TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7 Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. Maple VC’s Andre Charoo told TechCrunch that the startup has returned (unrealized) one-third of the firm’s second fund so far.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. Money has been coming into the U.S.

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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

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.”. On the bright side, the fact that VCs are more discriminating about where they put their dollars could actually lead to more M&A activity, according to Ruark. Klarna recently raised $800 million at a $6.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Startups and VC While most established automotive players call the shots from sprawling, corporate palaces, Scout bases much of its operations — at least for now — out of a WeWork near Washington, D.C., Basically, it’s Uber’s attempt to follow the Instacart model, which is working well for the incumbent grocery delivery company,” she reports.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

is discussed,” said Amy Kruse, chief investment officer, Satori Neuro. Like several investors we surveyed, Kruse doesn’t solely invest in psychedelics, but they are very much on her radar. “Decriminalization is not the same as legalization at the Federal level. Will they take the lead?” Sa’ad Shah, managing partner, Noetic.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

” April, which Borodach co-founded in 2021 with Daniel Marcous, previously the CTO of Waze, is an attempt to cut through the complexities of the U.S. ” Countless vendors offer online tax prep services, including incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block. The tides might be turning.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The company said it plans to use the investment to launch neobanks in eight countries over the next 24 months. Digital banks, neobanks, challenger banks or whatever you may call them, are among the biggest recipients of VC investments in fintech. In November 2021, Fintech Farm launched in its first market, Azerbaijan.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Insurtech companies have been among the biggest victims of the public market selloff, especially those that went public in 2021. Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Gerard Grech, chief executive of Tech Nation, said the body’s work represented a “£15 return on every £1 invested by the government.”. Today, Tech Nation’s work represents a £15 return on every £1 invested by the UK Government. We can’t hand the support to the tech ecosystem to an incumbent bank!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GM invests in fast-charging battery startup : And for something a bit different, U.S. Startups/VC. But first up is Natasha’s dive into Mos , which founder Amira Yahyaoui says is gunnin’ to become “the incumbent bank in the U.S.” billion in revenue for Q4 2021, but “that was the good news,” reports Ron Miller and Alex Wilhelm.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

On March 25, PitchBook released its 2021 Annual Fintech Report , which found that the fintech industry raised $121.6 billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value. Ramp says its revenue grew “early 10x” in 2021 compared to 2020 while its cardholder base grew 7x and its user base grew 15x.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

It also resurfaced talk of when Stripe reportedly pressured investor Sequoia to back off from an investment that smelled like competition. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. Dallas-based Backflip raises $8 million seed for local real estate investment financing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

While reporting delays could change this total, VC dollars have more than doubled since the pandemic began. It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? We invested in 14 new companies and are just finishing rounds in 2 more. billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

“Like a pressure cooker, COVID blew the lid off what was a simmering mental health crisis for over a decade,” VC Tim Schlidt told TechCrunch. Each of them has an investment thesis that strongly overlaps with applications of psychedelics. Burkitbayeva, Shah, and Schlidt are three of the five investors we interviewed for this deep dive.

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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. Image Credits: Generation Investment Management.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

That’s because only 7% of the startups that raise seed rounds are able to grow their companies enough to land a Series C investment, according to a Dealroom study. Besides traditional VC, crowdfunding, venture banks and venture debt funds are all viable options. It’s hard to find actionable, proven advice for scaling startups.

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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.”. He soon began to invest in everything from ramen and hotpots to bottled beverages.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

-based company’s $35 million Series B in April 2021, which was co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Joining TTV in doubling down on their investment in the company were Owl Ventures, SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, Mubadala Capital and Next Play Capital. s SB Opportunity Fund. Image Credits: Welcome Tech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Developer tools are not worth infinite money : Startups that built for developers had an amazing 2021. Startups and VC. The company was once largely construed as a Robinhood competitor, but with the Otis deal, Public is making a bid to be a more diverse asset investing platform for consumers. Now onto the rest of the news!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

406 Ventures and Energy Impact Partners with participation from Cisco Investments. Investing in identity security is a must-have for enterprise security teams.” VC firms poured $2.3 billion into identity vendors in 2021, up from $1.3 million in a Series A round co-led by.406 Image Credits: Oort.

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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 invested $37.9 billion valuation post-money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

One day, we’re reading about investment giants like Tiger Global seeing about $17 billion in losses. One day, I’m hearing personal accounts of VCs pulling term sheets at the last minute, with some citing that their own investors had backed out of providing funds, leaving founders scrambling to save a round — and face. Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Band 2 is the long-term public investing cohort. I was recently chatting with an early-stage founder who has a history of investing — narrowing it down to 17,823 people, I know — about the price of software companies both private and public and why they may or may not make sense. One more VC Visa-Plaid take.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. In 2021, NorthOne replatformed the company with a new banking partner, The Bancorp Bank, N.A, an investment that it says has paid off. New York-based challenger bank NorthOne is one such example.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

The recent revelation that practically every animal on the planet has microplastics in its bloodstream and organs probably comes as no surprise to anyone in ecology, but it is one of several now inescapable public realities that have companies running to invest in green alternatives to their most wasteful habits and supply chain links.

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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

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

A separate measure, of total value of paid-in investment, revealed 1.67x returns for other hubs versus 1.60x in the main Silicon Valley and Bay Area tech cities. Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms. 2021 should be a banner year for biotech startups that make smart choices early.

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