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A look at the developers bankrolling real estate tech’s gold rush

From left: SilverTech partners Charlie Federman, Lawrence Wagenberg and Tal Kerret
From left: SilverTech partners Charlie Federman, Lawrence Wagenberg and Tal Kerret

From the New York January issue: Roughly $1.5 billion flowed into real estate tech companies in 2015, and those funds came from an increasingly diverse pool of investors.

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In addition to about a dozen venture capital firms, institutional and family organizations — which wouldn’t have touched real estate tech 10 years ago — are expanding their hold on the nascent industry.

“You have everyone from the Milsteins to the Rudins to the Wilpons to the LeFraks all doing deals,” said Zachary Aarons, an angel investor and co-founder of MetaProp, a New York City-based real estate technology “accelerator,” which mentors tech startups. [more]

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