TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Kunal Lunawat Contributor Share on Twitter Kunal Lunawat is co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures , a venture capital firm focused on real estate tech, blockchain, AI and sustainability. We believe this represents a significant opportunity for real estate tech entrepreneurs.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

The soundbite: “The long-term value of real estate is primarily driven by work — where you work, how you get to work, and how much you get paid at work. Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation. There are untold impacts of climate change many of us don’t see.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Founders who apply for the TC Early Stage Pitch Deck Teardown will automatically be considered for the Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt , this September, in San Francisco. Prior to 1SV, Ginny led Ventures at Jamestown, a $12Bn real estate private equity firm.

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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

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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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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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. Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? in the New Yorker. It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. Today’s asset – real estate – is tomorrow’s albatross.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The soundbite : “I tell my team, ‘don’t do good things,’ you’ll spread yourself too thin.

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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 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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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. 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

OCTOBER 15, 2022

million to let friends (and strangers) invest in real estate together. Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M TechCrunch Disrupt is next week, somehow. Remember that you can use code “STARTUPS” for a special reader discount for Disrupt tickets. Food for thought. Fractional lands $5.5 A few notes.

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Revolution

JULY 26, 2021

It is the platform of choice for app developers and is particularly attractive in highly regulated industries such as insurance, real estate, and lending. Setting out to disrupt the global payments industry?—?with really any company that needs to facilitate financial transactions. with a massive TAM of about $1.9M

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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

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.”. Opendoor announced it was letting go of 18% of its staff. This is around 500 people. Chargebee has laid off about 10% of its staff.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 15, 2015

While smaller startups benefit from the coworking company's great facilities, larger companies looking to expand are fighting with the multi-billion dollar real estate behemoth for already expensive larger commercial space.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle. When the company does well, even people who aren’t directly tied — those working at restaurants, in the real estate business, as small-scale entrepreneurs themselves — should feel that benefit in some tangible way.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Glambook reckons that market is ripe for some tech-forward disruption, not dissimilar from renting a chair in someone’s car (Uber) a desk in someone’s office (WeWork) or a room with a view in someone’s house (Airbnb). In the world of beauty, independent professionals often end up renting a chair in a salon.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

These days, the startup’s most disruptive belief is one that disagrees with the co-working model popularized by WeWork. The investment occurred weeks before the firm announced that it invested in Flow, WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s next bet — both investments show the firm’s interest in a more flexible, yet turnkey future of real estate.

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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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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. Colony Hills Capitol Colony Hills Capital provides investment services, including acquisition, development, operation and financial structuring of multifamily real estate.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

to directly pay bills, tuition and other school fees, medical expenses, and even real estate in the Philippines through the use of paycodes. During its first three months in the market, BayaniPay disrupted the digital remittance industry by offering, through BDO Unibank, zero fees and market-leading exchange rates.

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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. They spoke extensively about the latest tech in property and housing development, where the next disruption is likely to happen, and other trends.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Ilya Fushman, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, notes that the venture firm has invested in each of Zumper’s funding rounds since its 2012 inception, starting with a $1 million seed round that year announced two weeks after launching into a public beta at SF Disrupt. The rental market is a hot one these days.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

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. Some are even seeing more opportunity than in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A lot of the very traditional industries are ready for disruption, and that’s going to challenge and change society at its core. Everything from trucking and the automotive space to real estate, a lot of those big plays are still up for grabs. I’m not the kind of person to sit there and keep the status quo.

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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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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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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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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

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.”. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global supply chain, leading to delivery delays for consumers.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

Mittal co-founded OfficeBanao in January 2022 with Akshya Kumar (CTO) and Divyanshu Sharma (CBO and CPO) after spending years in the industry designing and building workspaces for multinational clients at real-estate developer DLF and interior design firm SKV.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

SaaS securitization will disrupt VC’s biggest returns this coming decade. In addition to this facility for Capchase and similar fintech underwriting, the group also backs real estate underwriting projects like for Properly, where it co-led a $100 million facility with Silicon Valley Bank.

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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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