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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.] Revenue acceleration is, too.

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Argentinian fintech infrastructure startup Geopagos leaves the boot straps behind with $35M funding round

TechCrunch

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. Will once-bootstrapped startups turn to venture during a watershed moment? The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Fintech stays hot, Brex doubles, and startup IRR is up all over

TechCrunch

The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. Last year was a record 12 months for venture-backed biotech and pharma companies, with deal activity rising to $28.5 Where did the fintech venture capital market push the most money in Q1, and why?

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

ED ZIMMERMAN : The funnel for venture funding isn’t cylindrical — it’s shape follows a more Darwinian conical path, as many seed stage companies march into the cone’s wide entrance and far fewer make it to the cone’s narrow end.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Here are a list of the new forces pushing the U.S. healthcare market.

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So much fintech M&A

TechCrunch

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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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013 (or 2014 depending on the source), the Chicago-based company has raised over $82 million in funding over its lifetime from investors such as FinTech Collective and Oak HC/FT , according to Crunchbase. It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g.

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