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Zumper raises $60M to double down on tech to grow its apartment rentals platform

The apartment rental market in the US will be worth $174.1 billion this year, and today a startup that’s built a platform to help it along by connecting renters with rentals is announcing a roun

Blueground raises $20 million for flexible apartment rentals

Blueground, the startup providing turnkey flexible rental apartments, has raised $20 million in a round led by Athens-based VentureFriends, with participation from Endeavor Catalyst, Dubai’s Jab

Zumper raises $46M more to take on Zillow and the rest with its apartment rental platform

While the property market in the US appears headed for a slowdown, a startup that’s honing in on rentals is doubling down on growth. Zumper, a San Francisco-based startup that has built an end-t

Rhino is getting rid of security deposits for rental apartments

Arguably the most frustrating part of renting an apartment, especially in an expensive city like New York, is dealing with the security deposit. One startup wants to make renting easier by getting rid

Zumper Select wants to make renting an apartment as easy as booking a hotel

When Zumper raised $18M in Series B funding last fall, the rental search engine explained that the funding would be used to grow the company beyond search – and assist renters with the entire l

Amazon launches ‘The Hub’, parcel delivery lockers for apartment buildings

Amazon may be getting ever deeper into a range of virtual products like media content and cloud services, but it is also continuing to add more features to lock down the bread and butter of its busine

Crunch Report | DraftKings and FanDuel No Longer Merging

Uber is merging with Yandex.Taxi in Russia, DraftKings and FanDuel call it quits on their merger, Amazon is working on a premium Echo Home and Jet.com gives New Yorkers smart locks for their home deli

Zumper raises a $17.6M Series B to expand beyond apartment searches

Zumper, the online apartment search platform, has raised $17.6M in Series B funding. This brings total funding to date to $39.2M. While the company declined to discuss valuation, TechCrunch has learne

Cozy Makes Its Rental Management Service Free

Cozy, a Google Ventures-backed service that make the rental process easier for landlords and tenants, has made its current feature set available to all clients for free. In a blog post, Cozy CEO Gino

Lovely, The Apartment Rentals Site, Raises More Funding And Buys Rentmatic To Add Payments

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.livelovely.com">Lovely</a>, the site that aggregates home rental listings, is today moving up from studio to duplex status. The startup is announcing its first acqu

With 4M Apartment Rentals Viewed On Its Site, Lovely Is Breaking Free Of Litigious Craigslist And Raising A Series A

<a target="_blank" href="http://livelovely.com/">Lovely</a>, the apartment search service that was <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/13/lovely-a-sleek-tool-to-make-your-apartment-search-slightly

In Its First Report Since Going Public, Trulia Posts First Profitable Quarter, Record Revenue

How are the recent class of tech IPOs faring? Real estate search engine and Zillow competitor, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.trulia.com/">Trulia</a> went public <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2

Lovely Goes From Craigslist Target To The Kayak Of Apartment Rentals As It Launches Nationwide

The Craigslist crackdown on usage of its listings data by third parties has had some fairly strong fallout. Some have <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/24/padmappers-not-the-only-one-with-legal-

SimpliSafe security system is inexpensive, transportable

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/simplisafe.jpg" alt="simplisafe" />SimpliSafe seems like a pretty simple (get it?) home security system for those of us who value our safety,

Apartment dweller: 'The letter forcing me to switch to Comcast is tantamount to an eviction notice'

Wow. This guy really doesn’t like Comcast. I’m certainly not going to be asking Comcast to the Prom anytime soon but this guy is planning on moving out of his apartment thanks to a notice