TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

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 raised the capital at a $22.5 But they were only for the already wealthy or required multiyear commitments of capital.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

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. We have a unique opportunity to carry over that same growth across the river. What kind of real estate will be available for innovative companies and where?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Eight out of 10 said they would like to invest in real estate but were deterred by all the barriers to entry. There is clearly a large demand for access to real estate,” Yousefi said. million in seed money to continue building out its fractional real estate investing platform. And now Fintor has raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Flat.mx, which wants to build a real estate “super app” for Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding. That September, the proptech startup had raised one of Mexico’s largest pre-seed rounds to take the Opendoor real estate marketplace model across the Rio Grande. Previously, Flat.mx

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Buying and selling residential real estate is a complex business, no matter where you live. But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. real estate tech company with the closest model to Loft’s is probably Zillow, according to Pencz.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The entrepreneur, whose fall from grace has attracted global interest, just found a ladder in the form of a check from storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Firms like Andreessen are only going to be focused on a small pocket [of opportunities] in which they know they know how to make money … It’s a playbook.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Public stocks, bonds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, etc. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019. USV TEAM POSTS:

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MARCH 25, 2013

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Gotham Gal and I buy and build a fair bit of real estate on the side and we generally use a “cap rate” of between 5 and 10 when we acquire and develop real estate. And in real estate, that is between 5% and 10% per year in my view. Let’s look at Google. your money.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Commercial real estate tenants and property managers have to abide by strict liability rules that any vendor entering the property must have insurance certificates and meet other requirements. That opportunity was one of the drivers for JLL to create JLL Spark, where Jones is one of the first investments. Enter Jones.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. in convertible notes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Sundae , a residential real estate marketplace that pairs sellers of dated or damaged property with potential buyers, has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Fifth Wall and General Global Capital. 9 top real estate and proptech investors: Cities and offices still have a future.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Commercial real estate has been slow to embrace technology ; though it has an addressable financing market of more than $40 billion, putting together a deal is still mostly manual, paper-heavy and complicated. The latest financing comes four months after the company raised $10 million in seed funding led by NFX.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

billion under management plus real estate in NYC/Cal and 5 operating companies. On the other side, trying to invest in venture capital funds on behalf of a family office must be a bit like being a legitimate Nigerian businessman trying to cold e-mail people.

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MAY 14, 2012

Back in the late 90's, a lot of money and real estate brokering went into trying to make it so, however. That's what I fear when I see places like Berlin, Chicago, and Toronto putting on startup events--not enough anchors to make the whole thing stick and to turn the excitement into real opportunity.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

And at moments of crisis or moments of great opportunity it can often be a small group of people surrounding you who help move you carefully across a winding pass and on to greatness. VENTURE CAPITAL. And finally that brings me to obvious topic of venture capital. After I posted I saw the following Tweet.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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. Today, cities around the country are entering a period not unlike early-stage Detroit.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

While markets grapple with the concept that the pandemic might not be entirely in the rear view mirror, investors are continuing to seek out investment opportunities outside public markets as they seek to diversify. Vincent makes money by facilitating discovery on its partner platforms and earning fees.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. My close friend Brian Moran (co-founder of BuildOnline) was an architect and is now a real estate developer and adviser. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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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.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries. It especially wants to reduce waste and CO2 emissions. ”

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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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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The company plans to open its first international office in the coming months in order to bring its solutions to new industry verticals, beyond its base in commercial real estate. Earth Venture Capital and KSL Maritime Ventures are “ideal partners” for their ventures, he added.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

Alex and the Metropolis team will implement their tech solutions to both improve people’s daily lives and drive significant value to real estate partners.” He was involved in setting the company’s strategic vision and leading the firm’s global business development opportunities.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We asked three venture capital firms investing at the intersection of proptech and climate tech about how a focus on reducing emissions can trim a building’s carbon footprint and offer new opportunities for returns. Those that survive will have an opportunity to expand market share.”. And the potential market is enormous.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception. JLL Spark, Vertex Ventures, Anim, K50, Foundamental and Green D Alumni Ventures also participated in the Series A investment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

Craig Hall, the writer of Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups , shares his view on the current state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. . Unfortunately, we have created a widening opportunity gap for most Americans to become entrepreneurs. What prompted you to write Boom ? was in trouble.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Scott Lenet is president of Touchdown Ventures. Is there a creed in venture capital? Venture capitalists frequently say that valuing startups is “more art than science.” And this means that each party needs an opportunity to win and must demonstrate that they believe in common goals. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

And in recent years there’s been a growing number of startups which aim to give more people access to a wider array of investment opportunities. For example, we do a bunch of things in real estate such as financing warehouses, multifamily and distribution centers,” Mehere told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

GDP, the market opportunity is huge, especially as spending climbs — the U.S. To better understand the market forces driving this sector and learn about the opportunities they’re seeking, we spoke to five active investors: Nikitas Koutoupes , managing director, Insight Partners. With the industry representing about 6.3%

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow. according to Crunchbase), but especially for the real estate tech space (perhaps the largest ever). “We billion in 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I saw a few friends politely suggesting that “now was a great stock buying opportunity” meaning that given the stock market is off by 10% it was a great chance to buy and lock in presumably low prices before the market rises again. And by this I assume he meant that “market prognosticator twitter” was vomitous.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Jake Fingert is a managing partner at Camber Creek, a strategic venture capital firm investing in real estate technology companies. But major gaps, and opportunities, remain. Capital is searching for good ideas and quality execution. In 2021, venture capital poured a record $11.7 Jake Fingert.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On On that trip, we had our breakthrough, and we realized that together, we can start to pool our capital,” Smith said. “On

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