Private Equity
1 min read · 05 October 2017
Oakland-based Roofstock, a provider of an online real estate marketplace for single-family rental homes, announced it has raised $35 million in a Series C round of funding led by Canvas Ventures. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Nyca Partners, QED Investors and FJ Labs also participated in the round. The company, formerly known as DwellConnect, had previously raised about $33 million in funding, including a $20 million Series B round late last year.
1 min read · 04 October 2017
Santa Monica, California-based Domuso, provider of a financial platform for renters, announced it has raised $3.1 million in funding. The company said investors include owner/operators of rental properties, such as real estate magnate David Kim, founder of Bascom Group. The company has now raised $5.8 million in total funding since it was founded in 2014.
1 min read · 30 August 2017
Belay Investment Group LLC and Langley Investment Properties have formed a joint venture. According to the details of the JV, Belay and Langley will invest up to $70 million in office, multifamily and mixed-use properties in the Portland, Oregon central city and greater metropolitan service area.
3 min read · 23 June 2017
Pillow Residential, a short-term rental management platform for multifamily buildings, has raised $13.5 million in Series A funding, according to a blog post on its site. Mayfield led the round with participation from Sterling Equity, Peak Capital Partners, Expansion VC, TED Talks curator Chris Anderson, Gary Vaynerchuck, Dennis Phelps and Veritas Investments.
1 min read · 22 June 2017
Los Angeles-based Precise Real Estate Solutions Inc, a loan life cycle management platform for the real estate lending industry, has secured $1.5 million in Series A funding. The investor was an unidentified venture firm. JCF Capital Advisors LLC served as financial adviser to Precise Real Estate on the investment.
1 min read · 19 June 2017
MetaProp Ventures announced a second fund targeted at $25 million, according to a regulatory filing. The New York-based firm is led by Aaron Block, Zachary Aarons, Zachary Schwarzman and Clelia Peters and invests in real estate technology startups, according to its website. In 2015, the firm raised an unspecified amount, according to Thomson Reuters.
1 min read · 14 June 2017
Venice, California-based Fifth Wall Ventures, which in May raised $212 million to invest in real estate technology, announced it has added Landon Tucker as its first entrepreneur-in-residence. Previously, Tucker was a senior analyst at Trian Fund Management, the firm said in a Medium blog post.
1 min read · 07 June 2017
San Mateo, California-based Reali, which provides an app-enabled real estate marketplace, announced it has raised a $5 million Series A round led by Signia Venture Partners. The company previously raised $2 million in seed funding. from Liquid2 Ventures and Dragonfly Investments Group. As part of the funding, Ed Cluss, partner at Signia, has joined the board.
1 min read · 25 May 2017
Clark Brothers Capital Corp said May 12 that it raised $1 million in new equity and boosted the size of a previously announced private placement to $5 million from $1 million. Clark Brothers said it used the $1 million to acquire and renovate fifteen properties (twenty-one units) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Clark Brothers, is a real estate investment firm also based in Grand Rapids.
2 min read · 15 May 2017