TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

It has raised nearly $1 billion since its 2015 inception and was valued at $2.5 Its backers include institutions such as Lone Pine Capital, Warburg Pincus and The Rise Fund, as well as U2’s Bono and NBA player Russell Westbrook. and “Economic conditions necessitate an added focus on capital preservation. And if so, why?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Ribbit Capital led the financing, which also included participation from DST Global, NFX and Zigg Capital. And it’s because the incumbents have no reason to fundamentally change.”. billion in 2015. “We That’s a massive seed round by any standards (the third-largest in the U.S., No doubt it has plenty of competition.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad. That spells opportunity for companies that are enabling that adoption. The company has raised £175 million ($230 million at today’s conversion rates), from a single investor, the PE firm Apax Partners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population have the ability to invest in the capital markets just didn’t seem right. Also, here in Mexico, the population is not that sophisticated like in the U.S. Accel’s Braccia agrees.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. Venture capital firms Invenfin , Base Capital, Savannah Fund, P1 Ventures, Luno and FireID took part in the round, including some high-impact angel investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. Treasury Prime raises $20M to scale its banking-as-a-service biz.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Over 96% of UK adults already have a bank account. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. ” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

From an investment point of view, managing and deploying capital in the same physical area makes sense, where investors can work with young companies and help them with a variety of things. The argument threaded through Fred’s posts above is that significant venture-scale opportunities for VCs existed outside the Bay Area.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Macy’s, its better-faring competitor, is moving away from physical storefronts, cutting its square footage by 13% between 2015 and 2018. While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One obvious solution to this list of issues and opportunities is to leverage technology to better serve the needs of the customer. healthcare system does not operate as a free marketplace with the type of open-competition that we often associate with capitalism. Service Level – Do your doctors ask you for feedback?

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. It only seemed logical to us that the same opportunity should exist in healthcare. Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.”

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