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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. MORE
He is currently focused on real estate development with the Machani Group and auto components manufacturing with Stumpp, Schuele & Somappa. For many established entrepreneurs, establishing a purpose and passion beyond business is a fulfilling way to truly make a mark. MORE
While smaller startups benefit from the coworking company's great facilities, larger companies looking to expand are fighting with the multi-billion dollar real estate behemoth for already expensive larger commercial space. Mayor Bill DeBlasio is on the verge of making NYC one of the most unfriendly cities in the world for technology companies to operate. MORE
Real Estate professionals. 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. MORE
The other day, I looked at some real estate space on behalf of one of my portfolio companies. The owner sent me this. Maybe I just don''t have enough imagination or lack of the requisite architecture degree. At least it''s better than showing an actual picture of what the office looks like now, after the last tenant trashed the place on their way out. Or, if they didn''t trash it, they subdivided it for a colony of bees and painted it what can best be described as neon beige. MORE
These are hard things to initially comprehend until you see them in full force as local retailers get wiped out due to their albatross of high real estate costs leading to either higher prices to consumers or lower margins on their p&l statements. Amazon. It is a household name. MORE
Alex Chesterman, Doug, Simon and team Zoopla just completed on the acquisition of PropertyFinder to change the playing field in online property in the UK. Zoopla has also acquired ThinkProperty.com last month from the Guardian Media Group. Atlas Venture is the largest shareholder in Zoopla and has been there since the start alongside the management team. MORE
Real Estate and Construction – 5%. At our 29th Demo Day, 175 companies presented over two days. You can read more about the companies on TechCrunch ( day one and day two coverage of S19 Demo Day), Forbes , and Crunchbase. Below are stats about the S19 batch. As a reminder, the application deadline for YC W20 is coming up next week on September 25. Apply here. Total companies that presented at YC S19 Demo Day : 175. YC S19 CATEGORIES: Aerospace – 1%. Agriculture – 1%. MORE
No, Makerbot was valued for it''s existing, real, growing business and it will continue to be in that business for years to come. 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. It needs more investors, more founders, more established companies willing to move and anchor their business in the world''s creative capital, and more startup friendly real estate. MORE
GCUC offers an extraordinary opportunity to explore how the workplace has—and continues to—evolve in line with the challenging landscape of real estate and the changing needs of business users.”. GCUC Welcomes New UK Producer Tim Devitt. MORE
On Real Estate Tech Zillow rolled out a 3D home touring feature across all of North America that allows agents to use iPhones or more advanced cameras to create a more robust listing. Bowery Valuation raised a $12M Series A for their tech-enabled real estate appraisal platform. MORE
billion will be specifically for real estate. Over the past week, Zillow announced the rollout of their 3D Home tool, which lets real estate agents show immersive VC views of homes for sale. MORE
Real Estate – 2%. ? We’re excited to share the list of 2019 Top Y Combinator Companies. We also included top exits. We put this list together to help potential employees, partners, and late stage investors get to know a wider set of YC companies. If you’re looking for a job at one of our top companies, you can hit the Apply button to be taken to their careers page. The companies in this list are sorted by valuation. Why do we use valuation? MORE
They mostly participated in real estate transactions--an asset class where actual due diligence is conducted, deals take months, even years to close, and assets are sometimes held for decades. 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. MORE
Increasingly, companies are recognizing this desire among their employees to look at alternate locations – away from the “global” cities – and are tailoring their real estate strategy accordingly. MORE
The news that Blackstone purchased nearly $18B of warehouse real estate reflects a trend that I think is just now coming into full view: the Amazon shadow economy. MORE
Immertec | About : Immertec empowers companies with real-time 3D and virtual reality training opportunities for employees and customers without the burdens of in-person training. Meet the companies that will pitch Steve Case and the Revolution team on the upcoming Rise of the Rest Road Trip. MORE
CrediFi tracked more than $925 billion of commercial real estate loan originations in 2018—a “huge” figure that exceeds the numbers documented by more established industry groups like the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), which reported nearly $574 billion in new loans last year. MORE
52 Dreamit UrbanTech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman joined Charlie Stephens (@ charlieNYC ), a real estate advisor at Cushman & Wakefield, for his “Leaders Live” series of interviews. Andrew Ackerman and Charlie Stephens. MORE
On May 14, 2019, our friends at Lab Ventures Miami are hosting Future of Real Estate Tech Summit Miami. This event brings together investors, innovative startups and leading corporations in the construction and real estate industry. MORE
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. This morning Clutter.io announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. Congratulations. Sincerely. MORE
Dreamit Ventures is an early stage venture fund that accelerates startups building transformative tech products in the fields of healthcare, real estate/built environment, and security. MORE
