TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company, founded in 2016, provides 24/7 live chat and telehealth, ship-to-home prescriptions, vet-curated items in its e-commerce marketplace and educational content and programs. In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Money certainly doesn’t solve all woes — the top reason startups fail today is still due to failure to raise new capital. Here’s what to know: The syndicate started a few years ago when business school professors realized that young talent within their classes was looking for activation capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“Finding and closing security gaps from an attacker’s perspective is a disruptive approach to the way organizations can proactively protect their networks. XM Cyber was founded in 2016 and raised $49 million, according to Crunchbase data. The most recent deal was a $17 million Series B in July led by Macquarie Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A startup with a freight shipping platform for small- and mid-sized shippers, MyCarrier raised $22 million in a venture round led by NewRoads Capital with participation from Greycroft and Lerer Hippeau. And it’s absolutely needed given global supply chain disruptions and chaos.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” ” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Our four primary conclusions: Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. However, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4% of venture capital deals.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

” “We sold out,” said Lore — who co-founded both Quidsi.com and Jet.com — at Disrupt 2022. “With Walmart, we were happy to sell; we saw that as a way to accelerate our vision,” said the billionaire of the 2016 sale of Jet.com to Walmart. The “Amazon situation was different. It was a forced situation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

A fund typically invests the capital for three to five years, which causes its “performance” to drop. There are ways to disrupt this timeline: VC firms can sometimes back a relatively early-stage company and exit the investment within 12 months.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

since being founded back in 2016. Investors in the Series B are Eight Roads, which led the round — plus existing investors Union Square Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Seedcamp and Taavet Hinrikus (Wise/TransferWise co-founder). In total the startup has raised $31.5M Eight Roads’ partner, Alston Zecha, joins Juro ‘s board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. . Sequoia Capital India, Insight Partners and Insignia Ventures Partners co-led the Series B round. Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

FinanZero , a Brazilian online credit marketplace, announced today that it has closed a $7 million round of funding – its fourth since it launched in 2016 was founded in 2016. FinanZero is based in Brazil’s financial capital, Sao Paulo, and has 52 employees. It has raised a total of $22.85 million to date.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Tavel is also a founding member of All Raise, the nonprofit organization focused on women in the venture capital and VC-backed startup ecosystem.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

million Seed round in 2016 and a $1.54 Plains Venture Partners is a growth-oriented venture fund focused on investing in entrepreneurs and technologies with a strong potential for disruption. Plains is committed to deploying capital across the central United States in teams that are capable, efficient and poised for growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. HubHaus (2016-2020). The startup targeted working professionals in cities, and raised only around $11 million in known venture capital. The Outline (2016-2020). Rubica (2016-2020).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. This funding capitalizes Bokksu at a level far beyond our bootstrapped early days, and it will facilitate a rapid increase of our product offerings and improvement of our delivery times, as well as allow us to grow our team,” Taing said. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The investment was led by Ed Brakeman, a senior managing director at Bain Capital and Hans den Bieman, founder and ex-CEO of Mowi, one of the largest salmon businesses globally. They raised an angel round to start Victory Farms before launching in mid-2016 to serve a market with about a $1.5 billion fish deficit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Christine is in an airport lounge and Haje is perched on the corner of a cafe bench, as the TechCrunch team is in transit post-Disrupt today. When Parker Conrad founded Rippling in 2016, the HR company initially focused on the process of onboarding employees. PDT, subscribe here. Enjoy Daily Crunch, and see y’all next week!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

The winner will get a feature article on TechCrunch.com, one-year free subscription to Extra Crunch and a complimentary Founder Pass to TechCrunch Disrupt this fall. Leah Solivan, Fuel Capital. In 2016, Leah transitioned into the role of executive chairwoman and in 2017, TaskRabbit was acquired by IKEA.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

You can read more about Starry’s origins in a 2016 interview with Kanojia. Going public was a capital event for us, not a liquidity event, so we are not going to screw around with the recipe, but get on a regular capital cycle,” he added. The company is on a great trajectory for growth and the unit economics are fantastic.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Today, You closed a $25 million funding round led by Radical Ventures with participation from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s Time Ventures, Breyer Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Day One Ventures. Socher previously founded MetaMind , an AI startup that was acquired by Salesforce in 2016. ” Image Credits: You.com.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

