending startup, raised $30M in Series A round led by Greenspring.
75F, a building management system platform, raised $28M led by Siemens AG.
Jones, a CRE vendor network startup, raised $12.5M in Series A funding co-led by JLL and Khosla.
Brokrete, a construction commodity market, raised a $3M Seed round led by Xploration Cap.
News:
Keep an eye on Sentral (formerly Daydream). They are doing some cool things in the STR space.
Anacapa acquires Loftey, a rental platform start-up.
Articles:
Crunchbase thinks PropTech is surging.
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