TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. ” Together, launched in June 2022, is the brainchild of Vipul Ved Prakash, Ce Zhang, Chris Re and Percy Liang. ” He has a point — insofar as incumbents are feeling the pressure, at least. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

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. Eyewear has to date been a very traditional industry with large incumbents, but is now ripe for a tech-enabled global transformation.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources. After all, Jiffy.ai The software sells itself, Sadasiva says.

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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

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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

“Sima.ai’s software and hardware platform can be used to enable scaling machine learning to [a range of] embedded edge applications. billion market by 2022, according to Markets and Markets. As over-100-employee Sima.ai ”) But the startup stands to profit handsomely if it can capture even a sliver of the sector. (The

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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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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

JANUARY 19, 2023

to enable customers to make online payments using their bank accounts. Shoykhet acknowledges that there’s formidable competition in the payments space — not only from incumbents like Venmo, Amazon and PayPal but from buy now, pay later vendors such as Afterpay and Klarna.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The new capital will enable the company to scale production, commercialize further products in its pipeline and expand into new food applications for its technology. “We For these technologies to work and enable transition, you have to have the scale to match that. Europe and Asia. For us, we have started putting the Legos in place.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts. ” Pando makes a best effort to automate processes around the supply chain. The digital logistics market is estimated to climb to $46.5 billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

trillion in loan originations in 2022. With their new capital, the duo hopes to advance on their mission “to enable a seamless, transparent experience for financial institutions and their customers through an intelligent, opinionated and intuitive workflow platform.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

“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 The growing number of competitors coincides with an uptick in VC investments in IoT companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

“I released Yuma as a prototype for fun in mid-December 2022, and was overwhelmed with demo requests,” Luccisano said. Image Credits: Baselit With Baselit, for example, a marketplace could enable its sellers to ask “Which of my product goes out of stock most frequently?”

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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. The lesson?

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

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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

JUNE 23, 2022

Fintech startups are convinced that banks have lobbied the RBI to reach this decision, employing the age-old tactic where incumbents cry foul and rely on the regulator to rescue the day. — Ashneer Grover (@Ashneer_Grover) June 23, 2022. Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!”

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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

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021. Team size : 22 . Location : Lagos, Nigeria. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In response to the growing interest from industry, countless call center automation products have come to market in recent years — both from startups such as Replicant and incumbents including Google , Amazon and Salesforce. “Automation is now part of the. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 16, 2022

Web2 marketing channels don’t apply because they employ third-party cookies, a technology Google will phase out at the end of 2022. Third-party cookies enable marketers to advertise to users who they haven’t “met” online yet. The past isn’t much help, either. We are a long way from that vision today.

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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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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.

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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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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. Incumbents aren’t investing in R&D, or if they are, they are spending low, single digits there, and this creates an opportunity,” Fugman added. “We

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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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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.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 24, 2022

Omni HR’s goal is to become the employee management platform that enables organizations to digitize employee records, automate administrative tasks, and interact employee data seamlessly across different systems. Our initial traction has been promising and we’re off to a great start,” says Omni HR Co-Founder YC Chan. “We

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

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. We’re bringing Sila’s Gene Berdichevsky, Index Ventures’ Erin Price-Wright and The Engine’s Katie Rae together to share the real nuts and bolts of early fundraising in 2022. .

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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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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.

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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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