Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The hangover from web3’s raucous 2022 extends into 2023. More than 100 web3-enabled games launch. The fundraising market thaws, but at materially lower prices than the first half of 2022. Flat & down rounds surge to 30% of all mid-stage rounds completed in 2023, up from less than 5% in the first half of 2022.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Bjorn Bergstrom has vast experience from consumer scale-ups, venture capital and management consulting. Neso Brands is a Singapore-based global eyewear company founded in 2022 to enable the most promising direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands across the world to become brands of the future.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In January 2022, Ayoconnect raised an oversubscribed Series B funding led by Tiger Global.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Last week, I dug into CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 report. billion in 2022. That’s a big drop even from just the first quarter of 2022, in which we saw $5.3 That compares to $25.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

more data by year-end 2022 than in 2020, amounting to multiple petabytes of data in total. “With the capital, we will continue to focus on engagement and adoption, collaboration, governance, lineage, and on APIs and SDKs to enable us to be open and extensible,” Sangani said via email. billion and growing toward $11.6

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. billion market by 2022, according to Markets and Markets. As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The investment was co-led by new investor, McWin, and existing investor, Rage Capital. The Series B in 2019 was about proving the technology and now with Series C, it can bring products to market and leverage the capital to drive scale, he added. Then today, it announced an oversubscribed Series C round of $175 million. It secured $2.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

trillion in loan originations in 2022. And today, Yu and Yang’s new company, San Francisco-based Vesta , is announcing it has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from new investor Zigg Capital. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“As many businesses are coming out of the pandemic with a new affinity for hybrid and remote work, modern technologies that can best enable the secure and efficient delivery and management of digital workspaces are in high demand.” . “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

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incumbents disruption board enablement 90

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

CEO and founder Nitin Jayakrishnan says that the new capital will be put toward expanding Pando’s global sales, marketing and delivery capabilities. This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

to enable customers to make online payments using their bank accounts. 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. ” Link claims to be one of the first companies in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

“Now was the time to raise the capital and use it to drive our expansion,” De Gruchy said. “I set out to answer that problem and defeat the incumbent solution — the clipboard — and that’s the seed that became Infogrid today.” IoT companies raising funds in 2022 pulled in $15.9

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real estate energy incumbents sustainability 86

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, February 3, 2022! Risk-on, risk-off : The startup fundraising game is in flux at the moment, with some investors putting capital to work in companies that have yet to fully form, as the public market takes body blows and earnings disappoint. PST, subscribe here. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. He told me: “The question I have is who will capitalize on this bear market to scoop up valuable technology or talent. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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incumbents energy board investing 117

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. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106

TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. How did Checkout.com perform in 2022? While we’ve grown a lot in APAC and EMEA, the U.S. Can you share revenue/growth metrics (YoY)? What do you think of comparisons to Stripe?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance. Bloom’s offering allows Sudanese to save in U.S. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Kelman went on to say that the company’s June layoff was in response to Redfin’s expectation that it would sell fewer houses in 2022. From Tage Kene-Okafor: Kuda , the London-based and Nigerian-operating startup taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first and personalized set of banking services, is expanding to the U.K.

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real estate incumbents mix-use financing 97

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“[With the new capital,] we plan to ramp up investment in our customer success team to onboard new customers,” cofounder and CEO Gadi Shamia told TechCrunch via email. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital. Sources tell TechCrunch that the post-money valuation stands at $550 million.

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incumbents development culture support 94

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A fantasy sports exchange founded by Irish betting veteran Paddy Power is bringing NFT-enabled live trading to rugby fans in a bid to expand globally. The virtual rugby games are set to begin on ASX’s exchange in early 2022 ahead of the Six Nations Rugby Championship , Power told TechCrunch in an interview.

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incumbents startup media enablement 87

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

million of Series A investment, led by Integrated Capital, to continue developing its line of healthier food brands. In addition, a direct customer feedback loop enables The Naked Market to quickly gauge which products are winning with consumers so they can be scaled. Fugman expects to launch new brands in the first half of 2022.

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capital incumbents venture capital enablement 86

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. 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. Splitwise).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The technique trains a system across multiple devices or servers holding data without ever exchanging it, enabling collaborators to build a common system without sharing data. But a new startup, DynamoFL , hopes to take on the incumbents with a federated learning platform that focuses on performance, ostensibly without sacrificing privacy.

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incumbents frameworks health financing 74

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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

After working together for nearly one decade, three former managing directors of Amex Ventures in early 2022 branched out to form their own fintech-focused venture firm, Vesey Ventures. The trio had made early investments in more than 50 fintech companies, including the likes of Stripe, Plaid, Melio and Trulioo. Sign up here.

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ventures incumbents startup VC 76

AsiaTechDaily

JULY 24, 2022

million in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round co-led by Alpha JWC Ventures and Picus Capital, with participation from FEBE Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, Ratio Ventures, and Frances Kang at Horizons Ventures. Register HR automation platform , Omni HR today announced it has recently closed $2.4

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incumbents enablement support ventures 52

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 40

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. funds, including J&T Ventures, Credo Ventures, Mxv Capital, and Plug & Play Tech Center. .”

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communities mix-use incumbents disruption 82

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

billion pool of capital to work by backing early-stage web3 companies. with Vanessa Larco (NEA), Kanyi Maqubela (Kindred Ventures), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners), Bryan Offutt (Index Ventures) and Ulili Onovakpuri (Kapor Capital). The State of VC in 2022. Hear from Dixon about how a16z crypto is putting its massive $7.6

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disruption pitching VC ventures 81

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Problems & Ideas: Financing as a service for building electrification Contractor enablement Finding ways (at scale) to add trust as well as ensure accountability Improving the quote lifecycle to reduce time spent (and truck rolls), automate system design, and improve installed system performance.

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energy startup construction transportation 95

AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Qoala plans to use the capital to expand its product and geographic reach in emerging markets in Southeast Asia, with a focus on improving insurance accessibility and affordability. The round, which also saw participation from Appworks and existing investors Eurazeo and Indogen, was part of the company’s Series B+ fundraiser.

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incumbents economic growth sustainability enablement 69

TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

” Image Credits: Bria Adato co-founded Bria when the pandemic hit in 2020, and the company’s other co-founder, Assa Eldar, joined in 2022. Bria’s platform enables businesses to create visuals for social media posts, ads and e-commerce listings using its image-generating AI. During Adato’s Ph.D.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

What are the advances that you anticipate seeing that are going to sort of change the way people interact with these, [and] enable new kinds of products being built? This was in, I think, August of 2022, we got to this conclusion that chat is the right paradigm for this, and we need a new product. You know, incumbents versus startups.

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