This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 20, 2013

While any exit in NYC is great, what makes this particularly special to those of us on this side of the river is that it was the first tech startup in Brooklyn to sell that was a) native, b) bought for what it did, and perhaps, more importantly, c) had a model whose idea was native to the ideals we promote in this community, namely creativity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Jack Selby, a former PayPal exec and the longtime managing director of Thiel Capital who attracted some attention years back for his low-key largesse , has a new, $110 million venture fund that he intends to invest mostly in his adopted state of Arizona, where Selby has lived since 2002. Why would a utility company do this? Two things.

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MAY 19, 2021

Real estate , e.g. AcreTrader , Alphaflow , Brickvest , Cadre , Crowdstreet , Fundrise , PeerRealty , RealCrowd , RealtyMogul , Republic Real Estate*, SmallChange. Rob Leclerc, Founding Partner, AgFunder , said, “We think of ourselves as a media company with VC as a business model. Social communities : ASmallWorld.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

The return of neighborhood retail and other surprising real estate trends. Pre-seed round funding is under scrutiny: Is VC pandemic posturing here to stay? Pre-seed round funding is under scrutiny: Is VC pandemic posturing here to stay? How VC and private equity funds can launch portfolio-acceleration platforms.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

For below-the-line employees, however, unexpected layoffs can be life-changing: One former product manager I used to work with now sells residential real estate, and another works in public health. Jack Hallam, growth and community lead, Ammo. Jonathan Metrick, chief growth officer, Portage Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Although SVB’s failure can’t be blamed on the venture ecosystem, some policymakers have joined the general public in maligning the bank’s depositors — in large part venture-backed startups. This negative narrative has immense implications for the venture community. This is an inflection point.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) seems determined to keep the capital flowing to controversial WeWork founder Adam Neumann. The storied venture firm wrote its largest individual check ever, at $350 million, to Flow, Neumann’s new residential real estate company focused on rentals, the New York Times reported today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It was about being an integral part of the surrounding community – from sponsoring Little League games to serving as ambassadors for the neighborhood. And not only that, commercial real estate landlords, when given the choice, often choose tenants with large names such as Starbucks over lesser known small businesses. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Property technology has radically impacted the way we live and travel, but the real estate industry has successfully resisted most attempts to innovate. “Our allies and communities need to be part of the solution by investing in our companies or becoming paying clients,” says Kerry Schrader, co-founder of Mixtroz.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

At the same time, he added, “high interest rates may also increase the demand for venture capital when bank lending is less attractive to entrepreneurs.” The biggest VC firms are managing a lot more moolah than you thought. Indeed, some of his earlier work has found few consistent effects of interest rates.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

And second, I wanted to inform the strategy of my new firm, Versatile VC , from the most educated point of view. . Teten: In the Before Time, I was at a dinner for Partners at many of the major New York VC funds. Another said, “I think it’s remnant inventory…the Craigslist of venture capital. Can you explain that?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2021

While some major global companies like Xero, Rocket Lab, LanzaTech and Seequent have shined a spotlight on New Zealand’s startup scene, the country historically hasn’t had access to much venture capital. New Zealand sits favorably on the minds of the international community. Icehouse Ventures CEO Robbie Paul.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

One day, I’m hearing personal accounts of VCs pulling term sheets at the last minute, with some citing that their own investors had backed out of providing funds, leaving founders scrambling to save a round — and face. Then the next, I have a founder telling me their latest round was preempted by a large venture firm in their industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

They include Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, who said last year he was moving his venture capital firm , 8VC, from Silicon Valley to the city, and Geoff Lewis , founder and managing partner of Bedrock Capital. Austin wasn’t an overnight success.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

aren’t finished taking big swings at the commercial real estate business in the U.S. Like WeWork, REEF leases most of the real estate it operates and upgrades it before leasing it to other occupants (or using the spaces itself). Not that dream is subsidized by VC.”

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . Absolutely not. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Via Angel Squad, Hustle Fund specifically aims to build an inclusive investor community, make minimum check sizes low and accessible (think as little as $1,000), provide “angel education” and give investors a way to invest alongside Hustle Fund. We are not looking for passive capital. To more people like Colorado-based Penn. “

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In recent years, it formed a seed practice and has since raised two Rise of the Rest seed funds, the most recent of which closed last year with $150 million in capital commitments. Orchard real estate platform raises $69 million Series C led by Revolution Growth. Some of that has happened, for sure.

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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. This persistence in good times and troubled times is an important reason for entrepreneurs to welcome angel capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures. I also recently joined another WhatsApp chat #miamitechlife that includes a local community of founders, investors, executives and local leaders to meet, collaborate and network while engaging in fun activities around Miami.

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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.

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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. He just had his Mitt Romney moment and his name will forever be etched in the collective consciousness of the tech community for this terribly insensitive and tone deaf letter to the Wall Street Journal. Kleiner Perkins.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Other contributing factors include an over-reliance on venture capital funding for businesses that had yet to figure out a robust business model, while the broader economic downturn has forced companies to cut their costs and safeguard their remaining capital amidst a climate of inflation and rising interest rates. In the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

In 2020, Deloitte reported that “in the world of startups, the global fintech founder community was still dominated by men, with women making up just 7% of the total pool.” Image Credits: Wilshire Lane Capital Founder and Managing Partner Adam Demuyakor / LinkedIn. ” Funding across the globe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Startups and VC. 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. And finally, Anita reports that real estate investing app Fintor raised $6.2

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Fetch Package , a last-mile package delivery company for apartment communities, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding and closed on a $10 million venture debt facility. Michael Patton founded Fetch in May 2016 after being frustrated by having packages lost at the apartment community in which he was living. . “I

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. via Brownstoner. via Brownstoner.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Venture firms are advising portfolio companies to move money out of SVB After SVB announced that it intended to sell shares in pursuit of more capital, some VC firms, including but not limited to USV, Founders Fund, Hustle Fund, Inspired Capital and Valor Equity — advised startups to pull money out of SVB.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Venture firms are advising portfolio companies to move money out of SVB After SVB announced that it intended to sell shares in pursuit of more capital, some VC firms, including but not limited to USV, Founders Fund, Hustle Fund, Inspired Capital and Valor Equity — advised startups to pull money out of SVB.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Hustle Fund is its biggest investor, and it has multiple strategic angel investors that work in the real estate industry. Recipients included the following fintech startups: CashEx, a currency exchange platform that leverages AI to help U.S. TC’s Christine Hall covered its recent $5 million raise here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

Nigel Morris , the firm’s co-founder and managing partner, in an interview with TechCrunch, said Africa was the final piece of the puzzle for transforming QED into a global fintech-specialist VC firm.”. I thought this was so interesting, I asked Tage if he could elaborate on the significance of this news.

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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. Zach Aarons, MetaProp VC Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Sequoia, the top venture capital firm on the face of the earth, put in a growth round that valued the company at close to half a unicorn. I imagined a future Wing media arm with a TV channel, a venture capital fund… …and then it all came crashing down. Audrey Gelman was on the cover of Inc magazine, visibly pregnant.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Last night, SoHo stores were looted, and nowhere in the coverage will it mention that the whole neighborhood has been one giant flaunt of real estate zoning law for years--illegal occupiers of their space. Venture capital is supposed to make a high multiple of return for the risk.

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