Second Century Ventures

💰 Big news out of the REACH Canada portfolio this week... Congratulations to Arunabh Dastidar, Gaurav Madani and the entire RealSage team (Canada 2022) for closing their $5.5 Million CDN/ $4 Million USD Seed round! The round was led by York IE with support from: 🌟 Karman Ventures 🌟 Stellifi VC 🌟 Golden Section And also included additional investment from our parent firm, Second Century Ventures! Congratulations to all involved, Lynette Keyowski and Mike McAra couldn't be more thrilled! See here for more: https://lnkd.in/g_CBruRT Dave Garland | Tyler Thompson | Johan Holmberg, CFA | Bob Gillespie | Ashley Stinton | Carlos Rousseau | Ane Delsol | Omar Rodriguez | Paolo Rigutto | Peter Schravemade | Tom Ellis | Ebonnie Schravemade | Ran Laufer | Sivan Blasenheim | ✦ Tal Rath | David Conroy | Dan Weisman | BetaKit | Josh Scott | Center for Real Estate Technology & Innovation

The real estate horizon is about to shine even brighter as we proudly unveil our largest cohort to date—9 trailblazing companies, marking our fifth year for REACH Australia and New Zealand. → Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gxWwtVYn This milestone marks the fusion of our five years of excellence with the expansion into the dynamic markets of Australia and New Zealand. In this historic moment, we bring together visionary entrepreneurs and cutting-edge solutions to redefine the future of real estate across two powerhouse regions. — 🔹 Arcanite (arcanite.com.au) is the ultimate real estate sales management and channel distribution platform to accelerate the transaction rate for all connected parties within the real estate ecosystem. 🔹 Erin Living Technologies (erinliving.com) is a resident experience company meeting the demands of modern living. The core product - Erin, is a community-led liveability super-app designed to make the lives of residents more connected, more secure and more convenient. A dedicated app for homeowners and tenants 🔹 Milk Chocolate® Property (milkchoc.com.au) has verticalised all parts of the property journey into one experience, offering planning, buying, building, and management services. 🔹 Leesy (leesy.com.au) digitises and centralises the leasing process helping renters to secure a home they love without the stress, landlords to maximise their rental yield, and agencies reduce the time they spend leasing properties by up to 74% 🔹 FLK it over (flkitover.com) streamlines residential leases and all real-estate document signing for your office with its seamless dashboard, SMS-powered communication, and powerful proptech integrations 🔹 Agent Profit Planner (agentprofitplanner.com) fine-tunes your real estate agency business for maximum return with online modelling tools to test profit and efficiency outcomes. 🔹 SquareBySquare (squarebysquare.org) empowers anyone to buy and sell tiny squares of conservation land, making it profitable to protect nature. 🔹 GXE (gxe.com) is the all-in-one platform for investment funds, family offices, and syndicates that provides real-time visibility, efficient workflows, automated admin, reporting, and more. 🔹 THEODORE (thdr.co) is an Australian-born custom-tailored menswear brand with the vision of providing property professionals with access to affordable luxury menswear, by innovating & simplifying the customer experience via the use of emerging technology. — Kicking off the 2024 program, our stellar cohort of companies will be officially introduced at the REACH GENESIS Conference from March 14th to 16th. 🚀 Stay tuned as we embark on this transformative journey, fostering growth and making a lasting impact on the real estate landscape in Australia and New Zealand. #REACHclassof2024 #REACHnewheights #REACHaustralia #REACHnewzealand

Calling all proptech founders! Applications are currently open for our 2024 NAR REACH and REACH Latin America programs. We are looking for top solutions led by highly motivated, mission driven teams. We're interested in innovation across the transaction and greater real estate ecosystem including solutions in climate, affordable housing, title and escrow, mortgage, insurance, home services, finance, sales and marketing, brokerage, and property management, among others. The REACH program offers a highly curated, hands-on experience for a limited number of companies each year. Program participants receive support, guidance and scale through mentorship, industry insight, exposure and access to a global community of founders, corporate partners and industry executives transforming real estate through technology. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis so apply early! *Note: Applications for the 2024 REACH Commercial program will open in March 2024. #cleantech #climatetech #affordablehousing #titleandescrow #mortgagetech #insurtech #martech #homeservices #fintech #agetech #scaleup #accelerator #proptech https://lnkd.in/g826m7MR

Congratulations to Karen K. Burns and team at Fyma on closing their $2.1M funding round. "Fyma has taken full advantage of everything that REACH and Second Century Ventures has to offer. Having graduated from our REACH UK program in 2022, Fyma then participated in our NAR REACH Commercial program in 2023 as they focused on North American growth opportunities. Second Century Ventures participating in this funding round is a testament to their technology and team," said Bob Gillespie, Managing Partner at REACH Commercial. "We are thrilled to be part of their success." https://lnkd.in/eCXhWC_d

🥁🥁🥁...the day has finally come! We are SO thrilled to finally share with you the seven newest members of the REACH Canada portfolio for 2024! The amazing firms are: 🍁 Iluminai Intelligence Corporation - A continuous anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and monitoring tool for the real estate sector. 🍁 Collegium - Makes real estate development a data-driven process by bringing owners, architects, engineers, building trades, constructors, financiers, and insurance underwriters together onto one platform, with an end-to-end process and next-generation digital tools. 🍁 Maket (Techstars '21) - Revolutionizing design with generative AI that empowers architects, designers, builders, contractors and developers to automate residential floor plans, create 3D renders and explore limitless styles. 🍁 Proxima HQ - A digital, end-to-end real estate sales platform that enables agents to sell anywhere with the best buying experience. 🍁 Propra - A Property management platform that improves efficiency, communication, and cost-savings while elevating the resident experience. 🍁 Infinite Creator - Helps real estate professionals create captivating content for real estate that’s fast, easy, affordable and professional 🍁 PropTexx (Techstars_'23) - Provides generative AI, data analytics and actionable, real-time business intelligence for the real estate industry. Massive congratulations to the founders J. Friedrich Klaus, Jesse Latham, Luke West, MBA, Allan Partridge, Patrick Murphy, Stephane Turbide, Adam Starr, Al-Karim K., Craig Adam, Leon Ng, Zhong-Yan Chen, Camilo Lopez, Kristin Weeks, Stefan Gunnarsson and Joshua L.! Lynette Keyowski, MS, CRAE, CAE and Mike McAra are so excited to work with these firms and founders for the next year, bringing even more innovative and value-added solutions to the real estate ecosystem for all🙌 🍁Calling all friends of REACH Canada! 🇨🇦 We'd love for you to also meet our awesome teams so be sure to follow along on here and let us know if you will be at any of the upcoming events! Next up, National Association of REALTORS® NXT in Anaheim! This is going to be an epic year ahead! Dave Garland | Tyler Thompson | Ashley Stinton | Bob Gillespie | Valentina Shegoyan | Peter Schravemade | Carlos Rousseau | Johan Holmberg, CFA | Jeff Kennedy | Drew Meyers | Tom Ellis | Ebonnie Schravemade | Ane Delsol | Omar Rodriguez | Paolo Rigutto

We are delighted to attend and support today's special lunch session at Blueprint hosted by Women in Construction Tech (WCT). If you're attending Blueprint this week, join us there! Thank you Antonia Elisa Soler Blasco and Julieta Moradei for the opportunity! #contech #proptech #wct https://lnkd.in/gQv5wwpa