Hi, everyone. After a very fun Disrupt event (kudos to our colleagues over at TechCrunch), we’re jumping on a plane this morning, so please excuse the hyper-abbreviated newsletter.

Also! If you’re an AngelList junkie and you’d like to learn more about its plans to create venture funds on its platform; what it’s planning for its acquired property Product Hunt; as well as how the company plans to exit, maybe, some day, you can check out our sit-down yesterday with AngelList cofounder Naval Ravikant.

See you back here tomorrow:)

Top News in the A.M.

European Union antitrust regulators fined Facebook $122 million this mornign for providing misleading information during a vetting of its deal to acquire messaging service WhatsApp in 2014. Reuters has more here.

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A Simple Argument for Co-Living: People Need People

People, people who need people, are the luckiest people in the world.

So go the lyrics of the famous Barbra Streisand song. It was also a theme at a future of cities panel at Disrupt today, where the discussion came back and time again to community as a competitive advantage — particularly when it comes to startups that are trying to shake up the long-staid but quickly evolving $200 trillion real estate industry.

Featuring  Brad Hargreaves, the CEO of the co-living startup called Common; Shruti Merchant, the CEO of a the co-living startup HubHaus that more recently launched in Mountain View, Ca.; and Stonly Baptiste, an investor with a New York-based seed-stage venture firm Urban Us that’s focused on addressing climate change through smarter cities, all three argued the business case for renting rooms at a premium in exchange for amenities that were once found only at hotels. (Think furnishings, weekly cleanings, and commercial-grade WiFi among them.)

Common and HubHaus, for example, are part of a growing spate of companies that don’t acquire buildings but instead act as property managers — Common in New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.; and HubHaus in a dozen California cities.

Merchant said her startup was born of her own experience, living in a seven-bedroom house that had so much energy, an eighth tenant asked to live in the garage.

Hargreaves, who’d earlier cofounded the adult education school General Assembly, said he started Common because he knew that from students and instructors that the housing supply in urban centers is a problem poised to grow even more extreme.

Baptiste, meanwhile, said he has backed another different community home startup, Starcity, in keeping with his interest in backing founders looking to disrupt transportation, built environments, utilities, and other massive industries that are ripe for tech-driven changes.

The three painted a rosy picture of the benefits of co-living — community being first and foremost, given that it’s become a scarce commodity in today’s day and age. Yet moderator Jon Shieber pushed back several times, asking if the lifestyle being sold is really for everyone. How much does the average tenant make in salary, he asked, and do the companies worry that they’re burnishing the already obnoxious stereotype of the wealthy techie?

More here.

New Fundings

Brit + Co, a 5.5-year-old, San Francisco-based digital content business that caters to women, has raised a fresh $15 million in funding led by Verizon Ventures. The company had previously raised $27 million in funding from Intel Capital, Lerer Hippeau, Marissa Mayer and others. More here.

Cheddar, a 1.5-year-old, New York-based live-streamed financial and tech video news site aimed at millennials, has raised $19 million at an $85 million post-money valuation, says Axios. Raine Ventures led the round and was joined by AT&T, Amazon, Altice USA, the New York Stock Exchange, Broadway Video Ventures and earlier investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures and Ribbit Capital. More here.

The Farmer’s Dog, a two-year-old, Brooklyn, NY-based pet food startup, has raised $8.1 million in Series A fundin led by Shasta Ventures, with participation from earlier investors Forerunner Ventures, Collaborative Fund and SV Angel. More here.

Qupital, a one-year-old Hong Kong-based startup that addresses cash flow issues for SMEs, has raised $2 million in seed funding led by the Hong Kong-London firm MindWorks Ventures and the $130 million Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund. TechCrunch has more here.

Slice, a seven-year-old, New York-based pizza-ordering app(?), has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The round was led by GGV Capital, with participation from existing investor Primary Ventures and brings the company’s total funding to $20 million. More here.