Podcasts about metaprop nyc

On this episode, we speak with Amira Ouji and she discusses her experience with breaking into Venture Capital and how fundamental HBCUs (graduate of Howard) have been on her journey. Amira Ouji currently serves as the Director of Portfolio Engagement at Revolution, and is a founding team member at HBCUvc. At the time of this recording, Amira worked with MetaProp NYC. Learn more about her journey. Visit our website and submit a question/topic here. Hosted by @de_havia and @imessien Recorded: March 2020

This week on Tech Talk Radio Sam McClary is back in the studio. EG's editor joins Emily Wright a week after the roaring success of the new look EG Awards where black tie was banned and light-up footwear positively encouraged.  After an all-important awards round-up, our TTR co-hosts are joined by Evan Petitt, director of operations and events for MetaProp NYC. On this episode he gives a sneak peek into what delegates can expect at Mipim Proptech New York next month. Part of NYC Real Estate Tech Week, this will mark the fourth year since the event was launched as Petitt reveals who will be speaking and what has been added to the ever-evolving programme in 2019. 

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Atticus Leblanc of PadSplit.com, a house sharing service that offers affordable shared living experiences to the workforce. The Company raised a $4.6 million Seed Round led by Core Innovation Capital. Cox Enterprises, Kapor Capital, 1984 Ventures, Impact Engine, MetaProp NYC, Techstars, Alexander & Edwards Publishing and Enterprise Community Partners also participated in the round. In this episode, Atticus discusses his vision for making an affordable housing marketplace, the Atlanta startup scene, raising capital from foundations and social impact investors, his powerful way he leverages weekly investor updates, and much more. This series is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Learn more at www.foundersuite.com.

On this week’s Tech Talk Radio, co-hosts Emily Wright and Samantha McClary talk to Metaprop NYC co-founder Aaron Block about investor confidence in real estate technology.   Following on from the release of the results of the sixth edition of the Global Proptech Confidence Index last week, Block delves into potential reasons for some of the headline results.   From 60% of proptech investors planning on making more investments in 2019 compared to 2018 and from a massive 46% of start-up CEOs expecting an acquisition or major liquidity event in 2019, Block reveals his thoughts on the results and discusses the ongoing maturity of the proptech sector worldwide.  

Ryan Coon and his company Avail are serving hundreds of thousands of DIY landlords and tenants across the country, making the experience of renting better. Avail is an online tool that enables DIY landlords to effectively find and screen tenants, market their properties for rent, collect rent automatically each month, and keep track of all their rental properties all in one place. Ryan also drops quite a few knowledge bombs in this episode on the state of the industry, the importance of branding, and more. Ryan co-founded Avail (formerly Rentalutions) in 2011, is a member of the Forbes Real Estate council, and is a RE200 Mentor with MetaProp NYC, so you know he's bringing the heat. Listen in!

Zach Aarons is a co-founder and partner at Metaprop, an early-stage venture firm and accelerator focused on real estate related technology. Zach has been working at the intersection of real estate and venture capital for the past decade, and he's the most active early-stage PropTech investor in the United States, having funded over 60 startups in the space as an individual as well as 40 startups (and counting) through MetaProp NYC's venture capital funds. In addition to early-stage investing, Zach is a project manager at Millennium Partners, and has worked on large-scale mixed-use development projects with experience in real estate development, commercial asset management, property marketing, and commercial leasing. In this episode, we discuss how Zach started in the NYC tech community, his time as an angel investor before Metaprop, and what it took to get Metaprop off the ground with his two partners. We also dive into Proptech investing, building a sector-specific firm, and their unique model that brings together startups, real-estate executives, and large real-estate companies across the U.S. and Europe.

On this week’s episode of Tech Talk Radio, host Emily Wright is joined by EG Editor Damian Wild as the battle of the alpha continues. With six weeks to go until New York City Real Estate Tech Week, Metaprop NYC founder and Tech Talk regular Aaron Block calls in from Manhattan to update everyone on the programme, the speakers and the tech week hot spots. He talks about how far we have come in a year, why the delegation list for the 2018 event is more CEO heavy than ever before and whether the States is still ‘the rabbit on the track’ for others to follow in terms of tech innovation. To find out more go to http://realestatetechweek.nyc/

Young entrepreneurs describe inventions, programs, ideas for future products and businesses they are pursuing with guidance and encouragement of the MetaProp NYC organization.

