TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

San Francisco-based construction startup Versatile is announcing today that it has raised a $20 million Series A. The round was led by Insight Partners and Entree Capital, along with existing investors Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, Root Ventures and Conductive Ventures. The round follows $8.5

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Now, all of that construction and destruction has moved online. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. For years, young kids have been architecting mini-universes, stomping on them, getting small pieces caught in vacuum cleaners, and rebuilding all over again.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. In the wake of COVID-19 this spring, construction sites across the nation emptied out alongside neighboring restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments.

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APRIL 23, 2012

When people tell you how and why they raised capital or what drove their app to success, they often attribute success to planning or neat little explainable reasons when they might simply have no clue what happened. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Construct Capital co-founders and general partners Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt continue to dive into innovation that some investors may not think is so sexy, but actually runs behind the scenes so that our food gets to grocery stores every week and our packages arrive when they say they will.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Construction tech is one of those sectors that has not historically been considered “sexy” in a startup world that often favors glitzier technology. But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

While legacy sectors like transportation and energy have embraced new tech, innovation in the construction industry has been slow to take hold. Even though many large construction firms manage internal R&D units, more than a third of employees say they’re reluctant to adopt new technology. of the U.S. Its recently enacted $1.2

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

Senators led by Amy Klobuchar introduced the New Business Preservation Act to incentivize venture capital formation around the country. It avoids two well-known traps for government-sponsored venture programs by requiring that public funds are matched with private dollars and that capital is deployed by professional investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Construction as an industry has evolved with civilization through the ages. Construction’s digital transformation journey is only just beginning, and the sector offers a ton of space for innovation. To get a clear picture of where construction tech stands today, we spoke with five active investors in the space.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

Dreamit Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman recently sat down with Jeff for a wide-ranging conversation on real estate tech, and a large part of that conversation focused on what founders can do to successfully raise venture capital from real estate tech investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

OMERS Ventures’ Principal Michelle Killoran has long been looking for a construction tech startup to invest in. Meanwhile, Jim Barrett, chief innovation officer at Turner Construction, was facing a similar challenge. Toronto, Ontario-based OMERS Ventures is the VC arm of OMERS, the pension plan for Ontario’s municipal employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” Funds like First Round Capital, True Ventures, Foundry Group, HomeBrew, USV and many others are still run by the founders and are still on the mission they started.

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Revolution

MARCH 10, 2025

Examples like the Wood First recycling initiative in Sweden show that a 50% reduction in construction-related carbon emissions can be achieved by repurposing urban wood for public construction projects. Reclaiming wood significantly reduces carbon emissions.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Venture Capital & Technology' The fact that most entrepreneurs don''t focus on fundraising enough can drag this whole thing out a lot. I''ve been in processes where I''ve committed, but I won''t write a check until at least 500-750k is committed (b/c I don''t want to be part of a bridge to nowhere) and that has taken a long time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The trillion-dollar construction industry is often tarred with the inefficiency brush , accused of failing to move with the times and ignoring digitization in favor of legacy tools. But there is plenty of evidence that things are changing, with countless startups raising large sums of cash to help the construction industry modernize.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

