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Built Environment Ventures

VC
New York, NYWebsite
How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$50K – $500K

AUM

$94M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

4 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Invests exclusively in startups innovating across the built environment, including construction, real estate, and infrastructure.

How Built Environment Ventures invests

Built Environment Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Real Estate, Developer Tools. It does not invest in Consumer.

Built Environment Ventures typically writes checks of $50K–$500K per investment, backed by approximately $94M in assets under management.

Built Environment Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including Toggle, BlocPower.

Meet the Team

HW

Heather Widman

Partner

AP

Allen Preger

Partner

JD

Jesse Devitte

Co-founder and General Partner

TC

Travis Connors

Co-founder and General Partner

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Real Estate
Developer Tools

Does Not Invest In

Consumer

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

TO

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ConstructionTech
BL

BlocPower

PropTech
How to pitch Built Environment Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other, Real Estate, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $50K – $500K check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Heather Widman, Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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