TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Today the U.S. Guess we’ll see about that.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. As such, Campbell said her startup plans to launch these kits in fall 2021, partnering with several universities for a beta rollout. Critics cast the startup’s entrepreneurial approach as greedy opportunism. ” .

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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. The market remains volatile and we saw layoffs as an opportunity to use data and technology to streamline our approach and improve our customer experience. See you next week!

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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. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. This did not happen by magic.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Clipboard Health , an app-based marketplace that matches nurses with open shifts at nearby healthcare facilities, today announced that it raised $80 million over two unannounced rounds, a $50 million Series B round in 2021 and a $30 million Series C round this year, at a $1.3 billion valuation post-money. App-based marketplace.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Wynn started the company in January 2021 with his co-founder Praveen Chekuri after working together at Instacart. Startups like Ascend aiming to disrupt the insurance industry are also attracting venture capital, with recent examples including Vouch and Marshmallow , which raised close to $100 million, while Insurify raised $100 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

While there has been a lot of focus on mental health and the promise of psychedelics to be truly disruptive, not all the hype is warranted or justified. Additionally, the IP around these opportunities will be far more defensible, as they will be new chemical entities (NCEs). To a degree, yes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Eugene Bisovka and Razmik Sukyasov co-founded Vancouver-based Tiggy in July 2021, just about the time that Instacart announced it was beginning food delivery in Quebec , giving the food delivery giant access to all 10 Canadian provinces now. It’s been impressive watching them over the past couple of months,” Novak added.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation). The incumbent system involves three key “stacks.”

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