TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding. ” Customers that have integrated with Tractable to date include Geico in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It then went on to secure another $15 million in Series A funding and $40 million in Series B funding in 2019. The Series B in 2019 was about proving the technology and now with Series C, it can bring products to market and leverage the capital to drive scale, he added. We profiled the company back in 2015 when it raised $1.7

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019. CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “Sima.ai’s software and hardware platform can be used to enable scaling machine learning to [a range of] embedded edge applications. As over-100-employee Sima.ai works to productize its first-generation chip, work is underway on the second-generation architecture, Rangasaye said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Including the company’s debut round of $110 million led by Pitango when it first came out of stealth mode in 2019, DriveNets has now raised just over $580 million. “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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Virgio says consumers’ fashion preferences are changing rapidly and they are not satisfied with the incumbents’ offerings. This is then fed into our agile and responsive supply chain to enable the trendiest, elegant and yet affordable line in near real-time.

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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. Akeyless has customers across the retail, fintech, insurance and gaming sectors, among others, including Wix and Outbrain.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million since its 2019 inception. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”. 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

JANUARY 27, 2022

The seed round is coming almost three years after NALA secured a seven-figure pre-seed round led by Accel in 2019. Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. Similarly, NALA, in addition to enabling cross-border payments from the U.K. and the U.S. and the E.U.)

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts. billion in 2019. ” Pando makes a best effort to automate processes around the supply chain. The result of those major disruptions?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

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. “At that moment, I was finishing my MBA at HEC Paris and the goal I set for myself was to try to prevent that happening to other people, maybe that will be something good that I can do in my life.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

“So we came to enable businesses to deliver personalized digital content via a personal landing page that can be built easily within the Mobiz platform and deliver on the SMS channel.” from 2019 to 2025, according to a report by Grandview Research. That’s our thesis and we are very hopeful that we will work out.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

They originally started Sheltr, which connected customers with trained maintenance professionals and was acquired by Hippo in 2019. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. They want all of their money up front so they can invest it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Specifically, Tovala has a deal with LG to embed its software in LG ovens, to enable them to cook Tovala’s meals and the other dishes that can be programmed with its app and barcode scanning system. .” Having said that, the company is also expanding with partnerships with others that produce ovens, too.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. 4) A New Pricing Model Enables Better Options in a Volatile Market.

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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?”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In one development of that theme, today, Taptap Send — one of the startups building tools to manage these money transfers — is announcing $65 million in growth funding as it continues its mission to enable remittances specifically to the most overlooked countries.

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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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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. Mexican online grocer Jüsto raises $65M in General Atlantic-led Series A. is poised to be a $187.7 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our goal is to enable digital commerce throughout LatAm, and BNPL in Mexico is our first step towards that vision,” said CEO and co-founder Kyle Miller. million since its 2019 inception. The Mexico City-based company already is live with over 100 merchants, including Steve Madden and Ben & Frank.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

As part of the new partnership, the companies said in a press release that Instacart will leverage Adyen functionality, including PINless debit enablement of transactions “to further optimize and improve authorization rates for an even more seamless customer experience.” 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. The relationship between incumbents and upstarts has long been a complicated one. Sherwood Media has been set up as an independent LLC that will exist as a subsidiary of Robinhood, in part to ensure that the content produced within Sherwood remains editorially independent.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in : 2019. Quick thoughts : In 2019, Curacel started with claims automation and fraud detection in health insurance with hospitals as its target market. YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance. Website : [link]. Team size : 30 . Location : Lagos, Nigeria.

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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

Pinduoduo’s team purchase is often compared to Groupon in the US because they both enable a form of group buying. The take away for startups is that the team purchase model is significant because it enables behaviors associated with offline commerce (e.g., As of December 31, 2019. But the models are actually very different.

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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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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. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. Monzo has also been able to move faster than incumbents because of its forward-looking approach to building banking infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

A 2019 Salesforce report found that 53% of service organizations expected to use chatbots within 18 months. Call center service provider incumbents like Dialpad offer sentiment analysis features, as well, as do companies including Cogito , Saygent and SugarCRM. billion by 2025, a steep climb from $190 million in 2016.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A 2019 report from Aviva found that one-fifth of UK employees won’t ask for flexibility because they are convinced it will be refused, and 35 percent aren’t comfortable asking their employer for more flexibility. So Juggle is pushing at an already open door.

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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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The company was founded in 2019 by Harrison Fugman, Alex Kost and Tim Marbach, who created a “fast fail” method to develop new foods that includes an end-to-end infrastructure that can go from idea to market in about three months. 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

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

MAY 12, 2022

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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