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Prepared for erik | Delivered January 23, 2020
PropTech Venture Capitalists
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Goals
To find information on top PropTech Venture Capitalists. Information to be presented will include the portfolio companies of each identified PropTech VC and links to the jobs/careers page of all the identified PropTech VCs.
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Early Findings
PropTech (property technology) is "the use of information technology (IT) to help individuals and companies
research, buy, sell and manage
real estate. PropTech uses digital innovation to address the
needs of the property industry
."
The real estate market in the United States
is booming
. As a result of this, the
real estate tech industry
in the United States is also booming.
According to the PitchBook Platform, in 2008, "companies in the real estate tech space in the U.S. brought in a total of
$41 million
across just seven deals."
In contrast, in 2018, companies in the above category raised a total of
$1.3 billion
across
73 deals
with 4 months left in the year.
In 2017, the total venture capital invested and deal count in the real estate tech space peaked to a total of
$5.36 billion
across more than
100 deals
.
I
n
2016, the most active PropTech VCs included
500 Startups, Thrive Capital,
Frontier Digital Ventures, SV Angel, Box Group, DCM Ventures, and
Accel Partners.
Using PitchBook data, a list of the
top investors
in U.S.-based real estate tech companies from the beginning of 2008 were identified.
The above list features 14 of the most active VC investors in
real estate tech
within the United States. These investors are:
500 Startups, Thrive Capital
, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, MetaProp NYC,
General Catalyst, Greylock Partners,
Khosla Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Navitas Capital, Resolute Ventures, and
Right Side Capital Management
.
The above list was created from the
number of deal counts
that the above companies have in the United States real estate tech space.
From a quick check of the companies presented above, it was determined that
General Catalyst
meets the research requirements. The company's portfolio can be
accessed here
while the company's job page can be
accessed here
.
As requested, research findings will be provided on the
attached spreadsheet
.
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