Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

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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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

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.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

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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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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Revolution

OCTOBER 3, 2022

During the week, our investment teams had the opportunity to join a few of our DC portfolio companies onstage to discuss the ecosystem, as well as its progress and potential. Here are a few of the insights gleaned. The soundbite : “I tell my team, ‘don’t do good things,’ you’ll spread yourself too thin.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? How much time are you spending on construction robotics right now?

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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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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be two days away from TechCrunch Disrupt! Anyway…speaking of Disrupt and Brex, I will be interviewing co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras and Anu Hariharan, managing director of YC’s growth fund, YC Continuity, live in a Fireside Chat on October 19! Hello, hello. Soooo exciting!

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. I’ve been meeting lately with more and more family offices interested in investing directly into companies, in lieu of via funds. The data about the investments needs to be accurate and formatted in a consistent way.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Often, industries that have great potential to be disrupted are also the most resistant to adopting bleeding-edge technology. GDP, the market opportunity is huge, especially as spending climbs — the U.S. Where are you looking for opportunities in construction tech in Q3 2022? Its recently enacted $1.2 Its recently enacted $1.2

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? It’s a thought provoking question and a good opportunity to ask for feedback on how we can imrove. Then these firms raised larger funds to invest in LBOs, but they diversified, too. In the 2000s, a wave of PE funds went public.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Conventional wisdom says I shouldn’t tell you this because I invested in their main competitor, MakeSpace. Clutter is LA based and many of my friends invested. We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights. Sequoia apparently was fairly active overall last year despite the global downturn, with over 100 investments. But wasn’t that true for every sector?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s being led by Josh Buckley (the CEO of Product Hunt), with participation from WndrCo (Disney/Dreamworks’ supremo Jeffrey Katzenberg’s investment firm), Lachy Groom, MMC Technology Ventures LLC, Fifth Wall Ventures and Array Ventures, as well as a swathe of real estate names, including J.M. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

And good news, btw, we’re offering 15% off Disrupt tickets (excluding online or expo tickets) for you, our trusty Daily Crunch readers. Slumdog $5-illonnaire : Landa is the latest startup to attract venture capital, in this case $33 million, to democratize real estate ownership, Mary Ann writes. More like mid-weak!

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 23, 2022

million in seed investments in a funding round led by Thakral Corporation Ltd. With the investment, BillionBricks will now be able to pursue its vision of addressing the global climate and housing crises by combining clean energy and large-scale affordable housing. The post BillionBricks scores $2.4m

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another. Fixing a foundation after the superstructure is built is a costly, disruptive and sometimes impossible task,” Bechtel said. investors,” he said. “So

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Some are even seeing more opportunity than in the U.S. Latin America, they believe, has historically been ripe for disruption, especially in the fintech and proptech sectors, due to the significant underbanked and unbanked population in the region and the relatively unstructured real estate industry.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Real estate investment firm Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström (like Volta, based in Stockholm), supply chain services giant Agility, and B-FLEXION (formerly Waypoint Capital) also participated. New York-based Luxor Capital, which led the company’s €37 million Series B in September 2021 , is also leading this round.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Harvard Business School grad Cameron Johnson is a former institutional real estate investor and Greystar exec turned startup founder who realized that very often, “renters would try to rent the model apartment.”. This spelled opportunity in Johnson’s mind. This got him thinking.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

I wouldn’t say we’re going head to head against Airbnb, nor are we trying to kind of get into the vacation rental space against them, but we do see an opportunity as a true rental platform to deliver in this flexible world slightly differently.”. The rental market is a hot one these days.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Tax credits are another financial tool that states have attempted to use with varying success to stimulate early-stage investment in startups. The concept behind tax credits is that they will help investors offset a portion of the investment risk and thereby create more capital for startup companies. Some credits are transferable.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Venture capital is just equity--and it's equity that isn't widely available to everyone and it gets invested in by a wide variety of investor types with different strategies. Do you think there are some overriding market characteristics that are weighing in equally in the performance of both those investments?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It also realized that at the pace it was scaling, it needed to double down on its tech investments. Pechet said the company’s existing backers were eager to invest again because Homebound has “done all the things we said we were going to do.”. So it went out last year to raise a $50 million Series C.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 28, 2023

While TurnOnGreen is involved in multiple EV charging station projects across North America, California presents possibly the greatest opportunity, as it is leading in EV adoption, according to the California Energy Commission and the California Air Resources Board. EVs represent 18% of the overall market share in CA. Imperalis Holding Corp.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Kaszek led Cora’s $10 million seed round (believed at that time to be one of the largest seed investments in LatAm) in December 2019 with Ribbit then following. In particular, Cora wants to go even deeper in certain segments such as B2B professional services such as law and accounting firms; real estate brokerage and education.

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GCUC

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

We looked at some real estate together, spent time in Austin, and they flew me up to New York to explore working for WeWork and selling them my brand and conference. I sat in his office while he negotiated a real estate deal. Coworking is that disruption. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR INVESTMENT? I didn’t do it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. Construction tech is one of those sectors that has not historically been considered “sexy” in a startup world that often favors glitzier technology.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Investments can be powerful. When successful, they can benefit both investors and the invested. Money poured into a business that takes off provides job opportunities and helps the economy grow while investors recoup their money and make a profit too. Investment can help solve problems facing communities, regions and the world.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Top investment opportunities. By financing small agroforestry projects, Treedom provides income opportunities for local farming communities in 17 countries. Join OurCrowd as we invest in a $14M B round led by Banca Generali, a branch of Assicurazioni Generali, the world’s fourth-largest insurance company. Invest More.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For this survey, TechCrunch spoke to a number of investors about the area’s potential, opportunities and key players. They see a huge opportunity for the region to become a major startup hub by utilizing its diverse workforce and wonderful quality of life. In this survey, these investors agree on several aspects of Miami.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

In other Goldman Sachs news, Bloomberg reported that the investment banking and financial services giant is “ embarking on its biggest round of jobs cuts since the start of the pandemic.” Residential real estate marketplace Sundae last week conducted its second layoff this year. Proptechs continue to take a hit. And elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

CEO Aahan Bhojani and Ashmin Varma founded Silkhaus last year after identifying a $13 billion market opportunity for asset owners across emerging markets, particularly MENA, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Silkhaus estimates its market opportunity might grow to $18 billion in the next four years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Today the U.S. Another day, another Q2 funding report.

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