TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Concreit , a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. . Concreit raised the capital at a $22.5 Concreit is not the first time that co-founders Sean Hsieh and Jordan Levy have worked together.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Buying and selling residential real estate is a complex business, no matter where you live. But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. In 2020, Loft saw the number of listings on its site increase “10 to 15 times,” according to co-founder and co-CEO Mate Pencz.

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MARCH 18, 2019

Very little time and effort is spent helping professional, full time investors raise capital for venture funds. I first met Daniela Perdomo , goTenna’s founder, at SXSW. Not only that, but for many in the real estate world, their economic upside is already tied to innovation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

WeWork co-founder and former chief executive Adam Neumann ’s career arc has felt synonymous with the rise and eventual fall of unicorn dreams. The entrepreneur, whose fall from grace has attracted global interest, just found a ladder in the form of a check from storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Despite 2022’s heel turn, the ten-year funding trend line still points to VCs concentrating less capital in the major coastal hubs and more in the rest of the country, a collective area of focus for attendees. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Sundae , a residential real estate marketplace that pairs sellers of dated or damaged property with potential buyers, has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Fifth Wall and General Global Capital. 9 top real estate and proptech investors: Cities and offices still have a future.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The company sells to local governments, real estate management companies, educational institutions--anyone responsible for public or private infrastructure. There is a lot of talk about needing to be a technical founder. There are a lot of reasons not to like the space that Publicstuff is in. Slow sales cycles.

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MARCH 25, 2013

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. Etsy is headquartered in 55 Washington Street, which is owned by Two Trees--the real estate concern that pretty much created the DUMBO we know today. Alex Trautwig.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As teammates at buy now, pay later fintech Affirm, Stella Han and Carlos Treviño bonded over their shared background of growing up in real estate families. Fractional , a San Francisco-based startup, wants to make real estate ownership more accessible. Fractional co-founders Stella Han and Carlos Treviño.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Commercial real estate has been slow to embrace technology ; though it has an addressable financing market of more than $40 billion, putting together a deal is still mostly manual, paper-heavy and complicated. Lev founder and CEO Yaakov Zar previously co-founded Boston-based Dispatch, which built tools for home services businesses.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Commercial real estate tenants and property managers have to abide by strict liability rules that any vendor entering the property must have insurance certificates and meet other requirements. accuracy, co-founder and CEO Omri Stern told TechCrunch. Enter Jones. days — from 12 days — with 99.9% The accuracy portion is key.

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MAY 14, 2012

Back in the late 90's, a lot of money and real estate brokering went into trying to make it so, however. They don't have a stake in it--and by not actively putting themselves out there as a source of capital, they're not in the information flow. I'll bet you didn't know that--mostly because it never was.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

The company is building a software-as-a-service platform for the real estate industry. Companies using Deepki can track and analyze ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) criteria, starting with carbon emissions generated by their real estate portfolio. You can’t reduce what you can’t measure.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2020

We are seeing structural declines in the importance of massive sectors like carbon based energy, commercial real estate, retail, and more. It may be the case that Tesla’s market capitalization is too high, but that allows Tesla to raise $10bn without diluting more than a few percentage points.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. At the same time, as the venture market slowed dramatically and suddenly, raising capital was much harder. Low interest rates mean more purchases and refinances. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The company was co-founded by CEO Shiv Gettu, a former real estate consultant, and president Kendrick Bradley, a former Boeing and SpaceX engineer who left his job in 2018 to work at a property management company. Today, the company, which adds artificial intelligence to sales engagement, exited its beta phase with $6.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception. Also, Juno claims that its design process, for example, is 60% faster than in traditional real estate development. Scherr told TechCrunch. “By

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The agenda included a tour of the Ion (the centerpiece of Houston’s innovation corridor), lunch with local investors and founders at Minute Maid Park’s Gallagher Club, watching the Astros take on the Guardians, and seeing Rivalry’s order fulfillment solution in action during happy hour at Margaritaville Lake Conroe.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . Why do they invest in venture capital?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

I wonder sometimes if founders even know about the hours their lawyers or advisers put in on evenings, weekends, vacations. I had dinner with my friend Brooke Hammerling , founder of Brew PR recently. VENTURE CAPITAL. And finally that brings me to obvious topic of venture capital. And it’s not just lawyers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 2, 2022

A founder recently told me he would have built his company differently in another fundraising market. Capital availability on the x-axis and evidence on the y-axis to illustrate his point. Software startups would need at least $1m in ARR to raise capital to muster a small round. In my notebook, I sketched this 2x2.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

billion under management plus real estate in NYC/Cal and 5 operating companies. You could ask 500 founders in NYC whether I’ve invested in them and still not hit any of the 60 that I have written a check to.

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Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

The founders of Trendkite came into Dreamit six years ago with just an idea on a napkin,” said Steve Welch, Dreamit Co-Founder and Chairman. “It Every day at Dreamit, we see founders at various stages of that company-building process,” states Dreamit Managing Partner Steve Barsh.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts. Today, cities around the country are entering a period not unlike early-stage Detroit.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Register Soho.com.au , an AI-powered real estate discovery app, has secured a $750,000 equity investment from Singapore-based proptech venture capital firm Feedback Ventures. Since its launch, the app has gained traction, with over 35,000 properties listed and more than 1,000 real estate agents actively using the platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Facebook was largely a web-based company and none of its revenues were generated on mobile, where many analysts were predicting it would be too hard to replicate the revenue potential of the larger real estate on desktop computers. I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that our other investor is Subrah Iyer , the founder of WebEx.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s not about necessarily building something for a hardcore buyer today,” co-founder and CEO Alex Perelman told TechCrunch. “We We don’t need to look online for real estate anymore,’” explained Perelman. But beyond becoming another fun feed to scroll, Playhouse wants to cater to a future crop of homeowners.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While Adesanmi worked for years in Nigeria’s banking and fintech space, his family’s real estate background pushed him to establish a startup in proptech. The founders bootstrapped Spleet for 18 months before conducting a family and friend round of $265,000. Now it is announcing the completion of its $2.6

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Revolution

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Today, the nation’s political hub is gaining increasing traction as an innovation capital where game-changing startups start and scale, including Revolution-backed Sweetgreen , FiscalNote , Homesnap , and Cava. Just ask our Chairman and CEO, Steve Case, who built AOL in Northern Virginia in the 1990s. Here are a few of the insights gleaned.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Returning backers include Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos; Good Friends, a venture fund run by the CEOs and co-founders of Warby Parker, Harry’s and Allbirds; Spencer Rascoff, co-founder and former CEO of Zillow; as well as Core Innovation Capital, PSL Ventures and Neo, Ali Partovi’s venture fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

The platform’s partner offerings span several alternative asset classes including venture capital, real estate, debt, crypto, art and collectibles. Indiegogo founder launches alternative investments discovery platform Vincent. Vincent makes money by facilitating discovery on its partner platforms and earning fees.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Tribevest founder Travis Smith went on a fishing trip with his brothers in 2008 that he says they couldn’t afford. The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The company’s business model is similar to Divvy Homes and ZeroDown in the United States and, in fact, Divvy Homes co-founder and former CEO Brian Ma and Zerodown chief operating officer Troy Steckenrider III are investors in Homebase. And if you look at the historical track record of real estate in Vietnam, it’s really good.”.

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