TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Israeli startup provides software-based internet routing solutions to service providers to run them as virtualized services over “ white box ” generic architecture, and today it is announcing $262 million in equity funding to continue expanding its technology, its geographical footprint, and its business development.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

a company that has developed a precision fermentation technology to make animal-free proteins, like eggs, is having a good 2021. It then went on to secure another $15 million in Series A funding and $40 million in Series B funding in 2019. For these technologies to work and enable transition, you have to have the scale to match that.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. They started Marco in 2019 and now have offices in New York, Dallas and across Latin America. International Development Finance Corp.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million since its 2019 inception. Looking ahead, the startup plans to use its new capital toward product development, growth, operations and building out a credit offering. Existing services are expensive and inefficient, creating opportunities for technology enabled service providers to offer better and cheaper services,” he said. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. billion in 2019. The result of those major disruptions?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Cross-border remittances — when people living and working abroad send money back home to friends and family — continues to be a huge part of how those living in developing countries, off the global financial grid, can be helped. on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

This isn’t an issue in developed markets, as healthcare systems change with the times to adequately provide healthcare when necessary. Having worked in a luxury firm, as an investment banker at JP Morgan and her own consulting firm, Bardet decided to start Susu in 2019. So that’s how the story started.”. Susu founders.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It developed payments APIs to automate end-to-end insurance payments and to offer a buy now, pay later financing option for distribution of commissions and carrier payables, something co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Wynn, said was rather unique to commercial insurance. This is the first funding for the company that is live in 20 states.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Vouch hopes to leverage Level’s expertise in developing underwriting technologies to underwrite and support complex insurance products. ” 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?”.

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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. Close partnership with our merchants to develop solutions together is of the utmost importance to us. While we’ve grown a lot in APAC and EMEA, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The company claims to be the first supermarket in Mexico with no physical store that enables customers to buy groceries directly from its website, or an app, and Jüsto will deliver the order to the customer’s location of choice. That is up about 2,000 SKUs from last year depending on the city. is poised to be a $187.7 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It was a startling development in the world of crypto, and while I don’t cover the space directly, I couldn’t help but be fascinated by the goings-on — and not in a good way. The digital bank has seen some success since launching in Nigeria in 2019. Pymnts has more here. Another example of fintech for good.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. Chief corporate development and strategy officer Greg Orenstein will move into its CFO seat.” The relationship between incumbents and upstarts has long been a complicated one. 18), but those problems were resolved by the afternoon, the bank said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

As interest in webhooks continues to soar due to their importance in helping web applications communicate with each other in real-time, Convoy’s play, which allows developers globally simply plug its webhooks infrastructure and focus on building their APIs and products, is meritorious. . Founded in : 2019. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in 2019. It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? We have seen 20 creator led learning platforms across “preK to Gray” learning in addition to incumbents like Teachable and very few have an ability to build a moat in my view.

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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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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

In addition to driving down prices, team purchase helps solve the “trust deficit” of retail in China’s developing cities, where more than 80% 5 ) of retail is unorganized and consumers rely heavily on social recommendations to initiate transactions. As of December 31, 2019. But the models are actually very different. eMarketer.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

The decline doesn’t seem to be letting up in 2019, with retailers shutting down 23% more stores than they did at the start of last year (2000+ store closings), according to Coresight Research. Casper, an OurCrowd portfolio company and new addition to the class of 2019 $1B “unicorns,” is a prime example of this new generation of “born onlines.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A fantasy sports exchange founded by Irish betting veteran Paddy Power is bringing NFT-enabled live trading to rugby fans in a bid to expand globally. ASX is raising capital rapidly so it can compete for coveted partnerships against incumbents like Disney, Caesars and Fox Sports, as the regulatory landscape opens up.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

million of Series A investment, led by Integrated Capital, to continue developing its line of healthier food brands. In addition, a direct customer feedback loop enables The Naked Market to quickly gauge which products are winning with consumers so they can be scaled. Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips. And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

QuickVid, which Habib, a self-taught developer who previously worked at Meta on Facebook Live and video infrastructure, built in a matter of weeks, launched on December 27. Copilot was co-developed by OpenAI and GitHub, which Microsoft owns.) Going after video. See: [link].

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

In the latest development on this theme, a UK startup called Token.io In 2019, however, it spun out its crypto business , which is called M10 and focuses today on helping banks (state banks, commercial banks) build and run tokens, used to create their own digital currencies and for other purposes. .”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The cloud-native market has seen the introduction of a range of open source DevOps tools — tools that combine software development and IT operations — built to address very specific use cases. The platform handles app management, security and more, providing an interface that abstracts away the underlying infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. JoyTunes, led by Yuval Kaminka has developed a music-learning platform that has skyrocketed in 2020. Led by CEO Pavel Gurevich the company is seeing excellent traction.

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