TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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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. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

According to a 2019 report from Credit Karma , 46% of taxpayers expected to get refunds of more than $1,000 for their 2019 taxes — meaning they were overestimating their income taxes throughout the year. ” Countless vendors offer online tax prep services, including incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

OnTime is the ride-hailing service introduced by GAC in 2019 as one of the newcomers competing with incumbent Didi, many of which are either operated by auto OEMs or are close to one. As technology develops, the focus has turned to the operation of autonomous driving. ”

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Taking the love of the Asian food they grew up with, they wanted to develop one of those brands for the U.S. “We My dad still eats instant ramen each night, and it is such a massive market: 4 billion packets are sold per year, but it is also a product that has been dominated by the same three incumbents for years.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under an open source license back in 2014, though its initial development pre-dates that by several years. It’s basically a software framework that developers can use and reuse without having to redesign the wheel with each new game they create.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

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. The company estimates it helped keep more than 2,000 pounds of food from being wasted and saved 250,000 gallons of water since launching in 2019.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

In today’s Octane blog, we bring EO members and non-members alike behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC), profiling Leonard Brody, one of the event’s carefully selected speakers who is known as “a leader of the new world order.” Along with new competition comes new opportunity. and “how can we sell it?”

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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. The EVERY Co. , We profiled the company back in 2015 when it raised $1.7 million in seed funding.

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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. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7 The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Austin-based Maev , developing human-grade raw dog food, is poised to take a share of the raw food category, announcing today it raised $9 million in a round of funding led by Springdale Ventures. She worked at a startup as a product development manager, but ultimately left that behind to find a different calling. Image Credits: Maev

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

It is developing a platform and Heatic sensors that detect someone’s body heat anonymously to determine occupancy, headcount and activity. Co-founders Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng, who spun Butlr out of the MIT Media Lab in 2019, refer to their technology as “Alexa for spatial.” million in convertible notes, which is included in the $7.9

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. And they said ‘if we’re going to help develop your business into something very significant, we’d like to have skin in the game.’ ”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

So she teamed up with Dmitry Kashlev, a Russian immigrant, in January of 2019 to create a solution for other foreign-born individuals and young adults facing similar credit challenges. The startup also plans to use the money in part toward product development, such as adding more interactive features. Kim, who immigrated to the U.S.

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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 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. Intuitivo, an Argentina-based AI and computer vision startup, raised $7.8

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Silicon Valley-based Accel led the round for Unit, bringing the company’s total raised since its 2019 inception to nearly $70 million. Founders and developers can try it out by creating a free account, building in Unit’s live environment and testing their products using real funds. Unit raises $18.6M

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

As drivers we look out for them, as pedestrians we might be annoyed if they steer in our way but the riders themselves have developed better norms as happens in all forms of transportation. You can’t simply drop a bunch of electric scooters in a market and hope to compete with the data and software advantages of the incumbents.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. Amplify was another payment platform that launched during that period. Adeyemi launched the fintech with Olamide Sobowale and Gbekeloluwa Olufotebi.

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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

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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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. This will also pave the way for how the product will develop in the future.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

It plans to use the money to continue investing in its technology stack, to step up with more business development, and to hire more talent for its team, to meet what it believes are changing tides in the world of data warehousing. billion valuation. “We rarely see people not liking Snowflake.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

They started Marco in 2019 and now have offices in New York, Dallas and across Latin America. International Development Finance Corp. Spradling through the Antler accelerator, a Singapore- and New York-based early-stage investment and advisory services program that connects entrepreneurs and tech operators to launch new businesses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

We launched Tactoset in 2019, a key regenerative technology for Anika in a $100 million+ addressable market. What we needed was analytics, information and procedural insights — AcuityMD was a game changer,” says Ben Joseph, VP of Commercial and Corporate Development, Anika.

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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. The program will now become available to new markets, including the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Co-founded in 2019 by a trio of former insurance industry executives, Super.mx’s self-proclaimed mission is to design insurance for “the emerging Latin American middle class,” according to CEO Sebastian Villarreal. Moreover, the insurance incumbents have been unable to address a growing and underserved market.”.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Apple has since announced it’s making ultra-wideband APIs available to third-party developers, but this access wasn’t available from day one of AirTag’s arrival.). Tile’s last round of funding was $45 million in growth equity in 2019. Image Credits: Tile internal concept art. Now it’s shifted to debt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 For example, Crowdz has developed what the startup describes as “proprietary” risk scoring that gives banks, financial institutions and DeFi lenders “access to attractive risk-adjusted, diversified returns, while helping to plug the SME finance gap.”. million. . “A

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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

At that time, CEO Ricardo Weder told TechCrunch that the company, which was founded in 2019, weathered the first year of the global pandemic well, seeing 2020 revenue increase 16-fold. We previously reported on the company last February when it raised $65 million in a Series A round led by General Atlantic. is poised to be a $187.7

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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

MAY 4, 2021

Back in 2019, our office was broken into,” Vaidya said. We also take Ubers home from meetings or offices ever since 2019, because our lawyers told us not to take the subway. “Disruptive innovation in any industry is never comfortable; it never starts out as something that the incumbents are pleased with,” Sheth said. “I’m

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