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. Today’s asset – real estate – is tomorrow’s albatross.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 20, 2013

Brooklyn is going to be an entrepreneurial powerhouse because it''s got a critical mass of outside the box thinkers like Bre, cheaper real estate and fantastic talent. I was once someone who thought they had to move to the west coast to go to Stanford to become a VC and now who invests in my own backyard.

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This is going to be BIG.

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. Business Insider wrote about our investment in the company yesterday. Slow sales cycles.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. 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.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Real Estate professionals. And yes, VC’s, too. I was recently dealing with a real estate agent on a transaction. One thing I learned from the book is that real estate agents always sell their personal property at higher relative prices than their clients’ properties. Recruiters.

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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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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2020

We will see real estate values collapse in some of the most affected regions and we will see real estate values increase in regions that benefit from the warming climate. We will see massive capital investments made in protecting critical regions and infrastructure.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies. Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. via Brownstoner. Alex Trautwig. Watchtower Headquarters.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Kind of like a law firm (or VC firm) with four partners but shortened to just two, people dropped off his second two words. The power of large screen real estate. The hypothesis is that the limited real estate forces less choice and therefore less distraction. People forgot that Fred also wrote “Web Second.”

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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. This March, the company announced a pre-seed investment of $625,000. million seed funding led by Los Angeles–based early-stage VC firm MaC Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Naturally I’m excited about this investment or I wouldn’t have done it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Sundae , a residential real estate marketplace that pairs sellers of dated or damaged property with potential buyers, has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Fifth Wall and General Global Capital. 9 top real estate and proptech investors: Cities and offices still have a future.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

Computer Vison Startup Nanit If you follow me on Snapchat ( msuster ) you might already know that I’ve been looking at and investing in a number of companies in the computer vision space. Today I am so excited to announce our latest investment in the category —  Nanit  — which is a smart baby monitor.

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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. I believe that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

When markets are in turmoil, like they have been for most of this year, I like to have a buy-and-hold mindset when it comes to making new investments. The Gotham Gal and I buy and build a fair bit of real estate on the side and we generally use a “cap rate” of between 5 and 10 when we acquire and develop real estate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

I’m enjoying being a VC. I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. VC meetings going well. 2 million in VC. I swore never to do that as a VC. What do VC’s Experience?

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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. Indiegogo founder launches alternative investments discovery platform Vincent. Today, there are more $3.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. Layoffs in the sector began — and they took place in a range of real estate tech companies, big and small. Low interest rates mean more purchases and refinances. News that T.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I guess it’s pretty easy to get VCs to think that you’re a rich person interested in investing in their fund. billion under management plus real estate in NYC/Cal and 5 operating companies. The office will shortly sell one of its large operating companies and plans to allocate all of the proceeds to investments.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There are many ways to invest successfully. Public stocks, bonds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, etc. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. We call that thesis based investing at USV, but it is actually more than that. But we do more than that.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The real estate and infrastructure sectors contribute about 40% of global carbon emissions , and part of solving the climate crisis is fixing how those industries work. Accacia gives large property owners a way to track their carbon impact in real-time by integrating with ERPs and property management systems like Yardi.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 21, 2016

I met with a family office investor yesterday and we were talking about his family's interest in diversifying their investments into early stage companies. A lot of these people have started getting into the angel investing world. If you're a VC, you should do whatever you can to make your limited partners feel like investors.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 2, 2023

How Azibo’s Vikas Gupta is on a Mission to Streamline Property Management for Independent Real Estate Investors I had the pleasure of interviewing Vikas Gupta the CEO of Azibo , a unified financial and property management platform for independent real investors. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. I’ve been meeting lately with more and more family offices interested in investing directly into companies, in lieu of via funds. Investors there are outsourcing the decision-making about individual investments to the GPs.).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

What is the True Sentiment of VCs? I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” Let’s say you own a bunch of real estate property and you’ll likely buy more.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

These are people that didn’t make their money through a tech startup or startup investing. They could be in real estate or CPG—something much more focused on cash flow than growth, with a very different risk profile attached to it and an ecosystem dynamic unlike what we see in tech startups now. Perhaps they inherited it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

At the seed stage, where the value is arguably zero, investors would own all of the startup with an investment of any amount. The VC also won’t take a majority of the startup in most cases, because a control position means the entrepreneur is “working for” the investors. Thus, to be fair to the entrepreneur, the lie is born.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

So why invest in that period of uncertainty unless it’s early-stage and thus valuation matters less. If the next 30 days stays calm then investment will pick up. So, too, investments. As a result I’ve heard many growth-round VCs tell me that market prices are starting to compress for rational investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Mudafy , a tech-enabled real estate broker operating in Latin America, has raised $10 million in a Series A round of funding led by San Francisco-based Founders Fund. It claims that it is doing more than 100 real estate transactions per month and is currently originating over 50% of the mortgage loans for its customers. .

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 31, 2021

I am a fan of and a practioner of investing in risky assets. USV has invested in a number of them and so have the Gotham Gal and I. An asset class that I really like as a hedge against early stage tech sector risk is real estate. I believe you must take significant risk to earn significant returns.

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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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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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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

JUNE 2, 2021

These days, investing goes way beyond the stock market. And in recent years there’s been a growing number of startups which aim to give more people access to a wider array of investment opportunities. Former E*TRADE CEO Mitch Caplan, of Tarsadia Investments, led the round. These are investments that generate passive income.

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