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By Mike Butcher
November 23, 2023
Institutional real estate investors have historically struggled to buy up tonnes of family homes (the so-called ‘Single Family rental sector’) so they can turn us all into rental slaves and lock millions to a rentier economy. A few startups are trying to ease the ‘pain’ of these rapacious harbingers of hyper capitalism. Immo Capital, a […]
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Founders should seek sector alignment when looking for a family office investor
Family offices invest a substantial amount of capital in startups each year. In the first half of 2023, 27% of overall startup deal value came from deals that included a family office investor, according to a recent report from PwC. Despite their prevalence in startup deals, family offices can be a mysterious class of investors for founders to navigate, as they are not nearly as public or as easy to find as VCs. Multiple family office investors said during a TechCrunch Disrupt panel that the ea
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Landa promised real estate investing for $5. Now it’s gone dark.
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Opendoor alums raise $15M for Kindred, a home-swapping network
The concept of taking existing properties and repurposing them is not a new one. After all, Airbnb is a high-profile example of people turning vacation homes, for example, into revenue generators when they’re not using them. The end result is that travelers have far more options today than they used to when choosing where to […]
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Real estate VC Fifth Wall is raising $500M for a new fund
Real estate venture firm Fifth Wall is raising a new $500 million fund called Fifth Wall React, according to a regulatory filing. The eight-year-old firm, helmed by its co-founder and CEO Brendan Wallace (pictured), is already managing $3.2 billion in capital, including raising an $866 million fund in late 2022 that was the largest venture fund focused on real estate tech startups. Fifth Wall also closed a $500 million fund earlier in 2022 to invest in real estate climate tech that aims to deca
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