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. Tambe, TechCrunch Akin to an in-house VC, Neesha A. Founders can apply here.

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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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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. ” said Tien Nguyen, the Founding Partner of Earth VC. “Today, we are proud to back Ampotech.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Sutton Capital invests in opportunities focused on Fintech, Real Estate, B2B SaaS, Deep Tech, Space Exploration, Impact Investing, Cleantech, & Climate Change. Early in Joel’s career, he ran technology product innovation in Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, & for the Dept. of Defense. He completed his Ph.D

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Real estate, hedge funds, derivatives, all kinds of assets. This supply/demand shift that provides founders more leverage in conversations has catalyzed some innovation in venture. Second, as competition has intensified, VC funds have invested in platforms (we call it founder experience at Redpoint).

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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. 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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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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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

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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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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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. billion into Uber.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Spacemaker’s VC backers included European firms Atomico and Northzone, which co-led the company’s $25 million Series A round in 2019. Other investors on the cap table include Nordic real estate innovator NREP, Nordic property developer OBOS, U.K. The price of the acquisition is $240 million in a mostly all-cash deal.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It had been written that NYC was built by industries of zero sum games like finance and real estate, and that DNA wouldn’t work in the startup community. Early stage VC’s are also aligned around turning over every rock when it comes to finding innovation hubs and being the connectors between them and the rest of the community.

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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. Also, we really understand hotels and guests.”.

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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

Point says that last year, it received over $1 billion in new capital commitments from real estate and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) investors. It’s like [an investor] making a VC investment into the home,” Lim said. “We New investors include Deer Park Road Management, The Palisades Group and Alpaca VC. .

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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, 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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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. Your VC will now be your real estate agent and your hosting provider?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

So far, Penn has invested in five startups across a range of sectors including real estate, food, apparel and finance. . Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020. And, part of the value of having this group is then we can accumulate a bunch of smaller checks to then write one larger check for a company.”.

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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. As far as visions go, renovating the rental real estate market isn’t a unique idea. It’s a playbook that they never change.

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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. ” Buy a TechCrunch+ membership before July 4, 2022 and save 50% on an annual subscription.

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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 joined the investment team of Redpoint eVentures, a LatAm-based early-stage VC fund, in June 2014. A lot has changed since then.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

But today, new growing sectors include crypto/web3, real estate tech, CPG and insurance technology. At that time, most VC activity was dominated by the now-defunct Austin Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. ATX will be the first midcontinent VC to have top decile performance two funds in a row,” he told TechCrunch. “It

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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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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. . Absolutely not. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

“We look for founders where other VC firms said they aren’t the best founders, but really, they outperform and are high-performing founders and are resourceful when VCs didn’t give them money,” she added. The biggest VC firms are managing a lot more moolah than you thought. We want to have as many LPs as we can,” Sayani added.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Spacemaker’s VC backers include European firms Atomico and Northzone, which co-led the company’s $25 million Series A round in 2019. Other investors on the cap table include Nordic real estate innovator NREP, Nordic property developer OBOS, U.K. argues the Autodesk CEO.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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. For context, Turner is one of the largest contractors in the U.S. Founded in 1902, it notched a reported $14.4

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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

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.”. Based on that categorization, the fintech space ranked third behind food and transportation, respectively.

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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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