Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? Real estate, hedge funds, derivatives, all kinds of assets. Also, more venture firms and startups are choosing debt as a non-dilutive financing alternative. in the New Yorker. In the 2000s, a wave of PE funds went public.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Naval Academy graduate and former fighter pilot, Herman saw real estate as the only avenue to true wealth creation open to him and his family given their years on the road and lack of available investment capital. After the Navy, Herman went to Harvard Business School and met his co-founder Louis Wilson.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Revolution Growth has long invested in tech-driven companies that are disrupting legacy industries, particularly where there is a distinct opportunity to modernize the customer experience. Orchard’s customer service is also enhanced by their local real estate brokers who are hired full-time as home advisors (vs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets. In the graphic above, notice that most of these companies play in the largest, but notoriously archaic industries like banking, insurance, real estate, healthcare, etc. Going after very large markets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Opendoor co-founder and CEO Eric Wu said his company, a publicly traded real estate fintech, was navigating “one of the most challenging real estate markets in 40 years.”. How can finance-focused proptech startups survive the downturn? Opendoor announced it was letting go of 18% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

He grew up on a farm, but has degrees in finance, economics and mechanical engineering. A lot of the very traditional industries are ready for disruption, and that’s going to challenge and change society at its core. I’m not the kind of person to sit there and keep the status quo. It’s not my thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). Whereas New York City had people living in close clusters , Chicago and Washington D.C.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Infra.Market, an Indian startup that is helping construction and real estate companies in the world’s second-most populated nation procure materials and handle logistics for their projects, said on Tuesday it has secured its third financing round in the past nine months.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc. This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption. Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 In particular, Cora wants to go even deeper in certain segments such as B2B professional services such as law and accounting firms; real estate brokerage and education.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Construction is massive in terms of financial, societal, and environmental impact with significant opportunity for innovation to disrupt and improve it in a myriad of ways.”. Pechet said the company’s existing backers were eager to invest again because Homebound has “done all the things we said we were going to do.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

But in the past few decades, the lens through which we view real estate and property development has slowly blurred. We spoke to a diverse array of investors about finance-focused proptech and the move towards greener proptech. Building and owning a home has been part of human life for as long as civilization itself.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another. Fixing a foundation after the superstructure is built is a costly, disruptive and sometimes impossible task,” Bechtel said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Financial entrepreneurs have launched a number of products, from SaaS securitization to debt-based financing, to help founders avoid that dilution, particularly when they have recurring revenues clocked on the books. SaaS securitization will disrupt VC’s biggest returns this coming decade.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Goodwater, Greycroft and other unnamed investors also participated in the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to nearly $180 million. Other backers in that early financing included Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), NEA and Greylock. The funding actually closed earlier this year, but is only being announced today.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

8VC, Tishman Speyer, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Michael Ovitz, DST, LeFrak and Kevin Hartz also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised since its 2018 inception to about $45 million. But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A startup that is improving the way construction and real estate companies in India procure materials and handle logistics for their projects has received the backing of three new investors. Mumbai-headquartered Infra.Market said on Thursday it has raised $20 million in a Series B financing round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

He also served as the CEO of Adianta, a Brazilian B2B invoice financing company. In August, Shu Nyatta, a managing partner at SoftBank who co-leads its $5 billion Latin America Fund, pointed out a dynamic that might seem obvious but is rarely articulated: Technology in LatAm is often more about inclusion rather than disruption.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. How it works today: During a project’s conception, asset owners and/or developers develop site proposals and may work with lenders to manage the project financing. This question is as relevant today as it was in April.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 13, 2022

Register Houze , a proptech startup based in Vietnam that uses its offline-to-online platform to provide a fully integrated real estate ecosystem for agents and customers, has raised $2 million in funding led by DKRA Group, allowing the company to continue expanding its services and growing its team to meet demand in Vietnam and beyond.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly established itself as the go-to method of financing for a variety of purchases, particularly online. This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. have already dipped their toes into similar alternatives at brick-and-mortar stores.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Like many other online real estate brokerages, Homie pledged lower commissions and a more streamlined process. Also, like many other real estate brokerages, it has attempted to become a one-stop shop for home buyers and sellers by branching out into loan, insurance and title services. . YC-backed Duplo raised a $1.3M

