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2019 Venture Investors 50 List

Last year, BuiltWorlds released its first-ever list highlighting venture investors within the built industry. We saw major names like Brick & Mortar, Softbank, and Autodesk, among other venture funds, accelerators, and corporate venture investors. This year, we’re providing a refresh to get a new look at those venture investors and corporate venture investors who have made significant built industry investments in 2019.

Whether you're a startup looking for investment, an industry professional wanting context around the startup market, or investors looking to peek in on your peers, scroll through our 2019 list to better understand the investors and activity of the past year.

Interested in learning more? Join us at our premier Venture Conference in Palo Alto on November 6-7 to hear from many of the investors on this list.

*List appears in alphabetical order by sub-category

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CATEGORY:
CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL

Investor

Headquarters

Founding Year

Founder(s)

Investment Stage

2019 Built Industry Investments

American Family Ventures

Madison, WI

2010

American Family Insurance

Seed, Early Stage

Teraki

Autodesk Forge Fund

San Rafael, CA

1982

Early Stage, Late Stage

aPriori Technologies, Factory_OS, Rhumbix

Baidu Ventures

Beijing, China

2016

Baidu

Seed, Early Stage

Bochuangliandong, Aqrose Technology, Veo Robotics

Caterpillar Ventures

Menlo Park, CA

Powerhive

Madrid, Spain

2017

CEMEX

GoFor, Energy Vault, LINKX, StructionSite

Dysruptek

Jacksonville, FL

2018

Haskell

BLOX, Brick & Mortar Ventures

Newport News, VA

2018

Ferguson

Homee, Blokable

GE Ventures

Menlo Park, CA

2013

General Electric

Early Stage, Late Stage

Balena, Xometry

Hilti Tech Office

San Francisco, CA

1941

Indoor Reality

San Antonio, TX

2016

Seed, Early Stage

PLNR

JLL Spark

San Francisco, CA

2017

Jones Lang Lasalle

Seed, Early Stage

Qdesq, CasaOne, OpenSpace, Livly, Hubble

Leonard

Paris, France

Seed

Resallience, SunMind, AVUS, Concreative

Next47

Palo Alto, CA

2016

Siemens

Early Stage, Late Stage

Citrine Informatics, Built Robotics, Avidbots, Markforged, ubitricity

NOVA External Ventures

Courbevoie, France

1665

Seed, Early Stage

Unity, Hover, Sweeten, Building Envelope Materials, frec|n|sys, Mon Maître Carré

Obayashi Corporation

Burlingame, CA

1936

Obayashi Corporation

Prologis Ventures

San Francisco, CA

2004

Prologis

FLEXE, FreightWaves

Softbank Vision Fund

London, England

2017

Masayoshi Son

Late Stage

Energy Vault, Compass, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, Opendoor, Clutter

Superseed

Melbourne, Australia

2017

The Reece Group

Seed, Early Stage, Late Stage

Matrak Industries

Tekfen Ventures

New York, NY

2016

Tekfen

Early Stage

Latch

Winnovation

Paris , France

1952

Bouygues Construction

Hesus

CATEGORY:
VENTURE CAPITAL

Investor

Headquarters

Founding Year

Founder(s)

Investment Stage

2019 Built Industry Investments

500 Startups

Mountain View, CA

2010

Christine Tsai, Dave McClure

Seed, Early Stage

Jones, Shwe Property, Visionful, Rovilus, Nanogrid, CompStak, InnerSpace

Boulder, CO

2016

Jack Fuchs, Philip O'Connor, Trevor Zimmerman

Seed, Early Stage

Brick & Mortar Ventures

San Francisco, CA

2014

Darren Bechtel

Seed, Early Stage

Fieldwire, Ynomia, Curbio, SafeAI, Connect Homes, Illumagear

Builders VC

San Francisco, CA

2018

Alex Kinnier, Jim Kim, Jocelyn Doe, Paul Lee

Early Stage

Vero Technologies, Bowery Valuation

Boston, MA

2017

Jesse Devitte, Travis Connors

Early Stage

Built Robotics, 75F, Blokable, Join, Smartvid.io, Dandelion Energy, Measurabl

Camber Creek

Washington, DC

2011

Casey Berman

Seed, Early Stage, Late Stage

Curbio, Rabbet, Bowery Valuation, Measurabl

Corigin Ventures

New York, NY

2013

Ryan Freedman

Seed, Early Stage

Prevu, Bowery Valuation

Dreamit

New York, NY

2007

David Bookspan, Michael Levinson, Steve Welch

Seed, Early Stage

Fohlio, VirtualKEY

Energize Ventures (Invenergy Future Fund)

