TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Melonn , a Colombian startup that provides fulfillment and software services to small and medium-sized e-commerce companies in Latin America, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

About $1B has been invested in early stage SaaS startups as of November 1. Over the last nine months, marketing startups have raised more dollars in aggregate than any other segment. Operations teams following second, with human resources focused startups in third. The median round size for vertical startups is $9.1M

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”. It’s been a busy day for new funds.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

Should you price your SaaS per seat or per use? One of the most memorable parts of the session is when modified shared with us that the most common pricing mistake in a land and expand motion is to cede too much value in the free/lesser product, scuttling any expansion opportunity. A hybrid approach. Competition.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I’ve gone through this discovery process for dozens of startup ideas, potential features, and market opportunities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Mexico-based startup closed the $15 million Series A round and $20 million debt financing after participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 cohort. based corporate spend startup that in June closed a $60 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures and whose CEO is an investor. all these companies are targeting the startups/SMB sector.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

I think different startups will choose different paths here. Fault tolerance as a wedge for startups David: So, yeah, that brings me to another topic, which is related to market structure. You know, incumbents versus startups. And in the seat that we’re in, we hope the startups always win.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The internal rate of return (IRR) for companies in other startup hub cities has been even better. Which is just one snapshot, but a relevant one given how hard it can be to produce accurate early-stage startup market analysis at this scale. You can increasingly do a startup from anywhere and make it a success. billion from $17.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The startup provides dashboards from where users can build AI-powered workflows for tasks like claims processing, customer support and appointment scheduling, letting organizations automate both business processes and front-office, customer-facing tasks (if the sales pitch is to be believed). After all, Jiffy.ai

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

TrustLayer , which provides insurance brokers with risk management services via a SaaS platform, has raised $6.6 Interestingly, the startup also got some industry validation in the way of investors. Are insurtech startups undervalued? million in a seed round. Twenty of the top 100 insurance agencies in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Grocery delivery startup Tiggy is a new player in the Canadian quick commerce space, announcing Friday $6.35 Many individual grocers offered their own delivery during the global pandemic, in addition to the delivery incumbents Instacart, PC Express, Inabuggy, DoorDash and Uber Eats. If you can do it, you will have more longevity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

And it’s here where there’s a meaningful opportunity to cut down on repetitive, manual programming work, according to Brad Menezes. Ma was previously a senior engineer at Morgan Stanley before co-founding Supportive, a help desk software-as-a-service startup, and joining Confluent as an engineering lead.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

This is a common refrain in the industry, which is why we are seeing an increasing number of startups pop up in the space. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. region- or product-specific) content.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. and Mexico. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Vareto , a startup aiming to help companies conduct more forward-looking financial planning and analysis, is coming out of stealth today with $24 million in total funding. If you see a gap in an opportunity, you can immediately put resources toward that in days, not months,” she said. “At million seed financing in the summer of 2020.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

But where there is a gap, there is an opportunity. Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. The emergence of SaaS business models has further set the stage for companies like Gusto to transform SMB operations. Gusto saw an opportunity to upend the way payroll was done.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Startups fail when they run out of money. Startups run out of money when they lack focus. Without a maniacal focus on serving customer needs in a unique way, startups can flounder amidst competition. That’s why it’s critical to identify and focus on your startup’s competitive advantage.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. The market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Amadeus has 16,000 employees and earned more than $2 billion in revenue last year, but early-stage startups can learn from its digital transition, Ron writes. With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

“The only way to change this damaging trend is to radically increase the number of healthcare professionals with interest in and access to opportunities at hospitals and nursing homes. Also prior to Clipboard, she led product management and business operations at Sendwave, an international money transfer startup. invested $37.9

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2016

For hundreds of startups in the as-a-service world, the scores of product launches at last week’s Amazon Web Services Reinvent Conference each were a warning shot across their bows. Any business where we see margin is our opportunity. And because of their scale, they can do it at a fraction of the cost by the startup would.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

If it sounds frustrating as a salesperson, well, that’s what AcuityMD is here to resolve; to find opportunities for your sales process. “Instead, what ends up happening is the only path that a small company has to get their products to market is to go and get acquired by a big incumbent enterprise.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Weder planned on using the Series A funding to expand across Mexico and Latin America — a market he told me represents a $600 billion opportunity — and that’s just what the company did. The global pandemic helped a lot in terms of grocery adoption in Latin America,” he added. Before, it was 1% and now it is 3% and growing aggressively.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Startup insurance provider Vouch raises $90M, now valued at $550M. Startups like Ascend aiming to disrupt the insurance industry are also attracting venture capital, with recent examples including Vouch and Marshmallow , which raised close to $100 million, while Insurify raised $100 million. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As we’ve seen, some startups are pivoting to re-model themselves for the radically different world of the COVID-19 pandemic. A fascinating example of this is SaaS marketplace Juggle. There’s an opportunity for a product to create this experience where professionals can thrive in their flexible working careers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the myriad ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. I caught up with Terry about the move and he told me this is not his first time running a startup. More on that here.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Gleitzman was a senior software engineer at Hunch and eBay before cofounding several startups including a “virtual reality therapy platform” called Mona. “Gleitzman was one of eBay’s AI pioneers and worked with Abraham and the Atomic team to build a machine that could have an entire phone conversation with a human.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2017

Machine learning startups create models based on data provided by customers. Unlike the first wave of SaaS software, machine learning startups benefit from the data their customers share with them. Many times, machine learning startups create one global machine learning model that is used across the customer base.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

When Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi joined the YC W17 batch with an idea for a VR startup, they quickly encountered a problem. Cards are particularly a must have for young companies because large vendors don’t often accept ACH and other forms of alternative payment from early startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Hyperplane led the round, with Founder Collective, Union Labs, 500 Startups, SOSV, E14 Fund, Tectonic Ventures, Scott Belsky, Chad Laurans and Sunny Vu participating. This is unlike incumbent technology, which Deng said “misses minutes” during the transmission of the images. million in convertible notes, which is included in the $7.9

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. ETH killers, BTC killers and all kinds of other projects with lofty promises and ambitious roadmaps to build better blockchains than the incumbents. Take advantage of arbitrage opportunities.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. All startups are screwed up. HT Mike Maples Jr ) Corollary: A startup has to be so excellent at one or two key things, that they can screw up everything else up and not die.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s the precise opportunity that former Tesla CIO, Jay Vijayan, concluded he was well-positioned to address while still in the employ of the electric vehicle giant. ” Tesla is a chain of startups, Elon Musk explains. Longtime Tesla Motors CIO Jay Vijayan has formed a stealth startup.

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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. Stitch Health — Our most recent healthcare investment, Stitch is a Y-Combinator seeded SaaS company that serves as home base for healthcare teams that aim to deliver customer-first healthcare.

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