TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Point says that last year, it received over $1 billion in new capital commitments from real estate and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) investors. Homeowners, Lim said, use the cash to do a variety of things — such as conducting home renovations, starting a small business, funding a child’s education or saving for retirement. “We

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The company sells to local governments, real estate management companies, educational institutions--anyone responsible for public or private infrastructure. That alone is enough to make a lot of VCs throw up a little in their mouths. There is a lot of talk about needing to be a technical founder. Slow sales cycles.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes. That company sold to Germany’s WireCard in 2016 (with a 3 million customer base) and after three years the founders were able to strike out again.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

These conditions are not conducive to inducing confidence for investors or founders. Edtech, and education more broadly, usually one of the more resistant sectors during times of economic crisis, has not been immune to the downturn. Against this background, we formed our annual review of European edtech activity for 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. I ended up taking 150 Zoom calls in the summer of 2020 and heard countless stories of founders’ great ideas and amazing businesses.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2023

Ethan is currently a Venture Partner with Contrary Capital and founder of a stealth startup. In early-stage VC especially, you get to talk to people at the cutting edge of every vertical in tech, be it finance, housing, healthcare, or education. What should VCs focus on when it comes to finding the “right deals”?

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

He said they’d consider any “special situations” funds I was doing—at which point I realized that he had never even looked at the deck and had zero intentions of doing any real diligence. One of my founders texted me, “What are you telling people to do about the Coronavirus?” It was the first anyone had asked me about it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

million for its second fund aimed at injecting capital into founders that don’t come from the educational pedigree or location that we typically see with entrepreneurs. It makes angel, pre-seed and seed investments into B2B SaaS startups in sectors like finance, healthcare, cybersecurity, supply chain, construction and real estate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government. We spoke to the following investors: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder and managing partner, Clerisy. Maya Baratz Jordan, CEO and founding partner, Founders Factory New York. Laura González-Estéfani, founder, TheVentureCity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Other participating investors included HALA Ventures, P1 Ventures, Plus Venture Capital (+VC), Plug and Play, Ingressive Capital, Camel Ventures, and existing investors Falak Startups and Arzan Venture Capital. The Egyptian startup has raised $2.4 Some of its clients include Clakett, Mermaid, OLX and Zammit.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. Etsy is headquartered in 55 Washington Street, which is owned by Two Trees--the real estate concern that pretty much created the DUMBO we know today. via Brownstoner. Alex Trautwig. Watchtower Headquarters.

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StartupNation

MAY 5, 2021

Tom Ferry, founder and CEO of Tom Ferry International , ranked the number one real estate coach by the Swanepoel Power 200, and New York Times best-selling author of “ Life! ” — Danae Ringelmann , founder and chief development officer of Indiegogo. Joe Kakaty , co-founder and president of Poker Central.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

This time around, we confirm the rumors were true : European Klarna bagged a hefty piece of venture capital real estate — $800 million — but did it at a lower valuation, so 85% less to land at $6.7 Startups and VC. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. Big Tech Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

The major source of output of course has a computer monitor that fortunately takes a lot less desk real estate than it did when I started at my first job in 1991. His co-founder and COO, Andy Berman , made the smart move from being a young VC to becoming an entrepreneur.

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

Even though we’re dealing with early stage companies, there is an easier pathway to quickly inform them, quickly educate them, and quickly put them in connection with the right sorts of people that are actually going to drive them forward and move them from startup to scaleup. There is a lot more shared knowledge. Tweet this quote ).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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JUNE 1, 2020

What have tech leaders been telling people they needed to do in order to be great founders and to build great things? Last night, SoHo stores were looted, and nowhere in the coverage will it mention that the whole neighborhood has been one giant flaunt of real estate zoning law for years--illegal occupiers of their space.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. Based in Detroit, Autobooks offers a number of wellness benefits, plus great financial and educational benefits. InvestNext is a Detroit fintech startup that has created a platform to streamline how real estate investment firms raise and manage capital.

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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. Ryan Caldbeck, Founder, CircleUp, wrote a detailed analysis : “Equity crowdfunding or equity investment marketplaces failed. Didn’t work.” Transparency.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

And second, I wanted to inform the strategy of my new firm, Versatile VC , from the most educated point of view. . Teten: In the Before Time, I was at a dinner for Partners at many of the major New York VC funds. I don’t think it’s a threat to established VCs.” drive the bulk of returns for the VC industry.

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