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. billion at the time of its last raise in 2021.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” Image Credits: Mos.

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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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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

The brand began as an online retailer that was later bought by Walmart in 2017 for $310 million. If necessary, raise capital to support scaling the team, iterating the solution and expanding to solve new problems for the same customer, or new problems for new customers. Build a team to support your iteration and scaling.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

” The funding is being led by Left Lane Capital, with Finistere Ventures, Comcast Ventures, OurCrowd, Origin Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Joe Mansueto — all previous backers — also participating.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Whatley started the company in 2017 with his brother, Daniel, Stuart Kennedy and Nikki McNeil while a Harvard undergrad. Costanoa Ventures led the investment and was joined by Torch Capital and a group of angel investors including Fivestars CTO Matt Doka and Hu’s Kitchen CEO Mark Ramadan.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

To create a framework for founders who are charting a path from $1 million to $25 million in annual revenue, Arthur Nobel, a principal at Knight Capital, conducted 47 interviews with founders and investors who’ve taken startups from Series A to C. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? Scaling across Series A to C.

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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. million, with backers including edtech-focused VC firm Brighteye Ventures , Adjuvo , Ascension Ventures, and a slew of angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

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. In 2017, Microsoft acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Back in July of 2017, I wrote a piece noting that their aggregate value had reached the $3 trillion mark. And it helps explain why startups have been able to raise so much capital lately in the United States , as they have in Europe , and why private-market investors are pouring so much capital into fintech startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Replicant , one of the more prominent vendors in the call center automation space, today announced that it raised $78 million in Series B funding led by Stripes with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Omega, IronGrey, Norwest and Atomic. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

More than 10 startups raised capital to make plant-based protein for a country with increasing meat demand. The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. How to kick the 10 worst startup habits with Fuel Capital’s Leah Solivan. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Insurance is a huge industry, with McKinsey estimating back in 2017 premiums of more than €4 trillion globally. PitchBook notes that Outrun Ventures and other unnamed investors are in this round. Previous backers were Passion Capital and Investec. The logic was that U.K. insurers typically assess a driver’s U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. ” Founders : Henry Mascot started a company in 2017 to help hospitals digitize records. Bloom’s offering allows Sudanese to save in U.S.

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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. Extend is one such company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

’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. It’s now disclosed its funding of $2.1 million from investors in the U.K. and the U.S. Image Credits: Juggle.

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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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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

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. You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But China and the United States are far from the only technology markets with developed startup and incumbent cohorts, strong venture capital activity, and capital markets able to translate early-stage ideas into public companies. The Angular Ventures report includes data from Israel, an active deep tech market.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. The argument threaded through Fred’s posts above is that significant venture-scale opportunities for VCs existed outside the Bay Area.

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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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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 company plans to use its new capital to scale its tax and accounting offerings across enterprise, consumer and government sectors. and the United Kingdom.

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