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Compass investors in line for payday, $100M for a flex-living startup
Which Compass investors have the most to gain? Compass investors in line for payday, $100M for a flex-living startup...
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Ready players: 5M-sf e-sports complex rises in Shanghai
A nearly 5.4-million-square-foot e-sports complex will be built in Shanghai, meant to solidify the city as the center of...
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Porch snaps up four startups for over $122M
Porch isn’t wasting time on the acquisition front: Just three weeks after going public, the home-services startup scooped up four companies for $122 million. The Seattle-based company said it inked a deal to buy...
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Airbnb says it will ban Capitol rioters ahead of inauguration
Airbnb says it will ban users from its platform if they are identified as being part of the mob...
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These blank-check firms are courting proptech deals
It’s a good time to be a startup aspiring to go public. Investors plowed more than $83 billion into...
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Who made bank in Opendoor’s IPO? $100M for a visitor logbook firm Inbox
The big winners of Opendoor’s IPO Opendoor’s IPO last month crowned CEO Eric Wu a billionaire. It quintupled the value...
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SoftBank bails out Katerra with $200M cash injection
Once bitten, twice shy? Not so for Japanese investment firm SoftBank, which despite its ill-fated bet on WeWork has...
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Porch valuation soars to $1B after IPO
After merging with a blank-check company, Porch.com is now a billion-dollar company. Despite recurring losses — which prompted accountants to raise red flags in the company’s IPO filing — the home-services startup made its...
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10 biggest proptech funding rounds of 2020
Some got bailouts, others got boosters — but across the board, proptech firms continued to reel in cash in 2020 as the pandemic forced the slow-to-adapt real estate industry to fully embrace technology. As...
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Porch.com set to begin trading this week
Porch.com gave an early Christmas present to its investors: The home-services startup will start trading on Nasdaq on Dec. 24 after its merger with a blank-check company was finalized. The deal with Proptech Acquisition...