TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Bond Pet Foods was co-founded by Rich Kelleman and Pernilla Audibert and is part of a global pet food market valued at $110 billion in 2021 and poised to grow 5% annually through this decade to be worth $164 billion by 2029. Prior to the Series A round, the company raised $2.5 million to bring its total funding since 2017 to $20 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

“Booz Allen Ventures allows us to actively bridge the gap between opportunity and capability and accelerate the services-to-solutions transformation.” It’ll be incumbent on Booz Allen Ventures to show that it’s not looking to snuff out or absorb startups for the benefit of its corporate parent.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

billion at the time of its last raise in 2021. 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 And if so, why? Image Credits: Varo.

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incumbents sustainability capital health 123

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans.

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capital incumbents education health 98

TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. trillion in 2021, more than triple that of the No. per package wholesale as of this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Indeed, the company says that its partnerships, which include Hudson’s Bay, The Home Depot, H&R Block, Boston Pizza, Goodfood and 7,000 other local and national retailers, have accelerated in the past year, “as retailers search for ways to modernize their loyalty programs and financial service offerings.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

million to fund its mission to accelerate financial inclusion and strengthen the neo-rural bank ecosystem in Indonesia, especially outside the Greater Jakarta area. Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy.

peer-to-peer 75

peer-to-peer incumbents accelerator economic growth 75

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“In today’s economic environment, Teampay’s software-led approach has proven resilient — as we saw in late 2020 to 2021, when the economy rebounds, Teampay benefits disproportionately through accelerated growth … We increased our debt facility for additional flexibility in uncertain times.” billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

When Pinecone launched a vector database aimed at data scientists in 2021, it was probably ahead of its time. Now of course, this is a well-formed market and the category has different players, and so incumbents and clouds and so on, and we’re clearly ahead. Investors apparently agree. I’ve never seen anything like this.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

That fall, the startup (short for Tomorrow’s Credit) was accepted into the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars. We are living in 2021 and open banking is popular, so it’s easier to get access to open banking data. And we leverage your cash flow data to underwrite you.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to a report from The Information in October, OpenAI had agreed to lead funding valuing Descript at around $550 million, over double the startup’s valuation as of January 2021 ($260 million). ” Descript was created as a spin-off of Mason’s audio-guide business Detour, which Bose acquired in 2018. .

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media incumbents creativity energy 94

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The latest capital infusion comes less than a year from a $60 million Series C round that happened in June 2021. That’s why he believes now is the time to accelerate CommerceIQ. The company closed out 2021 with 106% year-over-year revenue growth, 113% growth in customers served and a 100% boost in employees globally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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incumbents hospitality collaboration enablement 87

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. The market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added.

peer-to-peer 97

peer-to-peer capital innovation incumbents 97

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. They’ll have to back up the truck for their best companies, take acquisitions off the table, and go right after the incumbents head-on. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And in January, fulfillment is up 20% compared to November of 2021. Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. . Looking ahead, CEO Gomez projects that it will fulfill close to 6 million items in 2022.

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enablement startup incumbents transportation 97

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. According to a 2021 survey from code security platform GitGuardian, three code commits out of 1,000 expose at least one secret.

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incumbents development venture capital capital 86

TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In February 2021, corporate spend startup Brex was the latest fintech to apply for a bank charter. What does this mean for digital banks as a whole?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

He founded the company with his sister — both Congo-born Chinese — in November 2021 after noticing the opportunity to duplicate the success of web3 projects in Southeast Asia across Africa. Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets.

