Participated · Equity · Nov 2023

Offr offers a digital transaction platform aimed at helping real estate agents manage and complete property offers and transactions. The company says it has processed 50,000 offers to date, representing €20bn in total value. Leadership includes Robert Hoban and co‑founders Philip Farrell and Niall Dawson. In a LinkedIn announcement the team framed growth plans around expanding the company’s ability to help agents “at home and abroad.” The post highlights continued support from banks and industry backers as the company scales. The funding is positioned to support product and geographic expansion and to further improve the agent-facing transaction experience. Offr offers a white-label, device-agnostic platform that digitizes the end-to-end property transaction process for agents and buyers, enabling offers, viewings, deposits, solicitor connections and contract signing online. Launched ten months prior to the article by Robert Hoban (CEO), Niall Dawson (CTO) and Philip Farrell (CCO), the product lets agents track sales or leases in real time and gives buyers tools to submit offers, upload ID/proof of funds and complete transactions via smartphone. Behind the interface Offr connects agents with solicitors and banks to automate and speed the legal and financial steps of a sale or lease. The platform digitizes over 85% of the buying and selling process for agents and their customers. Offr plans to use the new funding to accelerate international expansion and to further develop its transaction infrastructure to cover all property types, including traditional and auction sales, residential lettings and commercial sales and leases. The company also participated in the Barclays London Accelerator, powered by Techstars, and was selected for follow-on investment from the cohort. Financially, the business reported the seed raise and cumulative funding information in this round.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2022

Knock offers a tech-enabled service that purchases a customer’s next home on their behalf, allowing them to move in immediately while Knock later lists and sells the old property on the open market. By removing the common timing and financing friction, the company aims to make relocating as simple as trading in a car. Knock is targeting the 64% of U.S. homeowners who must simultaneously buy and sell, providing certainty, convenience and cost efficiency during the transition. Its model eliminates the need for contingent offers and delivers liquidity to sellers up front. The firm positions itself as a full-stack solution, handling purchase, sale and related logistics within one integrated experience. Although specific revenue or user metrics were not disclosed, the company’s recent capital raise suggests continued investment in platform growth and geographic expansion.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2019

Biproxi provides an integrated end-to-end commercial real estate transaction platform that combines listing, marketing, valuation, and deal-management tools for brokers, buyers, and tenants. It launched Biproxi Off Market, an algorithmic data platform offering instant property and valuation data on over 32 million off-market commercial properties and valuations for middle-market properties up to $25 million. The company also offers biproximate™, a free product providing values on more than 10 million commercial properties and free access to sales and financing history. Additional features include vendor services, customized marketing tools to source unique leads, gated due-diligence vaults, and lead management capabilities; the platform charges a small fee paid by the buyer at closing. Biproxi targets the underserved middle-market and aims to give independent brokers resources to compete with larger brokerage houses across a fragmented U.S. market with roughly 300,000 commercial brokers. The founding team includes industry veterans from Ten-X, led by Co-Founder & CEO Gordon Smith, and together the team has closed over $20 billion in transaction volume.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2014

DocuSign is a San Francisco, CA-based Digital Transaction Management (DTM) platform and eSignature solution. Its platform is used by more than 100,000 companies and over 50 million users in 188 countries. Keith Krach serves as Chairman & CEO. The company has raised more than $300m in Series F funding and has raised more than $525m to date from financial institutions and strategic investors. The firm recently received a strategic investment from Deutsche Telekom. DocuSign provides a digital transaction management (DTM) platform that supports legally compliant electronic and digital signature processes globally. The platform offers localization in 43 languages and its network includes more than 50 million users in 188 countries. It is used across industries such as financial services, insurance, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, communications, real estate, retail and education, and across business departments including sales, finance, operations, procurement, HR, legal and customer support. Keith Krach serves as Chairman & CEO. The company raised an additional $233M in its latest financing and has now raised more than $440M to date. DocuSign said it will use the new funds to support continued growth and worldwide expansion. DocuSign makes software for people to sign documents digitally and is the leader in eSignature transaction management. Its core product is a cloud-based global network for sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents. DocuSign says its service accelerates transaction times, reduces costs, and offers an easy, fast, and secure experience for customers. The company has positioned itself as the global standard for eSignatures. In its latest financing DocuSign raised $115 million. Investors in the round included three Japanese backers — including NTT — with past investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Accel Partners also participating. DocuSign operates an electronic signature and digital transaction management platform used by businesses and individual users. The company says it has 95,000 business customers and about 48 million users across 188 countries, with more than 40,000 new users signing up daily. DocuSign plans to use new funding to speed product innovation, deepen vertical industry solutions, grow strategic partnerships, and accelerate international expansion. Leadership frames the financing as positioning the company for long-term sustainable growth while continuing to focus on building value for customers, partners, employees, and investors. Company executives have said they are not interested in being acquired and view an IPO as a possible financing event in the future. DocuSign provides a legally binding, secure, cloud-based platform for collecting information and obtaining electronic signatures to replace printing, faxing, scanning and overnighting documents. The company’s core product is an eSignature transaction-management network used by consumers, individual professionals, business departments and global enterprises. DocuSign reported 20 million users, more than 150 million documents processed in 188 countries, 60,000 new users joining the network every business day, and 1.4 million paying users, including employees at 90% of the Fortune 500. The company says customers use the platform to accelerate transactions, reduce costs, and automate business processes across industries and departments. DocuSign plans to use new financing to accelerate growth of the DocuSign Global Network through increased customer-focused R&D, deeper vertical industry solutions, and faster international expansion.