Tony Hawk calls homeownership ‘saving grace’ during career slump

Inman Connect San Diego keynote and skateboarding icon Tony Hawk appeared on SoFi’s Richer Lives podcast and shared how his first home purchase saved his family during a financial dry spell. Continue reading

Lower building in-house mortgage tech with Neat Labs acquisition

Lower will integrate Neat Labs’ technology into its own cloud-based originations platform and onboard co-founder Steve Herschleb as chief technology officer, executives announced Tuesday. Continue reading

There’s another rewards card aimed at homeowners: Mesa

Austin, Texas-based startup won’t have the space to itself, but partner Visa and backers providing $7.2 million in seed funding led by Streamlined Ventures like the company’s odds. Continue reading

Venture capital giants like Pylon’s embeddable mortgage offering

An $8.5 million seed funding round was led by Conversion Capital, with participation from Fifth Wall, Peter Thiel, QED Investors, Montage Ventures and Village Global. Continue reading

Ocrolus valued at $500M after raising $80M Series C round

The document automation platform is staffing up its machine learning and data science teams in the wake of a funding round led by Fin VC. Continue reading