You can do nearly absolutely anything within one or two years time--as long as you put your mind to it and construct a plan. He was interested in venture capital and was a year away from graduation. I'll talk more about this at my upcoming General Assembly talk , but here's the outline.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mosaic Building Group , a Phoenix, Arizona-based construction tech startup, has raised $44 million in a Series B funding round led by Peak State Ventures. New investors Starwood Capital, invisionAZ, Tekfen Ventures, Volt Capital, Brightstone and Naval Ravikant also put money in the round. The end goal?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Kojo , a startup that aims to help construction companies in the U.S. manage their materials supply chains “seamlessly,” has raised $39 million in a Series C round of funding led by Battery Ventures. Existing backers including 8VC, Suffolk Construction, Human Capital, AME and BoxGroup also doubled down on their investments.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I worked for Yvon and Malinda in the mid-’90s, first heading up the “technical” products group (all the sport-specific products requiring specialized fabrics and construction), and then leading the effort to build the company’s first online store. We already know we’re outliers in the blue-shirts-and-khakis world of venture capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar The company plans to take its new capital and “go deep into the product side.”. So in 2019 she founded Eano , a San Francisco-based startup that aims to walk a homeowner through a renovation and help connect individual contractors with new clients.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Bridgit , a “workforce intelligence” technology company that is focused on the construction industry, announced today that it has raised CAD$24 million, or about US$19.4 Camber Creek and Storm Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the Toronto-based startup’s total raised to more than CAD$35 million. million, in Series B funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Dayna Grayson has been in venture capital for more than a decade and was one of the first VCs to build a portfolio around the transformation of industrial sectors of our economy. That’s where Construct Capital came in. Grayson has more than proven that she has a keen eye for transformational technology.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The image translators work for the construct program. I’m proud to have worked with them when I was at my previous firm, First Round Capital--and while I currently have no economic ties to the company, as a participant in our society’s legal frameworks, I’m deeply vested in their work. Cypher: Well you have to.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The challenges her father faced as a business owner in the construction industry always stayed in the back of her mind, so when Lin got the entrepreneurial itch, it was a natural move to help start a company that helped trade contractors better control their finances. So they’re always stuck in the negative working capital cycles,” Lin noted.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. One thing I wish people better understood is that venture not only requires conviction in founders, businesses, and markets, but it also requires conviction in a point of view in firm-building.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When it comes to construction projects, any type of delay can result in increased costs both for the contractor and their customer. It is also interesting that Tiger Global is a co-lead as it is yet another example of the investment giant backing a construction tech company — a growing area of interest for the firm.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Construction tech is one of those sectors that has not historically been considered “sexy” in a startup world that often favors glitzier technology. But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Shepherd , an insurtech startup focused on the construction market, has closed a $6.15 million seed round led by Spark Capital. The funding event comes after the startup raised a pre-seed round in February led by Susa Ventures , which also participated in Shepherd’s latest fundraising event.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

On a recent episode of Extra Crunch Live , Retail Zipline founder Melissa Wong and Emergence Capital investor Lotti Siniscalco joined Managing Editor Jordan Crook to walk attendees through Zipline’s Series A deck. How Retail Zipline’s Series A pitch deck ticked every box for Emergence Capital. Walter Thompson.

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Dream It

MARCH 19, 2019

The two discussed a range of topics, including how Ackerman got into the world of venture capital, how to do networking in an effective way, how to raise money from venture capital investors, how Dreamit makes investment decisions, why Dreamit works with corporate partners in real estate, how a Dreamit cycle works, what trends Andrew is seeing in the (..)

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

If you’ve ever had to get a construction permit, you know that the process can be very painful and time-consuming. It’s a lofty claim, but if Pulley can well, pull that off, it could be revolutionary for the construction industry, where time is very much money. Commercial construction in the U.S. million toward that effort.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

The technological advances we’ve made over the last few thousand years are stunning, but the construction industry still relies on centuries-old technology. Even so, investors are backing startups bringing robotics, data management, automation and augmented reality into the construction process. Heinrich Gröller, partner, Speedinvest.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Developing construction systems to create infrastructure and habitats on the moon, and eventually Mars, with NASA. These are just some of the things that Austin, Texas-based construction tech startup ICON has been working on. Creating single-family homes for the homeless using 3D printing robotics.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Then there’s the other end of the spectrum, over-concentration, which also puts the pool of capital at risk. There are countless posts on portfolio construction, or how many investments are ideal in a venture portfolio, and so forth. That may be too much diversification. I am not qualified to opine on the topic.

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APRIL 14, 2010

They’re all general and glowing, because no one would ever even step in the direction of being constructively critical. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Compare that with the recommendations on LinkedIn—they’re utterly useless. Would recruiters pay to see this stuff?

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JULY 30, 2012

When you offer a menu of services, then someone's going to have to fund the construction of that restaurant, and you can expect that fundraising to scale the venture firm is taking up just as much time for your investor as it is for you to scale your company.

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