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High-Tech Housing Matchmaker HomeLight Announces $109 Million in New Funding

High-Tech Housing Matchmaker HomeLight Announces $109 Million in New Funding

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

Real Estate Startup HomeLight Secures $109M In Debt & Equity

Real Estate Startup HomeLight Secures $109M In Debt & Equity

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

RealPage Acquires Rentlytics by $57M Cash

RealPage Acquires Rentlytics by $57M Cash

RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Expands Business Intelligence and Benchmarking RealPage, Inc. (NASDAQ:RP), a leading provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Rentlytics, which will expand the company’s business intelligence and performance analytics platform by nearly 900,000 additional multifamily units. Rentlytics provides owners and operators with normalized data across multipl

Roofstock Closes $35 Million Series C Round to Accelerate Growth

Roofstock Closes $35 Million Series C Round to Accelerate Growth

Roofstock is a two-year-old, Oakland, Ca.-based marketplace for buyers and sellers of single-family homes that have tenants residing in them. The rather specific idea behind it is appealing on a couple of levels, including because both institutional and retail investors can buy and sell homes without forcing renters to leave the property during a transaction — a big problem for many families in the Bay Area, for example. Buyers also avoid the hassle of finding renters, gainin

Homelight Raises $40 Million Series B to Help Home Sellers Find Best Listing Agents

Homelight Raises $40 Million Series B to Help Home Sellers Find Best Listing Agents

HomeLight was founded in 2012 to connect home owners looking to sell with real estate agents in their area who are likely to close quickly and get the best price for their homes. With its business quickly growing, the company has raised $40 million in new funding led by Menlo Ventures. Despite the rise of digital platforms like Zillow, Trulia and Redfin for finding homes for sale, there’s been a pronounced uptick in the number of properties sold with the help of real estate a

Pillow Announces $13.5 Million Series A and Launch of Pillow Residential

Pillow Announces $13.5 Million Series A and Launch of Pillow Residential

Short-term rental management startup Pillow has raised $13.5 million in new funding, and is launching a new product to provide more transparency to apartment owners when renters make their apartments available on platforms like Airbnb. A few years ago, Pillow launched to help make renting out your apartment on Airbnb less of a hassle. That included things like helping hosts manage their calendar, set their pricing and dealing with the hand-off of keys and cleanings in-between

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

Walker & Dunlop Makes $9.1M Strategic Series A in Rentlytics

Walker & Dunlop Makes $9.1M Strategic Series A in Rentlytics

Walker & Dunlop, Inc. (NYSE: WD) and Rentlytics announced today that Walker & Dunlop has made a strategic investment in Rentlytics, a technology platform for owners and managers of multifamily real estate assets. The $9.1 million Series A round of funding led by Walker & Dunlop includes additional participation from both new and existing investors, including Grey Wolf. Rentlytics will use the funding for additional product development and market expansion. The cloud-based bus