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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. 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. This morning Clutter.io Congratulations.

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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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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.”. InterPrice Technologies, a treasury capital markets funding platform, announces a $7.3M This is around 500 people. And elsewhere.

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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

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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The policies, which China’s government is presently dismantling, resulted in frequent lockdowns in the nation’s populous cities, while other precepts of the policy disrupted trade and transit. Unsurprisingly, venture capital activity in the country declined. by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch.

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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. Procore and Autodesk are two examples of ventures in the construction space that went from startup to publicly traded companies today worth $6.2 billion and $40.5 billion , respectively.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

SaaS securitization will disrupt VC’s biggest returns this coming decade. million seed led by Caffeinated Capital. 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

MAY 15, 2023

Neesha spoke with Oma Robotics co-founder Kiran Joshi and Root Ventures partner Chrissy Meyer. Brynne founded Habi to bring modern home buying tools to low- and middle-class home buyers in her home country of Colombia. But she’s here today because of her personal experience with I-V-F.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

SoftBank describes Baer as one of the pioneers of Brazil’s venture capital industry. 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

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

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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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

I would expect that as office and commercial real estate leases expire, companies in technology are going to become very smart about remote work and how they decentralize operations. The more startups we have in Oklahoma, the more likely we are to attract outside capital.”. Another truth is that pandemics upset inertia.

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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 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.”. “The value of their approach has been proven out and demonstrated by the scale they have achieved to date in a fast and capital-efficient way.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

“The changes in office layouts as well as the downsizing of corporate office real estate footprints [during the pandemic] all require re-design of building systems — e.g., shrinking from three floors to one still necessitates a significant amount of change that needs to be designed and managed.”

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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

APRIL 5, 2021

It plans to use the new capital to add new features and improve existing ones; on operations and launching a portfolio of credit products. 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

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Venture capital firms that participated in the round include Nuwa Capital, Nordstar, Global Founders Capital, Yuj Ventures, Whiteboard Capital and VentureSouq. Sequoia Capital India and Founders Fund back UAE-based proptech startup Huspy in its $37M round.

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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. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico , a venture capital fund focused on Latin America. Much has been written about Latin American fintechs, which last year drew 40% of the region’s venture capital investment. Julio Vasconcellos. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The great bull market of 2010 – 2021, fueled by cheap capital, caused a nearly unprecedented rise in the valuations of speculative assets, from real estate to angel and venture equity. With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

And fintech is still taking almost a fifth of all venture capital dollars. Agora raises $20M Series A led by Insight Partners ‘to accelerate the growth of real estate firms with digital transformation’ Closinglock announces $4M in funding led by LiveOak Venture Partners. billion valuation in June.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Residential real estate marketplace Sundae last week conducted its second layoff this year. Redfin CEO, DoorDash co-founder invest in new startup, Far Homes, which is building a portal for Mexico real estate. We have always seen this as a lending activity subject to all the lending rules and regulations.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

many ancillary businesses (legal, real estate, services) are affected. Just think about how you felt the impact of the real estate bust even if you didn’t own property or if you bought well before 2006/07. I see opportunities for disruption all around me and am meeting amazingly talented entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Most real estate agents charge a commission — in many cases up to 6% of the sale price of a home — for listing and selling a house on behalf of a homeowner. Enter HomeLister , a digital brokerage and real estate site that gives homeowners a way to list and sell their properties online, with support.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

We are seeing an exciting class of companies providing “OS systems” for specific verticals and professionals (from Glossgenius for stylists and Altruists for financial advisers, to Side for real estate agents), and believe financial offerings will be key pillars of these platforms.

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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. RPA market surges as investors, vendors capitalize on pandemic-driven tech shift. 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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. Amidst the chaos, construction firms faced an existential question: How will they survive? This question is as relevant today as it was in April. Construction is a massive, $1.3

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption. Under-heated.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

It’s seen big spikes in demand from the real estate, financial services, retail and automotive sectors. “In The company plans to use its new capital to expand its platform and product and scale “to serve enterprises of all sizes.” In 2020, the world rushed to digitize. It also plans to double down on hiring in the next year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Hot damn, it’s happening: A bunch of the TechCrunch team are on airplanes, aeroplanes and other spellings of flying vessels to come join us in San Francisco for Disrupt. Lauren S made us a user’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt along with a guide to all the receptions, parties and other cool extracurriculars. See you soon!

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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. While legacy sectors like transportation and energy have embraced new tech, innovation in the construction industry has been slow to take hold.

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