📝 Deck raises $12M

Liam Gill
April 18, 2025

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Zillow's Co-Founder Wishes They Did This Before The IPO

Spencer Rascoff co-founded Zillow, scaling it into a $16b real estate giant.

But everyday investors couldn’t invest until after the IPO, missing early gains.

"I wish we had done a round accessible to retail investors prior to Zillow's IPO," Spencer said.

Now he’s doing just that. Spencer has teamed up with another Zillow exec to launch Pacaso. Pacaso’s co-ownership marketplace is disrupting the $1.3t vacation home market. And unlike Zillow, you can invest in Pacaso as a private company.

With $100m+ in gross profits and rapid international expansion, Pacaso is scaling fast. Investors like SoftBank, Maveron, and more are already on board. Join them as a Pacaso shareholder.

Invest in Pacaso stock here.

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Deck, a Montreal-based startup aiming to become “the Plaid for the rest of the internet,” has raised $12 million in a Series A led by Infinity Ventures, bringing its total funding to $16.5 million just nine months after launch. Founded by Flinks alumni, Deck lets users connect any online account—even those without APIs—and uses AI agents to extract structured, reusable data with user consent. With rapid growth and over 100,000 utility connections globally, Deck sees its browser-based automation platform as key infrastructure for unlocking fragmented online data across industries.

I think we’re at a point in the cycle where VCs are OVERindexed on narrative and founder charisma
Overdue for a rotation back to “Larry and Sergey in a Stanford lab”
Nerds with a deep understanding of the problem, engineering technically challenging solutions
— Mike Annunziata (@nunzi46)
3:50 PM • Apr 17, 2025

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