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The Propcast: BLUEPRINT 2021

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Sep 7, 2021

In this episode The Propcast
talks to Vik Venkatraman, founder of Blueprint, real estate’s
premier event for tech startups, VCs, and industry players to
connect. Blueprint is hosting an in-person live event this autumn
in Las Vegas! They are joined on the podcast by Matthew Boras, from
RXR Realty and Nima Wedlake, from Thomvest, both of whom are
speakers at the Blueprint 2021 to find out what to expect from
Blueprint 2021, who is attending, and some top tips for PropTech
pitching to investors. Get your ticket for Blueprint

here!

 

Key Insights From This Episode

 

  • (Blueprint ‘21) is going to be a gathering not
    to miss –
    Vik Venkatraman
  • We are bringing together what we believe is the
    very best, the very brightest, the most active, the most prolific
    collection of folks who are on the technology side, the investor
    side, and the industry side of real estate –
    Vik
    Venkatraman
  • We are focused on and excited to meet
    entrepreneurs that are building companies which ultimately serve as
    the backbone of the industry
    – Matt
    Boras
  • This has been a very interesting time for the
    built environment, but we have also seen a lot of amazing
    advancement, adoption, and strength from the technology community
    Vik Venkatraman
  • At events like this, the density of connections
    you can make is really valuable –
    Nima
    Wedlake
     
  • We are excited about the opportunity that tech
    is unlocking across all aspects of the industry –

    Matt Boras
  • There’s always stuff to learn and that’s one of
    the pleasures of this role is that I get to learn from talented
    entrepreneurs on a daily basis –
    Nima
    Wedlake
  • One-to-one networking is a really important
    part of Blueprint –
    Vik
    Venkatraman
  • My recommendation for folks is, be proactive
    about reaching out and making connections –
    Nima
    Wedlake
  • Knowing your metrics as a founder and knowing
    where to invest your resources as a company in order to achieve
    your goals for growth is pretty important (when pitching) –

    Matt Boras
  • There’s no replacement for tenacity. I think in
    this game, just sticking with it can take you a really long way
    Vik Venkatraman
  • By almost any metric there’s never been a
    better time to be an entrepreneur –
    Matt
    Boras

 

About Our Guests

Vik Venkatraman 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikvenkat/ 

Vik is a strategy and innovation
management consultant, and a seasoned general manager. He currently
serves as the general manager for
Blueprint – the preeminent platform at the intersection
of tech, venture, and real estate. At Bionic, he worked with a team
of serial entrepreneurs to create and go after huge opportunities
with F500 c-suites. He has lead multiple teams through the
deployment of dozens of ecommerce sites, built multiple B2B sales &
outreach machines, designed 2 hardware IOT products, and evaluated
models ranging from SaaS to Marketplace. Vik has played a key role
in building the $50MM Business Insights unit at American Express,
and engineered the savings or growth of over $50MM in value for
clients at Deloitte Consulting. Additionally, he built a beverage
company, Star Power, to a business with over 500 accounts on no
outside financing, and even published a book,

Inspired!
(Wiley, 2008). He graduated with honors from
Columbia University with a degree in Biomedical
Engineering.

 

Nima Wedlake

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimawedlake/ 

Nima Wedlake is a Principal
at
Thomvest Ventures, focusing on investment opportunities across
the real estate & financial technology verticals. He currently
serves as a Board Observer at LoanSnap, a mortgage technology
company, Wholesail, a B2B payments network, and Singular, a
marketing attribution provider. He also spearheaded Thomvest’s
investments in Ribbon, Tala, Blend, Mynd, Obie and PeerStreet. Nima
was previously a Board Observer at Vungle (acquired by Blackstone
in 2019) and DataXu (acquired by Roku in 2019). In 2020, Nima was
recognized as one of 25 Rising Stars of Fintech VC by Business
Insider. Prior to joining Thomvest, Nima worked as a management
consultant advising technology clients on issues related to
go-to-market strategy with the firm ZS Associates. He was also on
the founding team at Sponge, a venture-backed customer engagement
platform, where he led product development efforts. Nima is
originally from the Bay Area and graduated from UC Berkeley, where
he studied Business Administration and Operations
Research.

 

Matt Boras

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattboras/

Matt serves as Senior Vice
President on the Investment team at RXR Realty and leads the RXR
digital ventures investment strategy. RXR offers a dynamic array of
innovative investment products across the risk spectrum for its
investors. Coupled with a rich history of office and industrial
development, our funds benefit from our strategic increase in the
construction of residential, storage, telehealth and transportation
facilities across the US. Prior to this Matt was Vice President a
Colony Capital, VP at NorthStar Asset Management Group, and
Associate at Five Mile Capital. 

 

About Our Host

Louisa Dickins


https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk
 

Louisa started her career in
property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising
her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career
in recruitment. She now is a Director at
LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven
by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees
their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a
constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real
estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech
Association (UKPA).

About LMRE

www.lmre.tech 

LMRE believe there is a better
way to recruit.
LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus
delivering exceptional talent to the place at the time. They are
passionate about the industry and passionate about people’s
careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an
extension of the business, and their transparency and core values
help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and
innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech
community.

 

Resources Mentioned

LMRE website www.lmre.tech 

Blueprit website www.blueprint.connectiv.com

Blueprint October 4-6 2021 event
– get your ticket
HERE

Blueprint list of event
speakers
www.blueprint.connectiv.com/#speakers 

RXR website www.rxrrealty.com 

Thomvest www.thomvest.com 

For full episode transcript head to
www.lmre.tech/blog 



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