From entertainment to transportation, technology has upended nearly every major industry — with one notable exception: real estate.
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Pioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle’s startup ecosystem
How the startup studio’s “validation engine” has made it one of the best company builders in the business.
View More Pioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle’s startup ecosystemMeet Shuttle, the company that’s building a booking agent for spaceflight
Avery Haskell says he first knew he wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a boy growing up in Houston near NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The 24 year-old Stanford graduate who counts Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan as his heroes, grew up in an entrepreneurial family. In the early days of the Internet […]
View More Meet Shuttle, the company that’s building a booking agent for spaceflightTrulia crowdsources neighborhood reviews so you won’t regret your move
Trulia, the online real estate site owned by its former rival Zillow, wants to give you a better idea of what a certain neighborhood feels like before you move there. To do this, the company today launched Neighborhoods, a feature that brings together direct reviews and feedback from residents based on the existing What Locals […]
View More Trulia crowdsources neighborhood reviews so you won’t regret your moveZillow gets into the mortgage business, acquires Mortgage Lenders of America
Zillow, the publicly traded real estate portal and lead generation service, has acquired Mortgage Lenders of America. This is Zillow’s first move into originating mortgages. Until now, the company’s focus in this space was on providing home buyers with quotes from a variety of third-party lenders. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Mortgage Lenders […]
View More Zillow gets into the mortgage business, acquires Mortgage Lenders of AmericaCan AI make house hunting easier? Zillow is going for it.
Artificial intelligence is getting smarter, and with those smarts comes application. It’s now used in some surprising areas, from arcade games to law contracts to therapy to pornography.
Real estate is the next area AI is conquering, and first up on …
Seattle’s new venture firm, Flying Fish, holds a first close on its targeted $80 million fund
The founding partners of the new Seattle-based venture firm Flying Fish met as angel investors deploying capital in the talent-heavy, cash-light region around Amazon and Microsoft’s corporate headquarters. “We’ve underperformed relative to the talent pool,” is how Heather Redman, one of the firm’s three founding partners describes the region. Well, now Flying Fish has held […]
View More Seattle’s new venture firm, Flying Fish, holds a first close on its targeted $80 million fundDeveloping rapid response services for real estate agents, Agentology bags $12 million
Startups like Zillow and Trulia have reshaped the real estate market by giving consumers with their 24-hour covetable, clickable window into shoppable home sales — and the other players in the real estate marketplace are struggling to catch up. This deluge of leads coming in to real estate agencies across the country from online sources […]
View More Developing rapid response services for real estate agents, Agentology bags $12 millionZillow surprises investors by buying up homes
Real estate platform Zillow changed up its business model this week, announcing that it plans to purchase and sell homes in Las Vegas and Phoenix. Zillow will be working with Berkshire Hathaway and Coldwell Banker to make offers on homes before it finds a buyer. Zillow will pay commissions and also “make necessary repairs and updates and […]
View More Zillow surprises investors by buying up homesSoftbank leads a $120 million round for insurance startup Lemonade
Softbank’s Vision Fund has finally made a good tech investment around real estate.
After investing $4.4 billion in what is essentially a bespoke office space rental business (WeWork) and another $450 million in Zillow for rich people (Compass), the gargantuan Japanese tech investor is leading a $120 million round of funding for Lemonade, a startup providing renters and homeowners insurance. Read More