☕️ Our team hosted a Climate Week NYC breakfast with Silicon Valley Bank. Panelists from Silicon Valley Bank (Jordan Kanis) and Fifth Wall (Anastasia Istratova) discussed financing urban decarbonization with Andrew Staniforth and Faysal Sohail from Fifth Wall portfolio companies Our Next Energy (ONE) and Assembly OSM. We also enjoyed a delicious, healthy breakfast catered by Daily Harvest. Shoutout to Francesca Whitehead (Fifth Wall), Maggie Wong (SVB), and everyone else who helped put the event together. #ClimateWeekNYC
Fifth Wall
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
New York, New York 46,658 followers
We partner with visionaries to build the future of the physical world.
About us
Founded in 2016, Fifth Wall, a Certified B Corporation, is the largest venture capital firm focused on technology for the global real estate industry. With approximately $3.2 billion in commitments and capital under management, Fifth Wall connects many of the world's largest owners and operators of real estate with the entrepreneurs who are redefining the future of the Built World. Fifth Wall is backed by a global mix of more than 100 strategic limited partners (LPs) from more than 15 countries, including BNP Paribas Real Estate, British Land, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, Hilton, Host Hotels & Resorts, Kimco Realty Corporation, Lennar, Lowe's Home Improvement, Marriott International, MetLife Investment Management, MGM Resorts, Related Companies, Starwood Capital, Toll Brothers, and others. Fifth Wall believes this consortium represents one of the largest groups of potential partners in the global Built World ecosystem, which can result in transformational investments and collaborations with promising portfolio companies. For more information about Fifth Wall, its LPs, and portfolio, visit www.fifthwall.com.
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http://fifthwall.com
External link for Fifth Wall
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, New York
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2016
- Specialties
- Venture Capital, Real Estate, Climate Tech, Entreprenurs, Innovation, Startups, Sustainability, Asset Management, Climate Change, Retail, Proptech, and Real Estate Tech
Locations
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Primary
66 Hudson Blvd E
Suite 5340 / 53rd Floor
New York, New York 10001, US
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100 Wilshire Blvd
Suite 2060
Santa Monica, California 90403, US
Employees at Fifth Wall
Updates
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🏡 More sustainable residential buildings can have reduced operational expenses, better NOI, and ultimately better building value. That is relevant for operational carbon, which is only half of the picture when discussing a building's climate impact. Buildings also have "embodied carbon," which is the emissions associated with the construction materials. Operational carbon is much easier to sell, because it's easier to put a number on. Embodied carbon, like the emissions associated with concrete and steel production, is hard to measure as an immediate value proposition. The "Reimagining Sustainable Residential Construction" panel at our 2024 Climate Summit featured Brent Landry (AMH), Andrew Staniforth (Assembly OSM), Nikki Pechet (Homebound), and Dylan Emmett (Fifth Wall). #proptech #climate #realestate Blueprint: The Future of Real Estate
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🛩️ Our portfolio company Twelve raised $645 million at a valuation greater than $1 billion earlier this week. Did you know: approximately 50 billion tons of CO2 are emitted annually, and capturing and storing 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year by 2050 could help mitigate climate change. Direct Air Capture (DAC) is one technology focused on carbon capture. Another is Carbon Utilization, which Twelve does to make sustainable aviation fuel. They extract carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere and transform that captured CO2 into fuel through a process they liken to industrial photosynthesis. Through this process, they can produce jet fuel with emissions as much as 90% lower than traditional jet fuels. While airlines are currently experimenting with biofuels, others believe that chemistry-based approaches used by companies like Twelve, as well as competitors like Infinium and HIF Global, could be a more viable solution. #climatetech #venturecapital
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Can we actually answer the question "Why aren’t we building better?" 🏙️ I had the honor of sitting down with Freethink and Evan Baehr to discuss how Assembly OSM is rethinking the way we build cities from the ground up. Instead of relying on century-old construction methods, we're applying principles from manufacturing and aerospace to solve two of today’s biggest challenges: the housing crisis and climate change. Our approach is different: 🏗️ We distribute manufacturing of building components, assemble them like a high-tech puzzle, and reduce build times by up to 50%. 🌍 By doing this, we’re also cutting embodied carbon by 40%, addressing both affordability and sustainability in housing. In this video, I talk about how we got here, the lessons we’ve learned, and what it means for the future of urban development. Some highlights: 📉 The U.S. is short by 8 million housing units, driving up costs and pushing people further from the cities. 🔧 Construction methods haven't changed in 100 years. We’re fixing that by taking cues from industries like aerospace. 🛠️ We’re not just talking about modular (which is basically "construction indoors")—we're applying true manufacturing principles to transform how cities are built. Changing a multi-trillion dollar industry is going to be hard, but the potential is massive. The housing crisis, the way cities work, even the way we think about homes—everything’s on the table. Check out the video for a deep dive into our conversation about how we are tackling all of this. https://lnkd.in/eJgfJm8W #modularconstruction #housingcrisis #constructiontech #urbanplanning #affordablehousing #AssemblyOSM #climatechange
