First American Financial and National Association of Realtors were among the investors in the $70m equity portion of the real estate financing service’s latest round.

US-based property purchase finance provider Knock received $220m in equity and debt financing yesterday from investors including financial services firm First American Financial and real estate trade organisation National Association of Realtors.

Foundry Group led the $70m equity portion of the round, which was also backed by fellow venture capital firm RRE Ventures as well as private investors M Night Shyamalan and Mauricio Umansky. The $150m in debt financing was supplied by unnamed entities.

Founded in 2015, Knock has built…

Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.