education 96

education incumbents mix-use media 96

TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Shoykhet acknowledges that there’s formidable competition in the payments space — not only from incumbents like Venmo, Amazon and PayPal but from buy now, pay later vendors such as Afterpay and Klarna. year-over-year alone in 2021, and that transactions facilitated by open banking could hit $116 billion globally by 2026.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. Here we list the startups in alphabetical order, providing more details about each of them, as well as context around what they are building and why YC is backing them. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Some 44% of the UK’s decacorns graduate from a TN non-dilutive accelerator growth programme (failure rate is less than 5% thus far).”. We can’t hand the support to the tech ecosystem to an incumbent bank! Let’s not forget Barclays had a net operating income of £22 billion in 2021 and profits of £7 billion.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Both online grocery platforms, Misfits Market raised nearly $530 million since being founded in 2018, most recently a $200 million Series C round in 2021 that put its valuation at over $1 billion. When we are profitable, we will be able to take on all of these massive incumbents.”.

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incumbents leadership culture VC 75

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

billion valuation, which is 85% below its June 2021 raise…As prices and valuations stabilize, we will see deals ramp back up.”. Most of those are product buys to drive or accelerate revenue growth with the secondary benefit of getting new talent, Ruark said. Klarna recently raised $800 million at a $6.7

real estate 106

real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106

TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Damti and Somech founded Unit in late 2019 and spent the first year stealthily building out the platform with the mission of empowering companies to embed financial services into their product, accelerating their time to market. Unit Go is currently in beta and will be available to the public in the fall of 2021. .

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incumbents finance financing accelerator 89

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Then in March of 2021, Nelo launched its first product via an Android app. On top of this, the accelerating adoption of banking and mobile e-commerce in LatAm has created an environment for a breakout company in the space today.”. Nelo issued its first product in Mexico in January 2020, similar to a debit card offering from a neobank.

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incumbents finance financing capital 92

TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. We don’t really know why, or exactly how many people were impacted but it’s not great news for a company that was valued at $500 million in January of 2021 and especially not good news for the affected employees.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But the company will end 2021 with revenues close to 2x its pre-pandemic peak, in spite of continued low interest rates, reduced travel, and depressed pandemic spending. In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products.

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peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 40

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

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. I covered the company’s 2021 raise here. These companies, of course, join a plethora of others in the U.S. This means that millions of Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S.

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real estate incumbents opportunity founder 82

TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. Among them, millennials decamped from their rentals in crowded cities to accelerate their first home purchases to the benefit of proptech companies and challenger mortgage players alike. Public fintech stocks rose 97% in 2020. Matrix U.S.

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incumbents accelerator finance financing 139

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

I met Cruz Foam co-founder John Felts during the memorable Accelerator at Sea hosted by the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” ” In the Accelerator over the Sea.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In fact, the third quarter of 2021 alone saw the birth of 42 new fintech unicorns, according to CB Insights. Today, incumbent financial institutions, insurance carriers, and other industries that underwrite risk for a living now have to contend with these innovative new players and adapt to change if they want to survive.

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incumbents innovation technology capital 89

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? We have seen 20 creator led learning platforms across “preK to Gray” learning in addition to incumbents like Teachable and very few have an ability to build a moat in my view. Integration between different edtech apps?

education 134

education venture capital ventures opportunity 134

Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The go-go days of 2021 & the pandemonium of 2022 ebb, leaving a year of sobriety at low tide: longer diligence processes, fewer rounds, lower entry & exit valuations. Covid accelerated distributed work, which is now a norm. In short, 2023 will be the first year of a new-normal era. 3 of 5 isn’t terrible.

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SaaS incumbents board accelerator 104

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Predictably, they’re mostly focused on the how and why: How do I get into an accelerator? The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. How to get into a startup accelerator. Should you try to get your company into an accelerator?

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board pitching venture capital mix-use 91

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Recent legislation will also significantly accelerate the existing market trends. Other considerations include market size, incumbent strength, founder fit with an enterprise-like sales cycle, and ability to create significantly better-electrified products faster than the incumbents can modify their existing lines and supply chains.

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energy startup transportation construction 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. I think 2021 will be amazing. meter coworking office space where majority of our portfolio companies and accelerator program companies sit on a daily basis.

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