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Cyclic Materials is thrilled to announce the closing of an oversubscribed USD $53 million Series B equity round, led by ArcTern Ventures and supported by new investors BDC Capital (Canada)'s Climate Tech Fund, Hitachi Ventures, Zero Infinity Partners, Climate Investment (CI), and Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. Existing investors Fifth Wall, BMW i Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, and Planetary Technologies also participated in the round. The funding rounds the company’s total equity raised to over USD $83.5M and will enable #CyclicMaterials to fast-track its international growth, building #rareearthrecycling infrastructure in the US and Europe, and growing its team to support its world-class operations. “We're energized to partner with the world’s top sustainability-focused infrastructure and corporate investors to scale our technology’s impact,” said Ahmad Ghahreman, CEO and Co-Founder of Cyclic Materials. “This funding underscores the confidence in our ability to create the circular economy for rare earths needed for the clean energy transition. Not only is our technology essential for supporting sustainable domestic production of rare earths, but it will also play a critical role in re-establishing North American and European leadership in the rare earths industry.” Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/e9A9nqhx #RareEarths #REE #CriticalMinerals
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💰 Congratulations to our portfolio company Cyclic Materials on their $53 million Series B equity round, led by ArcTern Ventures. New investors in the round include BCD Capital Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Zero Infinity Partners, Climate Investment (CI), and Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund. Existing investors joining the round include Fifth Wall, BMW i Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, and Planetary Technologies. Cyclic is focused on bringing rare earth element production to North America, taking electronics as a feedstock which they can sell as rare earth elements to manufacturers in the United States and Europe. They will use this capital to build out rare earth recycling infrastructure in the U.S. and Europe and grow their team. 📰 Release: https://lnkd.in/enjrQPhH #venturecapital #climatetech #circulareconomy
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📰 We all know that AI will demand a lot of power. But could it save more? We debated this — and more of climate tech's biggest headlines — at our 2024 Climate Summit at Blueprint with Katie Fehrenbacher (Axios), Jim Barrett (Turner Construction Company), Patrick Sullivan (EV Realty), and Arch Rao (SPAN). Our biggest takeaway: Climate tech isn't "the future," there's a lot that's already here and ready to be deployed now, like solar and EVs. Batteries, too, are getting better and cheaper. #realestate #climate Blueprint: The Future of Real Estate
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🤩 Coming soon on Tangent 💚 Proptech, and fresh out of the most inspiring Blueprint: The Future of Real Estate yet: 🙌 Fifth Wall CEO & CIO Brendan Wallace, who's lead his team to build the largest VC firm focused on technologies for the global real estate industry, including Climate Tech, hosted by Jeffrey Berman and Edward Cohen (recording IRL for the first time!). You were missed, Zach Aarons. 🎧 Tune in, wherever you podcast (link in the Comments section).
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Takeaways about the state of the proptech ecosystem from Fifth Wall staff who attended Blueprint: 🏡 There's lots of innovation and exciting new real estate technology companies emerging. 💼 We saw a good representation of startups, investors, customers, and institutions—showing an increased acknowledgement of the role emerging tech plays in assets. 💰 There has been a hard pivot in the last two years to NOI-generating companies. ⚖️ Differentiation is still challenging. There are lots of companies taking on similar challenges, and given the early stage, it's unclear who will win and what the defining characteristics of the winners will be. This can exacerbate the fragmentation we see in the industry, and it's a clarion call for greater coordination across owners-operators. 💸 There was a more somber tone than years past. Everyone is very aware of the current lack of liquidity in the market and "risk off" nature of investment. 🏢 OpCo-PropCo's are being talked about even more as a means of alternative financing in the midst of a tight venture capital market. 🌎 Uncertainty due to the geopolitical environment and fed decisions will likely last through the end of this year. We don't expect there to be major unlocks on the capital side of things until December or January at the earliest. 📉 With the Fed cutting rates and some positive data points around office leasing, it feels like the real estate industry may finally have some tailwinds. This gives owners confidence to deploy new technologies, especially efficiency tools powered by AI, which is a good sign for the broader PropTech ecosystem. #realestate #proptech Blueprint: The Future of Real Estate
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We keep building the energy infrastructure of the future! We just completed yet another Solar Carport for Gebroeders Blokland. A special one since it’s our first Solar Carport built with bifacial solar panels, meaning maximum efficiency and higher energy yield! Plus, it’s equipped with 4 Soly charging stations, enabling electric vehicles to charge directly with solar power. A big thank you to our team for their hard work on this project, and to Gebroeders Blokland for their trust! #SolarCarport #EVcharging #Soly