Credit Karma, the personal finance company that provides its 80 million members with products and services to manage their finances and connects those members to financial services providers, is officially getting into the mortgage business by acquiring Approved, a digital mortgage platform.

Self-proclaimed as the first digital native title company, Spruce is out to disrupt the paper-based title and escrow process as part of the real estate industry’s quickening march toward the digital mortgage. And now, the company has some new capital to aid its pursuit.

Roostify is expanding its leadership team to support its growth, adding Syed Ijaz as chief customer officer, Kevin Levitt as vice president of sales and Eric Drattell as general counsel.

The average Millennial homebuyer just turned 30. According to Ellie Mae's latest report, the average age of a Millennial homebuyer rose from 29.5 in March 2017 to 30.1 in March of this year. Ellie Mae points to the compression of inventory largely due to Baby Boomers aging in place instead of relocating and retiring as the reason for the average age of the Millennial homebuyer to creep up into the 30s.

LenderClose, a digital lending platform for credit unions and community banks, is ready to plot the next stage of its growth thanks to a new investment from Next Level Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in growing companies based in Iowa. The company did not make the specific financial details available, but the company said that it plans to use the money to hire 25 new employees.

Everybody’s doing it, and now Bank of America is doing it too. Bank of America revealed Wednesday that it is launching a digital mortgage platform, which allows customers to complete the mortgage application process either via their mobile device or on Bank of America’s website.

In a partnership that brings together two of the preeminent technology companies in the mortgage space, Approved and LendingQB are joining together to launch a wholesale lending platform. Both Approved, a digital mortgage platform for independent lenders and brokers, and LendingQB, a provider of SaaS loan origination technology solutions, have been named to HousingWire Magazine’s HW Tech100 as one of the top tech companies in housing finance.

In a partnership that brings together two of the top technology companies in the mortgage industry, Matic’s digital homeowners insurance platform is now available within MortgageHippo’s digital mortgage experience. Lenders that use MortgageHippo’s digital mortgage platform can make Matic homeowners insurance available to their borrowers with a one-click “get quote” button within the platform itself.

Roostify, which powers the digital mortgage process for lenders like Guild Mortgage and will soon serve as the backbone of JPMorgan Chase’s digital mortgage process, announced Wednesday that it hired Mark McLaughlin to serve as the company’s senior vice president of business development.

Roostify, which powers the digital mortgage process for lenders like Guild Mortgage and will soon serve as the backbone of JPMorgan Chase’s digital mortgage process, announced Thursday that it raised $25 million in its Series B funding round. The company plans to use the money to accelerate its growth.