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Inman Connect Doma, a startup that’s digitizing the title and escrow business, has added another big lender to its roster of clients, Wells Fargo Home Lending, as it continues down the path to going public. Doma offers “instant underwriting” of title insurance for mortgage refinancing, along with remote and digital closing and escrow services for all types of mortgages. Kristy Fercho “Doma’s technology-led approach to instant title underwriting and more streamlined closing is aligned ...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Doma Named One of Inc. Magazine’s 2021 Best Workplaces May 12, 2021 GMT SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2021-- Doma, a leading force for disruptive change in the real estate industry, has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual list of the Best Workplaces for 2021. The list features companies that have created exceptional workplaces, as determined by employees through a comprehensive assessm...

Share via Shortlink Less than a decade ago, startups valued at $1 billion or more were so rare — so mythical even — that the tech world took to calling them unicorns. In 2013, there were just 39 such magical creatures, a number that has since surged to more than 600. Residential real estate, a longtime tech desert, had but a couple over the years. But in the last eight months, four proptech startups focused on the residential industry have hit valuations of $1 billion or more. Thre...

Listings With the M&A market for listings services heating up, eyeballs are worth a lot more than they used to be. CoStar bought national search portal Homesnap for $250 million in November, pitting the CRE data giant against Zillow, Realtor.com and others in the residential game. CoStar also tried to buy CoreLogic and RentPath these past few months but failed in part due to scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission. But CoStar’s loss was Redfin’s gain: The real estate brokerage nabbed R...

Blueprint - The Definitive Real Estate Tech Conference - Announces First 50 Speakers, Registration Open Share Article NEW YORK (PRWEB) April 14, 2021 With more than $20 billion invested in real estate tech last year alone, real estate is experiencing a surge of innovation. With this as backdrop, Blueprint is pleased to announce the launch of its inaugural event focused on the future of the built world, which will be held at the Ma...

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Javascript is disabled in your web browser. For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Please Allow Javascript and reload this page. Compass’ costs to scale, LinkedIn and Zynga founders to take Hippo public National / Compass’ cost of doing business Ahead of its buzzed-about IPO, Compass offered investors a peek at its financials via an S-1 filed March 1. Highlights from the 263-page document include the fact that Compass took in $3.7 billion in rev...

Founded in 2016, the San Francisco-based company uses machine learning to remove 70 percent of the manual labor associated with the archaic title insurance process, which is dominated by four major players and has not changed in decades. The startup’s digital process makes the process of obtaining title quicker, faster and better, the company says. To date, Doma has invested more than $65 million in R&D and holds three patents, with five more pending. The company was previously valued at $623...

States Title CEO Max Simkoff and investor Mark Ein. (Keystone Strategy, Getty) Title insurance startup States Title is going public in a $3 billion deal with a blank-check firm, the latest sign of investor interest in companies that digitize the residential real estate industry. The company — which has been renamed Doma — said Tuesday that it plans to merge with Capitol Investment Corp., a special purpose acquisitions company backed by investor Mark Ein. Since 2007, Ein has raised $1.5 bill...

By Joshua Franklin (Reuters) - U.S. real estate technology company Doma said on Tuesday it has agreed to go public through a merger with blank-check a...