With the seemingly unstoppable growth of big tech companies over the past two decades, many of them are branching out into new industries such as health, automotive or finance. It’s no surprise therefore that big tech is also setting its sight on the real estate industry, the single largest asset…

“Software is eating the world.” The famous quote by entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen rings truer today than ever. …

Choosing the Best Building Material for Your Residential Project (Source: Deezen) In one of our recent articles, we highlighted how Real Estate and Construction are affected by major technological changes. In this article, we focus on one of the most crucial questions in real estate that is as old as…

What type of partnership models are there? Most newly established VC funds start out as either single GP firms or a partnership of two. If there are two founding partners at the outset, the split of economics and carry tend to be equally distributed. We have seen exceptions, however, where one of the partners brings significantly more…

At Blue Future Partners we invest in both Real Estate and Technology. After having described our Proptech framework, we now want to illustrate how different technologies are shaping the future of the real estate industry. Historically, real estate has lagged behind other industries in embracing innovation. However, a big shift…

Why use SPVs? Many VC managers use single-asset, special purpose vehicles (SPVs) to give their LPs access to direct investment opportunities in their portfolio companies. SPVs increase the manager’s fee-generating assets-under-management as they pass on unused pro-rata rights in follow-on funding rounds of their portfolio companies. LPs invest via SPVs in order to…

If you are reading this article, you probably already know what Proptech is. You are interested in the intersection of real estate and technology and may be looking to become involved in the next Compass or WeWork. At Blue Future Partners, we have been investing in both real estate and…

The future of buildings is smart. We discuss 10 key trends that will shape the discussion around smart buildings going forward. With the cost of connected sensors and cloud computing continuously falling, IoT devices that intelligently monitor and control the operations of a building are becoming more and more common. …

Having in previous articles in this series looked at performance metrics, we will now turn to other important aspects of our due diligence process. How a VC fund manager plans to construct their fund’s portfolio and allocates capital is a critical component of a fund’s strategy. What is Portfolio Construction? Portfolio construction broadly breaks…