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Feb 17, 2025 | 
builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley
BuiltWorlds’ 2024 Annual Venture & Investments Report revealed a resilient asset class amidst a difficult global venture fundraising environment. Overall, deal counts increased year over year for built environment venture capital (VC) and technology/startup mergers and acquisitions, while capital inflows experienced a slight pullback—a rebound from 2023’s exceptionally high numbers, driven up by five deals at or exceeding $1 billion in value.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley
Welcome to the 2024 Top 50 Venture & Investments Deals List!The list highlights the top publicly disclosed private capital deals driving technology adoption in the built environment: venture capital (VC) funding rounds in the three Venture & Investments' technology categories (construction tech, building tech, and infrastructure tech), industry tech company mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and VC fund launches.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley
BuiltWorlds’ Venture ForumAs the new year begins, we can’t help but reflect on a transformative year for the BuiltWorlds network. Members of the BuiltWorlds Venture & Investments Research Track and our broader network of stakeholders in the innovation and investment sphere, have played a critical role in fostering the innovation economy across the globe.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley
Economics 101 dictates that the objective of every free-market enterprise is to make money for its stakeholders. However, the old adage “You’ve got to spend money to make money,” is true for a reason. Business owners must spend money to hire employees, build a product or execute a service, acquire supplies, keep the lights on in the office, and fund the day-to-day tasks that result in the execution of the company’s stated business model.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley
Economics 101 dictates that the objective of every free-market enterprise is to make money for its stakeholders. However, the old adage “You’ve got to spend money to make money” is true for a reason. Business owners must spend money to hire employees, build a product or execute a service, acquire supplies, keep the lights on in the office, and fund the day-to-day tasks that result in the execution of the company’s stated business model.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley
The 2024 Venture East Conference was an opportunity for the BuiltWorlds network to connect with Boston's vibrant built world tech community, made possible in part through a partnership with Suffolk Technologies and their BOOST Accelerator Demo Day. We're happy to say that by virtue of the high quality thought leadership and exchange surrounding innovation and investment from the industry's most impactful players, the event was deemed a resounding success.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley
Hyde Park Venture Partners (HPVP) is an early-stage generalist investor focused primarily on SaaS, marketplace and tech-enabled software companies. The firm is currently investing out of its Fund IV, a $98M fund announced in May 2024. HPVP’s sweet spot is writing checks for between $500,000 and $4M. The firm aims to make 20 to 22 investments with its latest fund. The unique component to HPVP’s strategy is its regional focus: the often overlooked Midwest.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley
Welcome to the 2024 Venture Investors 50!Since 2017, BuiltWorlds has tracked venture deals in the global construction and broader real estate ecosystem, annually spotlighting the 50 most active venture capital firms (both institutional and corporate) investing in the built world today. This year’s list includes investors that you may recognize from previous years but also plenty of newcomers, with quite a shakeup in the most active investors, as well.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley
The 2024 Toronto Summit’s panel topics explored built world trends unique to Canada, while also maintaining an expansive purview on the North American continent. Latin America (LatAm) remains a developing region for built world technology that remains largely underserved by the venture capital markets. In order to spotlight the unique challenges and developments in this region, we hosted a breakout roundtable discussion at the Summit.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley
In an effort to expose BuiltWorlds’ member investors and startups to a variety of investment strategies, our Venture and Investment team is launching a series to highlight different approaches. The following briefing explores an innovative take on investing in sustainability. In 2024, 11 venture funds launched globally with investments in the built environment. Of these, all but one mentioned a commitment to sustainability in the fund investment thesis. This trend is not unique to 2024’s vintage.
