At the a16z Summit Alex Rampell, one of Andreessen Horowitz’s general partners, gave a presentation about real estate tech. It’s worth watching for those interested in high level trends shaping the future of our industry.

To the tech founders reading, applications are now open for the Moderne Passport 2019 Class… The Moderne Passport Program is a industry immersion program which connects cutting edge technology companies to multi-trillion dollar industries: real estate, finance, insurance and home services. Moderne Ventures operates the Moderne Passport program and…

[Note from Editor: Originally published on NFX] Real estate touches everything we do. It’s the economics of the physical space — it literally shapes our lives by defining the environment in which we live and do business. Tech has done a lot in the last…

I agree with Fred Wilson… the startup and VC community alike should start asking the following two questions: Who are our investors and can we be proud of them? And do we want to work for them? More founders and VCs can, and should, be…

Congrats to those real estate startups selected to the latest Realogy’s 2018 FWD Innovation Summit. From Inman, The 10 finalists are: Amarki, a Texas-based digital marketing startup with a suite of tools for real estate franchises, brokers, teams and agents. ByteGain, an artificial intelligence-powered predictive analytics and customer engagement tool from…

Last night, I spoke as a panelist on one of the real estate tech tracks as part of Seattle Startup Week. The topic was how Seattle can emerge as the global leader at the intersection of Fintech, Real Estate Tech and Digital Construction. It’s no…

Founders, there’s only two days left to apply to MetaProp’s Accelerator at Columbia University. Benefits include: Up to $250,000 in financing 22-week program focused on driving business growth and accelerated market penetration Participation in exclusive Pilot Days and Demo Days, as well as discounted or…

[Note from editor: Originally published on Thomvest’s Blog] We recently published a real estate market map, which includes hundreds of technology companies that are transforming how residential real estate is bought and sold. Today, we’re following that post up with a new market map focused on commercial real estate (the map is…

I was in San Francisco last week, attending RE BarCamp X and Hacker Connect, and, most importantly, socializing. Thus, the mastermind newsletter didn’t dive deep on one topic (like we did two weeks ago with IDX). Instead, I summarized the week’s takeaways. RE BarCamp X…

[Note from editor: Originally published on Thomvest’s Blog] Residential real estate has proven to be a strong driver of economic growth and individual wealth, representing more than 15% of our nation’s GDP. The combined value of housing in the United States reached a record-high $31.8 trillion in 2017,…