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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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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. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing.

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A Founder's Guide: Essential Management Advice for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

After analyzing hundreds of posts on startup management, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind. Create psychological safety : Encourage calculated risks and constructive dissent. Team Building Anatomy of a Reference Check : Then get out of their way.

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Why Founders Have No Clue How They Raised (Or Failed To)

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They had constructed a very specific story about how that company’s features would win out over and above the deal that they missed. For years, he went on to advise other founders about how to generate VC interest, which really could have amounted to, “Be a warm body with a pulse in a sector that firm got shut out of a deal in.”

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Three Weeks to Money: How long a seed investment should really take

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They''re not well networked and all of the founders they meet essentially start out as strangers out of the blue. Let''s start respecting founders'' time more and realizing that the more time we take, the more time it takes away from their business. Plus, it effects our dealflow.

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AI construction startup Versatile raises a $20M Series A

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San Francisco-based construction startup Versatile is announcing today that it has raised a $20 million Series A. From that vantage point, it’s capable of capturing and analyzing data across the construction site. With around $10 trillion currently spent on construction each year, the industry is prime for some big-ticket investments.

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How To Pitch A Real Estate Tech VC

Dream It

Berman comes from a real estate background, and he co-founded Camber Creek after realizing an opportunity to “create a double alpha situation,” both investing in high-growth startups and using those startups to improve the operations of his own real estate portfolio. Does the founder know how to sell into real estate?

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Construct Capital’s $300M fund targets critical infrastructure automation

TechCrunch

Construct Capital co-founders and general partners Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt continue to dive into innovation that some investors may not think is so sexy, but actually runs behind the scenes so that our food gets to grocery stores every week and our packages arrive when they say they will.