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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. Three others – Airbnb, Compass and Lemonade – have gone public. Another 10 have plans to merge with blank-check firms, in deals valued collectively at $38.5 billion. Investment in technology aimed at streamlining how we buy and sell homes has exploded. Buyers can view homes without stepping foot in the property, get approved for a mortgage online, obtain title insurance in minutes and notarize documents remotely. iBuyers are enticing customers to sell their homes lock, stock and ba ....
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Samantha Lee/Insider SPACs are taking real-estate tech companies public, and real-estate companies are raising SPACs. It s partly timing: Proptech companies are maturing at the same time as the SPAC boom. VCs said proptech, which brings new business models to an ancient industry, is well suited to SPACs. Between 2020 and 2021, almost 500 special purpose acquisition companies were filed. In 2019, there were only 59. This tidal wave is due to a combination of low interest rates, big public-market valuations, and large financial incentives for SPAC sponsors and private investors. And now this surge is coming to the vast field of real-estate and construction startups known as property technology. ....
Share via Shortlink From left: Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace, Tishman Speyer’s Rob Speyer, Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya, Cantor Fitzgerald’s Howard Lutnick, Pershing Square Capital’s Bill Ackman and Opendoor’s Eric Wu When Fifth Wall Ventures decided to jump into the SPAC market in January, it targeted a raise of $250 million to take a startup public. Within three weeks, it upsized the offering twice before the new blank-check firm closed its $345 million IPO on Feb. 9. “There was a lot of public demand,” a euphoric-looking Brendan Wallace, the venture firm’s co-founder, said during a video call after the IPO. ....