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

APRIL 4, 2023

That’s the vibe one gets from Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch, which features no fewer than four startups that claim to be building a “ChatGPT for X.” The first ChatGPT-inflected startup that caught our eye was Yuma , whose customer demographic is primarily — but not exclusively — Shopify merchants.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry. But lately, fintech upstarts are the ones doing the acquiring. So what’s going on here?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Just two months after securing $2 million in pre-seed funding , plant-based pudding startup Noops is announcing an additional $2 million round led by Lerer Hippeau. 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

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

David Friend is a serial entrepreneur, six-time founder, and the current co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company, Wasabi Technologies. produces more new startups and unicorns each year than any other country in the world, but 90% of startups fail , with cash flow often being a major challenge.

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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. ” There’s truth to what Jayakrishnan’s expressing about pent-up demand.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Melonn , a Colombian startup that provides fulfillment and software services to small and medium-sized e-commerce companies in Latin America, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

A recent survey by TechCrunch+ indicates that investors and founders are, instead of simply looking for attractive opportunities, increasingly putting their minds to building the foundations for an industry that can employ the power of psychedelics to change lives.

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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

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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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. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The startup launched its banking services in 2017, aimed at making younger consumers comfortable doing all their banking online. Today, the startup competes with Chime, Current, N26, Level, Step and Moven, among many others. I caught up with Colin Walsh, the company’s chief executive and founder, to get an update. consumer bank.

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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

MARCH 2, 2021

The on-demand grocery delivery industry in Europe (and beyond) continues to heat up amidst the pandemic, including a plethora of startups taking a vertical approach by operating their own delivery only — or “dark” — stores. Founder-market-fit? perishables, waste, snacking, three meals per day etc.).

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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. Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik bags $230M to expand across Europe. million to date.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

startups founded by Black people — Oliver and Alexander — to reach that figure. (To 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. tech world.

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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

JUNE 6, 2022

Ivella , a Santa Monica-based startup, wants to build banking products for couples to take away some of these tensions. Led by CEO and co-founder Kahlil Lalji , the startup is launching with a split account product that just raised $3.5 This wasn’t how the startup, well, started. Zeta, which raised a $1.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

fintech startup that promises consumers commission-free trading on U.S. 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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Cresicor , a consumer packaged goods trade management platform startup, raised $5.6 The company, based remotely, focuses on small to midsize CPG companies, providing them with an automated way to manage their trade promotion, a process co-founder and CEO Alexander Whatley said is done primarily manually using spreadsheets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! Unfortunately, as with most private companies, neither startup will share hard revenue figures. But they do at least provide some metrics.

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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. 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. Consolidation everywhere.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

There are so many startups pledging to reinvent the mortgage process that it’s hard to keep up. The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow. No doubt it has plenty of competition.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2023

Dollars raised and deal volume in the fourth quarter dropped to their lowest levels since 2020 — with $1.6 In 2022, we saw inflation and interest rates climb and startups with loose underwriting standards are no doubt paying the price with increased delinquencies and defaults. In all of 2022, banking startups raised $9.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Keyway , a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of a $15 million equity raise. EasyKnock, a startup that buys homes and rents them back to sellers, recently raised $57.2 million in Series C funding. .

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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. She worked at a startup as a product development manager, but ultimately left that behind to find a different calling. Maev founder and CEO Katie Spies. Image Credits: Maev .

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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. But a few startups are paying attention to the market, positioning themselves to become top players when it matures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

This is a large Series B by any standards, but particularly so for a Latin American startup. The startup has now raised a total of $152.7 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. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The cloud-focused startup’s investment was led by Animo Ventures , with participating checks from Uncorrelated Ventures , B Capital Group and Moxxie Ventures. The hybrid open source (OSS) and commercial combination is an increasingly popular startup method of attacking markets. . Kunovsky has big aspirations for the company.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Misfits Market is acquiring Imperfect Foods in an all-stock deal, Misfits Market founder and CEO Abhi Ramesh told TechCrunch. Discount grocery startup Misfits Market raises $200M. billion in 2020. When we are profitable, we will be able to take on all of these massive incumbents.”. In the U.S. is poised to be a $187.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the many ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. Welcome to my new weekly fintech-focused column. It’s an incredible time to be a financial technology journalist.

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