HomeLight analyzes more than 40 million real estate transactions and over 1.4 million agent profiles from major brokerages for each transaction. It says it connects a client to a real estate agent every two minutes and has seen a compound annual growth rate of nearly 150% for the past three years. It also doubled its employee base to 200 in just the past year. HomeLight launched in 2012 as a real estate matchmaker, using proprietary algorithms to connect buyers and sellers wi

Buying a home is one of the biggest, and most expensive, decisions in a person’s life. Over the past year or so, we’ve written about a slew of startups that have developed technology aimed at making the process smoother and cheaper in one way or another. Today, another such startup, San Francisco-based HomeLight, has announced a $109 million round of debt and equity funding. The financing round includes $63 million in Series C equity from venture capital firms and $46 million

AutoFi has raised $10 million in its quest to make it easier to take out a car loan. The San Francisco-based financial technology company said on Thursday it has completed a Series A funding round, with investors including Crosslink Capital, Ford Motor Credit Company and Lerer Hippeau Ventures. AutoFi makes a white-label technology platform that allows car dealers to offer faster, online financing to customers. It recently partnered with Ford's financing arm, Motor Credit, an