Ryan Freedman
General Partner @ Alpaca VC
New York, United States
Ryan Freedman is a seed investor at Alpaca VC in New York focused on E-Commerce and Marketplace. Ryan Freedman founded Corigin in 2010 on the principles of conscious capitalism with a mission to build an opportunistic real estate owner, operator, and developer of residential real estate. He, together with a talented team of real estate executives, accomplished this through patience, agility and resourcefulness, and the use of data andtechnology to elevate investment performance. Corigin’s success has been achieved by prioritizing its most important stakeholders, including tenants, investors, team members, the community and the environment.Today, Ryan is Corigin’s Chairman. In this role, he sits on the firm’s investment committee and is responsible for guiding Corigin’s strategic direction and promoting its values-based culture.Ryan began his career shortly after graduating from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a BA in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, developing condominium projects in South Florida. The next step in his professional journey led to New York City where he continued developing condominium projects while running Coral Realty, a student-housing operator exclusive to New York University.Naturally curious with a penchant for creative problem solving, Ryan has been at the forefront of analyzing and adopting real estate technology to enhance operations and investment decisions. Ryan’s passion for innovation led him to found Corigin Ventures in 2013, which has since spun out as Alpaca VC, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the people, products and processes that power commerce in the physical and digital world. As a full-time General Partner at Alpaca VC, Ryan has led investments in PropTech companies such as Compass, Latch, The Guild, Bowery Valuation, ToolBx, Doorkee, Morty, Paintzen, Loftsmart and Trade Hounds.Ryan is a regular speaker on the real estate and venture capital conference circuits and is an active member of the leadership team of the Young Presidents’ Organization. He is also a board member of Zeel, a technology and logistics company servicing the wellness space, and Prevu, a digital home buying platform.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
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Industries Ryan Freedman invests in
Stages Ryan Freedman invests in
Countries Ryan Freedman invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 4 (17%)
- Marketplace 3 (13%)
- Beauty 2 (9%)
- Mobile 2 (9%)
- Big Data 2 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (52%)
- Funding Round 4 (17%)
- Series A 3 (13%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 17 (74%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Diamond Age is automating new home construction for the production housing industry. Our Robotics-as-a-Service system combines 3D printing, mechatronics, and robotics to unlock the industry's enormous growth potential by backfilling the massive labor shortage and driving construction cycle times down from 9 months to 30 days. | $50M / Series A / Mar 10, 2022 | ||
| Diamond Age is automating new home construction for the production housing industry. Our Robotics-as-a-Service system combines 3D printing, mechatronics, and robotics to unlock the industry's enormous growth potential by backfilling the massive labor shortage and driving construction cycle times down from 9 months to 30 days. | $50M / Series A / Feb 16, 2022 | ||
| Diamond Age is automating new home construction for the production housing industry. Our Robotics-as-a-Service system combines 3D printing, mechatronics, and robotics to unlock the industry's enormous growth potential by backfilling the massive labor shortage and driving construction cycle times down from 9 months to 30 days. | $8M / Seed / Aug 19, 2021 | ||
| Doorkee is the first all-in-one solution to streamline the apartment rental process. The company’s peer-to-peer rental platform connects departing tenants, apartment seekers and landlords by aligning incentives to provide a better moving experience for everyone. Landlords save money on vacancy, departing tenants get paid to show their unit, andapartment seekers move-in fee free, all through a seamless, automated, and safe process. With Doorkee, everybody wins! | $5.9M / Seed / Jun 25, 2020 | ||
| Trade Hounds is a mobile application for the hard-working trades people of America. If you're in the trades, join our community to share job site experiences with people like you across the country. Store, organize and share your work photos with both friends and employers. Our mission is to serve as a valuable resource for the workers thatare building a better America! | $3.2M / Seed / Jun 12, 2020 | ||
| Innovation Department builds next-generation wellness companies hands-on, from the ground up. Our team of brand strategists, marketers, operators and builders are obsessed with reducing the time to product-market fit and creating repeatable success for the launch of early-stage businesses. The Innovation Department family of brands includesWellPath, Finn, DojoMojo and our newest brand, Grummies. We’ve also invested in exceptional companies including Pinterest, Dropbox, Lyft, ClassPass, Daily Harvest, Databricks, DigitalOcean and hims. | $3.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 10, 2020 | ||
| Prevu's Smart Buyer™ service enables homebuyers to receive a commission rebate of up to 2% of their purchase price. Our end-to-end platform allows you to seamlessly search for properties, easily communicate and share with your dedicated salaried agent, as well as make offers. Prevu's Smart Seller service enables homeowners to sell theirhome for a fair, 0.5% listing agent commission while receiving full-service, expert advice of our agents. | $2.2M / Seed / Aug 12, 2019 | ||
| Perch they provides Insights for our merchandising and marketing products, digital content, and sales conversion for real-time shopper marketing. | $2M / Seed / Jul 17, 2018 | ||
| Transfix drives modern supply chain performance with The Transfix Intelligent Freight Platform™. By bringing together AI-driven many-to-many freight matching with modern, intuitive software and best-in-class freight experts, Transfix is enabling organizations to deliver with high performance and high reliability, drive long-term strategy andcapacity planning, take empty miles off the road, and optimize their networks, at scale. | $22M / Series B / Jul 25, 2016 | ||
| Singularity University is a benefit corporation that provides educational programs, innovative partnerships, and a startup accelerator to help individuals, businesses, institutions, investors, NGOs, and governments understand cutting-edge technologies and how to utilize these technologies to positively impact billions of people.SingularityUniversity permits individuals from more than 85 countries to apply growing technologies, including artificial intelligence and robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology and digital fabrication, networks and computing systems, and medicine and neuroscience in order to address humanity’s major challenges such as education, energy, environment, food, global health, poverty, security, space, and water. Its educational programs consist of the graduate studies program, <a href="https://www.dissertationcorp.co.uk/">Dissertation Help</a> , the executive program, and exponential conferences.Singularity University was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in NASA Research Park, Silicon Valley. | Series A / May 01, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Alpaca VC
Alpaca VC leads Seed rounds in founders that are reshaping the real world. We believe that layering technology over daily life transforms how the real world works, so we invest in the people, products, and processes that power commerce in the physical world. Led by a diverse team of company builders, operators, and analytical thinkers, Alpacadevelops a repeatable playbook to help its entrepreneurs most efficiently progress from Seed to Series A.
Alpaca VC Contacts
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Ryan Freedman
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Aubrie Pagano
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What does Ryan Freedman invest in?
Ryan Freedman invests primarily in E-Commerce, Marketplace and Beauty startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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