Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 3, 2024

In a significant boost to the venture capital landscape of Central Pennsylvania, the region is set to benefit from the establishment of the Keystone Innovation Fund II, thanks to a generous grant of $412,598 from the US Economic Development Administration’s ‘Build to Scale Capital Challenge.’

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

I've only recently started leading investments a little over two years ago. My track record of leading deals consists of only seven investments, luckily no zeros (knock on wood) and one exit. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball. But the truth is, you probably shouldn't listen to me. I mean, what do I know?

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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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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. billion and $40.5 billion , respectively.

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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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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

The team owns, operates and manages over 150 million square feet of real estate, making Camber Creek one of the biggest value-add venture partners for real estate tech startups. Smith, the DC division of Vornado Realty Trust, a $20 billion real estate investment trust. Mitchell Schear was President of Vornado/Charles E.

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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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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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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. Couple that with the fact that the construction industry is complex.”. billion in revenue in 2020.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. 5:00 – 5:55).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures , the venture capital arm of COPEC, a leading energy company in Central and South America and the U.S. WIND Ventures provides mobility, energy and retail startups and scaleups with access to Latin America. SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

The startup investing market is crowded, expensive and rapid-fire today as venture capitalists work to preempt one another, hoping to deploy funds into hot companies before their competitors. We’ll start by looking at recent venture capital data regarding AI startups and dig into what VCs are seeing in both the U.S.

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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

JUNE 7, 2021

Briq , which has developed a fintech platform used by the construction industry, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. Existing backers Eniac Ventures and Blackhorn Ventures also participated in the round. Currently, Briq manages or forecasts about $30 billion in construction volume.

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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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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.” It was more hedge fund than venture capital. It was stunning but sterile. We wandered 6 blocks East. years of her life on this office project journey with me.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2012

I suppose it doesn't really matter much when it seems like most of the money that wants to invest in startups when they need it most--in a seed round--doesn't really want to be that active. I mean, if you don't know any developers, how you are meeting them when they build something that you can fund? Are you waiting for them to pitch you?

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar We invest in people, and when you can find extremely talented entrepreneurs who have built successful companies and still have the hunger to win, you jump in with a blank check,” he said. “We trillion-dollar industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. Let’s review all of our existing investments. Eventually you have to invest.

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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. Onshape, another NEA-era investment, was acquired by PTC in 2019 for a whopping $525 million. That’s where Construct Capital came in.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Alex Iskold is a co-founder and managing partner at 2048 Ventures , an early-stage lead investor in technology and data companies. After making pre-seed investments for seven years, I have observed how different the pre-seed stage is from Series A and later-stage investing. Venture outcomes are driven by a power law.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Note: I led First Round's investment in Docracy in 2011, but I do not have any financial ties to the company and will not benefit or suffer, other than emotionally, based on the outcome of that investment. The image translators work for the construct program. Neo: Do you always look at it encoded? Cypher: Well you have to.

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This is going to be BIG.

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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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The problem of amplification: The problem got worse as the data flowed out to the “bulge bracket&# investment banks. They got the data feed either from the research company or from the investment bank. 13% of GDP is construction – the largest industry. I told this story to every consultant I knew at the time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

In short: Access to great deals, ability to be invited to invest in these deals, ability to see where value in a market will be created and the luck to back the right team with the right market at the right time all matter. So if you truly want to be great at investing you need all the right skills and access AND a diversified portfolio.

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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

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. “I It’s basically the slowest paying industry in the world,” Lin said.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

When I started out investing (via a fund — not my money), I was just investing based on a simple schedule: About once a month, invest $25K into one company I liked. Fund investing is easy — fund management is not. Pretty easy. but also assess them as a manager of assets (are they a good steward?).

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

When markets are in turmoil, like they have been for most of this year, I like to have a buy-and-hold mindset when it comes to making new investments. That means we want to generate an annual yield on our total investment (acquisition cost plus construction cost) of between 5% and 10%. Let’s look at Google. your money.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Sometime within the last 48 hours, I tweeted about a potential test for an investor’s true conviction in a company he or she invests in. Specifically, I wrote: Investment “conviction” is a really overused term. Percentage of a fund into one company is the true test. I know this is true because I lived it myself.

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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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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 30, 2022

s development finance institution, Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) Group, formally changed its name to British International Investment. As part of the name change, the development finance institution (DFI) announced that it surpassed its pledge to invest £2 billion in Africa over the last two years. On April 4, the U.K.’s

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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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