TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. The market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added.

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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.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Its latest brand, Rob’s Backstage Popcorn, is a joint venture with the Jonas Brothers. Joining Integrated Capital in the round are Great Oaks Venture Capital, Pacific Tiger Group, Sope Creek Capital and Clearco. Fugman expects to launch new brands in the first half of 2022.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Presently, Mendel has 70 employees and it expects to end 2022 with 200. It also plans to use its new capital to “invest heavily” in product development, including expansion into broader B2B payments, as well as toward marketing and awareness. “The Image Credits: Mendel. Infinity’s Mario Ruiz agrees. “In

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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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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. ” Those competitors include incumbents like OpenAI, Midjourney and Stability AI, as well as Jasper , whose generative art tool, Jasper Art, also targets enterprise customers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Looking ahead, CEO Gomez projects that it will fulfill close to 6 million items in 2022. Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. . And in January, fulfillment is up 20% compared to November of 2021.

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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. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs. ” Pando makes a best effort to automate processes around the supply chain.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Meanwhile, Jeeves says it has seen its revenue grow by 900% since its September raise and even more impressively, that in the first two months of 2022, it brought in more revenue than all of 2021. Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. billion in annualized gross transaction volume (GTV).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. Most likely, their products will be on the market by the end of 2022 or in early 2023. ”

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

” Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map. Felicis Ventures partners share the four pillars of scaling a SaaS startup.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

From March 2021 to March 2022, the company says it saw a 2,200% increase in wallet growth. That subscription service saw 50% quarter over quarter growth between Q1 2021 through Q1 2022, according to Welcome Tech. I think that’s a big moat around any of the incumbents,” he said. “In Image Credits: Welcome Tech.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, February 3, 2022! 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.” To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

trillion in loan originations in 2022. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We The sheer volume of loan originations is testament to the need for more efficient loan origination systems (LOS). For example, the Mortgage Bankers Association forecasts there will be more than $2.59

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

That will change, however, in early 2022, when Lower intends to launch its own native servicing platform. . Today, for example, Lower sells primarily to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And while it services the majority of its loans, like many large lenders, it uses a subservicer.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

I’ve come to realize, in reporting on startups and venture capital pretty much exclusively for the past 5 years — and for many more before that in one capacity or another — that nothing is black and white, things aren’t always what they seem and they can change in the blink of an eye. Read them here. Image Credits: Plaid.

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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. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Founded in : 2022. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The budget we planned for 2022 was large and ambitious. Since then the economy and capital markets have changed, and so it’s prudent that we adjust as well,” founder and CEO Chris Webb told TechCrunch via email. “We, like every company, plan our annual budgets far ahead of the upcoming year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

At TechCrunch Early Stage this month, we sat down with Felicis Ventures partners Viviana Faga and Niki Pezeshki to talk about scaling, product-market fit, and why it’s crucial to be “10x better” than the incumbents. Product-market fit. Startups must be able to demonstrate that they have users that love their product.

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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 30, 2022

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. Insurtech IPOs don’t seem to be on the cards for 2022. How much have early-stage insurtech deals slowed in 2022?

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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

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. . — Christine Now on to the news. billion was Stripe’s raise.

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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. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For Clarisse Lam , associate at New Alpha Asset Management , this makes sense: “The repricing represents a great opportunity for incumbents to make strategic acquisitions and accelerate their digital transformation. 8 investors weigh in on the state of insurtech in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, March 9, 2022! And we just announced that Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut and Viviana Faga are coming to Early Stage to talk TAM , which is going to be a treat. Oh, and if you are building a so-called “web3” startup, well, there’s lots of capital in the market for your work.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. Unsurprisingly, the industry was out in force for the 2022 midterms, judging by the top donors.

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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. with Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst) and Caryn Marooney (Coatue Ventures). Upfront Ventures’ Kara Nortman, Felicis’ Aydin Senkut and Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir will tell us.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The optionality to lock in gains amid prolonged investment cycles through secondary sales and continuation funds are disproportionately available to larger, multi-stage, incumbent funds. In regions where venture capital is already sparse, accessing funding remains difficult and expensive.

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