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Buy Before You Sell fintech Knock has allocated $5 million of a $15 million financing round to individuals alongside its investors. The company announced an equity crowdfunding campaign on Wefunder, a public investment platform, to allow individuals to invest before it goes public or gets acquired. The funding round is co-led by Second Century Ventures, the venture capital arm of NAR, and Foundry Venture Capital. The goal, according to Knock co-founders Sean Black and Jamie Glenn, is to create investment opportunities they were unable to prioritize when their company Trulia went public and was acquired by Zillion. People who used the product were unable to invest until it was already valued in the billions of dollars. “We founded Knock to…