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

JUNE 16, 2021

It will also use the investment to continue building out its technology, specifically to help build out better, AI-based techniques of processing and parsing pictures that are taken on smartphones — by their nature small in size. ” Customers that have integrated with Tractable to date include Geico in the U.S.,

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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

Investors other than WeRide and Pony include Japan’s SPARX, Singapore’s Pilgrim Partners Asia, as well as government-affiliated funds Guangzhou Industrial Investment and Capital Operation, Lingnan Commerce and Trade Tourism, and Guangzhou Industrial Control. ”

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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

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. Today, Tomo announced a $7 million seed funding round that included participation from a slew of investors including KB Investment Inc.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. 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.

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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

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

DECEMBER 7, 2021

a company that has developed a precision fermentation technology to make animal-free proteins, like eggs, is having a good 2021. First the company, formerly known as Clara Foods, secured a deal in April with BioBrew , an investment of AB InBev’s investment arm, ZX Ventures, to brew its animal-free protein at scale. in October.

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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

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. Since investing in the company’s Series A, we’ve seen accelerated momentum and proof that this is an enormous addressable market.”.

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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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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

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

JULY 13, 2021

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. 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

MARCH 2, 2022

This isn’t an issue in developed markets, as healthcare systems change with the times to adequately provide healthcare when necessary. million in debt and grant financing from BPI France , the French government’s public investment bank. The equity raise saw participation mainly from angel investors, as the company also raised $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 With this latest investment, Crowdz and Citi plan to collaborate based on that goal of giving SMEs “rapid and efficient access to the working capital needed to keep their businesses running.” million Series A funding round for Crowdz. million. . “A

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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

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere. ” In other news.

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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 is also investing the funding in more international expansion.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The funding will be put towards investment in Tile’s finding technologies, ahead of the company’s plan to unveil a new slate of products and features that the company believes will help it to better compete with Apple’s AirTags and further expand its market. Image Credits: Tile internal concept art.

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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

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. I’m sorry that we don’t have enough sales to keep paying you.”.

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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. They want all of their money up front so they can invest it.

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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

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. It became QED’s first African investment last July when 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.”. Eventually, Super.mx

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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

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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Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

There’s no need for me to mince words here: This is a huge, huge development. That’s a 9x return on investment for the region, which could’ve used the proceeds to improve infrastructure, services, and other things across the city. It is shocking, really. 3/ A powerful warning shot to technology brands.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in 2019. Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multi-stage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever, and Outschool). We invested in 14 new companies and are just finishing rounds in 2 more. Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. In other notable news, Robinhood this week announced it was launching a new debit card that allows for spare-change investing. In February, she told me that the startup’s revenue has grown nearly 14x since 2019 and doubled in the last year alone.

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