TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Excepting breakouts like Anduril and Palantir , most contracts are awarded to incumbents — more than 95% of Booz Allen’s nearly $8 billion in revenue comes from government contracting — and any startup that gets a foot in the door has to bridge the gap between the R&D phase and the contract award.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

In June 2020 it merged with French competitor Everoad, and acquired Uber Freight’s European business last September. Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. So far it has concentrated on the lucrative European market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. And even though investment activity decreased this year, it still remains well above where it was in 2019 and 2020. Laura Spiekerman. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.” Amira Yahyaoui, the founder of Mos.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He said that there were several major issues that led him and his co-founders to build a new search tool. Finally, as we navigate the internet in 2020, the privacy question looms large as is how you balance the convenience-privacy trade-off. He believes his background in AI can help in a consumer-focused search tool.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

The Series B round was led by Accel, Citius and Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors AC Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Lightspeed and Sequoia Capital India. by 2022, compared to China’s 6% and South Korea’s 34% in 2020. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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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. Its digitally-native approach can save pet parents up to $750 a year on healthcare expenses, Zubin Bhettay, co-founder and CEO of Fuzzy, told TechCrunch. Pets are big business. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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. Survey data illustrates the dramatic shift.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The Long Island-based company was founded in 2019 by Hungryroot co-founder Gregory Harry Struck after he adopted a plant-based diet while battling cancer. “It billion in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report , and is poised to grow to $74 billion by 2027. The plant-based foods market was valued at $29.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

Galym Imanbayev joined Lightspeed in 2020 as a partner focused on the healthcare sector. In fundraising, a founder’s greatest challenge is not selling any particular product or strategy. The competition is not your market competitor or incumbent. Instead, it is often unwinding and realigning the investor’s biases.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

I caught up with Colin Walsh, the company’s chief executive and founder, to get an update. For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Crisp , an Amsterdam-based, online-only supermarket focused on fresh produce, has raised €30 million in a Series B financing led by leading Target Global and joined by Keen Venture Partners and the co-founders of Adyen and Takeaway.com. Crisp has now raised a total of €42.5 million to date.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. Charles Gorra, founder and CEO of Rebag, declined to talk about valuation, but did say it was “a steep evolution from the last time.”

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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. Maev founder and CEO Katie Spies. Though they officially started the company in 2019, Busaba and Spies didn’t launch their first product, the raw dog food, until 2020. Image Credits: Maev .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When we covered the company’s most recent funding round before this — a $30 million raise in November 2020 — the startup was valued at $310 million. Regardless of whether Marshmallow is the first or one of the first, given the dearth of diversity in the U.K. “They are big companies and stuck in their ways.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

last year , Lightyear has entered a space that includes local incumbents such as the well-funded Freetrade , not to mention long-established players on the other side of the Atlantic such as Robinhood , which canned its U.K. launch plans back in 2020. Lightyear founders. Launching out of stealth initially in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After finding it, the three co-founders together built a service for managing passwords, API keys and digital certificates, which evolved into a fully fledged business — Akeyless — over the course of the next several years. If Akeyless’s co-founders have concerns, they didn’t show it. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Former Zillow executives Greg Schwartz and Carey Armstrong founded Stamford, CT-based Tomo in the fall of 2020 to take on big banks when it comes to providing mortgages to consumers. And it’s because the incumbents have no reason to fundamentally change.”. No doubt it has plenty of competition. They were once rivals.

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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.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Led by CEO and co-founder Kahlil Lalji , the startup is launching with a split account product that just raised $3.5 ” The company built out an internal ledger to track the way that money is moving between user accounts, in a way that the co-founder thinks a lot of other fintechs don’t. Zeta, which raised a $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The company notched gross revenue of $265 million in 2020 and has raised capital over the years from backers such as General Atlantic and Tiger Global Management. The challenger bank was created to target millennials dissatisfied with the incumbent banking options.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Co-founder and CEO Chris Cochran says that the company approached H.I.G. He claims that the startup currently has “several hundred” customers and that it’s been profitable and debt-free since Q4 2020. One of the recent vendors to benefit is ProsperOps , which today closed a $72 million funding round led by by H.I.G.

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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. Peter Hazlehurst, co-founder and CEO of BaaS startup Synctera , shares his thoughts in this TC+ article here. Digital lending funding was down 53% to $11.5

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Misfits Market is acquiring Imperfect Foods in an all-stock deal, Misfits Market founder and CEO Abhi Ramesh told TechCrunch. He has long believed that the food e-commerce and grocery commerce space was “ripe for consolidation” and saw a wave of it happen in 2020 and 2021; for example, HelloFresh acquiring both Factor75 and Youfoodz.

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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. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The startup will continue to look for ways to expand its partner network of hardware and software companies across the globe, Luke Wilson, founder and CEO of ManageXR 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

JANUARY 17, 2022

The market, dominated by incumbents like Toast and upcoming players such as MarginEdge and Brazil’s Zak , has its value pegged at over $70 billion globally and is expected to reach $116 billion in the next four years. As with most technologies, Africa is playing catch up in this food-tech segment. Last year, 80% of the U.S.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” I am expecting a downturn at some point. Dreams can be fueled here.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Interestingly, Yuma “got started by accident,” according to founder Guillaume Luccisano. “Baselit is [an] AI copilot for analytics,” co-founder Shubham Rana writes in the blog post announcing Baselit. In 2020, backers poured $296.4 ” without having to rely on their data team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

. — standardizes it, and makes it queryable using GraphQL (a technology that is itself seeing more use and positive opinion, per the State of Javascript 2020 report ). AutoCloud sits atop CloudGraph, offering automated data ingestions, security compliance and cloud resource visualization.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The company wasn’t actively in the market, according to CEO and co-founder Igor Senra, but was approached by existing backer Greenoaks and other investors. 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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

The company has a total of $13 million in venture-backed investments since Rise was founded in 2017, founder and CEO Hank Adams told TechCrunch. 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. Ever since Climate Corp.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The futurists were right on schedule: In 2020, Mountain View-based Nuro was testing its second-generation R2 robotic vehicle, the first to earn a federal exemption to operate an autonomous vehicle. It was much more the result of soul searching and trying to figure out what is the biggest possible impact that we could have.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Strategic angel investors include Phil Bentley, CEO of Mitie, and Naman Budhdeo, co-founder and CEO of TripStack and FlightNetwork. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D. Since launching its product in January 2020, the company has processed thousands of invoices across 20 countries, amounting to more than $18 million.

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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. O ther players in the space facilitating transfer from the U.K. and the E.U.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

CEO and founder Nitin Jayakrishnan says that the new capital will be put toward expanding Pando’s global sales, marketing and delivery capabilities. This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts.

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