Ed Sim’s Post

🚀 Are you team Build or team Buy? Our latest blog post unpacks the GenAI Platform: Build vs Buy conundrum! Whether you're innovating in a garage or strategizing in a skyscraper, choosing the right approach to GenAI can catapult your project to success. 🔗 Explore how this pivotal decision can redefine your tech strategy and sharpen your competitive edge. https://bit.ly/3JGQn5D

🎉 ✨Today marks two big milestones for us! I’m thrilled to announce our $19.2M Series B-1 funding and our new AI-powered mobile platform, Presence Copilot™. 🚀 Hansae Catlett and Byron Deeter at Bessemer Venture Partners led the round with participation from Paul Arnold at Switch Ventures and other existing investors, putting our total funding at over $50 Million. I’m grateful to all of our investors for their continued trust in our team and belief in our vision of empowering real estate agents with best-in-class technology. Over 9,000 real estate agents, teams, and brokerages rely on Luxury Presence for their technology and marketing needs. With this investment, we’ll be able to accelerate our product development towards building the most powerful SaaS platform for the residential real estate industry. Presence Copilot™ is an unprecedented mobile platform that combines an AI-powered mobile assistant, smart client collaboration features, and an agent-branded consumer app to transform the way our industry works. It eliminates mundane daily tasks and gives agents the tools to provide a memorable client experience every time. It delivers AI-driven market insights on-demand, an easy way to manage relationships on the go, a collaborative search feature that keeps agents and their clients on the same page, and an agent-branded app that wows clients and puts the agent’s brand at the forefront. Here are some of the highlights: ✅ A mobile solution for managing client communication and notes on the go ✅ An AI-powered assistant to prepare for meetings, transcribe voice notes, update client preferences, and access market data ✅ Customizable boards with listings, saved searches, notes, resources, and more to collaborate with clients in a beautiful way ✅ A beautiful, agent-branded consumer app with a white-label option I’m so proud of the incredible work of our team in building this product and bringing it to market. Thank you to everyone at Luxury Presence, none of this would be possible without your hard work and dedication to our clients. To join the waitlist, go to: https://lnkd.in/gMJsh6cQ To watch the full announcement go to: https://lnkd.in/gEDpJ3mF #LuxuryPresence #PresenceCopilot #RealEstateTech #AI #Innovation #Proptech

Launched your MVP, but struggling to reach Product-Market Fit? The 2 best pieces I've read about this are: Rahul Vohra's How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product Market Fit https://lnkd.in/gESTWc2w (excerpts: https://lnkd.in/gGbBxhaW and April Dunford's When Product Market Fit Does Not Equal Growth (original gone) (excerpts: https://lnkd.in/gTcjk_HB #productmanagement

After graduating from YC, the greatest happiness for me is seeing more customers actively using Syncly (YC W23), as we try to make something people want based on user feedback. Syncly's journey started with Y Combinator, and I can confidently say that it changed our company's trajectory. I learned valuable lessons from YC that I want to share with you! 1️⃣ Find a Hair on Fire Problem. 2️⃣ Nobody is going to buy your product to solve their problem. Sell yourself as a founder whose life mission is to solve their problems. 3️⃣ Don’t make excuses for why you can’t move faster. 4️⃣ Don't lose your pace after graduating from YC. 5️⃣ Startups die if they run out of cash, no matter the reason. Read the full post here: