Kunal Lunawat

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Agya Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kunal Lunawat is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Agya Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in proptech and the built environment. He previously worked in real estate private equity at Blackstone and co-founded the social media platform Wildr.

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5 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Kunal argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

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Lunawat: Large PE Funds Do Not Dominate U.S. Residential Market
“Even then, if you look at like the total volume of residential sales across the U S that's still a fraction of the total market. So to say that, you know, larger state private equity funds are kind of dominating the U S home residential market, I think would b…”
Kunal Lunawat Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 6:49 $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund

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Everything Kunal Lunawat said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Lunawat: Large PE Funds Do Not Dominate U.S. Residential Market
“Even then, if you look at like the total volume of residential sales across the U S that's still a fraction of the total market. So to say that, you know, larger state private equity funds are kind of dominating the U S home residential market, I think would b…”
Kunal Lunawat Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 6:49 $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
Opinion
Lunawat defends having Adam Neumann on Rumor cap table
“Co-working as a concept was introduced and made global by WeWork. So to have, you know, those insights in terms of how to make a business go global, and how to scale something that fast, I think there are fewer people better positioned to that than the current…”
Kunal Lunawat Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 12:04 $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
Assertion Supported
Lunawat: Adam Neumann is an investor in PropTech startup Rumor
“There were a bunch of other investors, pretty high profile names as well. One of them was Adam Neumann, the former founder of WeWork.”
Kunal Lunawat Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 11:34 $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
Assertion Supported
Lunawat: 2020 Was Best Year for U.S. Home Sales in 15 Years
“Last year you know, was the best year for residential home sales in, in, in the last 15 odd years or so.”
Kunal Lunawat Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 5:37 $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
Insight
Lunawat: Hotel tech adoption peaks when occupancy reaches record lows
“Usually it's during those points where the propensity to adopt technology is at an all time high among property managers and hotel owners and operators.”
Kunal Lunawat Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 8:20 $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
Disclosure
Lunawat: Agya is targeting $45M–$50M Fund I, 50% closed
“We still raising, so we are not allowed to disclose but we're looking at a 45 to fifty million dollar fund ballpark. We have 50% of the way there.”
Kunal Lunawat Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 4:51 $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
Assertion Supported
Lunawat: Stay Alfred founder Jordan Allen scaled it to $100M revenue
“The founder's name is Jordan Allen. He was previously the founder of this company called stay Alfred, which was a short-term rental company, scaled it to a hundred million dollars in revenue.”
Kunal Lunawat Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 10:02 $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
Disclosure
Lunawat: Agya Ventures invested $250K seed SAFE check into Rumor
“We wrote a 250,000 dollar check in that company. There was a seed stage safe note.”
Kunal Lunawat Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 11:21 $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lunawat: StayFlexy is integrating with Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia
“So that's exactly what they're working on now, which is to integrate this product with the leading OTAs. So if you go to an Airbnb or a booking.com or Expedia, you would have that option to book by the R.”
Kunal Lunawat Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 14:59 $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
Disclosure
Lunawat: Agya's consulting practice made under $500k in 2020
“It was a little less than half a million dollars.”
Kunal Lunawat Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 4:01 $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
$500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund Aug 3, 2021 11m
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