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? We''ve certainly witnessed recent real estate bubbles before--but they tend to be more pronounced in places like Nevada and Florida where there seems to be tons of land AND tons of excitement about that land. Land grab. MORE
Analyst – Commercial Real Estate for CrediFi (Israel). Congrats! Israeli nano-satellite startup & OurCrowd portfolio company NSLComm successfully launched its NSLSat-1 satellite (via the Soyuz rocket) into space this past Friday. TechCrunch ). MORE
If you're going to have a real startup community, the pundits say you need a billion dollar exit. Etsy is headquartered in 55 Washington Street, which is owned by Two Trees--the real estate concern that pretty much created the DUMBO we know today. MORE
Through different sessions over the course of 2 days, our Makers will learn how to improve their pitches, foster impact investment, up their marketing game, develop and retain talent, and activate their real estate – among many other valuable skills – all in the name of impact. MORE
The whole notion of what real estate is about is increasingly less and less about real estate, and more and more about people. by Cat Johnson. MORE
Storefront real estate's saving grace? And when we do, what happens to the real estate footprint that ATMs and bank locations take up? As we prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I think a lot about the future of the physical retail landscape. MORE
They run a K-12 charter school network, a real estate portfolio, and they invest in businesses and entrepreneurs. . Ramon Ray caught up with Julian Love, the Chief Business Officer for St. HOPE at NetSuite’s SuiteConnect. MORE
billion under management plus real estate in NYC/Cal and 5 operating companies. And trust me, I can tell the difference between a real family office and a fake one. Real family offices are pretty shrouded in mystery. MORE
That's just as bad of an idea as me thinking I'm going to start developing real estate. In a place like New York, many real estate families are major investors in venture capital funds. MORE
At some point, a real seed round needs to get raised—and it needs to get led by someone. Not only that, but for many in the real estate world, their economic upside is already tied to innovation. Across the world, various economic development organizations, government agencies, and non-profits are putting in admirable and well-intentioned efforts to develop startup ecosystems. MORE
Real estate was previously a huge headache for small businesses before WeWork made co-working mainstream. If all real estate goes the way of server infrastructure, with no one ever signing a commercial lease except for larger campuses like Google and Apple, then WeWork hasn’t even scratched the surface of its potential. I’m convinced WeWork is part of a sea change in how business think about real estate, and from great disruption comes great economic opportunity. MORE
Brooklyn now is an even better position than the rest of NYC was in 2005--with its critical mass of talent, creativity, friendlier real estate, etc. What kind of real estate will be available for innovative companies and where? 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. MORE
CrediFi, a leading source for data and analytics for commercial real estate (CRE) finance, today announced the release of two new products, CrediFi Analyticsand At-Risk reports to empower brokers, lenders and asset managers. MORE
The power of large screen real estate. The hypothesis is that the limited real estate forces less choice and therefore less distraction. But that product is the perfect example of perfectly suited for the web given the real estate available. MORE
WGO is a member of Windermere Real Estate, a real estate network comprised of 300 offices and more than 6,000 agents throughout the western United States. He leverages his 25-plus years of experience in real estate to coach other managers and brokers. MORE
Late stage, public market, private equity, real estate, and most other popular forms of investing typically involve a single or a time limited series of investments. One of the unique things about early stage investing is the ability (and in my view, the need) to continue to invest in the companies for multiple rounds of investment. MORE
He has launched business endeavors in the real estate, oil and gas, agriculture and automotive sectors. Written for EO by David Disiere. Fear of failure can have significant sway over entrepreneurs wanting to launch their own startups. MORE
Traditional real estate is not designed to support new work. The past week has been a whirlwind to say the least. Austin to London and back again in only 7 days. We had such a blast at the second ever GCUC UK and couldn’t be happier with the turn out. MORE
CrediFi, the leading source for data and analytics for commercial real estate finance, announced today its continued penetration of the top tier of the commercial real estate lending market. MORE
He began his career conducting forensic health investigations of sick buildings in several hundred buildings across a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, biotechnology, education, commercial office real estate and manufacturing. MORE
In addition to increasing labor costs, startups in San Francisco are facing monotonically increasing real estate prices. JLL the real estate broker shared their data on the average asking rent in San Francisco from 2007 two 2016, year to date. The most expensive neighborhood in San Francisco is Mission Bay/China basin at approximately $85 per square foot per year for class A real estate, followed by South market for an average of $80 per square foot. MORE
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Dream It
APRIL 24, 2019
billion will be specifically for real estate. Over the past week, Zillow announced the rollout of their 3D Home tool, which lets real estate agents show immersive VC views of homes for sale.
