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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

TechCrunch

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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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

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. When they joined, Monzo was generating $69M in revenues (in April 2020). expectations. to expect.

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Debt versus equity: When do non-traditional funding strategies make sense?

TechCrunch

” Despite the VC flurries of 2020 creating an ecosystem of seemingly endless equity, it’s important for entrepreneurs and founders to understand that there is no one-size-fits-all model for raising capital. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption.

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Nerdio lands $117M to build management tools on top of Azure Virtual Desktop

TechCrunch

Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. Nerdio runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription as an Azure-based application.).

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Make no bones about it, Fuzzy expands reach into pet care market with capital infusion

TechCrunch

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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Restrictions on acquisitions would stifle the US startup ecosystem, not rein in big tech

TechCrunch

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.” In 2020, there was an approximately 10:1 ratio of acquisitions of VC-backed companies to IPOs, with 1,042 venture-backed companies acquired and 103 entering the public markets.

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

If you read Reid Hoffman’s important book, “ Blitzscaling ” you’ll realize that in some markets that are large, global and being disruptive sometimes being first to global scale can be more important than short-term unit economics. Having ridden some of the future models I can tell you they are nothing short of stunning.