Dream It

MARCH 8, 2019

On May 14, 2019, our friends at Lab Ventures Miami are hosting Future of Real Estate Tech Summit Miami. This event brings together investors, innovative startups and leading corporations in the construction and real estate industry.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. This morning Clutter.io Congratulations. Conventional wisdom says I shouldn’t tell you this because I invested in their main competitor, MakeSpace. And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Over $500 million worth of real estate was sold on the top four metaverse platforms in 2021, data shows. Traditional real estate companies are amongst the many investors flocking to stake their claim on plots of land in virtual worlds like Decentraland and Sandbox.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

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.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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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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 gives everyone access to a real estate portfolio and the ability to have access to withdrawals when they need them.”.

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MARCH 18, 2019

Very little time and effort is spent helping professional, full time investors raise capital for venture funds. Not only that, but for many in the real estate world, their economic upside is already tied to innovation. It’s not exactly like anyone puts “willing venture fund investor” on their LinkedIn profile.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI, excluding real estate) skyrocketed in 2016 as Chinese investors seek diversification out of their domestic markets.

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AUGUST 24, 2015

But I do have some insight into how this will affect venture markets. When many venture investors are seeing their personal public portfolios tank it creeps into their business lives and creates an emotion that is less risk tolerant whether they’re aware of it or not. I caution people from thinking this is necessarily a bottom.

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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. As far as visions go, renovating the rental real estate market isn’t a unique idea. The vision.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

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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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

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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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. 10 Jay Street.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S., 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. marking its highest level since 2017.

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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. Matrix Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures and 8VC led its earlier rounds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. Groundfloor’s platform offers investments in real estate debt to its 150,000+ users, with a minimum investment of $10. in convertible notes.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Register Soho.com.au , an AI-powered real estate discovery app, has secured a $750,000 equity investment from Singapore-based proptech venture capital firm Feedback Ventures. The collaboration between Soho and Feedback Ventures aims to leverage AI technology to transform the real estate sector.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

It’s the company that evokes fear into more startups and venture capitalists looking to fund eCommerce businesses than any other potential competitor. Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures makespace' Every pitch I’ve ever seen has led to the, “Would Amazon eventually do this? And could we then compete?”

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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. Venture dollars flowed into proptech after proptech. At the same time, as the venture market slowed dramatically and suddenly, raising capital was much harder. Then 2022 came.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

million in a funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures and Hoxton Ventures. 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. Back in 2020, another player, Giraffe360, raised $4.5

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JULY 1, 2015

. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. We live in heady times.

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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. 3/ Technology based commerce solutions gain when less people venture into stores to buy groceries, clothes, and other consumer products. That’s just how things are.

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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. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019. There are many ways to invest successfully. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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. Now if we can only get all the VCs to think this way.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

Tom Perkins is one of the founding members of the venerable venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. The venture capital firm that bears his name. The headline of Mr. Perkins letter to the WSJ? Kleiner Perkins.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Are you trying to figure out how to build a place that creates venture backed IPOs or are you trying to build something where technical people can feel like they’re in a community? It had been written that NYC was built by industries of zero sum games like finance and real estate, and that DNA wouldn’t work in the startup community.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Moderne Ventures team of founder Constance Freedman and partner Liza Benson built a track record of top-tier returns with its novel approach to venture investing. Founder and Managing Partner Constance Freedman and Partner, Liza Benson , oversee the generalist venture capital and growth equity firm.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2023

What we did: Revolution Ventures Managing Partner, Tige Savage , and Associate, Carl Leacock , reconnected with the Houston innovation ecosystem during a jam-packed day planned by local startup, Rivalry Tech. Here’s a snapshot of the stops and connections we made in Q3. Where we went: Houston, TX? Where we went: Bozeman, MT?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

billion under management plus real estate in NYC/Cal and 5 operating companies. How would you know if I showed up to an investor conference, took meetings with startups, and acted serious about putting money to work in venture on behalf of a family office whether I was telling the truth? But how would you know?

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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. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". I'll bet you didn't know that--mostly because it never was.

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MARCH 2, 2016

Venture capital firms, on the other hand, draw people in. I experience that in my Gowanus office for Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. That's just as bad of an idea as me thinking I'm going to start developing real estate. In a place like New York, many real estate families are major investors in venture capital funds.

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Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

Between that time and now, TrendKite raised approximately $46 million in venture funding. Dreamit Ventures is an early stage venture fund that accelerates startups building transformative tech products in the fields of healthcare, real estate/built environment, and security.

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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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