The Blackhorn team recently returned from participating in BuiltWorlds”s Venture West, one of the pre-eminent events focused on venture investing in construction and built environment-related emerging technology. Aside from reconnecting with a number of friends and...
“The most massive public dollar investment we'll probably see in our lifetime.” With this week's passage of the $369B Inflation Reduction Act, and the passage earlier this month of the $52B CHIPS Act, we've been getting inbound questions as to how these new policies...
Blackhorn Ventures is thrilled to announce that AGORUS, an exceptional San Diego-based team working to streamline residential homebuilding through fractional prefabrication, recently emerged from stealth and announced their seed capital raise. We’re proud to invest...
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...
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...
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...
Podcast: AOC Show 186 -- Investing in Construction's Digitized Future Dr. Ray Levitt, Operating Partner at Blackhorn Ventures, joins the Art of Construction team for a podcast. Art of Construction provides marketing, communication and sales strategies to the building...
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...
By Ray Levitt, Operating Partner at Blackhorn Ventures Technological Advancements Bend Construction’s Productivity Curve Upward Moving Away from Pen and Paper The construction industry has been a pen and paper industry for over 5,000 years. While technology has...
By Ray Levitt, Operating Partner at Blackhorn Ventures Construction cloud-based versions of project management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps are rapidly disrupting the outdated paper-based processes. Functions like project drawing distribution and review...
