TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours. When estate agents use Giraffe360 , this essentially removes photographers from the process.

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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.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While VC dollars still overwhelmingly funnel into places like Silicon Valley, Brookings research shows tech jobs are finally spreading out — movement spurred by the availability of hybrid and remote work, private investment, and federal initiatives. Tech moves fast, but real estate moves slow.

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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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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. million seed funding led by Los Angeles–based early-stage VC firm MaC Venture Capital. Closing on $103M, MaC VC is changing the face of venture capital.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I’m pleased to announce a strategic partnership between Coolwater Capital and Versatile VC. Coolwater is an investor in VC funds and runs an accelerator for emerging VC fund managers. Coolwater has built an investment community of 300+ founder VCs and over 5,000 technology companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Orbital Reef is claiming its slice of LEO real estate. Promus Ventures , a VC firm based in Chicago, closed a €120 million ($139 million) space fund, dubbed Orbital Ventures. Email me at aria.techcrunch@gmail.com or find me on Twitter at @breadfrom.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

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. In fact, a good analogy for how this works may come from real estate. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist in 1992, I worked as a real estate appraiser.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

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. Blank Street cracked the code on making coffee shops attractive to VC by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2020

So today, I will write about 2020 in the context of tech/startups/VC/crypto. We are seeing structural declines in the importance of massive sectors like carbon based energy, commercial real estate, retail, and more. And technology based products and services are benefitting from these losses. USV TEAM POSTS:

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Our findings confirmed a significant shift away from the traditional tech hubs of the Bay Area, New York City, and Boston, with the proportion of seed- and early-stage VC dollars funneling into the Bay Area falling below 30% for the first time in more than a decade. There are untold impacts of climate change many of us don’t see.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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. And in real estate, that is between 5% and 10% per year in my view. Let’s look at Google.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Prior to 1SV, Ginny led Ventures at Jamestown, a $12Bn real estate private equity firm. She has also worked on real estate technology initiatives at Apple, Fifth Wall Ventures, and Harvard University after starting her career in product design. Tambe, TechCrunch Akin to an in-house VC, Neesha A.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2023

What we did: Rise of the Rest Associate, Isabelle Styslinger , went west for Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association ’s Emerging VC Summit, where she networked, knowledge shared, and explored Bozeman’s great outdoors with dozens of investors whose geographic focus spans the Mountain West. Where we went: Bozeman, MT?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Oh, and if you want to hear me talk about everything from “The Good and Ugly Sides of Fintech, What Great Journalism Really Means, & Why Startups Represent Hope,” check out this episode of the Fintech Leaders podcast I recently recorded with VC Miguel Armaza. VCs clamor to fund real estate investing startups.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The debut vehicle of the firm, called AZ-VC , is backed by a number of real-estate outfits in Arizona, along with a major local utility company. You’ve receiving backing for your fund from Arizona’s real estate industry, and your anchor investor is a utility company that committed to invest $25 million in the fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

The platform’s partner offerings span several alternative asset classes including venture capital, real estate, debt, crypto, art and collectibles. Vincent makes money by facilitating discovery on its partner platforms and earning fees.

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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. I did a live interview today with Joel Palathinkal, CEO, Sutton Capital , and an LP / Mentor to emerging investment managers. of Defense.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

The return of neighborhood retail and other surprising real estate trends. Pre-seed round funding is under scrutiny: Is VC pandemic posturing here to stay? Pre-seed round funding is under scrutiny: Is VC pandemic posturing here to stay? How VC and private equity funds can launch portfolio-acceleration platforms.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 24, 2020

This happens all the time in real estate and also with stock gains. This will also have the benefit of reducing the rampant speculation in real estate that has been making real estate so unaffordable for so many. We can tax the unrealized gain if it is financed or monetized.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Real estate, hedge funds, derivatives, all kinds of assets. Second, as competition has intensified, VC funds have invested in platforms (we call it founder experience at Redpoint). A few others joined the fray and competition intensified, but fortunes were made. In the 2000s, a wave of PE funds went public.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 31, 2021

An asset class that I really like as a hedge against early stage tech sector risk is real estate. The Gotham Gal and I own a lot of income producing real estate and it feels very uncorrelated to early stage tech. I like to have a mix of assets, ideally uncorrelated, in our portfolio.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The real estate market in South Korea is very fragmented, which means people often have to work with dozens of brokers before they find a new home. The startup’s other investors include Goodwater Capital, Maple VC and strategic angel investors in South Korea and the United States. million to digitize real estate in South Korea.

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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. Landis acquires real estate startup GoldenKey. No pen required: The digital future of real estate closings.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

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. But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California.

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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 carbon taxed like the vice that it is in most countries around the world this decade, including in the US.

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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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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. He says the MBA transformed his thinking.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Demand and supply rarely converge in Nigeria’s real estate proptech market in that there’s a housing deficit where demand dramatically outstrips supply; it also doesn’t help that house prices and inflation keep rising simultaneously. So that tells you how much adoption the monthly space would have if the markets eventually opened up.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

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 Sundae closes on $80M for residential real estate marketplace. million since its 2018 inception.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Public stocks, bonds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, etc. There are many ways to invest successfully. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. In public stocks, there are something like 5,000 listed stocks in the US.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage. First, if the VC does 15-20 of these under one partner then it is certain he can’t spend any time with these investments.

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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. Participants also include “four of Asia’s wealthiest families,” the startup said in its press release, whose operating businesses encompass banking and real estate across Southeast Asia and China. million in follow-on funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And not only that, commercial real estate landlords, when given the choice, often choose tenants with large names such as Starbucks over lesser known small businesses. . With our product, we are empowering small business owners to become commercial real estate owners or investors for the first time.”.

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