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Dreamit Ventures Announces Spring 2020 Cohort, Kicks Off Its First Fully Virtual Program
The venture fund launched a completely virtual program with a focus on helping 13 Urbantech, Healthtech, and Securetech startups with business development, customer growth, and capital raising in a time of economic uncertainty.
Important Updates for Startups on the PPP and the CARES Act
The CARES Act’s PPP program launched last Friday with mixed success. To guide startups through the confusion, Dreamit interviewed three leaders helping startups secure emergency funding from different perspectives as bankers, attorneys, and investors.
What Startups Need to Know About PPP and the CARES Act
Getting ready for the CARES Act? Here's how your startup can receive financial support. We highlight practical insight founders can use to take advantage of this newly released economic relief.
The 3 Steps of Provocation-Based Selling
COVID-19 poses unique challenges. We don’t know how long this downturn will last. But challenges create opportunities. That is the spirit of provocation-based selling. The approach flips traditional solution-based selling upside down. Luckily, the strategy can be broken down into 3 steps.
Dreamit Startups on the Front Lines of COVID-19
More than 15 Dreamit Healthtech companies have products that are helping to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. These companies are actively deploying COVID-19 solutions in hospitals and healthcare systems. Read on to explore solutions by use case.
Press Ganey Acquires NarrativeDx To Expand AI-Driven Consumer Insights
NarrativeDX (Healthtech - Fall 2014) is the latest win for the Dreamit portfolio. Today, the company announced that it is being acquired by health care performance improvement pioneer Press Ganey.
How to Answer the Question: "What's Your Exit Strategy?"
Early-stage investors will probably ask you about your exit strategy. Don’t fall into the traps of thinking small or leaving the party too early. You’re building the right venture for the right reasons so use exit as an opportunity to let that shine.
How To Pitch A Real Estate Tech VC
What can founders can do to successfully raise venture capital from real estate tech investors? These tips and strategies can help startups successfully pitch their product to real estate-focused venture funds.
Healthtech Newsletter | 3/3/2020
Telehealth is having a moment right now. With global psyche engrossed in COVID-19 press, this could be telehealth's 'put-me-in-coach' moment. Read on to dive deeper.
How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision
Getting investors excited about your product is a critical part of raising capital. But founders are often so consumed with talking metrics, milestones achieved, or the capital they need that they sometimes forget to talk about their overarching vision for their startups. In this article, we provide some strategies for selling investors on your vision for your startup.
TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics
TechCrunch asked 16 leading people who actively invest in construction robotics and work at firms spanning early to growth-stage to share what’s exciting them most and where they see opportunity in the sector.
Urbantech Newsletter | 2/14/2020
Read the latest Urbantech news, learn about upcoming events, find out what’s going on in the world of real estate tech and construction tech, watch our latest #DreamitLive, and more.
#DreamitLive with Ron Gula: Five Slide Pitch Deck
In our most recent episode of DreamitLive, Managing Partner Steve Barsh spoke with Ron Gula, President and Co-Founder of Gula Tech Adventures. In the episode, Steve asked Ron about his “five slide pitch deck.” Ron has the investor perspective as the President of Gula Tech Adventures, but also can empathize with the founder as former founder of his own company, Tenable. Read to see what the five slides include.
NeuroFlow Closes $7.5M Series A Financing to Advance Behavioral Health Integration and Engagement
NeuroFlow is a platform for getting patients with behavioral health issues better by supporting clinical teams with collaborative and measurement-based tools in all care settings. The company announces a $7.5 million Series A financing round led by San Francisco-based Builders VC.
Avoiding 5 Common Cyber Entrepreneur Pitfalls
In this #DreamitLive, Ron Gula, president of Gula Tech Ventures, joins Steve Barsh to talk about the 5 most common mistakes cyber entrepreneurs make and how to avoid them. They discuss the top mistakes Ron and many other prominent cyber investors see cyber startups making and what these startups need to focus on to not only get investment but to build a market-dominating company.
RaySecur Closes $3M Seed Funding Round
RaySecur (Dreamit Securetech Spring 2019) closed a $3M seed funding round. The startup’s mission is to be the first line of defense to safely detect suspicious powders and liquids, as well as conventional mail threats.
CISOs to Cyber Startups: Stop Making These 4 Sales Mistakes!
In this #DreamitLive, Dan Costantino, CISO at Penn Medicine, one of the largest academic medical institutions in the US, speaks with Steve Barsh to talk about the chatter in the CISO community on how cyber startups are dropping the ball and missing huge opportunities.
Marketing for CREtech Startups: What Works (And What Doesn't)
In this #DreamitLive, Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman speaks with CREtech CEO Michael Beckerman about the latest trends in innovation in the commercial real estate industry. Michael Beckerman runs CREtech, the largest event, data and content platform in the commercial real estate tech sector.
The Data Revolution in Real Estate
Real estate data is notoriously fragmented, but a new crop of startups, including Cherre, are helping businesses harness disparate data sources and gain a competitive edge. In this episode, Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman sits with L.D. Salmanson, founder of Cherre, to discuss his startup’s path to becoming a leader in real estate data.
Startup Equity & Funding: 5 Catastrophic Startup Mistakes
A thoughtful strategic approach to equity structure and allocation is critical for all startups. Yet, over and over again, startups often make avoidable mistakes that can have catastrophic downstream effects. In this #DreamitLive, Managing Director Adam Dakin speaks with Geoff Starr, Partner at Cooley, about five common mistakes and how to avoid them. Geoff has developed great pattern recognition, having counseled hundreds of startups on raising capital and allocating equity.