TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Flat.mx, which wants to build a real estate “super app” for Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding. That September, the proptech startup had raised one of Mexico’s largest pre-seed rounds to take the Opendoor real estate marketplace model across the Rio Grande. Previously, Flat.mx

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The company is set to go public courtesy of a merger with blank check company TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp. The New York-based commercial real estate firm is a logical partner for a company whose technology is currently deployed exclusively in residential apartment buildings.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Proactive planning and policies are crucial to optimizing real estate usage and creating symbiosis. Tech moves fast, but real estate moves slow. Zoning impacts everything — collaboration, economic opportunity, climate, and long-term resilience.

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Dream It

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Real estate data is notoriously fragmented, but a new crop of startups, including Cherre, are helping businesses harness disparate data sources and gain a competitive edge. Salmanson, founder of Cherre, to discuss his startup’s path to becoming a leader in real estate data. 13:50 How do you sell a complex data product?

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OurCrowd

MARCH 15, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Workspot, the Cloud PC company, today announced that SORAVIA, one of the leading real estate project developers in Austria and Germany, has chosen Workspot Cloud PCs to advance their mergers and acquisitions processes. Read more here. Read more here.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

The soundbite: “The long-term value of real estate is primarily driven by work — where you work, how you get to work, and how much you get paid at work. The soundbite: “What distinguishes the apex innovators from behemoths who disappear? Seed- and Early-Stage U.S, Here are some key insights from the event.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Next Wednesday night, I'm hosting a roundtable discussion between Brooklyn innovation community stakeholders on how to make this side of the river a better place to create, build businesses and grow. What kind of real estate will be available for innovative companies and where? Does Brooklyn need a center?

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2023

What we did: Revolution Ventures Managing Partner, Tige Savage , and Associate, Carl Leacock , reconnected with the Houston innovation ecosystem during a jam-packed day planned by local startup, Rivalry Tech. Read soundbites from their conversation in Dallas Innovates. Where we went: Las Vegas, NV? Where we went: Detroit, MI?

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Revolution

JANUARY 18, 2022

Curbio handles all project management, taking care of every item on the punch list and granting real estate agents and homeowners their preferred level of visibility and involvement. Accessible and automated home improvement enables every real estate agent and contractor to grow their business?—?and

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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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Dream It

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In this #DreamitLive, Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman speaks with CREtech CEO Michael Beckerman about the latest trends in innovation in the commercial real estate industry. Michael Beckerman runs CREtech, the largest event, data and content platform in the commercial real estate tech sector.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s rare however for innovators to get truly candid insight on their pitches before stepping in front of VCs. Prior to 1SV, Ginny led Ventures at Jamestown, a $12Bn real estate private equity firm. Founders can apply here. Mastering the Pitch Deck Pitches are critical in the quest for funding and first customers.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

They’re building campuses, districts, buildings, spaces, as well as running new educational efforts and contests—basically anything they can think of to foster the growth of new and innovative companies. So, number one is that I needed to be at least engaged enough as an investor to be out there attending gatherings of innovative people.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

How to Foster Innovation and Creativity in Startup Teams To shed light on how to foster innovation and creativity within startup teams, we asked seventeen founders, CEOs, and other leaders to share their experiences. This has helped us innovate faster than our competitors and grow well in the process.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Register Techstars , the world’s largest pre-seed investor, has teamed up with Mitsui Fudosan, a prominent global real estate developer based in Tokyo, and the Japan External Trade Organization ( JETRO ). Mitsui Fudosan, through its venture arm 31VENTURES, is actively engaged in promoting startup innovation globally.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Homebase will use its new funding to continue developing its proprietary technology, form more partnerships with real estate developers and hiring. The concept of owning your own home is quite important culturally and if you look at the economy, real estate is one of the most popular types of investment,” said An.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

“Property managers don’t often come from an accounting background — usually they have a real estate license, so that lack of expertise can put them in a position where they can’t scale their portfolio, or if they try to, things break.”. Proper dashboard. It also doesn’t have a “champion company” yet leading the way.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

In an emailed statement, Loft — which says it uses technology to simplify and enable real estate and credit transactions — described the move as “a reorganization of its operation.” That would mean that Loft has let go of nearly 540 workers this year so far. It currently has about 3,200 employees.

