Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

Hunter Walk: Textio , the startup you founded and CEO’ed until a few months ago, is almost 10 years old. A recent essay covered the ‘AI gold rush’ and as it related to startups operating in this area, very much ‘caution ahead’ in terms of building a sustainable, differentiated business. As I see it, startups have two major advantages.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

Galym Imanbayev joined Lightspeed in 2020 as a partner focused on the healthcare sector. The competition is not your market competitor or incumbent. In a market inundated with “digital health” startups and “infrastructure solutions,” it’s vital to differentiate yourself.

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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.

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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. 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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A number of major vendors provide private cellular network services, including AT&T and T-Mobile, as do some startups, including Celona, Anterix and Airspan Networks. But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. 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. to expect.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

So it also didn’t surprise anyone that this reduction would trickle down into other regions; for instance, eight startups in Africa got into the accelerator this summer compared to 24 from the previous batch , representing a 60% reduction. Therefore, it is plausible that being an in-person event has led to fewer African startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

But a new startup, Bria , claims to minimize the risk by training image-generating — and soon video-generating — AI in an “ethical” way. ” Image Credits: Bria Adato co-founded Bria when the pandemic hit in 2020, and the company’s other co-founder, Assa Eldar, joined in 2022. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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. We mainly see two kinds of startups today: Those that want to try something new, and the ones that focus on making things faster, cheaper or simpler.

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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

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

JANUARY 12, 2021

Visa and Plaid called off their agreement this afternoon, ending the consumer credit giant’s takeover of the data-focused fintech API startup. billion at the time of its announcement , first broke cover on January 13, 2020, or nearly one year ago to the day. The deal, valued at $5.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends. While it’s my first Startups Weekly column, you’ve likely seen me on TC here and there, covering chiefly venture, AI and enterprise-related items. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Hey, folks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

But that’s not to say the path to commercialization and wider adoption is closed to psychedelic startups and investors at the moment. Does this make psychedelics startups that aren’t developing any drugs more attractive to investors than those involved in drug development? This is very much a Darwinian model being played out.

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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

JUNE 21, 2021

And if you want to build one in a sector crowded by both incumbent companies and richly funded startups, it can be super expensive. That was the lesson we learned in late 2020 by examining operating results from a number of neobanks. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Revolut’s 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 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! It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g. Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

The company acquired SMSBump at the beginning of 2020 and Tagrin said it’s “70% of the way there” towards full integration.) These are the mini-brands … the up-and-comer brands that are going to replace the incumbents.”. I like to say that Victoria’s Secret will die by a thousand cuts,” he said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Finally, as we navigate the internet in 2020, the privacy question looms large as is how you balance the convenience-privacy trade-off. He also sees Google running into antitrust issues moving forward and that could help create an opening for a startup like this.

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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

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

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. The round makes Freterium one of the most-funded startups in the emerging Moroccan ecosystem.

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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. In 2020, it was $41 million. Mobile banking startup Varo is becoming a real bank. consumer bank.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

The AI-powered defense company founded by tech iconoclast Palmer Luckey has landed a $450 million round of investment that values the startup at $4.6 billion in July 2020. billion just four years in.

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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. 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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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Cresicor , a consumer packaged goods trade management platform startup, raised $5.6 CPG sales topping $720 billion in 2020. The CPG industry is in the middle of a rapid change where we see all of these emerging, digital native and mission-driven brands rapidly eating share from incumbents,” he added.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And even though investment activity decreased this year, it still remains well above where it was in 2019 and 2020. Infrastructure providers can help connect fintech companies with incumbent banks so that they can both reap the benefits of the interest rate environment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

” There’s no question the market for identity security startups — startups that offer products to ID and authenticate people — is red-hot. billion in 2020, according to Crunchbase data. Investing in identity security is a must-have for enterprise security teams.” VC firms poured $2.3

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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. Delivery company goPuff is in talks to acquire the UK’s Fancy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Since launching its first brokerage product in July of 2020, Flink has surpassed 1 million users and 800,000 active brokerage accounts. The banks and incumbents take advantage of that and make people feel like they’re not smart enough to manage their money. The demand for what Flink has to offer is clear.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The European grocery market is currently worth €2 trillion, but access to customers for high-quality, smaller producers is still tricky and blocked by incumbents. Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik bags $230M to expand across Europe. Crisp is taking advantage of consumers moving online, and wanting fresher food.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

by 2022, compared to China’s 6% and South Korea’s 34% in 2020. The startup is competing with incumbents like Sayurbox, HappyFresh and TaniHub to win over users. As in many countries around the world, on-demand delivery got a boost during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia.

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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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