The investment was led by Gutbrain Ventures and PBJ Capital with participation from Streamlined Ventures, CXO Fund, Amino Capital, Startup Capital Ventures and Sterling Road. Breinify launched in 2016 and participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition in San Francisco that year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Companies like Lori solve such problems and reduce costs with their on-demand logistics and trucking marketplaces, which connect shippers to transportation, help them move cargo, extend working capital facilities and provide them with software to manage their operations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

Now, in a rising interest rate environment, investors across stages are valuing companies based on fundamentals and prioritizing capital-efficient growth, while looking more closely at public market comps for valuation guidance.”. For more details, head here. P.S. Hope to see you there! PSA : Startup Battlefield 200 Applications close soon.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Prosus Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Thrive Capital, FMZ Ventures, Rock Springs Capital, Lighthouse Capital Markets and TriplePoint Capital also put money in Honor’s latest funding round in addition to Home Instead founders Paul and Lori Hogan. Existing backers — including funds and accounts advised by T.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sure launched its first (enterprise SaaS) product in early 2016, and today counts traditional financial services and fintech companies alike among its customers. Like any legacy industry being disrupted there are many players trying to ride the wave of ‘embedded’ by rebranding their 1.0 Berkley and Menlo Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The funding comes on the heels of the startup working alongside larger investment banks to get retail investors in on 41 capital raising efforts for UK publicly-listed companies and trusts since April 2020. s public companies by providing additional capital and liquidity. PrimaryBid has become an important part of the U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Einride, which he founded in 2016, is his seventh company. A lot of the very traditional industries are ready for disruption, and that’s going to challenge and change society at its core. Einride’s business is threefold. I’m not the kind of person to sit there and keep the status quo. It’s not my thing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Tonye Membere-Otaji thought about the idea for MVX in 2016. In 2019, Membere-Otaji finally launched the company with CTO Tobi Amusan after securing a $100,000 pre-seed investment from Oui Capital , a pan-African VC firm. or China, some lack adequate capital to pay for freight or supply. The company today is announcing its $1.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

With early venture capital in its pocket, Duolingo could afford to focus on product over profits. Duolingo had taken early inspiration from Angry Birds as well as Clash Royale later, following that game’s launch in 2016. he remembers asking. Half the people at Duolingo were playing Clash Royale, at some point,” he said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. Interswitch receives $110M investment from LeapFrog and Tana Africa Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Series D included a host of new investors, including BlackRock, The Chernin Group (TCG), Foresite Capital, Greenspring Associates, Morningside Ventures and Portfolio, along with existing investors including Highland Capital Partners, which led the Series C round. The startup has now raised over $250 million to date.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Dorm Room Fund is an American venture capital firm run by students that invests in student founders in the US and Canada using a $20,000 SAFE.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In 2016, we were acquired by Oracle. We wanted to disrupt that industry that prioritizes many vanity metrics that aren’t actually helpful to an entrepreneur’s success. Working with a great team, we grew Dyn to $100 million in annual recurring revenue and 500 global employees. While at Oracle, I reflected on our growth journey at Dyn.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Iconic New York venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau announced $230 million in additional funding across two new funds: LH Seed VIII, which focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies, and LH Select IV, which invests in companies from Series A to C. He started Thrillist with Adam Rich in 2004, which later became Group Nine Media in 2016.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Notion Capital, Anthemis, Continental Grain and existing backers Syngenta and Ascot also participated in the financing, which brings the Chicago-based startup’s total raised to about $50 million since its 2016 inception. million in a Series A round of funding led by Greycroft. Anthemis led its $3.5 million seed round in early 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. According to one survey , as of 2016, 78% of models in fashion adverts were white.) “It’s hard to talk about the ethics of tools like this without engaging with deeper issues relating to economics, capitalism and business.”

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