TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be two days away from TechCrunch Disrupt! Anyway…speaking of Disrupt and Brex, I will be interviewing co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras and Anu Hariharan, managing director of YC’s growth fund, YC Continuity, live in a Fireside Chat on October 19! Hello, hello. Soooo exciting!

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? Then these firms raised larger funds to invest in LBOs, but they diversified, too. Real estate, hedge funds, derivatives, all kinds of assets. Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk?

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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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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. The Japanese investment conglomerate has dramatically ramped up its investing in the region, and so have a number of other global investors.

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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

Our Investment in Sila, the Portland-based Startup Founded by a Fintech Pioneer. Today we’re excited to announce a $13M investment in Sila , a fintech platform developing payments infrastructure for software developers to quickly and inexpensively add regulatory-compliant payment capabilities into their products. trillion per year?—?Shamir

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

I’ve been seeing a lot of startups recently that want the best of both worlds for consumers, and Getaway is no different — combining both an investment and an enjoyment in one product. million to let friends (and strangers) invest in real estate together. Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Conventional wisdom says I shouldn’t tell you this because I invested in their main competitor, MakeSpace. Clutter is LA based and many of my friends invested. 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.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2022

Glambook reckons that market is ripe for some tech-forward disruption, not dissimilar from renting a chair in someone’s car (Uber) a desk in someone’s office (WeWork) or a room with a view in someone’s house (Airbnb). A group of business angels invested in the round. The company raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

These days, the startup’s most disruptive belief is one that disagrees with the co-working model popularized by WeWork. The investment occurred weeks before the firm announced that it invested in Flow, WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s next bet — both investments show the firm’s interest in a more flexible, yet turnkey future of real estate.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 15, 2015

They could have created a reasonable, nuanced set of rules that allows me to rent my place out when I'm not there, like the four times a year I'm out in San Francisco trying to convince valley VCs to invest here, to someone who needs it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Opendoor co-founder and CEO Eric Wu said his company, a publicly traded real estate fintech, was navigating “one of the most challenging real estate markets in 40 years.”. Opendoor announced it was letting go of 18% of its staff. This is around 500 people. Chargebee has laid off about 10% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets.

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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. investors,” he said. “So

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Latin America, they believe, has historically been ripe for disruption, especially in the fintech and proptech sectors, due to the significant underbanked and unbanked population in the region and the relatively unstructured real estate industry. Some are even seeing more opportunity than in the U.S.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Tax credits are another financial tool that states have attempted to use with varying success to stimulate early-stage investment in startups. The concept behind tax credits is that they will help investors offset a portion of the investment risk and thereby create more capital for startup companies. Some credits are transferable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

But in the past few decades, the lens through which we view real estate and property development has slowly blurred. They spoke extensively about the latest tech in property and housing development, where the next disruption is likely to happen, and other trends. What is your investment thesis for proptech in 2023?

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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. New York-based Luxor Capital, which led the company’s €37 million Series B in September 2021 , is also leading this round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

He learned how heavy duty vehicles are produced en masse during his three-and-a-half years there, and also helped start and invest in other companies. “The average OEM will need to write off between six and seven years of profit to get rid of the legacy investments in diesel platforms.” ” Robert Falck.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Investments in the seed round came from East West Bank, Wavemaker Partners, and Talino Venture Labs. to directly pay bills, tuition and other school fees, medical expenses, and even real estate in the Philippines through the use of paycodes. Register BayaniPay now has fresh capital amounting to $4.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

In India’s competitive workspace interior market, traditional providers have long dominated the landscape, often requiring substantial investment of time and resources for clients to achieve their desired results. “There is a huge demand… but the only problem is it is not vertically integrated anywhere.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Infra.Market, an Indian startup that is helping construction and real estate companies in the world’s second-most populated nation procure materials and handle logistics for their projects, said on Tuesday it has secured its third financing round in the past nine months.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Harvard Business School grad Cameron Johnson is a former institutional real estate investor and Greystar exec turned startup founder who realized that very often, “renters would try to rent the model apartment.”. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global supply chain, leading to delivery delays for consumers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

No one likes dilution, and that’s why every founder is looking for alternatives to traditional equity investing by venture capitalists. SaaS securitization will disrupt VC’s biggest returns this coming decade. i80 itself has built an investment firm based around credit underwriting just these sorts of projects for startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

But she’s here today because of her personal experience with I-V-F. Neesha spoke with Oma Robotics co-founder Kiran Joshi and Root Ventures partner Chrissy Meyer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Kaszek led Cora’s $10 million seed round (believed at that time to be one of the largest seed investments in LatAm) in December 2019 with Ribbit then following. In particular, Cora wants to go even deeper in certain segments such as B2B professional services such as law and accounting firms; real estate brokerage and education.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 28, 2023

Specific to Santa Barbara, TurnOnGreen is undertaking an inaugural project on behalf of the Towbes Group , a fully integrated real estate investment, development and property management firm that is well established in the Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo Counties. EVs represent 18% of the overall market share in CA.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

We’ve seen a big wave of proptech startups emerge to reimagine how houses and bought and sold, with some tapping into the opportunity with distressed property , and others exploring the “ iBuyer ” model where houses are bought, fixed up and resold by a single startup to homeowners who don’t want to invest in a fixer-upper.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Like many other online real estate brokerages, Homie pledged lower commissions and a more streamlined process. Also, like many other real estate brokerages, it has attempted to become a one-stop shop for home buyers and sellers by branching out into loan, insurance and title services. . YC-backed Duplo raised a $1.3M

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

More than half of our TBFP Concept Fund investments and about 44 percent of investments from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund have been in IT, software, telecommunication, and internet firms, Brett Kolomyjec, Oklahoma entrepreneur and CEO of Happily, is upbeat about post-pandemic opportunities for businesses in these industries. “The

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The co-founder, CEO and managing partner at York IE , a strategic growth and investment firm for technology companies. Advising and investing in hundreds of startups, primarily in B2B SaaS, Kyle is a board member for several portfolio companies. What is it that excites you about investing? That is why we launched York IE.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In a recent conversation, CEO Gunnar Froh told TechCrunch about the pivot and gave a general update on the company, a member of this year’s Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022. Food automation startups are having a moment, as recently evidenced by Chipotle’s investment in Miso Robotics’ tortilla chip–making robot.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2024

They should also consider retaining an investment bank or business broker to help determine the overall salability of the company and its valuation – a common topic in negotiations. Generally, a company seeking a potential exit should review all of these areas before going to closing. an earnout). Author: Joseph N.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

In other Goldman Sachs news, Bloomberg reported that the investment banking and financial services giant is “ embarking on its biggest round of jobs cuts since the start of the pandemic.” Residential real estate marketplace Sundae last week conducted its second layoff this year. Proptechs continue to take a hit. And elsewhere.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to the latest Alibaba B2B Pulse report, five industries that include commercial service equipment, sports & entertainment, toys & hobbies, construction & real estate, and minerals & metallurgy have registered averaging 73% growth in daily demand in July 2021 vs. July 2020. Alibaba B2B Pulse Report.

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