Private Equity
Buckingham Partners LLC, an affiliate of Buckingham Cos, has closed its first real estate fund on $175 million. Investors of Buckingham Multifamily Fund I include North American public and private institutions. Buckingham seeks to buy multifamily and mixed-use properties located in dynamic and fast growing secondary markets throughout the Midwest and Southeast U.S. Evercore served as placement agent for the fund. Goodwin Procter served as legal counsel to Buckingham.
2 min read · 14 May 2018
New York City and Tel Aviv-based Localize.city, a real estate tech startup, has secured $8 million in Series A funding. The lead investors were Avigdor Willenz and Zvi Limon.
4 min read · 09 May 2018
New York-based Life House, which operates as a boutique hotel company, announced it has raised $40 million in total funding, which includes $10 million in early-stage venture capital and $30 million in private equity. Backers include Henley Investments, Global Founders Capital, Comcast Ventures and Trinity Ventures. Life House was co-founded in 2017 by Rami Zeidan and Yury Yakubchyk.
4 min read · 09 May 2018
California-based PeerStreet, a platform for investing in real estate backed loans, has named John Devereux as chief real estate officer. Devereux is a former executive vice president and head of commercial real estate at OneWest Bank and ex-principal at Colony Capital. PeerStreet is backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
3 min read · 02 May 2018
New York City-based Home Captain, a real estate platform that helps shepherd prospective home buyers through the home-buying process, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A financing. Spring Mountain Capital led the round.
1 min read · 20 March 2018
San Francisco-based Qualia, a real estate technology company, has raised $33 million in Series B funding. Menlo Ventures led the round with participation from 8VC, Bienville Capital and Barry Sternlicht.
1 min read · 07 March 2018
San Francisco-based Opendoor, an online home-selling service, has secured $135 million in funding, according to a blog post. Fifth Wall Ventures and Lennar led the round with participation from Rialto Capital Management.
1 min read · 24 January 2018
Apartment List, a rental marketplace, has secured $50 million in Series C funding. John Burbank, founder of Passport Capital, led the round with participation from Allen & Company LLC, Canaan Partners, Industry Ventures, Matrix Partners, Quantum Partners LP, a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management LLC, Tenaya Capital and WTI.
3 min read · 18 January 2018
Oakland, California-based Roofstock, an online marketplace for buying, owning and selling single-family rental homes, has increased its Series C funding round to $42 million. The investors included SVB Capital and Asia Pacific Land Ltd.
1 min read · 18 January 2018
Cadre, a real estate investment platform, has secured $250 million from Goldman Sachs' private wealth clients. The transaction will allow Goldman's clients to invest in a portfolio of U.S. commercial real estate assets. Cadre is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Ford Foundation, Thrive Capital and General Catalyst.
2 min read · 10 January 2018
