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We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city

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For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson will be a Startup Battlefield Judge at Disrupt 2021

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She left NEA to start her own fund, Construct Capital, that focuses exclusively on early-stage startups, with a portfolio that includes Copia, ChargeLab, Tradeswell and Hadrian. It should come as no surprise, then, that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Grayson join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September.

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Announcing the Builders Stage agenda at Disrupt 2023

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TechCrunch Disrupt , our yearly flagship startup event, returns to San Francisco on September 19–21 — and you can bet TechCrunch+ will be in the house. If you went to Disrupt 2022, you’ll recall the TechCrunch+ Stage, which hosted dozens of panels and interviews focused on the nuts and bolts of building and funding new tech enterprises.

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Formwork Labs aims to build ‘the YC of construction tech’

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Construction tech is one of those sectors that has not historically been considered “sexy” in a startup world that often favors glitzier technology. But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

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In the wake of COVID-19 this spring, construction sites across the nation emptied out alongside neighboring restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments. Amidst the chaos, construction firms faced an existential question: How will they survive? Construction is a massive, $1.3

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Brokrete wants to be the ‘Shopify of construction’, raises $3M seed led by Xploration Capital

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With the pandemic affecting every aspect of life and industry, it’s no surprise that digitization is coming to construction fast. Construction suppliers are increasingly under the same pressure as other sectors to perform at a higher level. This is the argument of Brokrete , which bills itself as the “Shopify of construction.”.

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German construction tech startup Cosuno raises $30M Series B by Avenir Growth

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Germany-based construction tech startup Cosuno has raised a $30 million Series B led by U.S. Construction is one of the largest industries in the world but amongst the least open to new technology. It says a construction volume of more than $4 billion has already been processed via the platform. We call it pre-construction.”