Chicago, IL

2017

Seed, Early Stage

Volta Charging, Sitetracker

Fifth Wall

Venice, CA

2016

Brad Greiwe, Brendan Wallace

Early Stage, Late Stage

Industrious, Cobalt, States Title, Loggi, Aquicore, VTS, Lyric, PollyEx, Loft, Opendoor, Clutter

Fika Ventures

Los Angeles, CA

2016

Eva Ho, TX Zhuo

Seed

BuildOps, Specright, Bowery Valuation

Foundamental

Berlin, Germany

2018

Seed, Early Stage

Indus.ai, HoloBuilder, Mighty Buildings, Q-Bot, Kagenova

Founders Fund

San Francisco, CA

2005

Ken Howery, Luke Nosek

Seed, Early Stage, Late Stage, Private Equity, Debt

RigUp, Built Robotics, SmartDrive Systems

FundersClub

San Francisco, CA

2012

Alex Mittal, Boris Silver

Seed, Early Stage

CoLab Software, Naborly, Pronto

Hyde Park Venture Partners

Chicago, IL

2011

Guy Turner, Ira Weiss

Seed, Early Stage, Late Stage, Debt

Fast Radius, Truss

Kleiner Perkins

Menlo Park, CA

1972

Brook Byers, Eugene Kleiner, Frank Caufield, Tom Perkins

Early Stage, Late Stage

LuxCreo, Nextdoor, STORD, Ionic Security

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Menlo Park, CA

2000

Barry Eggers, Christopher Schaepe, Peter Nieh, Ravi Mhatre

Early Stage, Late Stage, Private Equity

Blend

MetaProp

New York, NY

2015

Aaron Block, Clelia Peters, Zachary Aarons

Seed, Early Stage

Briq, Saltbox, BuildOps, Avvir, Sheltr, Connect Homes, PadSplit, Younity, Reasi, HqO, AirWorks, Till, Inc.

Moderne Ventures

Chicago, IL

2015

Constance Freedman

Early Stage

EasyKnock, Super, StreetWire, Porch, Snappt, Sagegreenlife, Payfully

Navitas Capital

Los Angeles, CA

2009

Jim Pettit, Travis Putnam

OpenSpace, Livly, Truss, Bowery

Pi Labs

London, England

2014

Dominic Wilson, Faisal Butt, Mary Criebardis

Seed, Early Stage

askporter, FenestraPro, CRIBZ, 720 Degrees

Pritzker Group Venture Capital

Chicago, IL

1996

J.B. Pritzker

Seed, Early Stage, Late Stage

PSP Growth

Chicago, IL

2017

Penny Pritzker

Growth Equity

HouseCanary, VTS

s28 Capital

San Francisco, CA

2015

Kent Ho

Early Stage

Sequoia Capital

Menlo Park, CA

1972

Don Valentine

Early Stage, Late Stage

Bird, Cobalt, CB4, Clutter, Aurora, NEXT Trucking

Sinai Ventures

Los Angeles, CA

Seed, Early Stage

Bird, Cobalt, CB4, Clutter, Aurora, NEXT Trucking

Tao Capital Partners

San Francisco, CA

2002

Early Stage, Late Stage

Sonder, Powerhive

Techstars Ventures (fka. Bullet Time Ventures)

Boulder, CO

2012

Techstars

Seed, Early Stage

PadSplit, Fernish

Urban Us

Brooklyn, NY

2013

Shaun Abrahamson, Stonly Baptiste

Seed, Early Stage, Late Stage, Private Equity, Debt

Versatile Natures, Flair