What Matters This Week - 8.20.22

I don't have any clever/hot takes on Flow.

What Matters This Week - articles, news, and fundings that mattered this week in PropTech. No hype or marketing.

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Fundings:

• Flow, a MF housing company . . . of some sort, received a $350M investment from a16z.

• Guesty, an STR property management platform, raised a $170M E round led by Apax Digital Funds.

• Stoa, a house flipping platform, raised a $100M Debt round.

• Curbio, a pay-at-closing home improvement solution, received a $25M Credit Facility from Cambridge Trust.

• Agora, an Israeli CRE investment management startup , raised a $20M A round led by Insight.

• Fora, an NY tech-enabled travel agency, raised a $13.5M A round co-led by Heartcore and Forerunner.

• Flyway, a London and Athens-based 2nd home co-ownership company, raised a $10M Seed and Debt round.

• Skipper, a direct booking engine for hotels, raised a $5.8M Seed round led by Gradient.

• ClosingLock, wire fraud prevention software for resi, raised a $4M Seed round led by LiveOak.

News:

• VCs pause on PropTech investing.

• Adam Neumann’s New Company Gets a Big Check From Andreessen Horowitz.

• Agya Ventures Closes $32 Million First Investment Fund

Articles:

• TechCrunch has a profile on “The Anti Adam Neumann.”

• The VC slowdown is happening faster for AI startups.

Long Read/Resource:

• McKinsey’s insights on The Future of the Workplace.

Top-tech read of the week:

• Synchron Announces First Human U.S. Brain-Computer Interface Implant.

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