Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I saw a few friends politely suggesting that “now was a great stock buying opportunity” meaning that given the stock market is off by 10% it was a great chance to buy and lock in presumably low prices before the market rises again. But I do have some insight into how this will affect venture markets. I’m not so sure.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Startups operating in the financial side of the real estate tech market suddenly faced a surge in demand, and many departed on hiring sprees to keep up. Nima Wedlake, principal at Thomvest Ventures, agreed, noting that agility is a critical trait. Nima Wedlake , principal, Thomvest Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Collective , an all-in-one back-office finance platform for the self-employed, which has raised over $28 million in funding, is hiring for five roles across engineering, marketing and member services (tax, accounting). Stay tuned, and please feel free to share with anyone looking for a new opportunity! Super interesting read.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. It was a great place to live and work, and I believed that over time, it would be a growing venture opportunity.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Keyway , a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of a $15 million equity raise. And 20% of transactions fall through because the buyer didn’t have guaranteed financing.” commercial real estate value.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Property technology startup Nomad Homes is working to change that by creating a personalized real estate buying experience in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a region that represents $20 trillion in real estate, company CEO Helen Chen told TechCrunch. “We We are like Stitch Fix for real estate,” she added. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On The groups source their own investment opportunities through personal networks or external platforms, as Tribevest is “investment-agnostic,” according to Smith. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow. according to Crunchbase), but especially for the real estate tech space (perhaps the largest ever). They were once rivals.

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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. It was an expensive mistake, and one he wants to help Latin American entrepreneurs avoid with his new venture, Latitud. “I

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Even though they collected rent one year upfront, the default rate of the yearly system is very high because when people’s finances take a hit, they might not be able to pay subsequent rent,” he said. That’s one of the reasons we raise debt financing.”. That’s one of the reasons we raise debt financing.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. For example, Brex announced last week that it provided $10 million in growth capital via venture debt to Zesty.ai, a leading provider of predictive data analytics in the climate risk space. We’re seeing pretty big market changes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

While markets grapple with the concept that the pandemic might not be entirely in the rear view mirror, investors are continuing to seek out investment opportunities outside public markets as they seek to diversify. Vincent makes money by facilitating discovery on its partner platforms and earning fees.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Scott Lenet is president of Touchdown Ventures. Is there a creed in venture capital? Venture capitalists frequently say that valuing startups is “more art than science.” So venture capitalists lie to entrepreneurs and pretend that seed- and early-stage startups have intrinsic value. Scott Lenet. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

And it has just closed on $6 million equity and $50 million debt financing to advance on that goal. In the same way that NetJets uses shared ownership to create an opportunity for people to enjoy the benefits of private air travel, Kocomo aims to apply a co-ownership model to vacation homes, he said. That’s what I thought.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

A slew of investors participated in the financing, including MetaProp, Agya Ventures, Concrete Rose, Debut Capital, The Community Fund, Consonance Capital, Lightspeed Scout Fund and Jason Calacanis’ LAUNCH syndicate. Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Revolution Growth has long invested in tech-driven companies that are disrupting legacy industries, particularly where there is a distinct opportunity to modernize the customer experience. Orchard’s customer service is also enhanced by their local real estate brokers who are hired full-time as home advisors (vs. housing market.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 30, 2024

Through the RFEI, the NJEDA seeks proposals for NJGF support that provide a high-level overview of potential sites, projects, or assets and financing needs. WHAT: The planned NJGF will make clean energy investments to help facilitate an equitable energy transition in the State.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Spanish proptech Clikalia has secured $518 million in debt and equity in what is among the largest venture capital rounds raised in Spain to date. Los Angeles-based Fifth Wall led the approximately $70 million equity financing for Clikalia, which also included participation from Luxor Capital and Mouro Capital. iBuyer Offerpad. “If

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Rising property prices in cities, coupled with a lack of financing options, mean more people have to delay buying their first homes unless they have family support. Part of Y Combinator’s latest batch, Homebase was founded in 2019 to give prospective buyers in Vietnam an alternative to traditional financing.

