What Matters This Week - 5.4.24

What Matters This Week - articles, news, and fundings that mattered this week in PropTech. No hype or marketing. WMTW is free but subscribers also have access to daily updates, premium content, a private Slack community, and exclusive events. If you’d like to join the community, you can here. Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! If you are struggling with mental health we can help! Fundings: * Securitize, a platform for tokenizing real-world assets, raised a $47M round. * Inhabitr, a CRE furnishing platform, raised a $27M B round. * FinQuery (fka LeaseQuery), a lease accounting software, raised a $25M round. * Backflip, a loan platform for house flippers, raised a $15M A round. * Urban Jungle, a British home insurance startup, raised an £11.2M round. * Backed, a Swiss platform for tokenizing real-world assets, raised a $9.5M A round. * Andpad, a Japanese construction mgmt platform, raised a $7.8M Debt round. * Danti, a search engine for Earth data, raised a $5M Seed round. * Matrak, a construction material tracking platform, raised a A$2.9M A round. * Kubik, an Ethiopian plastic upcycling startup, raised a $1.9M Seed ext. round. News: * Guesty Acquires Rentals United. * Airbnb Introduces Pop Culture-Themed Listings. Articles: * Why Yardi Bought WeWork ($) (Thesis Driven) Top-tech read of the week: * State of Pre-Seed: Q1 2024 (Carta) Check this out: Prompt: A diagram showing a view of the deconstruction of a hotel into steel members, with precisionist lines. Bold chromaticity, high-resolution --style raw --stylize 750 --ar 3:4 --style raw --ar 5:8 --stylize 60 Thanks for reading! If you think I missed something important, send me a note and I’ll get it in next week’s edition. And here’s a pick-me-up before you go: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit verticaltech.substack.com/subscribe