TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Yesterday, The Exchange dug into the data behind the CVC market’s very busy 2021. The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. But does our perspective line up with what active corporate investors think?

capital

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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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.

opportunity

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 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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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).

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We are living in 2021 and open banking is popular, so it’s easier to get access to open banking data. Unlike incumbent credit card issuers, we aren’t incentivized by slapping fees on borrowers for making late payments — we make money as our cardholders spend — so we grow as you grow,” Kim added.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Mexico-based startup closed the $15 million Series A round and $20 million debt financing after participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 cohort. In Latin America, larger enterprises are underserved by incumbents, and Mendel is democratizing access to best-in-class software and payments,” he wrote via email.

incumbents

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. billion in 2021. (Recently, asset management giant BlackRock announced that it’ll deploy a private network at its new headquarters in partnership with Verizon.) billion in 2030, up from $3.7

networking

TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

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. The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine.

transportation

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.

incumbents

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. NeuReality has been shipping prototypes to partners since May 2021, Tanach says. There’s Hailo , Mythic and Flex Logix , to name a few upstarts.

accelerator

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.

startup

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Since announcing its seed raise in May of 2021, AcuityMD claims that medtech hardware companies have identified more than 40,000 new opportunities using its software, which translates to over $2 billion worth of leads added to the sales pipeline. . There’s a disconnect between innovation — which is really important for the U.S.

education

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

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. Speaking to me on a condition of anonymity one investor called the government’s decision to put Tech Nation’s funding in doubt was “insane.”.

startup

TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index. For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Will Apple’s spectacular iPhone 12 sales figures boost the smartphone industry in 2021? Even though “Apple’s success this quarter was kind of a perfect storm,” writes Hardware Editor Brian Heater , “it’s safe to project a rebound for the industry at large in 2021.” Image Credits: Acquia.

VC

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.

incumbents

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” The latest revision of the seed round put it at $3.375M, whereas that round in late 2021 was valued at $2.5M.

ecology

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

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Fuel Capital General Partner Leah Solivan joined us at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 to explain how to avoid early mistakes in building your startup. How to kick the 10 worst startup habits with Fuel Capital’s Leah Solivan.

board

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. This will have dramatic impact on the tech ecosystem a few years out, if it does not change in 2021.

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

2021 should be a banner year for biotech startups that make smart choices early. As vaccines roll out, drug development pipelines return to normal, and next-generation therapies continue to hold investor interest, 2021 is on pace to be another blockbuster year. Let’s break down the pros and cons. billion from $17.8

startup

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

What sectors will recover in 2021 and where are the new and unlikely opportunities to invest? What sectors will recover in 2021, and where are the new and unlikely opportunities to invest? Meanwhile, demand for delivery skyrocketed and the autonomous vehicle industry went through a consolidation. have brought local delivery mainstream.

transportation

TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Today a startup that is building tools to help incumbent address this challenge is announcing a round of funding on the back of a lot of demand for its services. It has also been on a fundraising run, with this round adding up to $160 million raised since the start of 2021. That’s a common thing.”

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies.

incumbents

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.

peer-to-peer

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.

incumbents

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. Defense-focused startups angling for government contracts need all the help they can get.

ventures

TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps. One of them was Singapore-based Endowus , which raised two rounds in rapid succession: a Series A in June 2021 followed just seven months later by $25.6 million in follow-on funding.

real estate

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.

investment

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In October 2021, Valve banned all blockchain-related games from its Steam platform. Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different. The video-game industry has always been on the bleeding edge, but blockchain gaming is still widely viewed as emerging technology.

opportunity

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

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 Bhettay is also seeing the larger incumbents focus here, as well as marketing dollars, which he considers validation that the market is shifting to the digitalization of pet care.

capital

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In other words, it wants to invest in early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies “where opportunities for early partnerships with financial incumbents exist.” Huang also acknowledges that in 2021, the trio stepped back from investing “because it was getting way too frothy.” Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here.

ventures

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

“It’s a huge market that is still controlled by incumbents charging extremely high interest rates, which makes it difficult for people to pay back their loans. To get even more specific, the team is projecting to reach nearly $196 million in revenues in 2022, a “3x” growth compared to 2021.

incumbents

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Pivoting from growth at all costs in 2020 and 2021 to efficiency in 2022 and 2023 meant slashing budgets, shelving new projects, doing RIFs, and picking fights with your cloud provider over your bills. A Great company has a strong, defensible business model that can win market share from incumbents.

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Thndr, launched in late 2020 by Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr , is filling the gap by making it easier to open and manage investment accounts, consequently replacing traditionally slow and outdated processes by incumbents. African tech took center stage in 2021. to $5B in 2021.

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