Dream It
MARCH 8, 2019
On May 14, 2019, our friends at Lab Ventures Miami are hosting Future of Real Estate Tech Summit Miami. This event brings together investors, innovative startups and leading corporations in the construction and real estate industry.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 19, 2013
The other day, I looked at some real estate space on behalf of one of my portfolio companies. The owner sent me this. Maybe I just don''t have enough imagination or lack of the requisite architecture degree. At least it''s better than showing an actual picture of what the office looks like now, after the last tenant trashed the place on their way out. Or, if they didn''t trash it, they subdivided it for a colony of bees and painted it what can best be described as neon beige.
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.
OurCrowd
MAY 21, 2019
CrediFi tracked more than $925 billion of commercial real estate loan originations in 2018—a “huge” figure that exceeds the numbers documented by more established industry groups like the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), which reported nearly $574 billion in new loans last year.
Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 12, 2016
In addition to increasing labor costs, startups in San Francisco are facing monotonically increasing real estate prices. JLL the real estate broker shared their data on the average asking rent in San Francisco from 2007 two 2016, year to date. The most expensive neighborhood in San Francisco is Mission Bay/China basin at approximately $85 per square foot per year for class A real estate, followed by South market for an average of $80 per square foot.
Dream It
MARCH 19, 2019
Dreamit UrbanTech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman joined Charlie Stephens (@ charlieNYC ), a real estate advisor at Cushman & Wakefield, for his “Leaders Live” series of interviews. Andrew Ackerman and Charlie Stephens.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
Real estate was previously a huge headache for small businesses before WeWork made co-working mainstream. If all real estate goes the way of server infrastructure, with no one ever signing a commercial lease except for larger campuses like Google and Apple, then WeWork hasn’t even scratched the surface of its potential. I’m convinced WeWork is part of a sea change in how business think about real estate, and from great disruption comes great economic opportunity.
Dream It
APRIL 29, 2019
On Real Estate Tech Zillow rolled out a 3D home touring feature across all of North America that allows agents to use iPhones or more advanced cameras to create a more robust listing. Bowery Valuation raised a $12M Series A for their tech-enabled real estate appraisal platform.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 12, 2019
He is currently focused on real estate development with the Machani Group and auto components manufacturing with Stumpp, Schuele & Somappa. For many established entrepreneurs, establishing a purpose and passion beyond business is a fulfilling way to truly make a mark.
Y Combinator
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
Real Estate and Construction – 5%. At our 29th Demo Day, 175 companies presented over two days. You can read more about the companies on TechCrunch ( day one and day two coverage of S19 Demo Day), Forbes , and Crunchbase. Below are stats about the S19 batch. As a reminder, the application deadline for YC W20 is coming up next week on September 25. Apply here. Total companies that presented at YC S19 Demo Day : 175. YC S19 CATEGORIES: Aerospace – 1%. Agriculture – 1%.
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? As we prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I think a lot about the future of the physical retail landscape.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
AUGUST 5, 2019
Late stage, public market, private equity, real estate, and most other popular forms of investing typically involve a single or a time limited series of investments. One of the unique things about early stage investing is the ability (and in my view, the need) to continue to invest in the companies for multiple rounds of investment.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 26, 2019
WGO is a member of Windermere Real Estate, a real estate network comprised of 300 offices and more than 6,000 agents throughout the western United States. He leverages his 25-plus years of experience in real estate to coach other managers and brokers.
Y Combinator
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Real Estate – 2%. ? We’re excited to share the list of 2019 Top Y Combinator Companies. We also included top exits. We put this list together to help potential employees, partners, and late stage investors get to know a wider set of YC companies. If you’re looking for a job at one of our top companies, you can hit the Apply button to be taken to their careers page. The companies in this list are sorted by valuation. Why do we use valuation?
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JULY 26, 2019
He has launched business endeavors in the real estate, oil and gas, agriculture and automotive sectors. Written for EO by David Disiere. Fear of failure can have significant sway over entrepreneurs wanting to launch their own startups.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 18, 2019
At some point, a real seed round needs to get raised—and it needs to get led by someone. Not only that, but for many in the real estate world, their economic upside is already tied to innovation. Across the world, various economic development organizations, government agencies, and non-profits are putting in admirable and well-intentioned efforts to develop startup ecosystems.
OurCrowd
JULY 11, 2019
CrediFi, the leading source for data and analytics for commercial real estate finance, announced today its continued penetration of the top tier of the commercial real estate lending market.
Revolution
JUNE 5, 2019
The news that Blackstone purchased nearly $18B of warehouse real estate reflects a trend that I think is just now coming into full view: the Amazon shadow economy.
