TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

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. billion and $40.5 billion , respectively.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

based construction tech company that offers an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform to help project managers track work and capture data from building sites, has raised $16 million in funding. So it’s clear that investors are still keen on backing the next big construction industry movers and shakers. Disperse , a U.K.-based

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Onevest

APRIL 21, 2015

By Michael Whitehouse If you are considering investing in a startup company offline or online with platforms like 1000 Angels , a private investor network that connects startups with investors, the sheer number of what’s available can be both daunting and comforting. If they are not then your investment could prove worthless.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

There were regular events where experts talked about: fund raising, term sheets, constructing a team, product development, establishing biz dev partners, M&A, dealing with the press, etc. Pose – Raises $5 million in 2 rounds from GRP Partners, True Ventures, Mousse Partners & Founder Collective.

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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

JUNE 7, 2021

Briq , which has developed a fintech platform used by the construction industry, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. Briq CEO and co-founder Bassem Hamdy is a former executive at construction tech giant Procore (which recently went public and has a market cap of $10.4

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception. JLL Spark, Vertex Ventures, Anim, K50, Foundamental and Green D Alumni Ventures also participated in the Series A investment. Scherr told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Kojo , a startup that aims to help construction companies in the U.S. Earlier this year, the startup rebranded to Kojo and expanded from serving just one construction trade — electrical — to eight, including mechanical, concrete, drywall, roofing, flooring, site preparation and self-perform general contractors. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. Construction is the one of the least digitized industries out there. Image Credits: Co-founder and CEO Lily Liu / Pin?ata.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The challenges her father faced as a business owner in the construction industry always stayed in the back of her mind, so when Lin got the entrepreneurial itch, it was a natural move to help start a company that helped trade contractors better control their finances. It’s basically the slowest paying industry in the world,” Lin said.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? .

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2022

As founders rush to build the infrastructure of tomorrow, they often seek out money from those that have self-identified as “Web3 VCs”—the promoters and thought leaders of this new paradigm. It may implode from an investment perspective—in fact, that is quite likely and may have already started to happen. Take the Dot Com Bubble.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When it comes to construction projects, any type of delay can result in increased costs both for the contractor and their customer. Notably, the financing is a significant jump from the $17.1 They also don’t have to pay employees to do things like go buy supplies so they can thus focus on the actual construction.

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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

APRIL 13, 2023

Investments began flooding into robotics around this time. Categories like construction, agriculture and health care, among others, were very much looking to automate. Slowed investments have been compounded by continued economic woes and the recent bank collapses have further shaken confidence.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

In short: Access to great deals, ability to be invited to invest in these deals, ability to see where value in a market will be created and the luck to back the right team with the right market at the right time all matter. So if you truly want to be great at investing you need all the right skills and access AND a diversified portfolio.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

So In May 2020, he teamed up with fellow Digital Ocean co-founders Mitch Wainer and Ben Uretsky to startup Welcome Homes , a New York City-based company that offers people a way to design and build new homes online. DigitalOcean’s other two co-founders Jesse Mauro and Marc Hartman are advisors to the company).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Brazilian construction tech startup Ambar announced it has raised a large Series C round: R$204 million, approximately $36 million at today’s mid-market rate. Ambar was created in 2013 with the ambition to leverage technology to make the civil construction process more efficient. Ambar is not a general contractor, though.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

They enable governments to finance critical infrastructure, corporations to fund growth, and individuals to make life’s most important purchases. Enter Moment , a new company building infrastructure that abstracts away the complexities of embedding fixed income investments in any application.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Last week , we took the plunge and began dissecting an example term sheet for a convertible debt financing round piece by piece. In Part II, we looked at the mandatory conversion language that is at the heart of any convertible debt financing. Same, except at the option of the noteholders (per the term sheet example above).

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Black founders raised 1.3% venture investment, totaling just over $4.3 So far this year, Black founders have raised a smaller 1.2% of the $125 billion invested. And yet Black founders are raising an even smaller portion of venture dollars this year than last. of last year’s $330 billion worth of U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

At NEA, where she was a partner for eight years, she led investments in and sat on the boards of companies including Desktop Metal, Onshape, Framebridge, Tulip, Formlabs and Guideline. Onshape, another NEA-era investment, was acquired by PTC in 2019 for a whopping $525 million. That’s where Construct Capital came in.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Concreit , a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. . Concreit is not the first time that co-founders Sean Hsieh and Jordan Levy have worked together. It’s a lofty claim. on a Saturday.”

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

Whether you’re a first-time founder or a seasoned business owner striving for the next level of success, a mentor can provide insights, timely guidance, and encouragement that brings a positive impact on your business journey. They help you avoid c ommon pitfalls and introduce proven strategies that accelerate growth.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Embedded finance infrastructure makes financing decisions based on real-time data. Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. and Canada. This has historically hindered small business growth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies. The best founder and VC relationships are based on trust and partnership; it should be a relationship that’s nonjudgmental, supportive, and constructive. Zach DeWitt. Contributor.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Register Stilt Studios , the Indonesian startup renowned for its innovative prefabricated modular homes, has successfully concluded a series A funding round, raising $10 million through a blend of debt and equity investments. Their products are constructed on a modular platform that affords diverse design and customization possibilities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

million financing round. Startups from other parts of Africa that raised investments include Morocco’s Chari, Egypt’s Capiter and MaxAB , and Kenya’s Twiga and MarketForce. David Akinin (Co-founder and CEO, JABU). Namibian business-to-business e-commerce startup JABU confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised a $3.2

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; Chair, Orricks Private Investment Funds Group.) If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a constitution: a set of documents covering the firms goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. (Thanks to my coauthor Dolph M.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. And this is especially important since the people who get sucked into this admin the most are the founders – the people who you most want focused on high-value tasks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Seed investors Alpaca VC, Dolby Family Ventures, Timber Grove Ventures and Gaingels all invested above their pro-rata and are joined by Signia Venture Partners. housing market. Since its previous fundraising round, Diamond Age has massively advanced its tech, making it possible to print and build a 2,000-square-foot single-story home.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Artisanal Ventures , a Bay Area venture capital firm investing in B2B cloud startups, closed on its first fund, the oversubscribed $62 million Artisanal Ventures I. The firm is led by Andy Price, general partner, and also founder of cloud-focused executive search firm Artisanal Talent. He has brought in Andrew Van Nest as a partner.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. David Teten.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

I’ve never met a founder who wasn’t acutely aware of his or her ticking time bomb and the sense that failure and humiliation is a real possibility. Very, very few founders have an easy time despite what you read in the press. Strangely, most founders I know don’t have this conversation with the inside investors early.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. Her target is to invest in 25 to 30 U.S. “I tell people I invest in unsexy businesses!” “I wish VCs were more open about their LP construction,” Wischoff said in an email.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Roofstock co-founder and chairman Gregor Watson and real estate investor Rob Bloemker started the venture firm in 2021, and had their first close last year. For the unacquainted, Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes that in March raised $240 million at a $1.9 billion valuation. .

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