TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Bain Capital Ventures led the seed round alongside South Park Commons, Core Innovation Capital, and Operator Partners. Column Tax’s tax prep product, “Tax Filing,” will also launch in February 2022 in time for the upcoming tax season, the company told TechCrunch. Mobile income tax software Column Tax announced today that it raised $5.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Jarkata-based Astro, which provides 15-minute grocery delivery, has recently closed a $60 million Series B financing round, lifting its total funding to $90 million since the business launched just nine months ago. by 2022, compared to China’s 6% and South Korea’s 34% in 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And despite public markets’ rocky start in early January, we’re confident that 2022 will be another banner year for the sector. Then, we’ll turn our attention to the year ahead and offer some predictions for fintech in 2022. Fintech continued to outperform the market by 3x.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. reported this month that $51 billion of venture capital was invested into U.S. 4 trends that will define e-commerce in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

“They are the strongest company in the segment and well financed in this growing market,” said Forrester analyst Craig Le Clair. Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. ” Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. opens in a new window) license.

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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. Alation counts more than 25% of the Fortune 100 as clients, touching verticals such as finance, healthcare, pharma, manufacturing, retail, insurance and tech. An IDC report commissioned by Seagate projected companies would collect 42.2%

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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. billion market by 2022, according to Markets and Markets. Edge computing is forecast to be a $6.72 billion by 2025. “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

trillion in loan originations in 2022. For example, Polly this week announced it has raised $37 million in a round led by Menlo Ventures to automate workflows for mortgage companies. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

What’s really impressive with this round is that it is primarily financed by existing investors,” Lydia co-founder and CEO Cyril Chiche told me. Hedge funds are now investing in venture rounds. Lydia plans to hire 800 people over the coming three years, including 160 people in 2022 alone. Times are changing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Flyer One Ventures and Solid led the seed round. TA Ventures, Jiji, u.ventures and AVentures Capital also participated. Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. “Our Right now, the company says it has gotten a “co-operative license.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. ” The round is being led by Stripes, with Valar Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Rainfall Ventures, and BoxGroup — all of whom backed Novo in its $40 million Series A , just six months ago — also participating. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

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. based electronic money and finance data transfers — increased 8.7% .” Link claims to be one of the first companies in the U.S.

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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?”. No doubt the venture slowdown and practically dead IPO and SPAC markets have contributed to the surge in M&A activity. I did, too.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics. venture capital activity,” he writes. And as more regions decriminalize the use of plant-based substances, investors are taking notice.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Lower , an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. The financing also marks the previously bootstrapped Lower’s first external round of funding in its seven-year history. This round is notable for a number of reasons.

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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. Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

So, to better understand the market for fintech extension rounds today, we have a set of answers from a group of fintech venture investors we recently surveyed. Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8% Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

But Amy Spurling, the CEO of Compt, makes the case that incumbent solutions are overly reliant on vendor marketplaces or benefits cards, which limit the ways in which employees can use their perks. Spurling was previously the COO and CFO at Jana, a mobile advertising company, where she managed HR and finance teams. ”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Its aim is to “finance consumption for Brazilians in a healthy way.” “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. It also aims to allow its customers to access over $616 million in financing in 2022. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

Celebrating female-led ventures I, as many of you I’m sure, continue to be disappointed in the lack of LP (limited partner) dollars flowing toward female-led venture capital firms. billion, or a 12% drop in funding from the fourth quarter of 2022. And, it’s important to note that of that $15 billion, $6.5 After Stripe’s $6.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In 2022, web3 was one of the big buzzwords in town, with the metaverse and tangential immersive technologies also jostling for mindshare. Back in December, venture-backed You.com launched similar ChatGPT-style AI smarts to that of Neeva. What the ChatGPT? Most years can pretty much be defined by at least one over-arching tech trend.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to the accelerator, the decision to downsize the S22 batch — significantly smaller than its most recent batches — was a result of the economic downturn and changes to the venture funding environment this year. Where is Y Combinator startup-hunting in 2022? Fintech … and others.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Mironov came from the finance world, having spent several years as a private equity analyst, associate and consultant. And of course incumbent payroll providers like Square offer their own solutions. In fact, one survey found that three out of every five gig workers lose earnings because of technical difficulties clocking in or out.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the myriad ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. The state of venture. Reporting on startups and the venture world at a time like this is a series of contradictions.

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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. “We s SB Opportunity Fund.

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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. short haul aviation and shipping).

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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. ALLVP and Infinity Ventures, a firm founded by a trio of ex-PayPal execs, co-led the equity raise. Presently, Mendel has 70 employees and it expects to end 2022 with 200.

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