PropTech, education reform in New York City, and motivating innovation… Ryan Baxter, making NYC’s built environment more educational, Founder/Chairman of PASSNYC, Real Estate Liaison for MetaProp NYC, and Co-founder of PropTech Challenge, and former Vice President of REBNY, joins Tom Kutzman in the MouthMedia Network studio powered by Sennheiser. Presented by Prevu.In this episode: Real estate tech/prop tech Baxter‘s unique path to prop tech, how he started in a trade association, Real Estate Board of NY His undying love for NYC, looking for way to work around that, loved lobbying as a concept The opportunity to make lots of impact How the Association is older than NYC, serves more than 17,000 members across real estate professions How Baxter started a regulatory effort on changing how ConEd treats power plants within buildings, taught him a lot about how NYC interacts with and treats tech Aaron Block, a founder of PropNYC,  knocked on door asking for help, saw them as distribution platform How his work allows outcome beyond pursuit of wealth Bing Co-Founder of Protech challenge, started last year grew to over 100 people from 47 companies, Moving from personally-participated to virtually to impact many more people, to spur innovation, increase diversity, and create opportunities around the world An augmented reality tool to overlay real time building information, helpful for engineers to know what a particular system’s flow of info in real time A lack of agility and responsiveness in real estate is going changing The need to understand that there are only five value propositions A limitless opportunity for the human imagination A $230 Trillion and growing opportunity worldwide Developers should lean into PropTech Why PropTech is years behind FinTech, yet broader than any other tech vertical we’ve seen Is PropTech only one part of it, and a low hanging fruit, and limiting lens? MetaProp Starting with community building approach as a new fund Why learning the language across the industry is crucial Promoting better educational access and equity using community organizing and coalition tactics Why the tip of PropTech spear should be public schools, and how they can design the future Enabling schools to be specialized, motivating participation and resource provision, and working toward continual desegregation The debate on why specialized schools have value The Empire State Building, Jay-Z, and a great restaurant

While many braved the snow to attend the first TECHTALK Live event of the year, brought to you in partnership with KPMG, LGIM Real Assets, CBRE, Wiredscore and Metaprop NYC, not everyone was able to make it. Those of you that couldn't make it missed one of the best events in real estate, with practical advice on how to properly futureproof your business. That advice came from experts across the real estate sector, from those who have done the hard work to get it right and from leaders outside of our industry. A note to listeners that quality of sound may not be as high as EG's studio recorded podcasts, but the content is just as good. Listen in to hear from:  Dr Rick Robinson, Leader of Digital Property and Cities, Arup Emma Long, Head of Corporate Strategy, LGIM Real Assets Anton Ruddenklau, Partner & Head of Digital & Innovation, Financial Services, KPMG Charlie Wade, UK managing director, TVS Alex Price, chief executive, Palmer Capital Darryll Colthrust, head of innovation, Palmer Capital Alice Newton-Rex, vice president of product, WorldRemit

Interview w/ Aaron Block, CoFounder & MD of MetaProp global real estate technology investment advisory and accelerator firm. Aaron is also on the leadership council at Tech:NYC and previously worked at Cushman & Wakefield winning awards including Top Producer & Most Creative Deal. Aaron served as CEO/Chairman of Chicago-based BayRu, LLC, the US-Russia ecommerce shopping and shipping specialist and eBay.com’s exclusive drop shipping partner for Russia/CIS consumers. Aaron talks about the the art of deal making, importance of teamwork, pro tips on growth, technology in commercial real estate, ecommerce and building teams around the world. Contact Aaron on Social Media: Twitter: @aaronnblock @MetaPropNYC ENSE: @aaronnblock Instagram: @metapropnyc https://www.linkedin.com/company/metaprop-nyc/ www.metaprop.org

While many braved the snow to attend the first TECHTALK Live event of the year, brought to you in partnership with KPMG, LGIM Real Assets, CBRE, Wiredscore and Metaprop NYC, not everyone was able to make it. Those of you that couldn't make it missed one of the best events in real estate, with practical advice on how to properly futureproof your business. That advice came from experts across the real estate sector, from those who have done the hard work to get it right and from leaders outside of our industry. A note to listeners that quality of sound may not be as high as EG's studio recorded podcasts, but the content is just as good. Listen in to hear from:  Dr Rick Robinson, Leader of Digital Property and Cities, Arup Emma Long, Head of Corporate Strategy, LGIM Real Assets Anton Ruddenklau, Partner & Head of Digital & Innovation, Financial Services, KPMG Charlie Wade, UK managing director, TVS Alex Price, chief executive, Palmer Capital Darryll Colthrust, head of innovation, Palmer Capital Alice Newton-Rex, vice president of product, WorldRemit      

Johnathan Wasserstrum is the CEO and co-founder Sqaurefoot. SquareFoot is the marketplace that connects businesses with their ideal space. By re-engineering the leasing process --- from initial search all the way through touring and lease negotiations, SquareFoot is fast becoming the go-to destination for commercial real estate leasing. Before co-founding Squarefoot, Johnathan was an RE200 mentor at Metaprop NYC and a fellow at the Startup Leadership program. https://www.squarefoot.com/ — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process.

This week, Zach Aarons of MetaProp NYC and Millennium Partners joins us on the podcast. MetaProp NYC is an accelerator that brings together the brightest minds in real estate and technology to help quickly build promising young real estate companies. Check out our entire archive of interviews at venturestudio.org or on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Remember to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio to stay up to date. In today's episode, Zach discusses all things real estate tech - from nitty gritty pain points in each sub sector to history, macro trends, insights into the future of real estate tech.