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Investments

• Uniti AI

  An agentic AI platform that manages sales, leasing, and operational workflows for real estate operators

• Volca

  NYC company cofounded and led by Brendan Kazanjian, running an AI platform that automates growth for home services businesses through an SMS-based referral system that communicates with homeowners and integrates with CRMs such as ServiceTitan.

• Kwant

  New York construction technology company using AI and connected sensors to track jobsite workforce and safety.

• Enertiv

  Commercial real estate platform for portfolio-scale ESG reporting, building data analytics and asset-specific decarbonization

• Jones

  New York company automating insurance compliance and certificate review for real estate owners and managers.

• Occupier

  New York lease management platform that abstracts and tracks commercial lease data for tenants and brokers.

• OnSiteIQ

  New York company applying computer vision to 360-degree site imagery to track construction progress and risk.

• Skillit

  New York company using data and AI to source, screen and match skilled construction labor.

• Bowery Valuation

  New York appraisal company using data automation to produce commercial real estate valuations.

In the news

• Yes, I’m raising for an AI roll up of _________@aaronnblockX · Sep 29, 2026
• Reposted SouthSide Behavior@aaronnblockX · Sep 24, 2026
  RepostedSouthSide Behavior@SSBehavior“How does it feel to celebrate with everyone?” “I AM JAPANEESSSEEE!!!” https://t.co/GNyhOz5JOH
• The August 2026 New York Venture Capital Funding ReportNYC's summer slowdown arrived on schedule in August — 34 rounds, $837.9M, the lightest deal month of 2026. But the bigger number is $19.09B: what NYC startups have raised through the first eight months of the year, already past the full-year 2025 total of $19.01B with four months still to go. Average deal size climbed 26% year over year to $24.6M. The calendar compressed. The city did not.AlleyWatch · Sep 2, 2026
• Reposted Pavel Prata@aaronnblockX · Apr 17, 2026
  RepostedPavel Prata@pavelprataI think this shift in seed valuations is starting to meaningfully impact portfolio construction and actually creates a new set of opportunities for EMs. For me it feels less like “everything is getting more expensive” and more like the market quietly splitting into two different layers. If you look at the chart, for most of the distribution not much has really changed – median quartile is moving, but not dramatically. What’s really happening is the top 5% completely detaching and pulling the headline numbers up. A few deals (AI infra, hot teams, etc) are getting priced at $100–175M at seed, which starts to create the illusion that “this is the new normal,” even though it’s really just a very narrow slice of the market. And that has a pretty direct impact on portfolio construction for smaller funds. If you’re running a $30-50M fund and trying to play in that layer, you either don’t get into those deals at all, or you get in with a check that’s too small to matter – $500K–$1M into a $100M+ round quickly turns into sub-1% ownership, and after a few rounds of dilution it’s hard to see how that position moves the needle even in a good outcome. So you end up in this awkward spot where you’re either overpaying for perceived quality or under-owning your winners, which is basically the worst combination for a small fund. But the more interesting part is that for the rest of the market (probably 70–80% of it) the game hasn’t actually changed that much. I think pre-seed and early seed in the $5-20M range still exist, and in some ways they’re even less competitive now because so much attention and capital is getting pulled into that top percentile. So what looks like “expensive seed” is really the creation of a new asset class inside seed (call it pre-priced winners or early growth disguised as seed) – while the true early stage is still there, just slightly out of focus. And ironically, that’s where the opportunity for emerging managers probably gets cleaner. "Less" competition, more room for ownership, more ability to lean into non-consensus – which is still where most of the actual DPI for a small fund gets built.
• Reposted Moses Kagan@aaronnblockX · Oct 8, 2025
  RepostedMoses Kagan@moseskaganA bit of business etiquette: Before sending any document for e-signing, send an email explaining what the document is, why you need it signed, & attaching the document itself as a pdf.
• RT @moseskagan: Like, this isn't fooling around stuff. For almost all of human history, in almost every place, people lived under the thum@aaronnblockX · Oct 5, 2025

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