TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Sales in this area topped $100 billion in 2020 , driven by the 48 million dogs and cats that were adopted over the past three years. The big story in 2020 was that everyone needed telehealth services for themselves, and we saw that transfer to pets and then exacerbated by the industry,” he added. Pets are big business.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Founded by Tokopedia veteran Vincent Tjendra , Astro plans to spend its funding proceeds on user acquisition, product development and hiring more staff to add to its current team of 200. by 2022, compared to China’s 6% and South Korea’s 34% in 2020.

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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 in 2020. billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Borodach says it’s extensible insofar as a software development kit lets developers tap into the system and create “new solutions.” ” Countless vendors offer online tax prep services, including incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block. Financing climbed to $131.5 The tides might be turning.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Forward Foods, Starday , a healthy and sustainable food products company, raised $4 million in seed funding to take on “big food” incumbents. Chaz Flexman, co-founder and CEO, started the remote first company in late 2020 after leaving Pattern Brands. He watched digital grocery go from a single-digit market to double digits overnight.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Driven by the global pandemic and everyone being at home with their pets, sales topped $100 billion in 2020 in this sector. 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“In today’s economic environment, Teampay’s software-led approach has proven resilient — as we saw in late 2020 to 2021, when the economy rebounds, Teampay benefits disproportionately through accelerated growth … We increased our debt facility for additional flexibility in uncertain times.” Image Credits: Teampay.

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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

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

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

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.

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TechCrunch

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. It ended 2020 with less than 10 million accounts total. billion in transaction volume a month.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

At the time, the company had to develop its own rudimentary device management platform to deliver its content in the healthcare environments, Wilson told TechCrunch. Its competitors include incumbent mobile device management companies, which build similar tools for mobile phones and laptops, and some device manufacturers.

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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. The Egyptian fintech ecosystem also got a major boost when incumbent fintech Fawry became a publicly-traded unicorn for the first time. million Series A round. million as its first tranche of Series A investment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

more data by year-end 2022 than in 2020, amounting to multiple petabytes of data in total. It’ll see the two companies jointly develop engineering, data science and analytics applications that leverage both Databricks’ and Alations’ platforms. An IDC report commissioned by Seagate projected companies would collect 42.2%

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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. Meanwhile, the snack food market was valued at $427 billion in 2020, and is expected to grow 3% annually through 2026. Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Amongst these questions are actual costs of therapies, reimbursement coverage, the commercialisation strategy for psychedelic drug development companies, resource bottlenecks with the therapists’ supply and infrastructure, etc,” they told TechCrunch+. Drug development is very costly, and start-ups are having a harder time raising cash.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. Physically, the Chinese market also differs greatly from much of the developed West.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. Battery Ventures led NorthOne’s $21 million Series A in March of 2020 and is doubling down on its investment with the new raise. Then there were those companies that existed well before the pandemic.

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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

JULY 29, 2021

m’s five-year $53 million contract with Oakland Unified School District, which began in 2020, the SFUSD contract is the largest the startup has ever won. The buses previously used were old and owned by the incumbent and have been moved out of the city. m has absorbed all the drivers who were previously serving SFUSD.

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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

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. digital shopping companies in 2021, up from $23 billion in 2020. London & Partners and Dealroom.co It’s certainly not slowed down.

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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. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, this complexity is hidden behind a simple software development kit, which is what matters to merchants most,” Shoykhet said. In its 2020 Global Payments Report, FIS predicted that account-to-account transfers would make up 20% of global e-commerce payments by this year.

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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

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

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

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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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

JULY 19, 2021

In fact, customers leaned into growing food so much that Rise Gardens saw its sales eclipse seven figures in 2020, and gardens sold out three times during the year. Incumbents include AeroGarden, AeroGrow, which was acquired by Scotts-Miracle Gro last November, and Click & Grow. The concept of an indoor farm is not new.

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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. billion in 2020. We previously reported on the company last February when it raised $65 million in a Series A round led by General Atlantic.

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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

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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

2020 saw over 4% of the state burning. This is a huge business, typified by incumbent behemoths like Lloyd’s of London, who in theory mitigate the risk insurance companies face when they get the formula wrong. “The industry hasn’t updated,” he said. “It’s the classic innovator’s dilemma.”

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