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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Its platform looks to scale enterprises’ XR deployments, enabling them to control remotely every aspect of their XR device fleet, including distributing apps and files, customizing the home screen user experience, tracking device health and usage, and more. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Founded in 2020 and launched in 2021, Juni closed off its Series A only in October of last year (it raised $21.5 Most incumbent banks, and now a fair number of neobanks, target small and medium businesses as customers. It didn’t give actual customer numbers.) “We like companies that use tech in smart ways to decrease costs.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Founded in September 2020, the New York-based company – which was previously named Unlock – said it uses data science to “ identify, underwrite and close transactions 10x faster than incumbents.” ” It describes itself as a “managed marketplace.” commercial real estate value.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere. ” In other news.

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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. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”.

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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. Venture capital investments in security startups eclipsed $13 billion this year, according to PitchBook data, up from $11.47 billion in 2020.

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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. Mexican online grocer Jüsto raises $65M in General Atlantic-led Series A.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

But in 2020, NALA started testing international money transfers after some users expressed interest in moving money from the U.K. Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. Similarly, NALA, in addition to enabling cross-border payments from the U.K. and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In addition, one of the only ways insurance companies can make a profit is by taking those hundreds of millions of dollars in payments and investing it. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Brokers are here to stay,” he added.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19. I invest for scaled global impact and team, and Taptap is among the best combinations I’ve seen, ” added Reid Hoffman.

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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. The relationship between incumbents and upstarts has long been a complicated one. It became QED’s first African investment last July when the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

million seed financing in the summer of 2020. The pair teamed up in 2020 to come up with a platform that would give FP&A teams the ability to “seamlessly” work across planning and reporting cycles. GV (formerly Google Ventures) led its $20 million Series A this year, and Menlo Ventures led its $4.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

. “[With the new capital,] we plan to ramp up investment in our customer success team to onboard new customers,” cofounder and CEO Gadi Shamia told TechCrunch via email. We will increase our sales and marketing investment to capture the significant demand we see. ” Automating customer interactions. billion by 2026.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

CPG sales topping $720 billion in 2020. Costanoa Ventures led the investment and was joined by Torch Capital and a group of angel investors including Fivestars CTO Matt Doka and Hu’s Kitchen CEO Mark Ramadan. It is just a starting point to build a company that is the core enabler of great brands.”.

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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. And before that, she worked at Neuberger Berman and served as a partner at McKinsey & Company.

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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? We invested in 14 new companies and are just finishing rounds in 2 more. In the United States, edtech startups raised $1.78

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

beU delivery is YC’s first set of investments in Africa’s food delivery space alongside Heyfood, another startup in this batch. Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. Founded in : 2020.

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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. Indian fintech Cred to invest in lending partner Liquiloans. And elsewhere.

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

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

In a statement, Luke Sarsfield, co-head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said: “Employers are looking to provide their employees tailored solutions and customizable advice that can better support individual saving and investing needs to help improve retirement savings outcomes. In Q2 of 2000, that number dipped slightly to 46.

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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. . Earlier this year , Axios’ Dan Primack wrote: “ SoftBank, in its apparent zeal to invest, promised to give Garg the 1.9% At DriveWealth, we will focus on becoming the default investment rail.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Jackson had been introduced to the senior care space when in high school as he worked alongside a mentor in private equity who invested in and acquired elderly care facilities. Image Credits: The trio — who just graduated five months ago — raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding for their venture in March of 2020 and then another $1.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. ” Co-founded in 2015 by Terje Strand, Ryley MacKenzie and Brian Baird, with Anderson coming onboard in 2020, Expeto doesn’t sell cell service. “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

JANUARY 31, 2023

Showing that there’s real investor enthusiasm for identity management platforms, Saviynt , which enables companies to secure apps, data and infrastructure in a single platform, today announced that it raised $205 million in debt from AB Private Credit Investors’ Tech Capital Solutions group.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,

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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 million as its first tranche of Series A investment. 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.”

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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. Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally?

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The funding brings the total investment to date for Portland, Oregon-based Sila to $20 million. Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions. In the process, you end up having to also be compliance experts just to be able to do it.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But as a relatively young population, most of them have minimal equity market and investment exposure. The company has raised a $20 million Series A round to democratize investing in the Middle East and North Africa. and Europe, up to half of the population invests in financial instruments. One such is Egypt-based Thndr.

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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. The transformation isn’t over.

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