Irish property tech startup Offr has raised a £2.7 million ($3.6 million) seed funding round from Barclays. The 10-month-old company is a digital solution for buying, letting, and renting properties across borders and saw a boom in interest during the coronavirus pandemic, even as actual property transactions diminished. "It was an out of body experience," Robert Hoban, CEO and cofounder of Offr, told Business Insider in an interview. "The pandemic slowed transactions to a trickle but drove business development for us, we saw so much change in 10 weeks.