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Summer 2023 Newsletter
“May you live in interesting times.” Fresh off the heels of ENR Future Tech, SF Tech Week, and Realcomm, the BV team has been on the road quite a bit lately hearing from designers, builders,...
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Our Continued Investment in Extracker, now Clearstory
We’re pleased to share our follow-on investment in Extracker, which this week becomes Clearstory to more fully reflect its purpose. This marks the company’s next chapter and our continued support for...
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The Mission to Solve the Construction Skilled Labor Challenge Receives New Support: Skillit Raises $8.5M in Additional Funding Adding Bow Capital to Investment Syndicate In the face of venture capital...
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Announcing Hiroto Sato as Building Ventures Innovator 2023
Last month, we hosted the latest Building Ventures Innovators Network Fall Summit in Boston. Our theme this year was data in the built environment, specifically how the digitization of the built...
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Fall 2023 Newsletter
Clearstory & Skillit | BVIN Fall 2023 When we sent our summer newsletter, we mentioned that our team had been on the road quite a bit. We could say the same right now, as we’re in the midst of the...
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Welcoming Lucas Turner-Owens to the Building Ventures Team
We’re beginning the year with an exciting announcement: Lucas Turner-Owens has joined the Building Ventures team as principal. At Building Ventures, we strongly believe that our built environment...
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Our Investment in Parspec
We believe technology is needed to fix the broken exchange of building product and material data between parties in construction. Data “sheets”—a relic of the paper era—will just become “data.” Even...
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Spring 2024 Newsletter
Work & Mother | Parspec | Welcoming Lucas If you’re receiving this newsletter, you’ve probably heard us reference the Building Ventures mission at least once: We’re all vocal about working to...
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Our Investment in Work & Mother
We are thrilled to announce our investment in Work & Mother, a full-service mother’s room amenity and companion application for commercial office buildings. Founder & CEO Abbey Donnell...
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A Better Built World: Data-Driven Design
Our mission here at Building Ventures is to help create a better built world. But what does a better built world like? What are the essential elements or defining processes? Most importantly, what...
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Our Investment in SmartPM
“There is a moment of reckoning in every project when the schedule starts to be at risk, SmartPM objectively and eerily accurately sounds the alarm and then helps us understand what our team can do to...
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Constructing a Better Built World
Recently, I was in a meeting where I heard a builder casually proclaim that software isn’t going to bend the cost curve or materially improve how we build. As someone whose career has been focused on...
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Our Latest Investment in Clearstory
Exactly one year ago, we shared our follow-on investment in Clearstory, the construction industry’s only change order management platform. We are excited to do that once again today as Clearstory is...
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Leveraging AI for Better Building
Our mission here at Building Ventures is to help create a better built world. But what does a better built world like? What are the essential elements or defining processes? Most importantly, what...
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Our Investment in Adaptis
In order to create a more sustainable built environment, we will need solutions that cover the full scope of the problem and address all four areas of impact on our planet: emissions, energy...
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Winter 2023 Newsletter
BVIN Fall 2023 Videos | Canoa Webinar As we’re reflecting on a year that has been filled with highs, lows, and periods of uncertainty for venture capital, we’re feeling particularly grateful for such...
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Ensuring Our Built World Helps Us Thrive
Our mission here at Building Ventures is to help create a better built world. But what does a better built world look like? What are the essential elements or defining processes? Most importantly,...
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Adoption of AI in the Construction Industry: The Venture Perspective
The following article is adapted from a talk developed for the “Adoption of AI in Construction” panel hosted by Parspec at WeWork for San Francisco Tech Week on 10/8/24. Mayra Soto at the AI Adoption...
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Announcing Jim Whalen as Building Ventures Innovator 2024
At the end of October, our team gathered in New York City with the Building Ventures Innovators Network, the BVIN, for our annual fall summit. Our audience—more than a hundred building industry...
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