TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation. billion ($1.8

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

It was also participated by AlphaTrio Sustainable Technology Fund, Skystar Capital, Sovereign’s Capital, Ozora, and Gobi Partners. Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. USV’s Albert Wenger has been writing his book, World After Capital , which lays out the argument that money is no longer the scarce asset driving the economy, but rather, it’s attention. Getting capital in the earliest stages continues to get easier.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. million in debt — led by NGP Capital with participation from Team8 Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners. million in equity and $19.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. ” NeuReality was co-founded in 2019 by Tzvika Shmueli, Yossi Kasus and Tanach, who previously served as a director of engineering at Marvell and Intel.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In other words, it wants to help fintechs be in a stronger position to compete with incumbents, something it believes will benefit consumers. And elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Though they officially started the company in 2019, Busaba and Spies didn’t launch their first product, the raw dog food, until 2020. Now with the new capital in hand, Spies plans to “put a foot on the gas” to push its 20% month over month growth to 25%. Maev founder and CEO Katie Spies. Image Credits: Maev .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

.” Mason wouldn’t reveal Descript’s valuation post-money, but he noted that the funding — which also had participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital and ex-Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross — brings the company’s total raised to $100 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

and United Emirates; and existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Pitango, D1 Capital, Atreides Management, and Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services are also participating. “We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology. It paid $1.3

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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. Founded in : 2019. Quick thoughts : In 2019, Curacel started with claims automation and fraud detection in health insurance with hospitals as its target market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

John Danner , managing partner, Dunce Capital (an edtech and future of work fund with portfolio companies Lambda School and Outschool). Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion in 2019. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 The evolution of post-pandemic education will be complex, if not aggressively competitive among the growing cohort of well-capitalized edtech companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

The investors: Boaz Dinte , managing general partner, Qumra Capital. Adi Levanon Chazan , partner, Flint Capital. Noam Kaiser , partner, Intel Capital. Boaz Dinte, Qumra Capital. We are particularly interested in technologies that do not require too much time and capital to get to market.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

It was like things were still happening, so I really wanted to– I didn’t want the ship to sail without me capitalizing on it a little bit. Yeah, that storm passes eventually, and while it’s there, I do think there’s ways to capitalize on it. I don’t know what for. It’s an investment, almost.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

And then there was actually one guy who…actually, his name is, I think, Alec Radford, and he literally was like off in the corner at OpenAI, like, working on this in 2018, 2019. There’s the original model of capitalism, which he calls bourgeois capitalism, which you could think, like, Henry Ford is the archetype of that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Raising capital for a new fund is always hard. billion in 2019. In this exciting moment, when younger founders will likely receive more attention, capital and control than ever, it’s crucial to avoid certain pitfalls. The new capital came less than a year after Brex raised $150 million at a $2.9 billion from $17.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019. reported this month that $51 billion of venture capital was invested into U.S.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. expectations. Social features to pay your friends (e.g., Splitwise).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Cora , a Brazilian digital lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $116 million in a Series B round led by Greenoaks Capital. million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. million since its 2019 inception. Ribbit Capital leads $26.7M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To give you an idea of just how bad it is, reports indicated that in 2019, credit card interest rates neared a staggering 300% in Brazil. “It’s a huge market that is still controlled by incumbents charging extremely high interest rates, which makes it difficult for people to pay back their loans.

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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

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 million Series A funding round for Crowdz.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Growth Partners with participation from Active Capital and other unnamed investors. ” Several years ago, the market for cloud optimization software and “ FinOps ,” while nascent, was consolidating as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw the opportunities presented by cloud cost optimization. ” “H.I.G.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Tile , the maker of Bluetooth-powered lost item finder beacons and, more recently, a staunch Apple critic , announced today it has raised $40 million in non-dilutive debt financing from Capital IP. Tile’s last round of funding was $45 million in growth equity in 2019. Now it’s shifted to debt.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. Accel actually invested in Galileo before it sold to SoFi in October of 2019. ).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

From Tage Kene-Okafor: Kuda , the London-based and Nigerian-operating startup taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first and personalized set of banking services, is expanding to the U.K. The digital bank has seen some success since launching in Nigeria in 2019. Yassir pulls in $150M for its super app, led by Bond.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The funding is being co-led by Cota Capital and TempoCap, with participation also from Element Ventures, MissionOG and PostFinance as well as past investors Octopus Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures and SBI Investments. In the latest development on this theme, a UK startup called Token.io

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. We’ve always believed in serving innovative businesses starting with fintechs since our inception, and more recently, serving innovators in the crypto/web3 space in 2019.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Here we are again in 2019 debating speech online and specifically the case of Facebook. I have spoken and written extensively about this going back to a post on labor rights (2014) and my TEDxNY talk (2015), several subsequent blog posts , and my book World After Capital. Warren quickly fires back on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

” The company added that a corporate credit card has been one of the most requested features from customers since Mercury launched in 2019. This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. “It’s straightforward 1.5%

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

In 2019, I switched jobs and joined Google (primarily for immigration reasons) as a Software Engineer. It would be hard not to with such massive amounts of capital injections into the economy. In 2020, the world changed dramatically. In the excitement of all the money printing, one word became key to Bitcoin’s narrative: “inflation.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The direct listing enables them to go public without raising capital. Software M&A in 2019 reached about $170B up from $136B in 2018, up 25%. And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. In it, 65% of founders believe the fundraising market in 2020 will present more challenges than 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” 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?”. He told me: “The question I have is who will capitalize on this bear market to scoop up valuable technology or talent. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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