Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. They’ll have to back up the truck for their best companies, take acquisitions off the table, and go right after the incumbents head-on. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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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.

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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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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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JANUARY 29, 2021

Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Charles Birnbaum , partner, Bessemer Venture Partners (a generalist fund with portfolio companies including Guild Education and Brightwheel). Jerry Lu , senior associate, Maveron.

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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 Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer, and Aula).

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JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. TAU Ventures is a venture capital fund, affiliated with Tel Aviv University, for investing in early-stage, cutting-edge technologies based in Israel.

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APRIL 30, 2021

Last year was a record 12 months for venture-backed biotech and pharma companies, with deal activity rising to $28.5 billion in 2019. In the never-ending stream of venture capital funding rounds, from time to time, a group of startups working on the same problem will raise money nearly in unison. billion from $17.8

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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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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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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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AUGUST 24, 2021

million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. million since its 2019 inception. In fact, Tiger Global and Tencent are first-time backers in Cora with this latest round, joining existing investors Greenoaks, Kaszek, QED and Ribbit Capital. “But

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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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MAY 11, 2022

In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 We quickly found that most incumbents focusing solely on the financing of SaaS receivables lacked reliable data and market traction to sufficiently validate their business models,” Chupryna said. million Series A funding round for Crowdz. million. . “A

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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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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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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 And of course, by Q3, it had plunged to just 13.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. My colleague Rebecca Szkutak profiles Foley’s latest venture for TC+, called Ernesta. billion in 2019, according to the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

million of Series A investment, led by Integrated Capital, to continue developing its line of healthier food brands. Its latest brand, Rob’s Backstage Popcorn, is a joint venture with the Jonas Brothers. Joining Integrated Capital in the round are Great Oaks Venture Capital, Pacific Tiger Group, Sope Creek Capital and Clearco.

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JUNE 9, 2022

Prosus Ventures, Quona Capital, Mouro, IFC, Acrew and Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the round. WTI provided $20 million in venture debt, Möller said. In total, the company has raised over $150 million in equity funding since its 2019 inception. I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents.

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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

JULY 14, 2021

The financing brings the two-year-old company’s total raised since its 2019 inception to $50 million. Consume r credit cards yielded an estimated $150 billion in revenue for traditional banks in 2019, but startups only captured a small fraction of the value. Accomplice and Greycroft co-led its $7 million Series A last June.

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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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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. Better Tomorrow Ventures led Super.mx’s $2.4 Like the US, a two-tier venture capital market is emerging in Latin America.

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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. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs. Pando isn’t the only vendor doing this.

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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. Existing backers Better Tomorrow Ventures, Aleph, Flourish Ventures and TLV Partners also participated in the latest financing. . Unit raises $18.6M to offer banking features as a service.

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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. This is where Wynn believes Ascend is competing, though some incumbents are offering premium financing, but not in the digital way Ascend is. Ascend app.

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MARCH 27, 2022

Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. In February, she told me that the startup’s revenue has grown nearly 14x since 2019 and doubled in the last year alone. Image Credits: Nora Apsel / Morty.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

But, perhaps its as simple as the following — today with Zoom, Slack, and other modern communication tools, it may help certain founders to build in the early-stages outside the Bay Area — where teams can form and bond, where the runway can last a bit longer, and where the team can be insulated from the noise of 2019 San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

New investors include angels like Gokul Rajaram and Emilie Choi, founders and employees from Wealthsimple, Orum, Alloy, Chime, Square and funds/syndicates in addition to Primer Capital, Gaingels and Moving Capital. million since its 2019 inception. With the latest Series A financing, Nelo has raised a total of $25.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

He founded the company in 2019 under the premise that while many industries have undergone digital transformation initiatives, the mortgage industry is still largely reliant on “the same expensive and cumbersome processes and tasks that have been in use for decades.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It’s gone from adding about $100,000 a month in net new revenue in early 2019 to now adding more than $1 million a month in net new revenue, according to Schneble. The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We million since its 2015 inception.

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MAY 22, 2022

I’ve come to realize, in reporting on startups and venture capital pretty much exclusively for the past 5 years — and for many more before that in one capacity or another — that nothing is black and white, things aren’t always what they seem and they can change in the blink of an eye. .” Read them here. division.

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JULY 13, 2022

The Culver City–based company positions itself as a friendlier alternative to incumbents like Grubhub and Uber Eats, charging a monthly fee instead of the per-order commissions typical of food delivery businesses. ChowNow also promises that restaurants on its platform retain their own customer data for marketing and insights.

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Haystack

JUNE 13, 2019

Fast-forward to June 2019, and two BI companies were purchased for close to $18B combined. And, there is some truth to it — there are plenty of “BI tools” and “analytics/dashboard” companies that were started and funded. It was a red ocean. 2/ Kurian Moves. I expect to see more blockbuster M&A in this broad category.

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