On 27 February 2024 CFNEWS IMMO gave the launch of Crayon Partners its Tête d'affiche page: two investors setting out to help proptech operators build the property vehicles they cannot finance alone.

On 27 February 2024, CFNEWS IMMO gave the launch of Crayon Partners its Tête d'affiche page, under the heading Crayon Partners réinvente le financement institutionnel de la proptech, written by Sophie Martins Da Costa.
The article described what the two founders had set out to do: help proptech companies assemble the property vehicles they cannot finance on their own. An operator with three deals behind it will not be underwritten by a real estate investor, and a real estate investor rarely has the venture capital reflexes needed to judge an operator. Thibault Weston Smith and Mathias Flattin each came from one side of that gap.
It was the first time a French real estate trade title treated the pairing of venture capital and property investment as a structure rather than a curiosity. Everything since has been built on it.
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