Blackhorn Ventures is thrilled to announce that Stephan Cizmar will join the firm as an operating partner and provide his expertise and insights on SaaS startups. Stephan Cizmar knows enterprise SaaS inside and out. As an early member of the team at Yext who helped...
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Blackhorn Ventures Backs Ecoworks to Scale Modular Carbon-Neutral Buildings
Blackhorn Ventures is excited to share that we have invested in Berlin-based energy retrofit startup Ecoworks alongside our friends at JLL Spark Global Venture, Zacua Ventures, PropTech1, Warema Group, and Motu Ventures. Ecoworks’ approach benefits from...
Profile: Dan Blank, CEO & Co-founder, Toggle Industries
Dan Blank’s passion for designing and building large-scale projects has early roots. He grew up playing with Legos, always aspiring to build the next biggest thing-- be it a Monorail, a ship, or even a model city. In the years since, he has charted his own course...
NY-based Climate Tech Investor Micah Kotch Joins Blackhorn Ventures
Blackhorn Ventures is thrilled to announce that NY-based climate tech investor Micah Kotch will join the firm and lead platform and value creation activities. Micah joins Blackhorn Ventures from the BMW Group, where he started and served as Managing Director for...
Prefabrication Case Study: A Potential Solution to the Construction Industry’s Productivity Problem
Prefabrication Case Study: A Potential Solution to the Construction Industry’s Productivity Problem The following case study provides insight into Blackhorn’s strategy for addressing prefabrication’s sustainability challenges so it can be successfully integrated into...
2021 Industrial Impact Fund Annual Impact Report
Blackhorn Ventures is excited to share our 2021 Industrial Impact Fund Annual Impact Report. 2020 was an unprecedented year. As Covid-19 challenged the economy’s resilience, a groundswell of concern around climate change, social unrest and corporate responsibility...
BuiltWorlds November Venture Call Featuring Dr. Ray Levitt Of Blackhorn Ventures
November Venture Call: VC & Accelerator Relationships With Their Portfolio On BuiltWorlds BuiltWorlds, a leading community for groups that operate in the Built Environment recently had Dr. Ray Levitt participates in an analyst call regarding how VCs and...
2020 Annual Impact Report
2020 Annual Impact Report for the Blackhorn Ventures Industrial Impact Fund, LP It is with great pride and pleasure that we share the inaugural 2020 Annual Impact Report for the Blackhorn Ventures Industrial Impact Fund, LP. We are humbled to partner with all of the...
Resilience in an Economic Downturn: Opportunities to Generate Value for the Built Environment Sector
Background The Built Environment (BE) sector is highly cyclical, fluctuating with an amplitude several times the extent of variations in the Gross Domestic Product of the individual metropolitan or regional markets that most firms address. After the 2007-2008...
5 Ways to Close the VC Gender Gap with Melissa Cheong
Melissa Cheong, Managing Partner of Blackhorn Ventures talks with Tyler Gallagher about ways to close the gender gap in the world of venture capital. We need to start telling girls at an early age that they can cultivate their own brand of leadership in...