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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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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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s Never Been More Important to Understand Your Capital Provider’s Business Model [Charles Hudson/Precursor] – Charles is just a wonderful human and his posts about venture capital are essential for anyone who considers themselves part of the startup community.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Scott Lenet is president of Touchdown Ventures. 3 lies VCs tell ourselves about startup valuations. Is there a creed in venture capital? Venture capitalists frequently say that valuing startups is “more art than science.” In fact, a good analogy for how this works may come from real estate.

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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 takeaways: It’s a hard time to raise and deploy capital, but what you can manage in today’s market will be advantageous for years to come.

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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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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Jack Selby, a former PayPal exec and the longtime managing director of Thiel Capital who attracted some attention years back for his low-key largesse , has a new, $110 million venture fund that he intends to invest mostly in his adopted state of Arizona, where Selby has lived since 2002. Why would a utility company do this?

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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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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. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Blank Street was founded in 2020 by Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha who previously co-founded Reshape Ventures. Reshape invests in tech-enabled businesses that need real estate to scale, according to Crunchbase. Of course, Blank Street isn’t the first VC-backed coffee shop.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above. First, venture capital has become much bigger.

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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. The Japanese investment conglomerate has dramatically ramped up its investing in the region, and so have a number of other global investors.

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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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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Aaron Jacobson, NEA Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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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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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Today Aalto is emerging from stealth and announcing that it has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. . Background Capital , Defy Partners , Maple VC and Greg Waldorf — the first investor at Trulia — also participated in the financing, which brings Aalto’s total raised to $17.3

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. If you want to understand how the VC industry is changing there is a great primer in the link.

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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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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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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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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. So, about two years ago, as a Bay Area resident, living right off Sand Hill Road, started intentionally investing outside the Bay Area.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. If the large VC doesn’t agree to do your A round then you’re in a bit of trouble. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. I believe these VC funds have suffered some amount of reputation fall out. Let me explain: 1.

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Venture capital (VC) funding in U.S. In tandem, a slew of new funds and initiatives have emerged to support a fresh swathe of entrepreneurs, with Building Ventures recently closing a new $95 million fund for construction tech and real estate startups, while Agya Ventures announced a $32 million fund.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

In addition, we saw Voyager Ventures launch its first fund , which will pump $100 million into climate technology startups in North America and Europe. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Overlooked Ventures co-founders Janine Sickmeyer and Brandon Brooks. That’s new.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Private funds Last year, the SEC also proposed rules that could make it harder for emerging fund managers to raise capital by introducing new prohibitions for venture capital advisers, who are not typically regulated by the SEC. Consequently, they are seen as riskier than investing in real estate or the public markets.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

If you are aware of crowdfunding , hedge funds, venture funds, private placements, then you must’ve come across the term accredited investors. These investors hold most of the cards when it comes to making investments in complex offerings and unregistered securities and takes on more risk than the retail investor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Sequoia Capital led the round and was joined by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation venture investment arm Arrive, Will Smith’s Dreamers VC and existing investor Signia Venture Partners. A group of founders also invested in the company, including those from Plaid, Cash App, Ethos, Instacart, Front, Flatiron Health and Tango.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

” Reilly: You’ve been co-leading a research project on innovation in the investment management industry , which became an Institutional Investor cover story: “ Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted ”. I knew that executing this research, and then publishing it, would attract pertinent investment opportunities. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Not every startup wants to raise venture capital. And then there are those that do want to raise VC money but don’t want to use it for specific things. In recent years, a number of firms have emerged looking to meet the credit needs of such venture-backed and growth startups: i80 Group is one of those firms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. — Latin America, they believe, has historically been ripe for disruption, especially in the fintech and proptech sectors, due to the significant underbanked and unbanked population in the region and the relatively unstructured real estate industry. One Mexico-based VC even declared that the story was about “talent, not capital.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

The firm is not out to replace traditional venture capital or venture debt, emphasizes founder and CEO James Sagan, but rather to offer asset-based products that will complement them. He’s been investing in Latin America for years, and recognized the need for new forms of financing to fund “novel and underappreciated assets.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I had to laugh a bit reading it. So back to MBAs.

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