More money for online real estate: Redfin raises another $10 million

November 12, 2009 | Anthony Ha | Comments | |

Redfin-new-LogoReal estate site Redfin announced today that it has raised $10 million more in a fourth round of funding.

The round was led by Greylock Partners, meaning that the firm (which just raised a new fund) is the latest high-profile venture capital firm to enter the online real estate market. Real estate search engine Zillow’s venture backers including Benchmark Capital, while Sequoia Capital invested in Trulia. Unlike those companies, Redfin describes itself as an “online real estate broker” — you search for homes on the site, but then Redfin tries to connect you with its own agents, and it makes money from real estate deals, not ads.

In the last year, the Seattle company says site visits increased by more than 200 percent, and that it made more than $20 million in revenue, so it is profitable. Redfin has now raised $30.8 million. Existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Vulcan Capital and The Hillman Company also participated in the round.

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  • all these firms need big bucks to fight each other...they are getting traction in great part because move.com is such a terrible company and cant hold on to its traffic. however--move's market cap is $150M so im not sure what the exit is for these firms....sort of a death march to last man standing id say
  • I wonder how much they would match a 401k contribution. If they offer profit sharing or stock as the incentive it might be a great time to be working for them.