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Avenue 8 raises $4M to rebuild the traditional real estate brokerage model

TechCrunch

We’ve seen a big wave of proptech startups emerge to reimagine how houses and bought and sold, with some tapping into the opportunity with distressed property , and others exploring the “ iBuyer ” model where houses are bought, fixed up and resold by a single startup to homeowners who don’t want to invest in a fixer-upper.

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District of Innovators: Takeaways From DC Startup Week

Revolution

Today, the nation’s political hub is gaining increasing traction as an innovation capital where game-changing startups start and scale, including Revolution-backed Sweetgreen , FiscalNote , Homesnap , and Cava. Over the next few decades, the company served as a tech engine throughout the region. Order your copy today.

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Moving Fast, Breaking Things, and the Support of Disruption

This is going to be BIG.

I wrote this in my newsletter this morning: If you're not willing to ask yourself difficult questions, to be asked them, or to ask them of your teams, then this e-mail and, frankly, this "innovation" industry isn't for you. So, innovation supporter. The latter is financial engineering masking itself as disruption. Ask yourself.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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Moonshots, Momentum, and Legislative Tailwinds Beyond Silicon Valley

Revolution

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. 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. Seed- and Early-Stage U.S,

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Ripe For Disruption: The Asset Management Business

David Teten VC

Joe Reilly , CEO of Circulus Group and a longtime contributor to Family Wealth Report , interviewed me to share views on disruption in asset management, my research into the field, and where the industry needs to be headed. I knew that executing this research, and then publishing it, would attract pertinent investment opportunities. .

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

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.