TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million Series A investment in June from a group of investors that includes Archer-Daniels-Midland Company’s venture arm ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Genoa Ventures, Lever VC, Thia Ventures, iSelect Fund, Stage 1 Fund, Lifely VC and Satori Capital. million to bring its total funding since 2017 to $20 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The startup launched its banking services in 2017, aimed at making younger consumers comfortable doing all their banking online. Its backers include institutions such as Lone Pine Capital, Warburg Pincus and The Rise Fund, as well as U2’s Bono and NBA player Russell Westbrook. Mobile banking startup Varo is becoming a real bank.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. CoreWeave was founded in 2017 by Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee to address what they saw as “a void” in the cloud market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Cresicor , a consumer packaged goods trade management platform startup, raised $5.6 Whatley started the company in 2017 with his brother, Daniel, Stuart Kennedy and Nikki McNeil while a Harvard undergrad. million in seed funding to further develop its tools for more accurate data and analytics.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. Access to capital through overdrafts and Monzo credit products.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?”

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Recurring revenue as an asset class is a relatively new concept, and made more popular by startups such as Pipe , which has built a marketplace connecting investors to companies with businesses that have predictable, recurring revenues. In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 million. . “A

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

It also brings the startup’s total raised to $230 million since brothers Austin and Justin Woodward founded the company with their cousin Brandon Woodward in 2017. The startup also works with governmental agencies, including the IRS , to provide data analysis and tax calculation support for taxpayers with digital assets. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

The company has a total of $13 million in venture-backed investments since Rise was founded in 2017, founder and CEO Hank Adams told TechCrunch. Though he began in 2017, Adams, who has a background in sports technology, said he spent a few years working on prototypes before launching the first products in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Descript , the audio and video editing platform founded in 2017 by former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, has raised $50 million in a Series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which OpenAI and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We were bullish on fintech when we launched the Matrix Fintech Index in 2017, but even we underestimated the magnitude of the growth to come. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad. ClearBank’s rise points to how, as fintech continues to mature, we’re starting to see a new generation of startups emerging that are willing to tackle that last front tier of infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Today, one of the startups that has seen a lift in its business as a result of that is announcing a round of funding to expand its operations. Notably, this is the second round of funding for the startup in the space of six months, after it picked up $20 million in a Series B last June. Weber acquires smart cooking startup June.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Surely that’s music to the ears of startups whose tech is designed to reduce cost spend. As we’ve written about before , several years ago, the market for cloud optimization software, while nascent, was consolidating as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw an opportunity to make a mark. There’s several out there.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. We care about startups. So we pay what we might call minimum-viable attention to former startups that made it all the way to an IPO. TechCrunch isn’t a public-market-focused publication.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

Entrepreneurs often rush to build and test their ideas using the lean startup methodology. The brand began as an online retailer that was later bought by Walmart in 2017 for $310 million. B2B companies face a similar battle against multibillion-dollar incumbents and unicorn startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The company notched gross revenue of $265 million in 2020 and has raised capital over the years from backers such as General Atlantic and Tiger Global Management. The challenger bank was created to target millennials dissatisfied with the incumbent banking options. Since its inception in 2012, Avant has connected more than 1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Early Q3 indications show India’s startup ecosystem is going gangbusters. One more great quarter from India and a modest decline in China could see the former dethrone the latter for second place in the global startup market fundraising ranks.”. Early Q3 indications show India’s startup ecosystem is going gangbusters.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. From an investment point of view, managing and deploying capital in the same physical area makes sense, where investors can work with young companies and help them with a variety of things.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founded out of London in 2017, Zen Educate is setting out to supplant the traditional approach to recruiting teachers, a system that typically involves third-party agencies and hefty fees. Zen Educate , an online marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the best available teachers, has raised £19.3 And in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Each story is based on an interview with a founder or investor who addressed some of the most common startup dilemmas. Chinese startups rush to bring alternative protein to people’s plates. More than 10 startups raised capital to make plant-based protein for a country with increasing meat demand.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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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. Notably, sales startups raised the least amount of capital.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

My journey and how I came to this decision My journey into crypto began in 2017. I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. It would be hard not to with such massive amounts of capital injections into the economy. The 2020 Effect?—?Institutional

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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. ” Shamia cofounded Replicant in 2017 alongside Andrew Abraham, Benjamin Gleitzman, and Jack Abraham.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 3, 2016

But I do believe that they are the harbingers of a very active software acquisition market we’ll see in 2016 and 2017. Large software incumbents must bolster their product portfolios so their sales teams have new products to sell. Software multiples in the public markets have compressed, falling by 57% at their nadir.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

startup called Marshmallow that’s aiming to take on those larger legacy insurance giants with a new approach to determining risk is announcing a $30 million round of funding. Insurance is a huge industry, with McKinsey estimating back in 2017 premiums of more than €4 trillion globally. Now, a U.K. The logic was that U.K.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 7, 2015

This change has three important ramifications for SaaS startups. In 2014, Gartner predicted Chief Marketing Officers would control more budget than Chief Information Officers by 2017 , and the initial data shows the trend to be accurate. I expect to see many more startups chasing CMO dollars.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But it feels like we have written far less about fintechs that exist solely to help the incumbents better compete with fintechs. Other investors include B Capital, Point72 Ventures, Fintech Collective, Reciprocal Ventures, Wells Fargo and Pacific Western Bank. We help the incumbents close the gap relative to those players.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Founder and CEO Simon Kalouche says that Nimble’s new model wasn’t the goal when the pick and pack robotic automation firm launched in 2017. “It The startup’s growth is being fueled, in part by a $65 million Series B led by Cedar Pine that also features DNS Capital, GSR Ventures and Breyer Capital.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

JC Penney closed 139 stores in 2017, despite aggressive efforts to woo Sephora customers and Sears refugees. While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US.

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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. ’s leading angels, and also includes Oxford Capital , Social Capital , and 7percent Ventures. Since launching in 2017, Thomas said 62 percent of all placements made by Juggle have been female.

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