TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The new funding gives the company just over $791 million in total known funding since the company was founded in 2013, according to Crunchbase data. Regardless of if it goes down the public market path or not, Harry’s goal since birth was to target incumbents in the global shave market, which is forecasted to reach $22.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. ” 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?”. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

One analyst estimated $15b+ of incumbent market value was wiped out. PillPack raised a bit over $100M and, if the rumors are true, getting purchased for $1B (or close to it) for a company formed in 2013 is a fantastic outcome in a relatively short period of time.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

In 2011-2013, about 1450 software companies were founded each year on average. This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. The rate of new software company formation seems to have declined materially in the past few years.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. In 2013 there were 967 million FPS transactions. Regulation becomes the friend of the incumbent in highly regulated industries through a process known as regulatory capture. The basis of this argument is really two fold.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Instead, the challenge was how to rebuild the concept of a bank in a country where banking is widely hated, all while the incumbents heavily entrenched with the state worked to block every move.

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