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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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

What happens when your real estate transaction is targeted and isn’t secure? They are wire fraud prevention for real estate. According to CertifID, as many as one in three real estate transactions is targeted by fraud. Airway Innovations. Apply now to Relish Works. CertifID has a solution.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

The Fund’s total assets are approximately $80 billion and are invested across a broad range of assets including equities, fixed income, alternatives and real estate. “We This is just one of our full suite of services supporting stakeholders across the entire company and portfolio lifecycle from start up through to exit.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Keyless locks = Peloton for real estate. As Chamath tweeted this morning, Latch is merging with TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp , or $TSIA. The SPAC is associated with Tishman Speyer, a commercial real estate investor. You can see the synergies, as Latch’s products fit into the commercial real estate space.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In pursuing innovation and technological advancement, AIOX joins forces with X-PITCH 2023, to nurture founders in deeptech and web3. In the words of Lin, “We have portfolio companies in real estate, fintech, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, sharing economy, art, and content IPs.”

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Storefront real estate's saving grace? And when we do, what happens to the real estate footprint that ATMs and bank locations take up? Pretty much anywhere you buy items that aren't food, you could probably get them cheaper on the web, with a wider selection. Left and right, small retailers are closing their doors.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

When Qualtrics was acquired by SAP for $8 billion, the city saw itself more authentically as a seedbed of innovation. Distant skeptics also took note, and the belief that “innovation can happen here” proliferated. I saw the impact of an innovation cluster firsthand when my company, AOL, went public in 1992.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While Adesanmi worked for years in Nigeria’s banking and fintech space, his family’s real estate background pushed him to establish a startup in proptech. For years, proptech, unlike fintech, hasn’t witnessed exploding growth in Africa despite real estate needing as much innovation as financial services in the region.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The company plans to open its first international office in the coming months in order to bring its solutions to new industry verticals, beyond its base in commercial real estate. Bernard Liew, Director of KSL Maritime Ventures said, KMV incubates and invests in high growth start-ups with purposeful and innovative solutions.

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Revolution

APRIL 24, 2023

Everyone is bullish on planet-forward innovation right now. So we asked Revolution Growth Partner, Kristin Gunther , Revolution Ventures Partner, Clara Sieg , and Rise of the Rest Principal, Mahati Sridhar , for their thoughts on the current and future state of climate innovation. Here’s what they had to say. “As

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 15, 2015

And now, our anti-tech progress Mayor is helping NYC join an exclusive list of cities that have stood in the way of Uber providing an innovative consumer service that is in high demand. Well, what are the chances of that given our anti-innovation policies regarding these two companies? What about WeWork?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

years it was hard to get other investors to see this unsexy market as ripe for innovation. market share today and are stuck with high real-estate costs, shitty customer service, bad value propositions and no ability to respond to competition because they have effectively become real-estate holding companies that store stuff for cashflow.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

While technological progress has been on an encouraging trajectory in energy and in transportation thus far, we are nowhere near done, especially in real estate and critical infrastructure. Specifically, just deploying the existing technologies in the built environment/real estate will not be sufficient.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

In the US, we have racial equity issues that are longstanding, real and demanding to be addressed. And we have sectors of our economy like retail, commercial real estate, carbon based energy, and more that will never be the same. We also have an economy that is in tatters.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 19, 2023

real estate equity platform expands with focus on Life Sciences and STEM workforces The ongoing growth of life science and STEM-based industries is presenting opportunities for real estate investment, according to Barings, one of the world’s largest diversified real estate investment managers. Barings’ $13.1+

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

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. We are also fortunate to have some of the biggest investors as our shareholders,” he added, like Citi Ventures, MUFG Innovation Partners and UBS.

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