TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Or that venture capital is a meritocracy? This doesn’t take into consideration, however, that venture capital is a financial product—a product that works for some people and doesn’t work for others. One, it usually implies that you’re going to start going cash flow negative to accelerate growth. That adds risk.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

If more lawmakers become convinced that Silicon Valley companies require greater supervision, the consensus could embolden the SEC to accelerate its agenda for increasing regulation in the private markets and fundamentally altering venture as we know it. It is investor protection through investor preclusion.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. million in debt) Series B led by Fin Venture Capital with participation from Mastercard, Proof Ventures, Trestle and Espresso Capital, bringing Teampay’s total raised to $65 million. . million in equity, $11.75

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

” On the flip side, he predicts that corporates with venture capital arms that are “committed to the insurance sector will likely step up their involvement.” ” This also seems true more broadly of venture funds with a strong insurtech thesis. tourist investors”) have left the space. That hasn’t changed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Following up on our May of 2020 survey of the sector and about the impact of COVID-19 in particular , TechCrunch spoke with 10 investors about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments. This may not accelerate “innovation,” but it will accelerate progress.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

BrokerTech Ventures (BTV), a group consisting of 13 tech-focused insurance agencies in the U.S. and 11 “top-tier” insurance companies, also invested in TrustLayer. The funding actually marked BTV’s first investment in a cohort member of its inaugural accelerator program. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7 Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. Maple is based in San Francisco, but focuses on investing in founders with Canadian roots.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Besides Tiger, a slew of venture capital firms also participated in the Series A, including Insight Partners, Index Ventures, monashees, SciFi, QED Investors, BoxGroup, Greyhound, Gilgamesh Ventures and Clocktower. It’s been a week of fintech infrastructure-related investments in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Share on Twitter.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year! Revenue acceleration is, too. [Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 John Danner , managing partner, Dunce Capital (an edtech and future of work fund with portfolio companies Lambda School and Outschool). billion in 2019.

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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

JULY 13, 2021

Spradling through the Antler accelerator, a Singapore- and New York-based early-stage investment and advisory services program that connects entrepreneurs and tech operators to launch new businesses. This is where venture capital firms should be putting their dollars — in companies where technology and talent unleash a lot of value.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. The funding brings the total investment to date for Portland, Oregon-based Sila to $20 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Predictably, they’re mostly focused on the how and why: How do I get into an accelerator? The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. How to get into a startup accelerator. Should you try to get your company into an accelerator?

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

It also resurfaced talk of when Stripe reportedly pressured investor Sequoia to back off from an investment that smelled like competition. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. million in a round led by Firebrand Ventures. It expects to achieve a second close by the end of June.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

It is using the data it is generating “to provide way better credit” for its customers, Senra said, starting with credit cards, then receivables and other kinds of credit such as emergency credit or credit for investments. “We’re trying to deeply understand our customers’ needs and trying to create products they love,” Senra told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Banks were forced to respond by making new and significant investments in risk and compliance management systems. This, in turn, led to even greater investments in data and AI as financial institutions sought to gain a clearer understanding of their consumers and the overall operations of their business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. It also plans to invest in sales and go-to-market strategy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. The pandemic accelerated the use of digital payment solutions globally, but especially in Latin America, noted Núñez Castro.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

The digital asset space experienced a watershed moment during the pandemic, resulting in an accelerated push toward digital payments and alternative stores of value,” Austin Woodward told TechCrunch. This year, it is on track to issue over 50 million forms, according to Austin Woodward. . It’s a deceptively large and rapidly growing market.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. could become even more attractive regions for investment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

. “[With the new capital,] we plan to ramp up investment in our customer success team to onboard new customers,” cofounder and CEO Gadi Shamia told TechCrunch via email. We will increase our sales and marketing investment to capture the significant demand we see. “Automation is now part of the.

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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. Tal Slobodkin , partner, StageOne Ventures . Boaz Dinte, Qumra Capital. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? Oh, and one more thing. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In other words, it wants to help fintechs be in a stronger position to compete with incumbents, something it believes will benefit consumers. And elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Morgan Stanley has meanwhile been beefing up its stock plan administration business, acquiring Solium Capital early last year and more recently purchasing Barclay’s stock plan business. TC: What’s Pulley’s relationship to venture firms? Carta was just valued at $1.7 TC: How adaptable is the software?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

A separate measure, of total value of paid-in investment, revealed 1.67x returns for other hubs versus 1.60x in the main Silicon Valley and Bay Area tech cities. How should they think about competition, strategic investment versus top-tier VC firms and how to build their board? per year on syndicated deals elsewhere versus 17.5%

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

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. In other Goldman Sachs news, Bloomberg reported that the investment banking and financial services giant is “ embarking on its biggest round of jobs cuts since the start of the pandemic.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

At Disrupt, Williams and her Serena Ventures partner Alison Rapaport Stillman will join us to discuss the next chapter of Serena’s career, swapping out the racket for several (hundred) inbound pitch-decks. Accelerating Startup Marketing Growth. Rivian Grows Up. with RJ Scaringe (Rivian). Sponsored by: LinkedIn.

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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. Website: [link].

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

CVS Care Clinic Price Schedule: Benchmark Healthcare Investments. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. This will add fuel to the fire and accelerate the transformation. healthcare market. The timing can be tricky, however.

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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. Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.” We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.

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