Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? The evolution of the venture industry parallels the private equity industry.

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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

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. Snap, crackle and.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The policies, which China’s government is presently dismantling, resulted in frequent lockdowns in the nation’s populous cities, while other precepts of the policy disrupted trade and transit. Unsurprisingly, venture capital activity in the country declined. by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle. 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.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. 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. This morning Clutter.io Congratulations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

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. Some are even seeing more opportunity than in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Opendoor co-founder and CEO Eric Wu said his company, a publicly traded real estate fintech, was navigating “one of the most challenging real estate markets in 40 years.”. InterPrice Technologies, a treasury capital markets funding platform, announces a $7.3M This is around 500 people. And elsewhere.

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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. Procore and Autodesk are two examples of ventures in the construction space that went from startup to publicly traded companies today worth $6.2 billion and $40.5 billion , respectively. investors,” he said.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 13, 2022

Register Houze , a proptech startup based in Vietnam that uses its offline-to-online platform to provide a fully integrated real estate ecosystem for agents and customers, has raised $2 million in funding led by DKRA Group, allowing the company to continue expanding its services and growing its team to meet demand in Vietnam and beyond.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Apparently, venture capital is a cruddy asset class where you can't get returns over the long term. That might make sense, if venture capital was an asset class. Saying that venture capital is an asset class is like saying that Italians are a race. Venture capital works largely the same way.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Real estate , e.g. AcreTrader , Alphaflow , Brickvest , Cadre , Crowdstreet , Fundrise , PeerRealty , RealCrowd , RealtyMogul , Republic Real Estate*, SmallChange. Arno Niazi, CEO, GoingVC said, “Take, for example, our Venture Capital learning and development program, which now has more than 250 global alumni.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Revolution Growth has long invested in tech-driven companies that are disrupting legacy industries, particularly where there is a distinct opportunity to modernize the customer experience. Orchard’s customer service is also enhanced by their local real estate brokers who are hired full-time as home advisors (vs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Joining Rick is Mark Goldberg of Index Ventures , a firm that made a prescient move to spot and back Persona early on. Joining Sam is his investor Chris Farmer , the founder and CEO of SignalFire , a seed-stage venture firm that recently raised $900 million across four new funds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In fact, venture capitalists poured an estimated $6.2 SoftBank describes Baer as one of the pioneers of Brazil’s venture capital industry. Previously, Camahji was a founder and partner at Yellow Ventures, making seed investments in technology startups. QuintoAndar , a Brazilian real estate marketplace.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

No one likes dilution, and that’s why every founder is looking for alternatives to traditional equity investing by venture capitalists. SaaS securitization will disrupt VC’s biggest returns this coming decade. million seed led by Caffeinated Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Ilya Fushman, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, notes that the venture firm has invested in each of Zumper’s funding rounds since its 2012 inception, starting with a $1 million seed round that year announced two weeks after launching into a public beta at SF Disrupt. The rental market is a hot one these days.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The great bull market of 2010 – 2021, fueled by cheap capital, caused a nearly unprecedented rise in the valuations of speculative assets, from real estate to angel and venture equity. With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And today, the Santa Rosa, California-based startup is announcing it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures toward its efforts to help address those inventory shortages with its technology. In addition to the equity, Homebound also secured “hundreds of millions” in debt from Goldman Sachs.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

I would expect that as office and commercial real estate leases expire, companies in technology are going to become very smart about remote work and how they decentralize operations. The more startups we have in Oklahoma, the more likely we are to attract outside capital.”. Another truth is that pandemics upset inertia.

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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.”. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global supply chain, leading to delivery delays for consumers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures. As a firm, we focus broadly on consumer, marketplaces, e-commerce infrastructure, real estate technology and fintech. Mark Volcheck, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A lot of the very traditional industries are ready for disruption, and that’s going to challenge and change society at its core. Everything from trucking and the automotive space to real estate, a lot of those big plays are still up for grabs. I’m not the kind of person to sit there and keep the status quo.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Venture capital firms that participated in the round include Nuwa Capital, Nordstar, Global Founders Capital, Yuj Ventures, Whiteboard Capital and VentureSouq. Sequoia Capital India and Founders Fund back UAE-based proptech startup Huspy in its $37M round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

BeamUP today announced that it raised $15 million in a seed funding round led by StageOne Ventures and Ibex Investments along with participation from angels including Workday CEO Chano Fernandez. Nate Meir, for one, a partner at StageOne Ventures, expressed confidence in BeamUP’s trajectory. ” Competition in the market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico , a venture capital fund focused on Latin America. Much has been written about Latin American fintechs, which last year drew 40% of the region’s venture capital investment. Julio Vasconcellos. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Like many other online real estate brokerages, Homie pledged lower commissions and a more streamlined process. Also, like many other real estate brokerages, it has attempted to become a one-stop shop for home buyers and sellers by branching out into loan, insurance and title services. . On February 8, I reported that ??

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Alternative capital has pros and cons, just like venture capital has pros and cons. Is taking a revenue-share agreement going to hurt your chances as a pre-seed startup trying to raise capital? And next week, they are putting together a piece on the changes on the real estate and proptech side.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

Last month, Andreessen Horowitz — one of venture capital’s largest and most prominent players — announced that its “ headquarters will be in the cloud ” going forward. And fintech is still taking almost a fifth of all venture capital dollars. I believe this is because it impacts everyone on a daily basis. led by TLcom.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5%

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

source: Capital IQ. In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. many ancillary businesses (legal, real estate, services) are affected. I see opportunities for disruption all around me and am meeting amazingly talented entrepreneurs. The road ahead.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Residential real estate marketplace Sundae last week conducted its second layoff this year. Redfin CEO, DoorDash co-founder invest in new startup, Far Homes, which is building a portal for Mexico real estate. We have always seen this as a lending activity subject to all the lending rules and regulations.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Next week is Disrupt, so the TechCrunch Slack watercooler is full of sartorial advice, much to our surprise and confusion. That’s really how it feels to me — that we’re starting to understand the excesses of last year,” says Mark Goldberg of Index Ventures in an interview , featured in Mary Ann ’s The Interchange newsletter.

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