TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Corporated-backed programs provide an alternative — Booz Allen Ventures joins Lockheed Martin’s Lockheed Martin Ventures and HorizonX, which spun off from Boeing in August 2021. But even founders willing to ingratiate themselves with the defense industry are sometimes reluctant to accepting funding from corporate arms.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Comun observed that no incumbent bank offers a full Spanish language banking experience. The bank was founded in 2021 by Abiel Gutierrez and Andres Santos who both faced financial exclusion when they migrated to the U.S. said Andres Santos, Co-Founder & CEO of Comun. Comun gained investor support of $4.5M

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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. Heartland led the seed round and was joined by Global Founders Capital, FJ Labs and Redbox Ventures.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

billion at the time of its last raise in 2021. I caught up with Colin Walsh, the company’s chief executive and founder, to get an update. CEO and founder Colin Walsh. In 2021, Varo’s gross revenue was $74 million. It has raised nearly $1 billion since its 2015 inception and was valued at $2.5 And if so, why?

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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. These kinds of numbers have been hard to come by in a conservative investment environment, but the company is growing fast and investors saw an opportunity to grab a market leader, says Pinecone CEO and founder Edo Liberty. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Maple is based in San Francisco, but focuses on investing in founders with Canadian roots. In an interview with TechCrunch, Neo co-founder and CEO Andrew Chau shared that he and co-founders Jeff Adamson, Chris Simair and Kris Read started Neo to challenge the Big Five banks that own some 90% of the country’s market share.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Founder and CEO Nash Ahmed wouldn’t go into too much detail about the technology that allows Undock to accomplish this.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

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. He expects 2021 revenue growth to be five times over 2020, while Fuzzy memberships, which start for free and then a monthly subscription of $24.99 Fuzzy live chat via its app.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The company says it plans to extend its Series B funding with a second tranche to be closed ahead of the company launching products powered by its own insurance licence, scheduled for the first half of 2021. “We sell more policies to first-time insurance buyers in Germany than incumbents like Allianz, Axa, Zurich, etc,” he says.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

It achieved unicorn status in August 2021 and at the time was eyeing an IPO. Level was founded by Vladimir Korshin, Asa Schachar and Molly Hogan in 2021.” In September 2021, I covered Vouch’s announcement of $90 million in new funding. Both Vouch and Level are Y Combinator alums. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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 In fact, of the $348 billion in annual sales generated by the top 25 food and beverage incumbents in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The same filing listed the co-founders alongside Zola’s co-founder Shan-Lyn Ma, Addition Capital founder Lee Fixel, Campbell Soup Co. Early in 2021, it launched its Headquarters hair care line. Now, months later, Harry’s filed paperwork indicating that it has raised another nine-figure cash tranche. billion by 2030.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine. With VCs pulling back on the reins, valuations slipping, and 2021’s hype fading, founders are finding themselves working harder to raise capital than they were in 2021, Alex Wilhelm found in his analysis of early data from DocSend.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

I had a catastrophic relationship with incumbent banks.”. While Conrade declined to reveal hard revenue figures, he did share that Neon grew its revenue by 3x in 2021 and he expects that the company will at least more than double it this year. Moving forward, the founder is eager to tap into the tech talent in the U.S.

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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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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. This foundation leads to more halcyon days when the promise of technology is realized & the market rewards both customers & founders.

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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.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy. This represents a 350% YoY growth compared to 2021, wherein the number of deposits and loans disbursed amounted to $50 million (IDR 781 billion).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in : 2021. Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Founded in : 2021. Founders : Ahmed Ismail, a second-time founder who has worked for Goldman Sachs and Barclays, is the CEO. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Other backers include Global Founders Capital and a number of high-profile angel investors, such as GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung, ALLVP Partner Antonia Rojas and LaHaus founders Jeronimo Uribe and Tomas Uribe, among others. And in January, fulfillment is up 20% compared to November of 2021.

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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. 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.

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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. The company will focus more on large enterprises next year, he added. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

2021, however, has been a different story: new pricing rules being put into place will likely see a number of providers tip into the red for the year. Regardless of whether Marshmallow is the first or one of the first, given the dearth of diversity in the U.K. “They are big companies and stuck in their ways.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” I am expecting a downturn at some point. Dreams can be fueled here.

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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. The company closed out 2021 with 106% year-over-year revenue growth, 113% growth in customers served and a 100% boost in employees globally. digital shopping companies in 2021, up from $23 billion in 2020.

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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. According to the founders, Sylndr also plans on providing seven-day money back guarantee, warranty and availing flexible financing options to users. “The

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company’s co-founder and CEO, Tyson Kunovsky, told TechCrunch that his company’s goal is akin to what Hashicorp and others have done, taking a piece of work that the large cloud platforms are doing poorly and improving the experience. But perhaps another cloud infra provider might noodle into its space in time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Founder and CEO Aly Mahmoud started Eksab in 2018. Mahmoud, who worked at a startup incubator in Canada while he got the idea for Eksab, said he built the platform with inspiration from incumbents such as Dream 11 , DraftKings and FanDuel as well as newer startups infusing web3 into the world of fantasy sports like Sorare. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Since its founding, it’s attracted interest from investors including Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Amplo, Pareto Holdings, Quiet Capital and Shutterstock co-founder and CEO Jon Oringer. year-over-year alone in 2021, and that transactions facilitated by open banking could hit $116 billion globally by 2026. currently.

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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

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

MAY 3, 2022

When robotic process automation company UiPath filed to go public in March 2021, the startup had just closed a $750 million round that helped it clinch a $35 billion valuation. What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. The pressures facing first-time founders are enormous. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Joby Aviation (@jobyaviation) August 11, 2021. Joby’s merger with blank-check firm Reinvent, headed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, was announced in February. We have been working for over a decade to get our technology ready for market and are excited to take this moment to celebrate our achievements so far. The Future of Flight.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. Basically, it’s Uber’s attempt to follow the Instacart model, which is working well for the incumbent grocery delivery company,” she reports. You can sign up here. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! Big Tech Inc.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Due diligence on a startup can be divided into the following two components: Industry due diligence , which refers to the big picture and involves understanding the industry, who are the incumbent players in the market, who are the competitors, what competitive advantage the startup has, what their chances of success might be, and similar research.

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