What Breaks When You Build: Five Failure Modes in Construction + Housing Tech Investing
Track
Shaping Capital Systems
Format
The Collaborative Forum ((Up to 3 Facilitators/Speakers))
Speakers
- NameAlexandria Lafci
- TitleFounder and Managing Partner
- OrganizationHometeam Ventures
- NameRuby Bolaria Shifrin
- TitleChief Investment and Partnerships Officer
- OrganizationTerner Labs
Description
Construction is 13% of global GDP, 40% of carbon emissions, and the least digitized major industry on earth. Impact capital is finally flowing in, and quietly failing in patterns most allocators have never seen before. Concrete doesn’t behave like software. Job sites don’t behave like SaaS customers. In this interactive case clinic, Alexandria Lafci (Founder, Hometeam Ventures; early backer of ICON’s 3D-printed housing) walks the room through five anonymized real failure modes from the construction tech frontier. Small groups diagnose each case, then pressure-test and expand a draft diligence guide to the patterns that cause housing tech companies to fail. Attendees leave able to spot those patterns before they write the check.
