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. Ascend app.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. When they joined, Monzo was generating $69M in revenues (in April 2020).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. We have many more Disrupt recaps to come in the next few days, so stay tuned. Startup founders have more options than in years past when it comes to fundraising, thanks in large part to a surplus of liquidity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Reber knows a thing or two about software disrupting legacy productivity software — he is the co-founder and CEO of presentation software startup Pitch and the former CEO and founder of Microsoft-acquired Wunderlist — and notably he is joining Rows’ Advisory Board along with the investment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. But Leda Health co-founders Madison Campbell and Liesel Vaidya think of themselves as advocates for sexual assault survivors. . “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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

In 2020, digital bank Varo became the first-ever all-digital nationally chartered U.S. So I talked to Varo CEO and founder Colin Walsh to find out if it was worth it. .” 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.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Business credit is traditionally underwritten based on the founders’ FICO scores. As international founders with less than a month of credit history, their chances of getting approved were slim to none, despite having $125K in the bank. Brex gave startup founders a daily view into the month’s cumulative expenses (vs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

In 2020, Wave officially spun off from Sendwave, a remittance platform that WorldRemit acquired for about $500 million in cash and stock. It was led by Stripe, Sequoia Heritage, Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital. The firm, run by Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk, was valued at $1.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Naked Market founders Alex Kost and Harrison Fugman. Meanwhile, the snack food market was valued at $427 billion in 2020, and is expected to grow 3% annually through 2026. Fugman said a multibillion market like that “gets us excited to have this kind of landscape for disruption.” Image Credits: The Naked Market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Since March 2020, the number of people working at U.S. A tool that might — she somewhat biasedly believes, being its founder — is Clipboard, an online marketplace that pairs nurses, nursing assistants and other healthcare professionals with facilities in need of staffing. billion in 2020, according to CB Insights.

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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. Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

At least, that’s the opinion of Prashant Ghildiyal, one of the co-founders of Devtron , a startup offering a platform to address what he believes are the top challenges facing the DevOps space. That’s not to mention startups like Render , which raised $20 million last November after winning our Disrupt SF 2019 Startup Battlefield.)

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. This year, we’re curating 200 companies for you to check out and meet for the first time in the Expo Hall, with the top 20 gracing the Disrupt stage to launch their wares.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Following up on our May of 2020 survey of the sector and about the impact of COVID-19 in particular , TechCrunch spoke with 10 investors about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments. Rachel Holt , co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Silicon Valley Bank’s 2020 Global Startup Outlook puts it this way: “[T]he fact is most entrepreneurs never expect to reach a public market exit.” NVCA-Pitchbook data on acquisitions and IPOs back up the sentiment of founders when it comes to likely exit opportunities. Accordingly, 58% of startups expect to be acquired.

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