AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

In January 2022, Ayoconnect raised an oversubscribed Series B funding led by Tiger Global. In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development.

incumbents 59

incumbents startup financing finance 59

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

incumbents 105

incumbents media ventures financing 105

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

. “The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview. billion market by 2022, according to Markets and Markets. billion by 2025.

startup 95

startup accelerator incumbents disruption 95

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

incumbents 90

incumbents disruption board enablement 90

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”. 4 trends that will define e-commerce in 2022.

capital 89

capital startup enablement incumbents 89

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

incumbents 86

incumbents collaboration enablement leadership 86

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

At that time, CEO and founder Arturo Elizondo said via a press release that, “Our new branding conveys our vision to fundamentally transform the food system for the 21st century so that every human, everywhere can enjoy the food they know and love without harming our planet or animals in the process.”. It changed its name to The EVERY Co.

incumbents 99

incumbents enablement technology capital 99

TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Interestingly, Yuma “got started by accident,” according to founder Guillaume Luccisano. “I released Yuma as a prototype for fun in mid-December 2022, and was overwhelmed with demo requests,” Luccisano said. ” and get the answer in natural language. ” without having to rely on their data team.

startup 102

startup incumbents support consulting 102

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.

incumbents 100

incumbents enablement accelerator financing 100

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.

investing 100

investing investment startup transportation 100

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, February 3, 2022! 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. PST, subscribe here. Startups/VC. The lesson? You can sign up here.).

incumbents 89

incumbents board enablement startup 89

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?”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services. Funding and M&A.

incumbents 117

incumbents energy board investing 117

TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

“The rule is very confusing and strange,” said a fintech founder on condition of anonymity to avoid upsetting RBI officials. ” the founder added. — Ashneer Grover (@Ashneer_Grover) June 23, 2022. “What the RBI is essentially saying here is don’t load credit line on PPI.

startup 97

startup incumbents disruption accelerator 97

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

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. Founders : Ahmed Ismail, a second-time founder who has worked for Goldman Sachs and Barclays, is the CEO. Location : Khartoum, Sudan. Website : [link].

startup 91

startup hospitality health financing 91

TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

At the time, CEO founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz had told TC the move was aimed at taking “advantage of the current conditions to update the tax valuation of the company.” payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers.

innovation 86

innovation incumbents frameworks support 86

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. Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8% and Mexico. and Mexico. from the previous quarter” to $24.1

real estate 106

real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106

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. Also last week, FTX CEO and founder Sam Bankman-Fried admitted he “f *d up” and “should have done better” right before FTX declared bankruptcy and he stepped down from his role. Pymnts has more here.

real estate 97

real estate incumbents mix-use financing 97

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.

peer-to-peer 103

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 103

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.

incumbents 74

incumbents frameworks health financing 74

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.

ventures 76

ventures incumbents startup VC 76

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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. The Naked Market founders Alex Kost and Harrison Fugman. The new capital will enable the company to scale its existing brands, create new products and pursue M&A opportunities.

capital 86

capital incumbents venture capital enablement 86

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.

incumbents 67

incumbents leadership pitching investing 67

AsiaTechDaily

JULY 24, 2022

This effectively creates a unique opportunity for local players to build a modern, scalable employee management platform based out of Southeast Asia,” according to Omni HR Co-Founder Brian Ip. Our initial traction has been promising and we’re off to a great start,” says Omni HR Co-Founder YC Chan. “We

incumbents 52

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.

peer-to-peer 40

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 40

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

After inking deals with Amazon and Walmart, the Quidsi and Jet.com co-founder aims to launch a “more equitable” city in the desert. It’s a pitch that has landed thousands of members and, most recently, a billion-dollar valuation as of May 2022. The State of VC in 2022. with Marc Lore (Wonder Group).

disruption 81

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.

energy 95

energy startup construction transportation 95

AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Harshet Lunani, Qoala’s Founder and CEO, said the recent funding would enable the firm to further simplify insurance ownership by advancing its product offerings and experience, strengthening its position for sustainable growth in the region.

incumbents 96

incumbents economic growth sustainability enablement 96

TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

. “Our goal is to empower both developers and creators while ensuring that our platform is legally and ethically sound,” Yair Adato, the co-founder of Bria, told TechCrunch in an email interview. During Adato’s Ph.D. “I realized that there’s a real business use case for this,” Adato said. Time will tell.

startup 98

startup incumbents data collection construction 98

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.

incumbents 140

incumbents networking technology creativity 140