TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, announced Monday that it has raised $150 million in Series D funding. Existing backers Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures and Sapphire Ventures also participated in the new financing.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Still, there are a lot of downsides to taking venture money—the push to grow at all costs, our desire to be all up in your business, literally, and sometimes, we’re kind of obnoxious. These are people that didn’t make their money through a tech startup or startup investing. That’s why I normally ask for a Board Observer seat.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Or something. That’s on top of the company’s earlier $2 million seed round, bringing the total fundraised to $6 million if this desk calculator is functioning.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

L’Attitude Ventures announced today that it has closed on its first institutional fund, raising more than $100 million from several financial services heavyweights, including a “strategic anchor investment” from JPMorgan Chase. as well as serves as an independent trustee on Fidelity’s Equity & High-Income Funds Board. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Alternative investments are having a moment. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

Very little time and effort is spent helping professional, full time investors raise capital for venture funds. Accelerators can be great, but they’re not giving companies enough money to achieve the kind of escape velocity needed to get on the radar of national Series A firms that will invest anywhere.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2023

(May 22, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board made several key program and policy approvals during its May meeting, including its first awards of residential projects under the Aspire Program, additional funding for the Authority’s child care programming, and record-breaking investments in venture capital.

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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. So VCs made fewer investments at lower prices and generally on terms that were more favorable to investors relative to 2015. Baidu alone raised $3.2

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Amid a recent tear in residential real estate investment, venture capitalists are looking to get a piece of homebuying startup Flyhomes. The five-year-old startup announced today that they’ve closed a $150 million Series C round co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and Battery Ventures.

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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. Investors there are outsourcing the decision-making about individual investments to the GPs.).

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HPA

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By creating one of the world’s largest repositories of commercial real estate data, Cohesion will lead the industry’s transformation to autonomous buildings. Investing in technology that ensures commercial real estate is a positive contributor to our world is central to our company ethos.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

For some context, I have been covering Pipe since it raised $6 million in a seed round led by Craft Ventures back in 2019. Second, I found out that once a new CEO is found, that individual will assume Hurst’s seat on the board. Two, why would Hurst — who has been the very vocal frontman of Pipe since its inception — leave the board?

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 3, 2024

To answer the question concerning the importance of patents, TCA Venture Group analyzed its 281 outcomes (Exits and Shutdowns) since being founded in 1997. Westinghouse never recovered and GE prevailed in the marketplace.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Compass , the real-estate brokerage startup backed by roughly $1.6 billion in venture funding , filed its S-1 Monday. Other investors include the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Fidelity, Wellington Management, and the Qatar Investment Authority, according to Crunchbase. 31, 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

I am doubtful that I could ever be a venture-backed startup founder. VCs clamor to fund real estate investing startups. We’ve been seeing a lot of interest — and funding news — in the real estate and proptech spaces lately. These startups allow for investments in slices of real estate.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. The Japanese investment conglomerate has dramatically ramped up its investing in the region, and so have a number of other global investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Soon after graduating, they co-founded Reshape, a venture capital fund with $100 million of assets under management. There were a lot of cool businesses coming out of Asia and being efficient in real estate, which enables you to cut down and save money on rent and push customers to order ahead,” Menda told TechCrunch.

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Red Rocket

MAY 22, 2024

CB Insights, a leading research organization that tracks venture capital financings, recently released its report on t he state of the venture capital market in 2023. And, investors simply can’t exit the investments they have already made, with an anemic IPO market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

A slew of investors participated in the financing, including MetaProp, Agya Ventures, Concrete Rose, Debut Capital, The Community Fund, Consonance Capital, Lightspeed Scout Fund and Jason Calacanis’ LAUNCH syndicate. Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. It was an expensive mistake, and one he wants to help Latin American entrepreneurs avoid with his new venture, Latitud. “I

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

To meet that demand, Seattle-based Knock – one startup that has developed tools to give property management companies a competitive edge – has raised $20 million in a growth funding round led by Fifth Wall Ventures. For example, when lockdowns went into effect, in-person property tours declined by an estimated 80% in a matter of weeks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. For example, Brex announced last week that it provided $10 million in growth capital via venture debt to Zesty.ai, a leading provider of predictive data analytics in the climate risk space. We’re seeing pretty big market changes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

Today the firm is over 500+ with 6 office locations, its operating value-add has raised the bar for all venture capitalists, and the firm continues to grow in vision and impact. He modeled how to work with integrity, competitiveness, curiosity and humility and I could not have picked a better venture investor to learn from.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The investment occurred weeks before the firm announced that it invested in Flow, WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s next bet — both investments show the firm’s interest in a more flexible, yet turnkey future of real estate. Rohaut is not too worried about sharing a venture backer with WeWork’s founder.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. How to communicate with your board in tough times. Justin Da Rosa is a vice president with Battery Ventures in San Francisco. Share on Twitter. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The round was led by byFounders with participation from Flash Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Ascension and a group of angel investors, including Index Ventures’ venture partner Stephane Kurgan and Amplo VC founder and CEO Sheel Tyle. Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Rampell is on the company’s board, but is not involved in the day-to-day operations of the company. The company’s flagship product, Home Equity Investment, is designed to allow homeowners to get cash in exchange for a certain percentage of future appreciation of their home. Its average investment is around $100,000.

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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. It also realized that at the pace it was scaling, it needed to double down on its tech investments.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Neeraj Agrawal is a general partner at Battery Ventures. Brandon Gleklen is a principal at Battery Ventures. He focuses on software investments in companies at all stages of maturity. He focuses on software investments in companies at all stages of maturity. Jack Mattei is an analyst at Battery Ventures.

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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. By mid-2022 the index had quickly reversed from a founder to investor friendly investing climate. Did angels pull back from investing?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

SoftBank Ventures Asia led the startup’s latest round — a $27 million Series B. Other backers in the company include FJ Labs, Kairos, TQ Ventures II LP (Scooter Braun, Schuster Tanger, Andrew Marks), Reshape, Quiet Capital and angel investors including musician Demi Lovato and Behance founder Scott Belsky. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. The funding brings the total investment to date for Portland, Oregon-based Sila to $20 million.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The definition of an exit excludes PIPEs (private investment in public equity), second public offerings, debt offerings, and secondary transactions. Source: Pitchbook Q3–2023 NVCA Venture Monitor That said, the M&A dynamic in proptech is unique. The latter is emotional and hard, but, in my view, necessary.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

After a recent story in Business Insider brought allegations to light that a member of David Dobrik’s vlog squad had sexually assaulted an extra during a shoot, Spark Capital announced that it would “sever all ties” with Dobrik’s photo-sharing startup Dispo, as did fellow investors Unshackled Ventures and Seven Seven Six.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Based on nfinite’s performance in the past year, this is an area ripe for both e-commerce and venture capital investors. The new round was led by Insight Partners and included participation from existing investor US Venture Partners and gives nfinite a total of $130 million in venture-backed funding since the company was founded in 2017.

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