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

They will take more accounting, marketing, or finance courses or read up on industry specifics. In 2013, recognizing a need for disruptive distribution and retail changes in the 100-billion-dollar U.S. Many will look to expand their knowledge in the area of their business expertise.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

Cobbling together different platforms for these separate functions creates friction for finance users. Each corporate finance process — AP, commercial banking, spend management/cards, treasury management — works better when they work together in a single, connected view.”. Expensify), and banking services (ex.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Residential real estate marketplace Sundae last week conducted its second layoff this year. FIS has launched Worldpay for Platforms, an embedded finance solution aimed at SMBs. Redfin CEO, DoorDash co-founder invest in new startup, Far Homes, which is building a portal for Mexico real estate. See you next week!

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Finance and Insurance: a maximum of 1,500 employees, and a maximum of $32.5 Real Estate, Rental, and Leasing: a maximum of $7.5 Innovation: A unique feature of a startup is disruptive innovation. Information: a maximum of 500 to 1,500 employees, and a maximum of $7.5 million to $38.5 million in average annual receipts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

Spain’s Glovo inks real estate tie-up to add more dark stores for speedy urban delivery. At the end of the day, as it plays out for finances, the company (and others) are negotiating and hoping that to claw in some expenses while conceding others. Earlier in March, Rohlik out of the Czech Republic bagged $230 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Lightrock is delighted to be backing such an innovative team and looks forward to supporting Selina as it disrupts traditionally inflexible lenders.”. Selina Finance’s HELOC product is innovative, and bridges the gap between the consumer credit and mortgage markets,” added Anna Montvai, executive director at Goldman Sachs.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Oklahoma’s Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP) Seed Fund is a nationally recognized best practices example of legislated early stage capital that has stood a 20-plus year test of time. Certain industries, for example real estate or finance, may be excluded. Some credits are transferable.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Furthermore, the disruptions the world faces, whether social, economic, health or education- related, affect us all. We’re proud to be partnered with Social Finance Israel, a global leader in impact advisory. Prior to Davidson Kempner, Richard spent four years at H/2 Capital Partners investing in commercial real estate credit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We are now seeing the second-order effects of the fintech boom, as the same set of conditions arise in other soon-to-be disrupted sectors. In the insurance space, similar changes are giving way to innovative models like 180 o in Brazil and Betterfly in Chile.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The financing brings ICON’s total equity raised to $266 million. Norwest Venture Partners Managing Partner Jeff Crowe, who is joining ICON’s board as part of the financing, said his firm believes that ICON’s 3D printing construction technology will “massively impact the housing shortage in the U.S. and around the globe.”.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

And not to get too far ahead of myself, but some (including me) have maintained that a disruption in some part of the US financial system in 2023 was going to force the Fed to reverse the tightening cycle we’ve been in for the past year — and it would appear that we’re right on track. But, those assets must be purchased in physical form.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Previous backer Initialized Capital also participated in the financing, along with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, former Stockton, California Mayor Michael Tubbs, GGV investor Hans Tung and Paradox Capital’s Kyle Tibbitts. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Often, industries that have great potential to be disrupted are also the most resistant to adopting bleeding-edge technology. For example, we haven’t yet partnered with any companies in robotics, procurement and finance, and labor management, but we’re seeing a lot of interesting early players emerge.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It’s not just e-commerce: New restrictions on data sharing and collection will raise customer acquisition costs for everything from auto sales to real estate. Remote’ is fundamentally disadvantaged,” said Phil Libin, founder and CEO of startup studio All Turtles and mmhmm at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

Latch CFO Garth Mitchell, who discussed his startup’s merger with real estate SPAC $TSIA. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. So what’s the roll-up hype about?

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