GCUC
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
Traditional real estate is not designed to support new work. The past week has been a whirlwind to say the least. Austin to London and back again in only 7 days. We had such a blast at the second ever GCUC UK and couldn’t be happier with the turn out.
Smart Hustle Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2019
They run a K-12 charter school network, a real estate portfolio, and they invest in businesses and entrepreneurs. . Ramon Ray caught up with Julian Love, the Chief Business Officer for St. HOPE at NetSuite’s SuiteConnect.
GCUC
MAY 13, 2019
GCUC offers an extraordinary opportunity to explore how the workplace has—and continues to—evolve in line with the challenging landscape of real estate and the changing needs of business users.”. GCUC Welcomes New UK Producer Tim Devitt.
Dream It
JANUARY 23, 2019
Dreamit Ventures is an early stage venture fund that accelerates startups building transformative tech products in the fields of healthcare, real estate/built environment, and security.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
billion under management plus real estate in NYC/Cal and 5 operating companies. And trust me, I can tell the difference between a real family office and a fake one. Real family offices are pretty shrouded in mystery.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 21, 2016
They mostly participated in real estate transactions--an asset class where actual due diligence is conducted, deals take months, even years to close, and assets are sometimes held for decades. 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.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 20, 2013
No, Makerbot was valued for it''s existing, real, growing business and it will continue to be in that business for years to come. 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. It needs more investors, more founders, more established companies willing to move and anchor their business in the world''s creative capital, and more startup friendly real estate.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Brooklyn now is an even better position than the rest of NYC was in 2005--with its critical mass of talent, creativity, friendlier real estate, etc. What kind of real estate will be available for innovative companies and where? 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.
GCUC
APRIL 3, 2019
Increasingly, companies are recognizing this desire among their employees to look at alternate locations – away from the “global” cities – and are tailoring their real estate strategy accordingly.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 22, 2015
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. This morning Clutter.io announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. Congratulations. Sincerely.
OurCrowd
JUNE 11, 2019
CrediFi, a leading source for data and analytics for commercial real estate (CRE) finance, today announced the release of two new products, CrediFi Analyticsand At-Risk reports to empower brokers, lenders and asset managers.
This is going to be BIG.
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? We''ve certainly witnessed recent real estate bubbles before--but they tend to be more pronounced in places like Nevada and Florida where there seems to be tons of land AND tons of excitement about that land. Land grab.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2015
These are hard things to initially comprehend until you see them in full force as local retailers get wiped out due to their albatross of high real estate costs leading to either higher prices to consumers or lower margins on their p&l statements. Amazon. It is a household name.
Revolution
APRIL 2, 2019
Immertec | About : Immertec empowers companies with real-time 3D and virtual reality training opportunities for employees and customers without the burdens of in-person training. Meet the companies that will pitch Steve Case and the Revolution team on the upcoming Rise of the Rest Road Trip.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 25, 2013
If you're going to have a real startup community, the pundits say you need a billion dollar exit. Etsy is headquartered in 55 Washington Street, which is owned by Two Trees--the real estate concern that pretty much created the DUMBO we know today.
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 15, 2015
While smaller startups benefit from the coworking company's great facilities, larger companies looking to expand are fighting with the multi-billion dollar real estate behemoth for already expensive larger commercial space. Mayor Bill DeBlasio is on the verge of making NYC one of the most unfriendly cities in the world for technology companies to operate.
GCUC
JULY 26, 2019
The whole notion of what real estate is about is increasingly less and less about real estate, and more and more about people. by Cat Johnson.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 2, 2016
That's just as bad of an idea as me thinking I'm going to start developing real estate. In a place like New York, many real estate families are major investors in venture capital funds.
OurCrowd
JULY 7, 2019
Analyst – Commercial Real Estate for CrediFi (Israel). Congrats! Israeli nano-satellite startup & OurCrowd portfolio company NSLComm successfully launched its NSLSat-1 satellite (via the Soyuz rocket) into space this past Friday. TechCrunch ).
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 19, 2011
Real Estate professionals. 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.
OurCrowd
MAY 29, 2019
He began his career conducting forensic health investigations of sick buildings in several hundred buildings across a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, biotechnology, education, commercial office real estate and manufacturing.
Impact Hub
APRIL 8, 2019
Through different sessions over the course of 2 days, our Makers will learn how to improve their pitches, foster impact investment, up their marketing game, develop and retain talent, and activate their real estate – among many other valuable skills – all in the name of impact.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 28, 2012
The power of large screen real estate. The hypothesis is that the limited real estate forces less choice and therefore less distraction. But that product is the perfect example of perfectly suited for the web given the real estate available.
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