Our investments are our commitments.
Over more than a decade, we've honed a platform built to drive innovation in legacy industries. Financial relationships are just the beginning. We collaborate with industry leaders and experts to understand demand while partnering with a select group of founders and technologists to support innovations with value for those end markets.
We help start-ups navigate complex markets and organizations, secure lighthouse customers and commercial partners, and develop go-to-market strategies that resonate while driving growth and transformation in those industries -- all while acting as a trusted advisor and sounding board in the nuts and bolts of business-building.
We engage deeply with a select group of founders and LPs and form trusted relationships at multiple levels in the organizations we work with. These relationships are built on our track record and are vital to how we build momentum behind innovation and change.
We seek to create value through the transformation of legacy industries like real estate & construction. We understand and appreciate the complex market structures, incentive issues, and plain old history that make change difficult. That's why we search for partners who are change catalyzers and founders with ambition & grit.
We are patient capital, operating with discipline and consistency. We deploy capital selectively when we are at conviction - we don't invest to "put capital to work" or to "get exposure" to buzzwords. We will and have waited years before investing behind the right team with the right technology that meets our theses.
EliseAI, the premier conversational AI platform for real estate, announced its $35 million Series C fundraising round led by Point72 Private Investments, with participation from Koch Real Estate Investments and existing investors Golden Seeds, Navitas Capital, JLL Spark, and DivcoWest
With the rapid pace of innovation in and around Generative AI technologies, Navitas believes that intelligent products powered by AI are the new differentiator for vertical software. The traditional benefits of vertical SaaS lay the groundwork for an impactful and thoughtful deployment of Generative AI technology that consistently lead to positive business outcomes.
Through this three-part series, Navitas explores the potential for Proptech solutions to tackle issues related to housing affordability. In part two, Jenny Song explores new approaches to rental housing, including alternative screening, security deposit replacement, rent rewards, and co-living.
The ecosystem of embedded infrastructure solutions within FinTech has created a backbone upon which platforms can quickly innovate to offer customers a wide range of desired solutions. The world of PropTech is in the early stages of a similar evolution. Over the next several years, we hope PropTech platforms will find compelling opportunities to leverage embedded solutions that enhance users’ interactions with the physical world.
Travis Putnam (Navitas Capital) provides perspective on the overall momentum of venture capital in the space while Ashley Colella (HqO) and Tyler Scriven (Saltbox) offer on-the-ground applications to some of the ways that technology is improving the relationship between property owners and tenants, the increasing role of logistics, and the importance of sorting data into actionable insights.
Navitas Capital believes we are on the verge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) disrupting the massive and technologically analog industries of real estate and construction. We may even go so far as to claim AI will likely be the single largest innovation catalyst creating shifts in value in the built world, effecting the way our industry invests, builds, operates, and maintains real estate. Companies that recognize the power of AI to improve their operation and successfully harness AI within the right places within their organizations will develop a competitive advantage, while those who do not, risk falling behind. Notably, this technology shift is already starting to occur(we will discuss specific case studies) and will accelerate in the years ahead, creating the next generation of startups focused on the built world.
Construction is a key industry across the world, representing approximately 13% of worldwide GDP or roughly $10 trillion in annual spend on construction-related goods and services. The sector employs over 7% of the world’s working population. Despite its relevance, the industry has struggled to evolve its approaches, and its productivity has suffered as a result. In fact, construction is one of the only industries that has experienced productivity losses over the last several decades.
While technology innovations have already made a significant impact on our sector and have helped produce a number of highly impactful startups such as WeWork, Katerra, PlanGrid, and Matterport, the emergence of blockchain is potentially one of the most powerful and disruptive forces to date. Its fundamental value proposition could reshape some of the most basic functions of how the industry operates today. From a venture capital perspective, blockchain enables the formation of a new wave of startups that have the potential to be highly impactful in the coming years.
In contrast to generalist venture capital firms, Navitas employs a differentiated approach to investing in the technology sector, with a unique focus on Real Estate Technology -- aka “PropTech” or “Building Tech” or “RE Tech”. The purpose of this white paper is to provide insight into the current themes and trends in the Smart Buildings sector in 2018, particularly from a venture capital perspective, and serves as a follow up (“second edition”) to our white paper titled “Intelligent Buildings & Enterprise,” which we published in 2014.
EliseAI, the premier conversational AI platform for real estate, announced its $35 million Series C fundraising round led by Point72 Private Investments, with participation from Koch Real Estate Investments and existing investors Golden Seeds, Navitas Capital, JLL Spark, and DivcoWest
Travis Putnam (Navitas Capital) provides perspective on the overall momentum of venture capital in the space while Ashley Colella (HqO) and Tyler Scriven (Saltbox) offer on-the-ground applications to some of the ways that technology is improving the relationship between property owners and tenants, the increasing role of logistics, and the importance of sorting data into actionable insights.
With the rapid pace of innovation in and around Generative AI technologies, Navitas believes that intelligent products powered by AI are the new differentiator for vertical software. The traditional benefits of vertical SaaS lay the groundwork for an impactful and thoughtful deployment of Generative AI technology that consistently lead to positive business outcomes.
Through this three-part series, Navitas explores the potential for Proptech solutions to tackle issues related to housing affordability. In part two, Jenny Song explores new approaches to rental housing, including alternative screening, security deposit replacement, rent rewards, and co-living.
The ecosystem of embedded infrastructure solutions within FinTech has created a backbone upon which platforms can quickly innovate to offer customers a wide range of desired solutions. The world of PropTech is in the early stages of a similar evolution. Over the next several years, we hope PropTech platforms will find compelling opportunities to leverage embedded solutions that enhance users’ interactions with the physical world.
Navitas Capital believes we are on the verge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) disrupting the massive and technologically analog industries of real estate and construction. We may even go so far as to claim AI will likely be the single largest innovation catalyst creating shifts in value in the built world, effecting the way our industry invests, builds, operates, and maintains real estate. Companies that recognize the power of AI to improve their operation and successfully harness AI within the right places within their organizations will develop a competitive advantage, while those who do not, risk falling behind. Notably, this technology shift is already starting to occur(we will discuss specific case studies) and will accelerate in the years ahead, creating the next generation of startups focused on the built world.
Construction is a key industry across the world, representing approximately 13% of worldwide GDP or roughly $10 trillion in annual spend on construction-related goods and services. The sector employs over 7% of the world’s working population. Despite its relevance, the industry has struggled to evolve its approaches, and its productivity has suffered as a result. In fact, construction is one of the only industries that has experienced productivity losses over the last several decades.
While technology innovations have already made a significant impact on our sector and have helped produce a number of highly impactful startups such as WeWork, Katerra, PlanGrid, and Matterport, the emergence of blockchain is potentially one of the most powerful and disruptive forces to date. Its fundamental value proposition could reshape some of the most basic functions of how the industry operates today. From a venture capital perspective, blockchain enables the formation of a new wave of startups that have the potential to be highly impactful in the coming years.
In contrast to generalist venture capital firms, Navitas employs a differentiated approach to investing in the technology sector, with a unique focus on Real Estate Technology -- aka “PropTech” or “Building Tech” or “RE Tech”. The purpose of this white paper is to provide insight into the current themes and trends in the Smart Buildings sector in 2018, particularly from a venture capital perspective, and serves as a follow up (“second edition”) to our white paper titled “Intelligent Buildings & Enterprise,” which we published in 2014.
Navitas Capital is a venture capital firm focused on transformative technology and innovation.