Backstory
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LAB Ventures was born out of The LAB Miami, the first co-working space dedicated to tech entrepreneurs in South Florida. Since its launch in 2012, The LAB quickly became the focal point for the region’s emerging technology ecosystem, bringing together entrepreneurs, ideas and capital.
But our founders were more interested in building and investing in startups than in renting out work spaces. In 2017, they launched LAB Ventures as a Startup Studio, as well as a series of technology conferences, including Blueprint - the leading national event in the PropTech sector. Having made a name for themselves as a pioneering PropTech investor, they began seeing an ever increasing stream of interesting investment opportunities and started investing using a more traditional VC model.
After selling one of their studio companies at the end of 2021, LAB Ventures formalized an early-stage VC fund and parted ways with the original The LAB Miami co-working space in order to focus full time on investing in and building companies.
In keeping with the studio’s mission of connecting startups and large corporations for the benefit of both, LAB Ventures launched a successful tech conference called The Future of Real Estate (since sold and re-branded as
Blueprint), which opened their eyes to the massive potential of the PropTech segment and built the foundation for a strong network of PropTech startups, investors, and users.
The know-how developed while building successful new businesses from scratch gave the LAB Ventures team valuable insights which could be applied in screening other early-stage opportunities. At the same time, LAB Ventures began to receive a growing number of inbound requests from early-stage PropTech startups looking for strategic advice and financial support. The original Studio model did not contemplate minority investment in third party startups, but the opportunity was clear.
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