TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding. ” Customers that have integrated with Tractable to date include Geico in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

This Series C is being led by D2 Investments, a new investment fund with LPs from the U.S. and United Emirates; and existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Pitango, D1 Capital, Atreides Management, and Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services are also participating.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

First the company, formerly known as Clara Foods, secured a deal in April with BioBrew , an investment of AB InBev’s investment arm, ZX Ventures, to brew its animal-free protein at scale. The investment was co-led by new investor, McWin, and existing investor, Rage Capital. We profiled the company back in 2015 when it raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. . As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. They started Marco in 2019 and now have offices in New York, Dallas and across Latin America. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019. CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Virgio says consumers’ fashion preferences are changing rapidly and they are not satisfied with the incumbents’ offerings. This is then fed into our agile and responsive supply chain to enable the trendiest, elegant and yet affordable line in near real-time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

million of Series A investment, led by Integrated Capital, to continue developing its line of healthier food brands. In addition, a direct customer feedback loop enables The Naked Market to quickly gauge which products are winning with consumers so they can be scaled. Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. “Most companies that can leverage AI don’t have the funds nor the huge R&D that Amazon, Meta and other huge companies investing in AI have. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million since its 2019 inception. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7 The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. Venture capital investments in security startups eclipsed $13 billion this year, according to PitchBook data, up from $11.47 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

million in debt and grant financing from BPI France , the French government’s public investment bank. Having worked in a luxury firm, as an investment banker at JP Morgan and her own consulting firm, Bardet decided to start Susu in 2019. So that’s how the story started.”. Susu founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere. ” In other news.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The seed round is coming almost three years after NALA secured a seven-figure pre-seed round led by Accel in 2019. Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. Similarly, NALA, in addition to enabling cross-border payments from the U.K. and the U.S. and the E.U.)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The investment comes as the startup is ramping up efforts to expand into the U.S. Part of the investment will be used to hire more staff in South Africa and support the commercial expansion to the U.S. . from 2019 to 2025, according to a report by Grandview Research. and double down on marketing, sales and account management.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Other investments will include improving customer service and bringing in more talent. Specifically, Tovala has a deal with LG to embed its software in LG ovens, to enable them to cook Tovala’s meals and the other dishes that can be programmed with its app and barcode scanning system.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

They originally started Sheltr, which connected customers with trained maintenance professionals and was acquired by Hippo in 2019. In addition, one of the only ways insurance companies can make a profit is by taking those hundreds of millions of dollars in payments and investing it. Brokers are here to stay,” he added.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The company claims to be the first supermarket in Mexico with no physical store that enables customers to buy groceries directly from its website, or an app, and Jüsto will deliver the order to the customer’s location of choice. Mexican online grocer Jüsto raises $65M in General Atlantic-led Series A. is poised to be a $187.7 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

In a statement, Luke Sarsfield, co-head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said: “Employers are looking to provide their employees tailored solutions and customizable advice that can better support individual saving and investing needs to help improve retirement savings outcomes. In Q2 of 2000, that number dipped slightly to 46.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In one development of that theme, today, Taptap Send — one of the startups building tools to manage these money transfers — is announcing $65 million in growth funding as it continues its mission to enable remittances specifically to the most overlooked countries.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. 4) A New Pricing Model Enables Better Options in a Volatile Market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The funding is being co-led by Cota Capital and TempoCap, with participation also from Element Ventures, MissionOG and PostFinance as well as past investors Octopus Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures and SBI Investments. The company is not disclosing valuation but CEO Todd Clyde confirmed it was up compared to its previous financing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. We’ve always believed in serving innovative businesses starting with fintechs since our inception, and more recently, serving innovators in the crypto/web3 space in 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

In September, he co-invested in a Seattle startup called Far Homes that was founded by Redfin alums and is focused on “buying and selling real estate in foreign markets,” as reported by GeekWire. The digital bank has seen some success since launching in Nigeria in 2019. I’m sorry that we don’t have enough sales to keep paying you.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. The relationship between incumbents and upstarts has long been a complicated one. It became QED’s first African investment last July when the U.S. 18), but those problems were resolved by the afternoon, the bank said. billion in working capital loans.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

beU delivery is YC’s first set of investments in Africa’s food delivery space alongside Heyfood, another startup in this batch. Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. Founded in : 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in 2019. It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multi-stage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever, and Outschool). billion last year, compared to $4.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

” The company added that a corporate credit card has been one of the most requested features from customers since Mercury launched in 2019. This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. “It’s straightforward 1.5%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Pinduoduo’s team purchase is often compared to Groupon in the US because they both enable a form of group buying. The take away for startups is that the team purchase model is significant because it enables behaviors associated with offline commerce (e.g., But the models are actually very different.

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