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Seattle startup Flyhomes vacates prime office space near new waterfront project

by Nate Bek on October 12, 2023October 12, 2023 at 11:12 am

Flyhomes has a new home. GeekWire spotted lease signs at the company’s former 9,000 square-foot Seattle headquarters near the new waterfront project. The real estate startup confirmed that it vacated… Read More

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Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes to acquire assets from ‘buy before you sell’ company

by Taylor Soper on September 13, 2023September 14, 2023 at 11:04 am

Seattle-based real estate startup Flyhomes this week announced it plans to acquire certain assets from Home Sale Assured, a Chicago-area company that helps homeowners move into a new home without needing… Read More

Seattle startup Flyhomes lays off employees for third time amid real estate headwinds

by Nate Bek on June 5, 2023June 5, 2023 at 10:50 am

Real estate startup Flyhomes is laying off employees for the third time in a year, citing an effort to focus on profitability amid the broader housing market downturn. The Seattle… Read More

Scoop: Flyhomes acquires Loftium, combining two Seattle real estate tech companies

by Nate Bek on February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 at 12:29 pm

Flyhomes is broadening its suite of home-buying tools by acquiring the host-to-own platform Loftium in a Seattle startup real estate deal. Terms of the acquisition, first reported by GeekWire, were… Read More

Tech Moves: Flexe CTO departs; Impinj names chief innovation officer; and more

by Charlotte Schubert on January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 at 6:03 pm

— David Glick left his position as chief technology officer of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe. Glick spent nearly four years at Flexe, which raised $119 million million in July, pushing… Read More

Flyhomes does another round of layoffs as slowing housing market hurts real estate tech companies

by Taylor Soper on November 9, 2022November 18, 2022 at 9:52 am

Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes is laying off employees for the second time in five months. “Building the world’s best home buying and selling experience can only happen if we… Read More

Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes cuts 20% of staff, citing ‘uncertain economic conditions’

by Taylor Soper on July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 at 12:43 pm

Flyhomes is the latest tech startup to cut jobs. The Seattle real estate company laid off approximately 20% of its staff, a spokesperson confirmed to GeekWire. The company did not… Read More

Another real estate tech startup comes calling in Seattle, as Knock offers its financing services

by Kurt Schlosser on April 19, 2022April 19, 2022 at 10:21 am

Knock has come knocking in the Seattle-area real estate market. The company, which helps homebuyers compete with cash to sweeten offers in competitive markets, announced Tuesday that it is expanding… Read More

Vote for Workplace of the Year at the GeekWire Awards: Edifecs, Icertis, F5, Flyhomes, Uplevel

by Julie Emory on April 6, 2022April 6, 2022 at 7:49 am

Happiness at the job isn’t just kombucha on tap and trendy lounges. For the past two years, companies have balanced concerns with COVID-19 and integrating workers back into offices. The… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Glassdoor CTO will lead Auth0 engineering; Flyhomes hires CRO; and more

by Cara Kuhlman on October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 at 12:16 pm

— Bellevue, Wash.-based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. She will be responsible for Auth0’s various platforms and oversee the software engineering,… Read More

Real estate startup Flyhomes aims to address homebuyer’s remorse with new guarantee

by Taylor Soper on August 25, 2021August 26, 2021 at 1:11 pm

A remedy for homebuyer’s remorse: Real estate startup Flyhomes today unveiled a new offering called Flyhomes Guarantee for Buyers that gives clients a way to move out of a home they… Read More

Flyhomes raises $150M as it expands across U.S. and aims to change the way people buy homes

by Taylor Soper on June 10, 2021June 11, 2021 at 7:06 pm

Editor’s note: The introduction to this story has been altered and this story has been updated. It did not meet GeekWire’s journalistic standards, and we regret the error.  Flyhomes, a… Read More

Tech Moves: Former AT&T Vice Chairman Ralph de la Vega joins Outreach board; Flyhomes adds VPs

by Taylor Soper on March 4, 2021April 2, 2021 at 11:16 am

— Seattle startup Outreach has a new board member: Ralph de la Vega, the former vice chairman at AT&T and longtime wireless industry executive. Outreach CEO Manny Medina met de… Read More

Tech Moves: OfferUp hires chief product officer; Flyhomes adds marketing VP; and more

by Cara Kuhlman on December 17, 2020April 5, 2021 at 5:05 pm

— Mobile marketplace OfferUp appointed Niti Bashambu as its new chief product officer.  Bashambu was most recently chief product officer at San Francisco real estate data startup HouseCanary. She was… Read More

