TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

billion networked devices projected to be in use by 2023 and the growth rate currently at around 10%. “We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan. Internet usage continues to skyrocket, with 29.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

billion in Q1 2023, with an additional $10.68 There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. ” He has a point — insofar as incumbents are feeling the pressure, at least. According to one source, generative AI startups raised $1.7 Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In other words, it wants to invest in early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies “where opportunities for early partnerships with financial incumbents exist.” combined and more than doubled the amount raised by female-led VC firms so far in 2023. It plans to invest $1.5 Want more fintech news in your inbox?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

What is ahead for Checkout.com in 2023? Thank you, it’s an exciting time to be expanding my remit at Checkout.com as 2023 is a critical year for us – we are really ramping up our commercial efforts, particularly in the U.S. What do you see overall for the payments industry in 2023? Congrats on your new role!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

And I’m not foolish enough to try and make any real predictions about the state of fintech in 2023. My guess is that we’ll see a real survival of the fittest in 2023 and beyond. Either way, let’s hope 2023 brings with it greater due diligence, less ego and more viable business models. Digital lending funding was down 53% to $11.5

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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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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

QED-led extension brings total for Series D round to $142M CHICAGO, IL – September 13, 2023 – Kin, the direct-to-consumer home insurance company built for every new normal, today announced the closing of a $33 million Series D extension. Kin is also succeeding in geographies where other legacy insurers are either leaving or stalling growth.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

A recent Forrester Research report predicts that the segment will start to flatten as soon as 2023 as companies shift to broader automation solutions. And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. There’s evidence to support this.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Quilt’s design enables room-by-room control, creating precise climate zones throughout the home while eliminating the need for traditional furnaces and ductwork. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. Its mission is to move humanity off fossil fuel heating.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Mazen said Sylndr plans to open up to buyers in Q4 this year or Q1 2023. Some include U.K.’s Between these two events is the refurbishment of the cars.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The latest layoff “assumes the downturn will last at least through 2023.”. 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. Pymnts has more here. Another example of fintech for good.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Here are my predictions for 2023. The hangover from web3’s raucous 2022 extends into 2023. More than 100 web3-enabled games launch. We exit 2023 with inflation below 2.5% 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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

What do founders need to know for their startups to survive and thrive in 2023 and beyond? So how should startups that have incumbents to take on, other startups to best, or both, approach the balance between growth and spend this year? What new terms are they introducing into deals? TechCrunch Startup Battlefield — Final Round.

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