TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

The technological advances we’ve made over the last few thousand years are stunning, but the construction industry still relies on centuries-old technology. Even so, investors are backing startups bringing robotics, data management, automation and augmented reality into the construction process. Heinrich Gröller, partner, Speedinvest.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

New investor Franklin Templeton joined existing backers — including Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Moore Strategic Ventures, 137 Ventures and Brookfield Growth Partners — in putting money in the round. With this latest financing, Workrise has now raised more than $750 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly established itself as the go-to method of financing for a variety of purchases, particularly online. This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. healthcare, home construction, etc.). Which products or services are innovating?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

If you’ve been to Disrupt before, you’ll remember we had a stage or two or three. New for Disrupt 2023: The Security Stage , for those of us who love us some hacking, security, and everything in between. Finance, meet regulation. Regulation, finance : Ira Lam explores CeFi and DeFi in the face of regulation.

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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. While legacy sectors like transportation and energy have embraced new tech, innovation in the construction industry has been slow to take hold. construction industry saw spending reach an all-time high of $1.57

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Return backers Greycroft, SVB Capital, SiriusPoint, Elefund and Moxley Holdings also participated in the Series C financing. Foresight raises $15M for its construction workers’ compensation platform. I have seen very few insurtech teams that come close,” she added.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. Finance where needed. Fundings boomed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Notion Capital, Anthemis, Continental Grain and existing backers Syngenta and Ascot also participated in the financing, which brings the Chicago-based startup’s total raised to about $50 million since its 2016 inception. million in a Series A round of funding led by Greycroft. Anthemis led its $3.5 million seed round in early 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

8VC, Tishman Speyer, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Michael Ovitz, DST, LeFrak and Kevin Hartz also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised since its 2018 inception to about $45 million. But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Developing construction systems to create infrastructure and habitats on the moon, and eventually Mars, with NASA. These are just some of the things that Austin, Texas-based construction tech startup ICON has been working on. The financing brings ICON’s total equity raised to $266 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million. Bond led the latest round, which also included participation from LenX (formerly Lennar Ventures), Zeev Ventures, Fifth Wall Climate Tech and JLL Spark Global Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

From there, it can help with everything from architectural plans to design to actual construction via its platform. The construction industry has long been plagued by inefficiencies and productivity challenges. And while the sector has never before seen such influxes of capital, there is still clearly room for improvement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Fifth Wall led the financing, which notably also included participation from returning backer Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and new investors DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and StockX CEO Scott Cutler. Neighbor , which operates a self-storage marketplace, announced Wednesday that it has raised $53 million in a Series B round of funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

One such startup, Abodu , has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Previous backer Initialized Capital also participated in the financing, along with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, former Stockton, California Mayor Michael Tubbs, GGV investor Hans Tung and Paradox Capital’s Kyle Tibbitts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. There’s latent demand for life insurance currently unaddressed by much of the financial services industry, and embedded finance can be the solution. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. Deep Science: Robots, meet world.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

And that sometimes the public sector makes the investment that not even the riskier of venture capital funds can do. “So first, for example, for investment — what if big companies start investing more and more than they are actually doing? Meaning that the political administration, it’s more agile.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Shawn Carolan , partner, Menlo Ventures. Abhijit Ganguly , senior manager, Goodyear Ventures. Rachel Holt , co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. Sebastian Peck , managing director, InMotion Ventures. Sebastian Peck , managing director, InMotion Ventures. Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures.

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