TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

more data by year-end 2022 than in 2020, amounting to multiple petabytes of data in total. “With the capital, we will continue to focus on engagement and adoption, collaboration, governance, lineage, and on APIs and SDKs to enable us to be open and extensible,” Sangani said via email. billion and growing toward $11.6

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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. Marco’s factoring product enables new companies to get started without having to put up the significant amount of collateral that banks are asking.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

to enable customers to make online payments using their bank accounts. However, this complexity is hidden behind a simple software development kit, which is what matters to merchants most,” Shoykhet said. Nacha is the organization that manages the development and governance of the ACH network.)

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Existing backers Conversion Capital and Bain Capital Ventures also participated in the round, bringing the company’s total raised since its November 2020 inception to $35 million. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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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

AUGUST 24, 2021

The fintech then launched its product in October 2020 and today offers a checking account combined with a software layer that aims to help SMBs manage their financials. Looking ahead, the startup plans to use its new capital toward product development, growth, operations and building out a credit offering.

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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. ” Pando makes a best effort to automate processes around the supply chain.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. When I landed at LinkedIn, I noticed that my colleagues were also doing much of the same, whether in recruiting, customer support, or corporate development. This sparked the idea for Magical.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

I’ve been writing about Human Interest since March 2020, covering each of its funding rounds since then ( here , here and here ), and following its impressive growth. Vouch hopes to leverage Level’s expertise in developing underwriting technologies to underwrite and support complex insurance products. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

million in seed funding to further develop its tools for more accurate data and analytics. CPG sales topping $720 billion in 2020. The CPG industry is in the middle of a rapid change where we see all of these emerging, digital native and mission-driven brands rapidly eating share from incumbents,” he added.

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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. billion in 2020, and expected to top $1 trillion by 2028.

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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. billion in 2020. That is up about 2,000 SKUs from last year depending on the city. is poised to be a $187.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

And finally, we will invest in our employees by launching additional professional development programs.” ”) and takes steps to mitigate bias in its systems — including its sentiment analysis systems — as well as the data used to develop these algorithms. ” Automating customer interactions. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Image Credits: Baselit With Baselit, for example, a marketplace could enable its sellers to ask “Which of my product goes out of stock most frequently?” But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free. In 2020, backers poured $296.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Dollars raised and deal volume in the fourth quarter dropped to their lowest levels since 2020 — with $1.6 Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. Chief corporate development and strategy officer Greg Orenstein will move into its CFO seat.” Digital lending funding was down 53% to $11.5 billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

million seed financing in the summer of 2020. In its own words, Mountain View-based Vareto is developing a new platform for FP&A (financial planning & analysis) teams with the goal of “building the future of financial planning.”. Talk about validation. Vareto’s investors are naturally bullish on what the startup is doing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Finance in 2021, and to Fortune’s 40 under 40 in 2020. 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.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? While reporting delays could change this total, VC dollars have more than doubled since the pandemic began. billion the prior year.

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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 : 2020. Website : [link].

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

3 In 2020, it is China’s second largest e-commerce platform on an active user basis only lagging behind Alibaba. Pinduoduo’s team purchase is often compared to Groupon in the US because they both enable a form of group buying. During that same year, JD and Taobao generated a combined $433B of gross merchandise value.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

In 2020, digital bank Varo became the first-ever all-digital nationally chartered U.S. 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. A chartered bank is often associated with a commercial bank.”. Seen on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. See Expeto , which is developing a platform that allows corporate customers to extend their private networks via virtually any type of cellular connectivity. “We plan to raise our next round of capital in the second half of 2024.

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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

MAY 15, 2022

The filing revealed that Better.com swung to a loss of more than $300 million last year , a sharp turnaround from its profitable 2020. . Those apps are increasingly adding an ‘investment button’ that enables consumers to purchase US Equities. This week started with the discovery of an S-4 filed by Aurora Acquisition Corp.,

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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 Fast slows its roll. in 4 years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Digital transformation is the name of the game these days, and companies that are enabling businesses to take a leap into the future, by helping them tackle their most complex operations, are reaping the rewards. OneStream said annual recurring revenue grew 85% in 2020, with customers growing by 40% to 650 enterprises.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

In July 2020, Paymob raised $3.5 Other investors include Egyptian investment fund A15 and Dutch development bank FMO. “ Their market opportunity is also huge; Egypt’s transformation to a cashless society is being enabled by the unique products Paymob has built.” million Series A round. The total raise of $18.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

He saw a need for financial application development, but was hindered by a banking system “still stuck in the 20th century.” Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions. The company raised a $7.7 million seed round earlier in the year.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. Stripe’s launch in 2009 made it possible for startups to easily collect payments online via developer-friendly APIs.

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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. To Ghildiyal’s point, there’s evidence to suggest that there’s a gap between DevOps adoption and success.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In developed markets such as the U.S. However, people in developing markets such as North Africa and the Middle East are underserved , with less than 3% actively investing in financial assets across the region. The Series A investment will go toward product development and expanding its presence across MENA.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

“Our goal is to empower both developers and creators while ensuring that our platform is legally and ethically sound,” Yair Adato, the co-founder of Bria, told TechCrunch in an email interview. During Adato’s Ph.D. “I realized that there’s a real business use case for this,” Adato said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Launched in 2020, Solana gained worldwide renown for being one of the fastest blockchains with a rapidly growing developer ecosystem. So how should startups that have incumbents to take on, other startups to best, or both, approach the balance between growth and spend this year? Speeding Up Crypto. Discovery Stage Agenda.

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