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The massive story
Flat-fee actual property
There’s an entire lot of fintech in the actual property world. And final week, I obtained the inside track on a brand new startup known as Landian that emerged from stealth to benefit from current rule modifications associated to actual property commissions. In reality, one in every of its co-founders can also be one of many individuals who efficiently sued the Nationwide Affiliation of Realtors (NAR) to assist facilitate these modifications. Consumers have the choice to pay à la carte for Landian’s providing: $49 for every dwelling tour and $199 for a suggestion prep session or they’ll decide to paying a flat charge of $1,799 for as much as 5 dwelling excursions and two provide prep classes. Digital brokerage Redfin had some ideas concerning the flat charge mannequin, which you’ll be able to examine right here.
Evaluation of the week
BNPL on fireplace
Purchase now, pay later gamers Klarna and Affirm shared their newest financials final week, and each had fairly spectacular outcomes. Affirm blew away analysts’ expectations of a loss per share of 51 cents by notching a lack of 14 cents per share. Its income was up 48% year-over-year to $659 million U.S., which was additionally above analysts’ estimates. Its inventory surged on the efficiency, closing August 30 at $44.01 a share, up considerably from the $31.58 it had closed simply two days prior. In the meantime, Klarna advised TechCrunch its income elevated 27% within the first half of 2024 whereas adjusted working bills remained flat. In different Klarna information, Klarna’s board is mulling over the elimination of Mikael Walther, “a confidant of founding partner Victor Jacobsson,” in line with the Monetary Occasions.
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Digital financial institution for immigrants raises huge
Comun, a digital financial institution centered on serving immigrants in the US, has raised $21.5 million in a Collection A funding spherical lower than 9 months after asserting a $4.5 million elevate, TechCrunch was the primary to report. The corporate is rising quick and says its valuation is up 50%. The startup launched its first product in October 2022 utilizing BaaS (banking-as-a-service) middleware. However the co-founders determined that it made extra sense to personal their very own infrastructure and determined to construct it out. By November 2023, Comun had launched a brand new program with Group Federal Financial savings Financial institution as a accomplice.
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What else we’re seeing
Carta finds a sale
Inventory-trading startup Public has acquired the brokerage accounts of Carta’s secondaries enterprise, TechCrunch confirmed. Carta, greatest recognized for its cap desk administration software program, sits on a stockpile of information. It tried to develop into the effervescent sizzling secondary market brokerage enterprise, however in January, a startup buyer publicly accused Carta of utilizing the startup’s non-public cap desk information to method its shareholders so as to dealer a sale with out the startup’s data. That allegation went viral and scared a lot of Carta’s clients, who threatened to go away. Days later, Carta introduced that it was abandoning this enterprise. In an emailed assertion to TechCrunch, Public stated the purchasers of Carta Capital Markets who it acquired have a proper to decide out. In the meantime, Carta says it isn’t out of the secondaries enterprise altogether. Extra right here.
The Bolt saga continues. One among Bolt’s proposed new backers, The London Fund, has been scrubbing its internet web page. Head right here to be taught why.
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