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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. I’m a stickler for focus, being efficient with capital and building out operational excellence, so our strategy initially was very constrained. MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5 The Early Years.

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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.”. billion valuation — revealed that the company’s new strategy will impact 15% of its roles. This is around 500 people.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 23, 2022

million in seed investments in a funding round led by Thakral Corporation Ltd. With the investment, BillionBricks will now be able to pursue its vision of addressing the global climate and housing crises by combining clean energy and large-scale affordable housing. The post BillionBricks scores $2.4m

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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

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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Volta’s wider business strategy will be based both on selling trucks as well as offering its vehicles on a trucking-as-a-service model. 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.

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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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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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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. .

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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 27, 2021

Flexing its “20-minute term sheet” the startup uses an algorithm to shift through a startup’s data, and if it has positive ad spend and positive unit economics, they make an investment worth anything from $10,000 to over $10 million. And next week, they are putting together a piece on the changes on the real estate and proptech side.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. Bob Ruark, principal and banking and fintech strategy leader for KPMG US, noted that pricing is difficult now given the rapid decline in valuations. Today the U.S. Another day, another Q2 funding report.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 2, 2012

In this month’s HBR, Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell published an article targeted to the CEOs of large companies on how to prevent disruption to their businesses. Startups need to build and master their go-to-market strategy. The ecosystem barrier: Products don’t exist in a vacuum.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Top investment opportunities. Join OurCrowd as we invest in a $14M B round led by Banca Generali, a branch of Assicurazioni Generali, the world’s fourth-largest insurance company. Invest More. Pandemic disruption and US-China tensions have brought entire industries to their knees. Who will step up when the chips are down?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When I started leading deals at First Round Capital, I sourced investments in 8 companies. I found GroupMe at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon. I have now been investing on my own at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures for almost eight years exactly—which is pretty much about the time people say it takes to build up a company to a big exit.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. InvestNext is a Detroit fintech startup that has created a platform to streamline how real estate investment firms raise and manage capital. They are committed to diversity and invest in the education of their employees. InvestNext. Grand Circus.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Next week is Disrupt, so the TechCrunch Slack watercooler is full of sartorial advice, much to our surprise and confusion. At Index, we’re probably more aggressively investing in what we think the next generation of fintech companies is going to be right now.”. Harri explores how the climate crisis is shaping investors’ strategies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In most emerging markets where Quona invests — including Latin America, the region I lead for the firm — BNPL remains relatively open, with a few market leaders beginning to emerge, such as ADDI in Brazil and Colombia, and Zest Money in India. Jonathan Whittle: It depends on the market. And that’s where Nelo fits in.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). were more distributed. Seriously, this happens.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment). Just because the valuation in absolute terms isn’t a big difference does not mean that people aren’t paying higher than intrinsic value for these investments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has created all sorts of real estate issues for companies as it forced so many employees to work from home, leaving empty space all over the globe. And while there is no shortage of technology out there for landlords, there are fewer options for commercial real estate tenants and brokers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) (Any The highest-rated credit you can invest in (i.e., Obviously, that strategy didn’t work.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

It will be using the money to double down on that strategy, including hiring up to 200 more engineers to work in its headquarters in Barcelona, as well as hubs in Madrid and Warsaw, Poland to build out the technology to underpin it. . “We’ve got our own strategy and it seems to be working.” ”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Notably, when outlining the decision to reduce staff, CEO and co-founder Zach Perret said he “made the decision to hire and invest ahead of revenue growth, and the current economic slowdown has meant that this revenue growth did not materialize as quickly as expected.” Then a mass layoff. Did they all get ahead of themselves?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It’s not just e-commerce: New restrictions on data sharing and collection will raise customer acquisition costs for everything from auto sales to real estate. If your startup is formulating a zero-party data strategy, please read. “And the exchanges aren’t even the swingiest of crypto-themed investments.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights. Sequoia apparently was fairly active overall last year despite the global downturn, with over 100 investments. But wasn’t that true for every sector?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Venture capital is just equity--and it's equity that isn't widely available to everyone and it gets invested in by a wide variety of investor types with different strategies. Do you think there are some overriding market characteristics that are weighing in equally in the performance of both those investments?

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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. trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes only $100 million for digital construction technologies, but if new tech is used in public infrastructure projects, it could prove a boon for the industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

And good news, btw, we’re offering 15% off Disrupt tickets (excluding online or expo tickets) for you, our trusty Daily Crunch readers. Slumdog $5-illonnaire : Landa is the latest startup to attract venture capital, in this case $33 million, to democratize real estate ownership, Mary Ann writes. More like mid-weak! Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

His explanation for moving away from disclosing property numbers is not to do with the inevitable disruption that Covid-19 brought to the industry (and Guesty’s users in particular ), but because Guesty itself has changed as a business, expanding both the kinds of properties that are managed, and the uses of those properties.

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