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Today’s Tech Hubs: Labor and Housing Dynamics in the Post-Pandemic Era

Revolution

For years, tech companies, talent, and venture capital were concentrated on the coasts — a precedent the pandemic tipped, if not flipped. Proactive planning and policies are crucial to optimizing real estate usage and creating symbiosis. Tech moves fast, but real estate moves slow.

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10 Questions for Brooklyn's Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Now we can honestly say that NYC is a great place to build a venture backed company. Brooklyn now is an even better position than the rest of NYC was in 2005--with its critical mass of talent, creativity, friendlier real estate, etc. What kind of real estate will be available for innovative companies and where?

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Fintech Startup Backflip Gains Series A Round for Platform Supporting Real Estate Entrepreneurs

American Entrepreneurship

$15 Million Series A supports the startup’s growth with a $10M Net Revenue Run Rate In 2021 real estate fintech startup Backflip launched an all-in-one platform for real estate entrepreneurs to support their acquisition and renovation of single-family homes. Over 400,000 homes are flipped every year in the U.S.

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Sumutasu secures $10M to digitize Japan’s real estate market

TechCrunch

Sumutasu , a Tokyo-based proptech startup that offers a direct online real estate purchase service, has secured $8.2 Takahiro Sumi (CEO) and Tomoya Ito (COO) co-founded Sumutasu four years ago to streamline the buying and selling of residential real estate. million in equity and $1.6 million in debt. and the U.K.,

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Concreit closes on $6M to allow more people to invest in the global private real estate market

TechCrunch

Concreit , a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. . Concreit gives everyone access to a real estate portfolio and the ability to have access to withdrawals when they need them.”.

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Thoughts on WeWork

This is going to be BIG.

Real estate was previously a huge headache for small businesses before WeWork made co-working mainstream. A small fund like Brooklyn Bridge Ventures might have minimum investment sizes of a quarter to a half million dollars—whereas a late stage megafund probably expects its LPs to put multiple millions to work.

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Proudly Investing in Businesses that *Get Better* as People Use Actually Them, Not Worse

This is going to be BIG.

Here are a bunch of examples of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures companies getting better at scale: Canary 's explosive growth has enabled it to process more video every second than Youtube, learning patterns in order to make its alert algorithms better. The more people who buy and use it, the smarter it gets.

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