Go to GEM Venturesa proptech operative-investor collective making early, high-conviction bets – and committing to backing these companies well beyond the investment. The difference is that the angel group GEM Ventures will invest together based on shared belief, and work together to make a meaningful impact on the startups we back, leveraging decades of collective experience/relationships in this sector.
Initial investor partners:
- Grier Allen: Chief Strategy Officer at Inside Real Estate; former BoomTown founder (exit to Inside Real Estate)
- Heather Harmon: Four-time founder and director of a listed company; former co-founder of RedDoor (exit to Opendoor)
- Greg Robertson: 30 years of real estate tech builder and consultant; co-founder of Cloud CMA at W+R Studios (exit to Lone Wolf)
- Ryan Coon: Co-founder and Managing Partner at Green Street Growth; former co-founder of Avail (exit to Realtor.com).
- Drew Meijers: Founder of Geek Estate; former co-founder of Horizon; asked Zillow team member
Our initial goal: to back a pre-seed or seed stage company with a check for at least $100,000 in Q1 or Q2. Once we make one investment, we evaluate when to make a second.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are clearly long in real estate and the built world. In true YC fashionHere are a few areas where we’re looking for bold ideas:
- Asset management: Tools that facilitate and accelerate the migration from agent to asset manager.
- Looking for consumers: A search for what could be instead of what is.
- Build more houses: With a shortage of millions of homes in the US, technological innovations will play a major role in accelerating the construction of new homes.
- Resilient housing and impact reduction: Technologies that help homes adapt to increasingly catastrophic weather events, improve insurability and reduce carbon footprint.
- Innovating in homeownership: Creating more accessible and affordable homeownership options to adapt to new demographics and priorities.
- Making mobile life electric: Once self-driving becomes a reality, the open road will offer limitless possibilities.
- Air economy: As we all look to the future, it is clear opportunities for proptech founders creating solutions on the ground to provide the critical technology and infrastructure needed for a smooth transition to a busier environment.
- Robotics: Whether good or bad, the future will be run by machines. From humanoid robots doing odd jobs in homes to drywall and roofing robotics in construction and renovation, enormous opportunities await those with deep expertise.
Are you an aspiring founder building something great in real estate or the broader built world? Please apply…
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PS: GEM Ventures is by nature a small investment group. But if you’ve made large investments in the past and your conclusion was, “I haven’t built any meaningful relationships with my capital, nor have I had the opportunity to use my skills/relationships/experience to impact the company,” then GEM Ventures is the antidote. Please contact us if you are interested.
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