Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? Real estate, hedge funds, derivatives, all kinds of assets. This supply/demand shift that provides founders more leverage in conversations has catalyzed some innovation in venture. in the New Yorker.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Naval Academy graduate and former fighter pilot, Herman saw real estate as the only avenue to true wealth creation open to him and his family given their years on the road and lack of available investment capital. After the Navy, Herman went to Harvard Business School and met his co-founder Louis Wilson.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle. When Qualtrics was acquired by SAP for $8 billion, the city saw itself more authentically as a seedbed of innovation. Distant skeptics also took note, and the belief that “innovation can happen here” proliferated.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 15, 2015

And now, our anti-tech progress Mayor is helping NYC join an exclusive list of cities that have stood in the way of Uber providing an innovative consumer service that is in high demand. Well, what are the chances of that given our anti-innovation policies regarding these two companies?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption. years it was hard to get other investors to see this unsexy market as ripe for innovation. When we funded Sam , Rahul and team at MakeSpace > 2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s being led by Josh Buckley (the CEO of Product Hunt), with participation from WndrCo (Disney/Dreamworks’ supremo Jeffrey Katzenberg’s investment firm), Lachy Groom, MMC Technology Ventures LLC, Fifth Wall Ventures and Array Ventures, as well as a swathe of real estate names, including J.M.

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Revolution

JULY 26, 2021

It is the platform of choice for app developers and is particularly attractive in highly regulated industries such as insurance, real estate, and lending. Setting out to disrupt the global payments industry?—?with really any company that needs to facilitate financial transactions. with a massive TAM of about $1.9M

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Apprentiscope ApprentiScope exists to bolster our national workforce by facilitating the adoption, expansion and success of apprenticeship programs through innovative, efficient and powerful software solutions. Tursus Developing innovative back-office solutions for the point-of-sale industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Particularly in industries where supply is scarce, or in old-guard industries where innovation in the underlying product or service is slow, a digitized marketplace — even when managed — can produce underwhelming experiences for consumers. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Real estate investment firm Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström (like Volta, based in Stockholm), supply chain services giant Agility, and B-FLEXION (formerly Waypoint Capital) also participated. “As an innovator and disruptor in commercial vehicles, we are working at industry-leading pace and have significant ambitions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

Mittal co-founded OfficeBanao in January 2022 with Akshya Kumar (CTO) and Divyanshu Sharma (CBO and CPO) after spending years in the industry designing and building workspaces for multinational clients at real-estate developer DLF and interior design firm SKV.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 28, 2023

Upon project completion, 168 multi-family units will have EV charging stations utilizing TurnOnGreen’s innovative EVP700G level 2 EV charger. The latter is a diversified holding company that acquires undervalued businesses and disruptive technologies that have the potential for a global impact. Imperalis Holding Corp.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another. Fixing a foundation after the superstructure is built is a costly, disruptive and sometimes impossible task,” Bechtel said. Founders can apply to the program here. .

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Information technology plays a super-sized role In Oklahoma’s innovation economy. I would expect that as office and commercial real estate leases expire, companies in technology are going to become very smart about remote work and how they decentralize operations. By Scott Meacham. Another truth is that pandemics upset inertia.

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GCUC

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

We looked at some real estate together, spent time in Austin, and they flew me up to New York to explore working for WeWork and selling them my brand and conference. I sat in his office while he negotiated a real estate deal. Coworking is that disruption. I didn’t do it. He also had a cunning smile and quick wit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Brynne founded Habi to bring modern home buying tools to low- and middle-class home buyers in her home country of Colombia. But she’s here today because of her personal experience with I-V-F.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Construction is massive in terms of financial, societal, and environmental impact with significant opportunity for innovation to disrupt and improve it in a myriad of ways.”. Pechet said the company’s existing backers were eager to invest again because Homebound has “done all the things we said we were going to do.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In its statement, BillionBricks expressed confidence that the partnership with their key investors would bring so much promise in benefiting the future of housing and climate change because of their shared vision and common approach to technology and innovation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A startup that is improving the way construction and real estate companies in India procure materials and handle logistics for their projects has received the backing of three new investors. Mumbai-headquartered Infra.Market said on Thursday it has raised $20 million in a Series B financing round.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Real estate , e.g. AcreTrader , Alphaflow , Brickvest , Cadre , Crowdstreet , Fundrise , PeerRealty , RealCrowd , RealtyMogul , Republic Real Estate*, SmallChange. Cheryl Campos said, “Republic offers educational events such as Angel Investing 101 and more specific investing modules around gaming and real estate.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. QuintoAndar , a Brazilian real estate marketplace. A lot has changed since then. Think of Carvana, but for emerging markets.”.

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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. With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. They have high-priced property and zero innovation. Public Storage does about $2.4

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 07: Coinbase Co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California. And next week, they are putting together a piece on the changes on the real estate and proptech side.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Computer vision, machine learning and other innovations in artificial intelligence are being put to use in earnest in autonomous systems across a range of industries these days, and supermarkets have been one of the more interesting applications. This latest round brings the total raised to almost $300 million.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

It’s a good thing when state leaders recognize the strategic importance of innovation in job and wealth creation. Certain industries, for example real estate or finance, may be excluded. By Scott Meacham. It’s also a good thing when a state considers legislation to help address capital gaps.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Reports Manish Singh: “India and Singapore have linked their digital payments systems, UPI and PayNow , to enable instant and low-cost fund transfers in a major push to disrupt the cross-border flow of money between the two nations that amounts to more than $1 billion each year.” Opendoor Technologies continues to face challenges.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Overall, we are very optimistic about construction robotics and hope to see more companies attempt to solve the issues in productivity with breakthrough technologies, as well as innovative business models. Innovative new startups are continually entering the space.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Frances Schwiep: BNPL, though crowded in established markets, is still ripe for innovation in new geographies like Latin America. Beyond embeddable fintech products, we’re excited about companies that are disrupting traditional payment rails with more efficient models. Which products or services are innovating?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The revolution witnessed over the last five years, which produced the likes of Nubank (the world’s largest digital bank), was sparked by a mix of changing consumer demands, a concentrated banking sector and a pro-innovation regulatory environment.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

years at Birdeye, he has managed and consulted for some of the world’s most innovative startups and categories including: Gaming (Deltaco + L33T), Tech Management (KeySmart + Cable Candy), Eco-Sustainable Materials (Zero Waste Movement?—?ZWM), I started my first company when I was 23; a real estate company in Phoenix, AZ in 2005.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Other investors on the cap table include Nordic real estate innovator NREP, Nordic property developer OBOS, U.K. real estate technology fund Round Hill Ventures and Norway’s Construct Venture.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Given the company’s slow pace of innovation — which contradicted the core principles of Lean — we assumed they wouldn't amount to much. Over the past few years, I’ve become skeptical of whether “The Lean Startup” was really the best guide for new product innovation. And I ultimately came to appreciate that I wasn’t alone.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

InvestNext is a Detroit fintech startup that has created a platform to streamline how real estate investment firms raise and manage capital. Top Detroit startup Guardhat raised nearly $42 million in funding in early 2021 to create innovative safety solutions for industrial IoT. In late 2021 RoboTire raised $7.5 InvestNext.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Their track record of success and innovation, along with their platform’s growing suite of tools and intuitive user experience has Guesty positioned to define and consolidate its category, working with hosting businesses of all sizes. (For

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