Tech Moves: UW announces director for new DoD program; Microsoft vet joins EQT; and more

by Cara Kuhlman on October 26, 2020October 27, 2020 at 12:36 pm

— The University of Washington announced a new partnership with the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN), a program within the Department of Defense, that will spur students and researchers to… Read More

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GeekWire Awards: Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg on leading a real estate startup through the pandemic

by Monica Nickelsburg on July 21, 2020July 25, 2020 at 8:26 am

It should’ve been a banner year for Flyhomes. As 2019 drew to a close, the real estate startup had $141 million in fresh funding to fuel the expansion of its… Read More

Seattle startup Flyhomes is expanding to Boston, Portland and L.A. to help home-buyers compete with cash offers

by Nat Levy on December 10, 2019December 10, 2019 at 5:54 am

Flyhomes, the Seattle real estate startup that helps people buy houses in expensive cities, is expanding to a trio of new markets. The startup is coming to Portland, Boston and… Read More

Attention, Expedia employees: Here’s how much it costs to buy a home near the new HQ

by Nat Levy on November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 at 10:30 am

Thousands of Expedia Group employees are making the move to the company’s new $900 million Seattle headquarters campus, adding a long commute through one of the region’s busiest corridors for… Read More

Photos: Games, food, fun and networking as the 2019 GeekWire Summit opens with a party

by Kurt Schlosser on October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 at 10:30 pm

The 2019 GeekWire Summit kicked off Monday evening in Seattle with a waterfront welcome party to give attendees the chance to mix and mingle ahead of two days of our… Read More

GeekWire 200 startup index analysis shows hottest industries emerging from Pacific Northwest

by James Thorne on September 26, 2019September 26, 2019 at 2:58 pm

The quality of local startups in a region can often indicate the future of a tech ecosystem. To find out what the future may have in store for the Pacific… Read More

In a field of giants, Seattle startup Flyhomes raises $141M in debt and equity to disrupt home-buying

by Nat Levy on August 15, 2019December 10, 2019 at 4:51 am

Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes is reloading its war chest with $141 million in new funding to carve out a spot in the competitive race to transform how homes are… Read More

Tech Moves: Snap! Raise, Aduro and Flyhomes scoop up CFOs; Outreach adds revenue chief; and more

by James Thorne on February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 at 1:43 pm

Ex-Microsoft exec Tony Scripa has signed on as chief financial officer at Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes. Scripa spent 18 years at Microsoft in its global OEM division and was most… Read More

Fast-growing real estate startup Flyhomes expands to tackle the full cycle of buying a home

by Nat Levy on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 at 8:05 am

Flyhomes wants to solve the often painful experience of buying a house, and to do that, the Seattle real estate startup decided it needs to be involved in every part… Read More

FlyHomes raises $17M to purchase homes for buyers battling cash offers in hot housing markets

by Nat Levy on May 31, 2018January 17, 2019 at 12:03 pm

In Seattle, the nation’s hottest housing market for 19 straight months, frustrated buyers are losing out to all-cash offers left and right, and real estate startup FlyHomes just raised a… Read More

Real estate brokerage FlyHomes vows to purchase homes if deals fall through, helping buyers in hot housing markets

by Monica Nickelsburg on October 26, 2017October 26, 2017 at 9:30 am

Tech-focused real estate brokerage FlyHomes is officially launching a new product today designed to help clients compete with the all-cash offers that have become typical in hot housing markets, like… Read More

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Real estate startup FlyHomes raises $4M round led by Blue Nile and Zulily co-founder Mark Vadon

by Monica Nickelsburg on October 5, 2017October 5, 2017 at 11:46 am

In its first year, real estate startup FlyHomes avoided raising outside capital by attracting a customer base of homebuyers with perks like super speedy closing dates and airline miles. But now the… Read More

FlyHomes now offering Lyft rides and credits to reward homebuyers at closing

by Monica Nickelsburg on January 26, 2017January 26, 2017 at 2:44 pm

Last year, FlyHomes made a splash when the online real estate brokerage announced its radical plan to reward homebuyers with airline miles at closing. Now the company is offering another… Read More

New real estate startup FlyHomes rewards homebuyers with airline miles

by Monica Nickelsburg on May 24, 2016May 24, 2016 at 1:19 pm

Buying a home will probably be the biggest purchase of your life. Imagine earning airline miles for it. That idea was the impetus for FlyHomes, an online real estate brokerage and… Read More

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