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DecorMatters Unveils MyDecor, the Marketplace of Virtual Home Goods

DecorMatters Unveils MyDecor, the Marketplace of Virtual Home Goods

MyDecor will unleash the creativity and empower the productivity of the three million active users in the DecorMatters in-app design community. PRESS RELEASE UPDATED: MAR 22, 2019 15:00 PDT SAN JOSE, Calif., March 22, 2019 (Newswire.com) - DecorMatters, the tech-driven interior design platform, today announced the launch of the MyDecor marketplace. MyDecor is designed to meet the ever-growing demand for virtual home goods, including photographic and 3D models of home decor

New Single-Family Rental Pitch: Want to Buy a Piece of a House?

New Single-Family Rental Pitch: Want to Buy a Piece of a House?

Here’s a new proposition from a company that markets single-family rental homes to mom-and-pop investors: Want to buy a tenth of a house?Roofstock is pitching a chance for those interested in the asset class to start small. The company will buy a home and put it in a trust, then sell stakes for as little as $5,000. The aim is to provide investors direct access to rental income -- and the tax benefits of owning commercial real estate -- while lowering the buy-in and eliminatin

HomeLight Introduces Simple Sale™, the First Instant Buyer Marketplace

HomeLight Introduces Simple Sale™, the First Instant Buyer Marketplace

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- HomeLight, the platform that empowers people to make smarter decisions when buying or selling a home, today announced the launch of its Simple Sale marketplace. Powered by a growing network of more than 100 instant buyers – or "iBuyers" – Simple Sale lets home sellers and agents compare iBuyers and request competitive instant offers for their properties. Simple Sale's network of local and national instant buyers – including categor

EquityZen Report: 2019 IPO Season May Be a Bellwether Year for the New Tech Elite

EquityZen Report: 2019 IPO Season May Be a Bellwether Year for the New Tech Elite

NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- IPO activity will remain relatively subdued in 2019, and will be nowhere near the IPO mania preceding the dotcom bubble burst or even the busy IPO seasons of 2013 and 2014, according to a reportby EquityZen Inc., a New York-based FinTech firm that operates a secondary marketplace in pre-IPO stock. The report states that the key driver of the reduced number of IPOs continues to be the blitz of private capital allowing tech companies to s

Roofstock Raises $20 Million Series B

Roofstock Raises $20 Million Series B

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Roofstock (www.roofstock.com), the leading online marketplace and transaction platform in the $2 trillion single-family rental (SFR) sector, today announced $20 million in Series B financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with substantial participation from existing investors including Khosla Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Nyca Partners, QED Investors and SV Angel. Roofstock has raised a total of $33.25 million in equity since the comp

HomeLight Raises $11M in Series A to Expand Marketplace for Finding Real Estate Professionals

HomeLight Raises $11M in Series A to Expand Marketplace for Finding Real Estate Professionals

SAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- HomeLight (http://www.homelight.com), the world's premier marketplace for finding real estate professionals, today announced it has raised $11MM in Series A funding. The new capital, led by Zeev Ventures, and joined by Dovi Frances of SGVC, will give HomeLight the ability to enhance its data-driven product offering as the smartest new way to find a real estate agent. It brings the company's total funding since inception to $15 mi

Roofstock Closes $7M Series A-1 Funding

Roofstock Closes $7M Series A-1 Funding

Roofstock, a San Francisco Bay Area-based online marketplace and community created exclusively for investing in leased single-family rental homes, closed a $7m Series A-1 round. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Grey Wolf and CSC Venture Capital. This followed a $6.25m Series A round raised in May 2015 and led by Khosla Ventures with participation from QED Investors and Nyca Partners, as well as Ron Conway’s SV Angel and Marc Benioff, founder

Roofstock launches marketplace for purchasing rented homes

Roofstock launches marketplace for purchasing rented homes

Armed with $13.25 million in funding from Khosla Ventures, Ron Conway, Marc Benioff, Bain Capital and others, Roofstock is launching a marketplace for buying and selling already-rented homes. The idea is that if you buy a home that currently has tenants, you avoid the hassle of finding renters and the investment property will immediately generate cash flow. Sellers can also list properties before a rental lease expires, providing added flexibility. “You’d never vacate an apar

SchoolMint Scores $6.2M Series A to Provide Online School Enrollment

SchoolMint Scores $6.2M Series A to Provide Online School Enrollment

SchoolMint: SchoolMint has raised $6.2M in Series A funding from an undisclosed group of investors. The San Francisco, CA-based startup offers a browser-based and mobile platform that helps schools and parents manage students’ applications and enrollment process in K-12 schools. SchoolMint charges schools a base price with additional features such as automated communication to parents available for an extra fee. #SeriesA #SchoolMint #Marketplace #schoolenrollment

Crew Raises $10 Million Series A for Curated Designer and Developer Platform

Crew Raises $10 Million Series A for Curated Designer and Developer Platform

Crew, a curated platform connecting designers and developers with vetted clients that need website, mobile app, or other design work done, has announced the closing of a $10 million funding round. This funding has been raised on the back of a business that has doubled twice in the last year and now facilitates over $1.5 million in new projects every month. The round for the Founder Fuel grad was led by Accomplice (formerly Atlas Venture) and included investments from iNovia C

Vacatia Secures $7M Series A Round

Vacatia Secures $7M Series A Round

Vacatia, the resort marketplace for vacationing families, today announced it has raised $7 million of new financing in a round that was led by Javelin Venture Partners of San Francisco, CA. Vacatia will use this investment to continue the build-out of its soon-to-be-announced new service, for geographic expansion, and to recruit select new team members. Vacatia also today announced that co-founder Caroline Shin has been promoted from Chief Operating Officer to Chief Executive