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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. Procore and Autodesk are two examples of ventures in the construction space that went from startup to publicly traded companies today worth $6.2 Brick & Mortar Venture’s first fund totaled $97.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

“It would present a huge opportunity for a variety of climate tech sectors, ranging from clean electricity to carbon management to vehicle electrification.” We’re going to have a much bigger opportunity by focusing on some not-so-sexy stuff.”. Real estate consumes 40% of all energy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Where many see regulatory murkiness, the five-year-old, New York-based investing platform Republic sees opportunity. ” It would be the among the most ambitious in a growing list of products that Republic oversees and that have attracted more than one million users — along with some serious financing backing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The storied venture firm wrote its largest individual check ever, at $350 million, to Flow, Neumann’s new residential real estate company focused on rentals, the New York Times reported today. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) seems determined to keep the capital flowing to controversial WeWork founder Adam Neumann.

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 25, 2023

Preparing for a recession involves taking steps to protect yourself and your finances from potential economic downturns. Look for opportunities to expand your customer base and diversify your revenue streams. Explore new opportunities: Look for new opportunities to expand your business or enter new markets.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

SBA Local Assistance : Provides you with a list of local Small Business Development Centers that you can contact to find grant opportunities. Participating in an accelerator allows you to join a community of other startups in the program, be provided with networking opportunities, and have the chance to elicit feedback from your peers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And not only that, commercial real estate landlords, when given the choice, often choose tenants with large names such as Starbucks over lesser known small businesses. . With our product, we are empowering small business owners to become commercial real estate owners or investors for the first time.”. ”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Ramp doesn’t require college degrees for all hires, and offers lots of “learning opportunities, autonomy with a high level of ownership, and rapid advancement.” million seed round from Index Ventures with CoinFund and FJ Labs also participating. led by Serena Ventures to extend loans to MSMEs beyond Uganda.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Sample started the business finance startup after more than a decade as a small business owner in Montana. We are able to provide just enough to smooth out their finances so they can say ‘yes’ to growth in that moment.”. million in seed financing, led by Nevcaut Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The real estate sales market has been in an upswing this year, and today a startup that’s addressing one of homeowners’ biggest needs — repair and maintenance services, and specifically the stress of sorting these out when things break down — is announcing some funding on the heels of strong growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Series A funding is led by Runa Capital with Flashpoint Venture Capital and LAUNCHub Ventures also participating. The financing will be used to dial up OfficeRnD’s marketing with the aim of expanding market share, including by growing its partnerships.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly established itself as the go-to method of financing for a variety of purchases, particularly online. This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. We spoke with: Frances Schwiep , partner, Two Sigma Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

New York-based New Stand announced it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Brookfield Property Group , one of the largest commercial real estate owners in the United States. New Stand is a clever take on the “newsstand” concept. Ben Brown, managing partner and head of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Existing backers Tiger Global, Thayer Ventures, JLL, Trinity Ventures, Sound Ventures and Cooley LLP, among others, also participated in the financing, which brings the company’s total raised since its 2017 inception to just over $100 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

million led by Entrada Ventures and MetaProp, bringing its total funding to $6.7 Last year, Black founders raised just 1% of all venture capital funding, a slight dip from the record 1.3% Billy met its lead, Entrada Ventures, through another investor in Gutsa and Robbins’ network. allocated to them in 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes. Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

Craig Hall, the writer of Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups , shares his view on the current state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. . Unfortunately, we have created a widening opportunity gap for most Americans to become entrepreneurs. What prompted you to write Boom ? was in trouble.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In the eight years since Aceable’s launch, the company has grown from a driver’s ed test prep service to an online training tool for drivers and real estate agents. Only four years ago, Aceable was raising $4 million in financing , from investors including Floodgate Capital and Silverton Partners.

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