TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

evolve into a one-stop real estate shop that also offers mortgage, title insurance and escrow services. To that end, e arlier this month, the startup acquired Atta Franchising, a 7-year-old São Paulo-based independent real estate mortgage broker. Last year, it also expanded into connecting home buyers to sellers.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For years, tech companies, talent, and venture capital were concentrated on the coasts — a precedent the pandemic tipped, if not flipped. Last week, Brookings and Revolution teamed up for an event exploring macro trends shaping labor and housing markets at this moment of rapid growth, historic investment, and significant uncertainty.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Concreit , a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. . Concreit raised the capital at a $22.5 But they were only for the already wealthy or required multiyear commitments of capital.

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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. fuckyeahbrooklyn.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

They were not in a financial position to purchase a home in those neighborhoods (to be clear, not many people are) either for investment or to live. But what if they could invest in homes in up and coming cities throughout the U.S.? There is clearly a large demand for access to real estate,” Yousefi said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Awning is a startup that aims to make the process less intimidating through a platform designed to allow individuals to invest in single-family rental homes not just in the cities or states in which they live but in other markets remotely as well. And today, the San Francisco-based real estate brokerage is coming out of stealth with $9.3

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 30, 2024

$15 Million Series A supports the startup’s growth with a $10M Net Revenue Run Rate In 2021 real estate fintech startup Backflip launched an all-in-one platform for real estate entrepreneurs to support their acquisition and renovation of single-family homes. Over 400,000 homes are flipped every year in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Over $500 million worth of real estate was sold on the top four metaverse platforms in 2021, data shows. Traditional real estate companies are amongst the many investors flocking to stake their claim on plots of land in virtual worlds like Decentraland and Sandbox.

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MAY 13, 2013

First of all, it''s a real estate term, obviously. The more real estate you could secure, the better off you were--sort of. Is there a North Brooklyn real estate bubble? Your first investments in an industry tank, but your performance in that space overall is better over time. Call me old fashioned.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Buying and selling residential real estate is a complex business, no matter where you live. But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. real estate tech company with the closest model to Loft’s is probably Zillow, according to Pencz. Image courtesy of Loft.

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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. Anthemis and 500 Startups co-led the investment, which included participation from ALLVP and Expa. The real estate market in Mexico is broken,” said co-founder Bernardo Cordero.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The entrepreneur, whose fall from grace has attracted global interest, just found a ladder in the form of a check from storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Particularly during tough economic times, as Conwell pointed out on Twitter , asset allocators tend to pile money into what they view as “safe” investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. We live in heady times.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

residential real estate market has been booming because of the pandemic. The attractive returns in this sector have lured more investors into the market, but the processes associated with buying an investment property are still costly and fairly antiquated. So far, their approach seems to be working.

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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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MARCH 25, 2013

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. 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.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Luxury Presence, a startup selling marketing software to real estate brokerages, announced today it has raised $25.9 Bessemer Venture Partners led the round alongside fellow existing investors Toba Capital and Switch Ventures. million for its Series B round. million since its launch in 2016.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has created all sorts of real estate issues for companies as it forced so many employees to work from home, leaving empty space all over the globe. And while there is no shortage of technology out there for landlords, there are fewer options for commercial real estate tenants and brokers.

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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. Business Insider wrote about our investment in the company yesterday. I'm excited that PublicStuff is one of our now 45 NYC area investments. Slow sales cycles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment). Just because the valuation in absolute terms isn’t a big difference does not mean that people aren’t paying higher than intrinsic value for these investments.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Register Soho.com.au , an AI-powered real estate discovery app, has secured a $750,000 equity investment from Singapore-based proptech venture capital firm Feedback Ventures. The funding round, led by Investible, adds to the $1.65 seed funding The post Feedback Ventures Invests, Elevates Soho.com.au

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Commercial real estate tenants and property managers have to abide by strict liability rules that any vendor entering the property must have insurance certificates and meet other requirements. This new investment brings Jones’ total raised to $20 million, according to Crunchbase data. Enter Jones. He estimates the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised “$50 million-plus” in a funding round that doubles its valuation to $2 billion. With the latest capital infusion, Side’s total raised since its 2017 inception now totals over $250 million.

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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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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

JULY 20, 2021

Commercial real estate has been slow to embrace technology ; though it has an addressable financing market of more than $40 billion, putting together a deal is still mostly manual, paper-heavy and complicated. Continued investments will be made to expand the team. Zar expects to close over $1 billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, announced Monday that it has raised $150 million in Series D funding. 9 top real estate and proptech investors: Cities and offices still have a future.

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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 16, 2010

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. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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MAY 14, 2012

Back in the late 90's, a lot of money and real estate brokering went into trying to make it so, however. VCs and fulltime angels bring a lot more than just money to the communities they invest in. If you want to connect to an innovation community, there isn't a better place to start than someone who invests in it.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Why Invest? And while my relationship with Chuck was critical to my investment, so too was the leadership of Trevor Templar , the Chief Revenue Officer. In all my time investing I have never seen such a senior revenue officer join a company at this stage. Why Invest? And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures.

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