TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s rare however for innovators to get truly candid insight on their pitches before stepping in front of VCs. Ginny Miller, 1Sharpe Ventures Ginny oversees venture investing and platform strategies for 1Sharpe Ventures (1SV). Prior to 1SV, Ginny led Ventures at Jamestown, a $12Bn real estate private equity firm.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image Credits: Zeitview Since its founding, Zeitview claims it’s deployed drones to snap photos of wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean, real estate complexes after a Texas hurricane and thermal data from “utility-scale” solar farms. billion in 2022.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2023

Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps. This time it’s $35 million with new investors, including Citi Ventures and MUFG Innovation Partners, bringing the company’s total raised so far to $95 million. million in follow-on funding.

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Revolution

APRIL 24, 2023

Everyone is bullish on planet-forward innovation right now. As investors who bet on those entrepreneurs and the industry-transforming startups they’re building, VCs have a unique perspective on what “investing in the planet” looks like at scale. Our investors share what they think will emerge from the pack.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

I did a live interview today with Joel Palathinkal, CEO, Sutton Capital , and an LP / Mentor to emerging investment managers. Sutton Capital invests in opportunities focused on Fintech, Real Estate, B2B SaaS, Deep Tech, Space Exploration, Impact Investing, Cleantech, & Climate Change. of Defense.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

It helps me invest and advise the companies we are invested in. Like our investing, I will get some of these right and some wrong. In the US, we have racial equity issues that are longstanding, real and demanding to be addressed. I find it useful to think about what we are in for.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Then these firms raised larger funds to invest in LBOs, but they diversified, too. Real estate, hedge funds, derivatives, all kinds of assets. The competitive dynamics in the market where access to invest is more valuable than capital. A few others joined the fray and competition intensified, but fortunes were made.

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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

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. He has invested in more than 20 companies since 2010. QuintoAndar , a Brazilian real estate marketplace.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Peter Gajdoš is a partner at Fifth Wall , where he co-leads the Climate Technology Investment team. Consumer brands, like Amazon , Microsoft and Unilever , are investing billions to invest in climate technology. Specifically, just deploying the existing technologies in the built environment/real estate will not be sufficient.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

Lots of discussion these days about the changes in the VC industry. The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. And the scale of the SEC’s proposed reforms should alarm entrepreneurs, investors and employees in the innovation economy.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . So what is Revenue Based Investing? Absolutely not.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Register 541 Ventures , a Los Angeles-based global venture capital firm, announces its official debut into the innovative and influential ecosystem of family offices in Southern California. The firm’s founder and Managing Partner, Eunse Lee, was invited to speak at the event, sharing his insights and experience with the audience.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

The company’s flagship product, Home Equity Investment, is designed to allow homeowners to get cash in exchange for a certain percentage of future appreciation of their home. Point says that last year, it received over $1 billion in new capital commitments from real estate and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) investors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

“Our investment will help accelerate innovation and the expansion of Kayak’s hotel initiatives,” said Hafner. “We We share a vision that independent hotels can improve operations and profitability through better technology — they also have a great team and top-tier VC co-investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Hustle Fund is coming out of stealth today with Angel Squad , a new initiative aimed at making angel investing more accessible to more people. So far, Penn has invested in five startups across a range of sectors including real estate, food, apparel and finance. . To more people like Colorado-based Penn. “

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. We have come back and invested with founders we originally declined.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VCs invested over $5.5 billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. But today, new growing sectors include crypto/web3, real estate tech, CPG and insurance technology. Notably, S3’s investment thesis is focused on Texas.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Property technology has radically impacted the way we live and travel, but the real estate industry has successfully resisted most attempts to innovate. “Our allies and communities need to be part of the solution by investing in our companies or becoming paying clients,” says Kerry Schrader, co-founder of Mixtroz.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The stealthy startup is trying to reinvent real estate (again), but instead of commercial properties, which WeWork focused on, Neumann is looking into revolutionizing rental properties. That's right you'd get fired faster for investing in underrepresented founders than investing in Adam Neumann from WeWork fame.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

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. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. Public Storage does about $2.4

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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. As complexity and average processing fees at checkout have increased for merchants in recent years, there has been mounting pressure to innovate and regain control over costs. billion in revenue last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

OMERS Ventures’ Principal Michelle Killoran has long been looking for a construction tech startup to invest in. Meanwhile, Jim Barrett, chief innovation officer at Turner Construction, was facing a similar challenge. Toronto, Ontario-based OMERS Ventures is the VC arm of OMERS, the pension plan for Ontario’s municipal employees.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

With our 2020 Robotics + AI sessions event on the horizon in early March, we’re diving back into the sector to learn about the attributes of construction attracting robotics VCs the most and which types of startups VCs are actually writing checks for in 2020. How much time are you spending on construction robotics right now?

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

However, the site classified companies such as Better.com in the “Real Estate” category. Many of the everyday innovations in fintech we’ve come to rely on have the Atlanta metropolitan area to thank.”. Preliminary numbers confirm what we all already know: Investing in the world of fintech has slowed down.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

I wanted someone who was experimenting with computer controlled LEDs as an art form to feel part of the community as well--which is why I started referring to it as the "Innovation Community". Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. 33 Flatbush. The Batcave.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

As Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan put it, this could set startups and innovation back by 10 years. One VC tells me that, because the website is down, portfolio founders are at SVB bank branches currently asking for cash to be released. This is not a story of the week; it’s a story for the weeks and months ahead.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. Innovation. Thus Amazon’s market cap is $200 billion. And they have.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries. It especially wants to reduce waste and CO2 emissions. ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

When Moran began angel investing, he found the whole process of startup fundraising to be confusing, so he started a venture podcast back in May 2014 called “ The Full Ratchet ,” to interview other VCs and provide funding transparency. TC: The current portfolio is largely enterprise/B2B, with a few notable investments in food tech.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Unpacking Proptech: A data-driven series on advancing built world innovation In Part 1 and Part 2 , I reviewed proptech financing trends, sources of capital and investor types, scaling and fundraising lessons from the past five years, and potential conflicts of interest. That brings us to one of the most exciting topics — exits.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA.

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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. By mid-2022 the index had quickly reversed from a founder to investor friendly investing climate. Did angels pull back from investing?

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