Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

More than half of our TBFP Concept Fund investments and about 44 percent of investments from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund have been in IT, software, telecommunication, and internet firms, Brett Kolomyjec, Oklahoma entrepreneur and CEO of Happily, is upbeat about post-pandemic opportunities for businesses in these industries. The conclusion?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

At a time when the commercial real estate world is struggling, self-storage is an asset class that continues to perform extremely well. Neighbor also partners with commercial real estate operators to turn their under-utilized or vacant retail, multifamily or office space into self-storage.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? It’s a thought provoking question and a good opportunity to ask for feedback on how we can imrove. Real estate, hedge funds, derivatives, all kinds of assets. It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be two days away from TechCrunch Disrupt! Anyway…speaking of Disrupt and Brex, I will be interviewing co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras and Anu Hariharan, managing director of YC’s growth fund, YC Continuity, live in a Fireside Chat on October 19! Hello, hello. Soooo exciting!

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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. GDP, the market opportunity is huge, especially as spending climbs — the U.S. Where are you looking for opportunities in construction tech in Q3 2022? With the industry representing about 6.3% of the U.S.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption. So why would I want to damage a bunch of friendships for no reason? But the bigger truth is the competition is important. When we funded Sam , Rahul and team at MakeSpace > 2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s being led by Josh Buckley (the CEO of Product Hunt), with participation from WndrCo (Disney/Dreamworks’ supremo Jeffrey Katzenberg’s investment firm), Lachy Groom, MMC Technology Ventures LLC, Fifth Wall Ventures and Array Ventures, as well as a swathe of real estate names, including J.M. ”

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

I wouldn’t say we’re going head to head against Airbnb, nor are we trying to kind of get into the vacation rental space against them, but we do see an opportunity as a true rental platform to deliver in this flexible world slightly differently.”. The rental market is a hot one these days.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Some are even seeing more opportunity than in the U.S. Latin America, they believe, has historically been ripe for disruption, especially in the fintech and proptech sectors, due to the significant underbanked and unbanked population in the region and the relatively unstructured real estate industry.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Harvard Business School grad Cameron Johnson is a former institutional real estate investor and Greystar exec turned startup founder who realized that very often, “renters would try to rent the model apartment.”. This spelled opportunity in Johnson’s mind. This got him thinking.

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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. investors,” he said.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works. Precision Ventures Precision Ventures identifies market opportunities and delivers complete concept solutions to brand-name global manufacturers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Real estate investment firm Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström (like Volta, based in Stockholm), supply chain services giant Agility, and B-FLEXION (formerly Waypoint Capital) also participated. Volta’s wider business strategy will be based both on selling trucks as well as offering its vehicles on a trucking-as-a-service model.

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GCUC

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

We looked at some real estate together, spent time in Austin, and they flew me up to New York to explore working for WeWork and selling them my brand and conference. I sat in his office while he negotiated a real estate deal. Coworking is that disruption. I didn’t do it. He also had a cunning smile and quick wit.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2022

NFTs are more important than you think… In this article, I explored the REAL use cases of NFTs that are being built, and what they will be used for in the future. It suggests that disruptive technologies go through 5 key phases: 1. Technology Trigger: the emergence of a potentially disruptive technology. Ex: 2021 Bubble) 3.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 28, 2023

While TurnOnGreen is involved in multiple EV charging station projects across North America, California presents possibly the greatest opportunity, as it is leading in EV adoption, according to the California Energy Commission and the California Air Resources Board. EVs represent 18% of the overall market share in CA. Imperalis Holding Corp.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

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. The combination of these factors makes Brazil an especially attractive market for Cora to launch in and disrupt,” Kostov told TechCrunch.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 23, 2022

BillionBricks presents an extraordinary opportunity for more people to become homeowners while significantly mitigating climate change as it combines clean energy and large-scale affordable housing into a single financially viable business proposition.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

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. Construction tech is one of those sectors that has not historically been considered “sexy” in a startup world that often favors glitzier technology.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

CEO Aahan Bhojani and Ashmin Varma founded Silkhaus last year after identifying a $13 billion market opportunity for asset owners across emerging markets, particularly MENA, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Silkhaus estimates its market opportunity might grow to $18 billion in the next four years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In a recent conversation, CEO Gunnar Froh told TechCrunch about the pivot and gave a general update on the company, a member of this year’s Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022. Jasper competes more directly with Los Angeles–based Nommi, which supplies autonomous food kiosks to real estate and college campus partners.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Residential real estate marketplace Sundae last week conducted its second layoff this year. The market remains volatile and we saw layoffs as an opportunity to use data and technology to streamline our approach and improve our customer experience. We also saw these decisions as an opportunity to build a longer runway.”

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Travis Connors, Building Ventures At Building Ventures, we see enormous opportunities developing for the use of robotics in construction over the next 20 years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

“Now that consumers have gotten comfortable with BNPL as a concept and are increasingly using it as an alternative to credit cards, we’re seeing opportunities for new BNPL products for recurring bills, such as rent, streaming service subscriptions, etc. We also believe there are opportunities to develop BNPL expertise in a segment (e.g.,

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 16, 2024

The role provided the Intuit veteran with an opportunity to test out transformative new fintech strategies, think through regulatory and cultural challenges, and guide a large company through the most ground-breaking of new platform shifts: generative AI. This will obviously have a big impact for Rocket and the real estate industry at large.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

We’ve seen a big wave of proptech startups emerge to reimagine how houses and bought and sold, with some tapping into the opportunity with distressed property , and others exploring the “ iBuyer ” model where houses are bought, fixed up and resold by a single startup to homeowners who don’t want to invest in a fixer-upper.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

As Ruggeds mature and realize how much opportunity has passed them by, a sense of urgency drives them to change their course. In 2013, recognizing a need for disruptive distribution and retail changes in the 100-billion-dollar U.S. Others learn it later in life.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. Frankly, if there weren’t strong entrants it only means this isn’t an attractive market opportunity and our view that more people want to take us on only validates the market. Public Storage does about $2.4 Why is it so valuable?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 17, 2018

I was running my law practice as I launched another business, sold and purchased real estate, changed insurance companies, refinanced a commercial real estate loan into a better loan and much more. My walk is my morning meditation and sunlight exposure, and it’s an opportunity to prep for the day. SLEEP BETTER.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Other investors on the cap table include Nordic real estate innovator NREP, Nordic property developer OBOS, U.K. real estate technology fund Round Hill Ventures and Norway’s Construct Venture.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Kyle is also co-founder of York Real Estate and of his 3rd-generation family business, YORK Athletics MFG. We wanted to disrupt that industry that prioritizes many vanity metrics that aren’t actually helpful to an entrepreneur’s success. What motivated you to launch your startup? That is why we launched York IE.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Once heralded as disruptive marketplaces, classifieds are giving way to transactional marketplaces. He claims the category has over $3 billion worth of listings out of the platform’s total listing exceeding $10 billion (real estate commands almost $7 billion).

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I found GroupMe at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon. One group that was really interested had their other money in real estate. There aren’t going to be any flashy announcements of a big new fund to go after bigger opportunities. Rents were coming in, but who knew for how long. Come back next year.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Certain industries, for example real estate or finance, may be excluded. The bigger the tax credit or deduction, the greater the opportunity for unintended consequences. Credits may include carry-forward provisions to off-set future tax liability. Some credits are transferable.

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