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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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Founded in 2020 and launched in 2021, Juni closed off its Series A only in October of last year (it raised $21.5 Most incumbent banks, and now a fair number of neobanks, target small and medium businesses as customers. It didn’t give actual customer numbers.) “We like companies that use tech in smart ways to decrease costs.”

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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.” Canvas Ventures led the company’s seed round in late 2021, w ith participation from Montage Ventures, FJ Labs and Crosscut.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

a company that has developed a precision fermentation technology to make animal-free proteins, like eggs, is having a good 2021. First the company, formerly known as Clara Foods, secured a deal in April with BioBrew , an investment of AB InBev’s investment arm, ZX Ventures, to brew its animal-free protein at scale.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The round led by 4DX Ventures saw participation from Darwazah Capital, Golden Palm Investments, P1 Ventures and some angel investors from sports and entertainment profession, the company said. . Eksab stated that it intends to use this investment to scale its user base across MENA and Africa. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Banks were forced to respond by making new and significant investments in risk and compliance management systems. This, in turn, led to even greater investments in data and AI as financial institutions sought to gain a clearer understanding of their consumers and the overall operations of their business.

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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. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

million in debt and grant financing from BPI France , the French government’s public investment bank. Having worked in a luxury firm, as an investment banker at JP Morgan and her own consulting firm, Bardet decided to start Susu in 2019. Revenue also increased more than 400% in 2021, the company said. “I Susu founders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in : 2021. beU delivery is YC’s first set of investments in Africa’s food delivery space alongside Heyfood, another startup in this batch. Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. beU delivery. Website : [link]. Team size : 300. Location : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Website : [link].

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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. In addition, one of the only ways insurance companies can make a profit is by taking those hundreds of millions of dollars in payments and investing it. They want all of their money up front so they can invest it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

billion raised across 447 deals in 2021. While of course I still believe fintech is in its early innings, I do also think that people went a little too crazy, too fast in 2021 and a lot of companies that probably shouldn’t have gotten funded did. Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. That compares to $25.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. billion valuation, which is 85% below its June 2021 raise…As prices and valuations stabilize, we will see deals ramp back up.”. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GM invests in fast-charging battery startup : And for something a bit different, U.S. auto giant General Motors is betting on Soelect, which is building “fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles,” TechCrunch reports. The lesson? This week, Google Cloud reported $5.5

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Before starting Sylndr, El Defrawy worked as an investment banker at EFG Hermes and CFO of Elmenus, an Egyptian food delivery startup. Some include U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The World Bank estimates that some $589 billion will be sent this way 2021, according to research from the World Bank, up 7.3% I invest for scaled global impact and team, and Taptap is among the best combinations I’ve seen, ” added Reid Hoffman.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Finance in 2021, and to Fortune’s 40 under 40 in 2020. payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. And before that, she worked at Neuberger Berman and served as a partner at McKinsey & Company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multi-stage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever, and Outschool). Integration between different edtech apps?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

In September, he co-invested in a Seattle startup called Far Homes that was founded by Redfin alums and is focused on “buying and selling real estate in foreign markets,” as reported by GeekWire. I’m sorry that we don’t have enough sales to keep paying you.”. Pymnts has more here. Another example of fintech for good.

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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. In other Goldman Sachs news, Bloomberg reported that the investment banking and financial services giant is “ embarking on its biggest round of jobs cuts since the start of the pandemic.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Salient surveyed over 80 companies across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, 25% more than the number it tracked in its last report in 2021. However, the segment is yet to record the type of investments that have poured into B2B retail e-commerce in the previous two years. In 2021, they received just $1.6

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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. This did not happen by magic. expectations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

In a statement, Luke Sarsfield, co-head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said: “Employers are looking to provide their employees tailored solutions and customizable advice that can better support individual saving and investing needs to help improve retirement savings outcomes. In Q2 of 2000, that number dipped slightly to 46.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Earlier this year , Axios’ Dan Primack wrote: “ SoftBank, in its apparent zeal to invest, promised to give Garg the 1.9% When SoftBank ponied up $750 million in November, it was Garg — not the company as a whole — who assumed responsibility for compensating the Japanese investment conglomerate for any losses. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Showing that there’s real investor enthusiasm for identity management platforms, Saviynt , which enables companies to secure apps, data and infrastructure in a single platform, today announced that it raised $205 million in debt from AB Private Credit Investors’ Tech Capital Solutions group. from last year’s $1.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Jackson had been introduced to the senior care space when in high school as he worked alongside a mentor in private equity who invested in and acquired elderly care facilities. million in May of 2021 from some angel investors and smaller institutional investors. Recalls Rothberg: “We had to apply to the class with an idea.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. Instead, it offers tools to enable companies to manage multiple private cellular networks, including 3G, 4G and 5G networks, from a single pane of glass. billion in 2021. billion in 2030, up from $3.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

The trio had made early investments in more than 50 fintech companies, including the likes of Stripe, Plaid, Melio and Trulioo. In other words, it wants to invest in early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies “where opportunities for early partnerships with financial incumbents exist.” It plans to invest $1.5

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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. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,

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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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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 24, 2022

Founded in 2021 by former Goldman Sachs executive Brian Ip and experienced data engineer YC Chan, Omni HR provides a seamless employee management system that helps companies digitize and automate the end-to-end employee lifecycle in a single platform. Register HR automation platform , Omni HR today announced it has recently closed $2.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. “Most companies that can leverage AI don’t have the funds nor the huge R&D that Amazon, Meta and other huge companies investing in AI have. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But as a relatively young population, most of them have minimal equity market and investment exposure. The company has raised a $20 million Series A round to democratize investing in the Middle East and North Africa. and Europe, up to half of the population invests in financial instruments. One such is Egypt-based Thndr.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In October 2021, Valve banned all blockchain-related games from its Steam platform. Banafsheh Fathieh , head of investments, Americas, Prosus Ventures. Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different. “What are the pain points we can alleviate for users and builders?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Following up on our May of 2020 survey of the sector and about the impact of COVID-19 in particular , TechCrunch spoke with 10 investors about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments. COVID has exposed how rickety, insolvent and inequitable transit is in the U.S.

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