TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

evolve into a one-stop real estate shop that also offers mortgage, title insurance and escrow services. To that end, e arlier this month, the startup acquired Atta Franchising, a 7-year-old São Paulo-based independent real estate mortgage broker. Last year, it also expanded into connecting home buyers to sellers.

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Revolution

MAY 23, 2023

Unpacking Proptech: A data-driven series on advancing built world innovation As mentioned in Part 1 , an outsized portion of the proptech investor base comes from the real estate community — a reality I would argue is complicating the industry’s growth. VC firms are not blameless — over 1.8K

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 30, 2024

$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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

market share today and are stuck with high real-estate costs, shitty customer service, bad value propositions and no ability to respond to competition because they have effectively become real-estate holding companies that store stuff for cashflow.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Proactive planning and policies are crucial to optimizing real estate usage and creating symbiosis. Tech moves fast, but real estate moves slow. Zoning impacts everything — collaboration, economic opportunity, climate, and long-term resilience.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Alternative investment platform Yieldstreet announced today that it has agreed to acquire Cadre, an online real-estate-focused investment platform aimed at institutional and high net worth investors. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The stealthy startup is trying to reinvent real estate (again), but instead of commercial properties, which WeWork focused on, Neumann is looking into revolutionizing rental properties. As far as visions go, renovating the rental real estate market isn’t a unique idea. It’s a playbook that they never change.

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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. What about WeWork?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

Not only that, but for many in the real estate world, their economic upside is already tied to innovation. No one has to say yes, but rather than this seeming like a bother, anyone with an investment mindset is going to welcome the opportunity to roll up their sleeves and dive into thinking about an opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

These are hard things to initially comprehend until you see them in full force as local retailers get wiped out due to their albatross of high real estate costs leading to either higher prices to consumers or lower margins on their p&l statements. Today’s asset – real estate – is tomorrow’s albatross.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Invest in Real Estate. Real estate is another area where entrepreneurs should allocate capital. Real estate can often be used to house the business of the entrepreneur. My real estate strategy is to buy apartment complexes where we can implement our Infinite Return model.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Real estate was previously a huge headache for small businesses before WeWork made co-working mainstream. If all real estate goes the way of server infrastructure, with no one ever signing a commercial lease except for larger campuses like Google and Apple, then WeWork hasn’t even scratched the surface of its potential.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised “$50 million-plus” in a funding round that doubles its valuation to $2 billion. The company plans to enter 15 new states by year’s end.

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Founder Bounty

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Ben Mallah, worth 250M$, has smartly used content about his real estate investments to excel traffic to his site B enmallah to cross-sell you various consulting projects and other things. He has been successful in his real estate but his youtube and content creation have given him even more exposure.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. Layoffs in the sector began — and they took place in a range of real estate tech companies, big and small. Low interest rates mean more purchases and refinances.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Great Recession was a real-estate-driven recession, and we owned 30 industrial business parks up and down the West Coast that catered to smaller businesses. ” Reality check: Not much was going right On my drive back to the office, I tried to think of what was going right, and I could not think of a single thing.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2020

We will see real estate values collapse in some of the most affected regions and we will see real estate values increase in regions that benefit from the warming climate. We will see carbon taxed like the vice that it is in most countries around the world this decade, including in the US.

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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. There are untold impacts of climate change many of us don’t see. The soundbite: “When given a choice of telling the story of hope or hopelessness, always choose hope.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours. As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch.

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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.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 2, 2022

A professional architect with a background in entrepreneurship, Gerardo runs one of the fastest-growing architecture firms in the Dominican Republic, specializing in real estate development. Luxia Labs offers services in architectural and technical design to real estate developers.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 24, 2020

This happens all the time in real estate and also with stock gains. This will also have the benefit of reducing the rampant speculation in real estate that has been making real estate so unaffordable for so many. We can tax the unrealized gain if it is financed or monetized.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 30, 2020

When you read fundraising advice to founders, think about how much blanket statements would make sense for real estate. Two houses of different locations, sizes, and attributes are very difficult to compare. Imagine telling everyone from bike commuters to people who work from home to “Move next to public transportation”.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2020

We are seeing structural declines in the importance of massive sectors like carbon based energy, commercial real estate, retail, and more. And technology based products and services are benefitting from these losses.

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GCUC

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Real Problem with Diversity in Coworking and Flex Real Estate: It’s Not the Events, It’s Who’s Doing the Hiring Diversity and inclusion have become buzzwords in the coworking, flex space, and broader real estate industries. We see countless events, panels, and initiatives aimed. Read More

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Dream It

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In this #DreamitLive, Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman speaks with CREtech CEO Michael Beckerman about the latest trends in innovation in the commercial real estate industry. Michael Beckerman runs CREtech, the largest event, data and content platform in the commercial real estate tech sector.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

We can see in the market the telltale signs of a rapidly expanding market: wage inflation, high staff turn-over, rapidly increasing rents with scarcity of space and booming real estate market with prices and rents for homes unaffordable for many.

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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. There are many ways to invest successfully. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. In public stocks, there are something like 5,000 listed stocks in the US.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 31, 2021

An asset class that I really like as a hedge against early stage tech sector risk is real estate. The Gotham Gal and I own a lot of income producing real estate and it feels very uncorrelated to early stage tech. I like to have a mix of assets, ideally uncorrelated, in our portfolio.

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Revolution

JANUARY 18, 2022

Curbio handles all project management, taking care of every item on the punch list and granting real estate agents and homeowners their preferred level of visibility and involvement. Accessible and automated home improvement enables every real estate agent and contractor to grow their business?—?and

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 2, 2023

How Azibo’s Vikas Gupta is on a Mission to Streamline Property Management for Independent Real Estate Investors I had the pleasure of interviewing Vikas Gupta the CEO of Azibo , a unified financial and property management platform for independent real investors. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The more items you track with it and the more buildings you get on the platform, the more insight you can get into your real estate portfolio's health and upkeep. Logcheck turns maintenance rounds into actionable data. Plum Print digitizes kids art and turns it into keepsakes and gifts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Keyless locks = Peloton for real estate. The SPAC is associated with Tishman Speyer, a commercial real estate investor. You can see the synergies, as Latch’s products fit into the commercial real estate space. Are they more like the Bakkt SPAC , which led us to raise a few questions?

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Founder Bounty

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Here’s how payments will transform the real estate market as the crypto market continues to take off. Its growth will certainly be used in the real estate market more and more. 1/ Buying real estate involves high agent fees and long processing times, with fees in luxury markets reaching 5-7%.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

In the US, we have racial equity issues that are longstanding, real and demanding to be addressed. And we have sectors of our economy like retail, commercial real estate, carbon based energy, and more that will never be the same. We also have an economy that is in tatters.

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