TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 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 Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

How Web3 startups should deploy their limited marketing resources Photo: Burst Almost $2 trillion of market value has disappeared from the crypto industry in 2022, taking with it much of the buzz around Web3. With the crypto winter in full swing for several months now, marketers?—?and and their budgets?—?have have felt the freeze.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

” With that in mind, he authored a primer on corporate development that lays out the three most common categories of acquisitions, tips for dealing with bankers, and explains why striking a partnership with a big company isn’t always the best way forward. Crypto world shows signs of being rather bullish.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

crypto, at least to date). Investors are much more aware now of new categories of risk. Reilly: The innovation buzz du jour is around crypto, and at the moment notably Lightning. As opposed to, because words like “blockchain” and “crypto” tend to get some investors very excited. . Moderate aggressively.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

The corporate spend category continues to evolve. Kote emphasized that he does not believe that the move puts Airbase into the lending category. “We Plaid adds read-only support for leading crypto exchanges. Weekly News. Hence its recent debt financing. We are not a lender. We will never be a lender,” he said. “We And elsewhere.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It includes two primary categories: tourism companies undertaking capability development initiatives and technology companies contributing innovative products and services tailored for the tourism sector.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

As of July 1, some 3,709 employees — excluding crypto companies — have been laid off across 41 “layoff events” in the second quarter of 2022, according to an analysis by Roger Lee of Layoffs.fyi. However, the site classified companies such as Better.com in the “Real Estate” category. of the total.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

However, the firm is also expanding that into crypto and web3, Xiao Schadeck said. “We’re We’re keeping an incredibly open mind for the next generation of founders to define totally new categories as well,” she added. For years, Northzone looked at sectors for its U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Rita reports that Cosmose, which recently closed on an undisclosed round of funding to value it at $500 million, is now working with Near’s crypto solution. Now it has its sights set on helping “everyday Americans” find deals and savings across multiple categories , including travel and shopping, via its super app, Christine reports.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

It seems we’re entering yet another interesting and tumultuous year: The crypto market is hanging on by a thread; everyone is watching with popcorn in hand to see which unicorn will be the next to tumble; and the hype around AI continues to swell. It’s unlikely that many investors came close to predicting what would play out in 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

With his seventh studio album “Subconsciously,” he became the first African act to win an award in the Best Dance/Electronic Album category. Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets. Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

Category leaders went hard and exhausted their resources, consumers bought every last roll of Charmin, cans of Lysol and the shelves were soon barren. This has led to a surge in Web3 tech adoption (NFTs, Crypto, metaverse, etc.). Discord’s love-hate relationship with Crypto is fascinating. And complicated.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Last but not least, we think financial health and wellness is being redefined, with alternative asset classes, including crypto, becoming more mainstream. They are all in the BNPL category, but they have developed an expertise in regional distribution channels, non-traditional customer segments and product variations.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

Athletes and entertainers typically earn the majority of their income in exchange for the use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL), so it is important to be sensitive when asking for deliverables that involve these particular categories. Remember that actors, artists, athletes, and executives work in cycles.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Dr. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories: . We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, and fintech spaces. The Part-Time Practitioner. Andreesen Horowitz. Anonymous Ventures.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Startups are defined by velocity and growth, learning and adapting faster than your competitors on the path to dominance in your chosen category. By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale. Funds are deployed over years, and managed to maturity in decade-long cycles.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ventures Platform, a Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, has closed its fund at $46 million as it looks to double down on “category-leading” companies across the continent, Tage writes. ERC-20 tokens are one of them, and the crypto exchange found like 4,000 of them sent to its ledger.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And while the accelerator says it only looks at founders when investing in startups, not sector, category or idea, more money in the pipeline may be empowering enough to attract a different cohort of founders. The results are diverse — and we’ve already seen ways it’s impacting the future of fintech , crypto and artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

For example, Ukraine is accepting crypto donations, which TechCrunch covered here. Anyway, between flashmobs, and flashfreezing, we can add flashfood to the flash- category. It’s a whole thing. The TechCrunch Top 3. Technology and Ukraine: As you can imagine, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is in part a technology story.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Alloy Automation proves that a16z invests in non-crypto companies (still) : And we thought it had become Token Time over at the investing group. The old saying, “build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” does not apply to startups in the sexual wellness category.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We will fund businesses that meet our criteria in categories we like such as health and wellness, consumerization of healthcare, food and beverage, beauty, and other consumer and techsumer areas. I would be thrilled to find an investment based in Miami, however Clerisy is not focused on a specific geography.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Cybersecurity, crypto, telehealth. replace existing products that are aging, low performance) or a new category. is a great example of a new category we invested in early on. We created the new “revenue intelligence” category that offers businesses automated, unfiltered and real-time insights on customer interactions and deals.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Now, our team is obsessed with making the benefits of crypto and DeFi accessible to help our generation achieve financial independence.” With recent regulation changes, there is a brand new category of supply: home chefs (parents, grandparents, and caregivers) who are able to earn a living by cooking from their own home kitchen.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Connie Loizos asked Erin Schneider, regional director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s San Francisco office, about crypto lending and the potential for new regulations covering SPAC companies and NFTs, but Schneider was clear from the outset that she was limited in what she could say. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Bankrolling the Blockchain with a16z Crypto. Alongside a16z founder Marc Andreessen, general partner Chris Dixon has been integral to the firm’s rise as a giant in the crypto VC world — he was an early investor in startups such as Coinbase, Uniswap and Oculus VR. Hear from Dixon about how a16z crypto is putting its massive $7.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Pay1st is the embedded finance platform that helps the startup make revenue from both categories: owned games and third-party games, of which Riot Games is one of its clients. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Among the trends our survey respondents identified were e-commerce, blockchain and crypto, healthtech, energy, mobility and climate. Our team has been involved and invested in crypto since 2012, so we’ve been excited about the industry for a long time. and Nomono. We are really excited about the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

Along the way, each submarket – American Dynamism , Apps ( Consumer , Enterprise , Fintech ) , Bio+Health , Crypto , Games , Growth , and Infrastructure – has become as big as the original entire Venture Capital market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

is a really apt term is I’m just naming certain categories of software that I know well, but I fail to see a future where all of those [categories], given the advances in compute and data and algorithms, don’t get more intelligent. Visual generation is not an existing software category. The reason I think that software 3.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Social-crypto platforms — which were really just MMORPGs with a heavy financial component — were also dubbed metaverses, prompting land rushes for metaverse real estate. Of these, “crypto” was the most common term to be spotted alongside “metaverse,” with 23% of apps (144 total apps) mentioning the term.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Launched in April 2020, Pintu bills itself as “Indonesia’s leading homegrown crypto assets platform.” But since crypto asset ownership still only has a 4% penetration rate among the population, Pintu’s team notes that it has plenty of room to grow. This is the third round of funding the startup has landed in little over a year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is one of the hottest, fastest-growing areas within crypto. Uniswap created an entirely new segment within the DeFi space as a crypto-native automated market maker (AMM), and the Compound protocol did the same for crypto money markets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

The startup, the first Indian crypto firm to attain the unicorn status last year, says it has amassed over 10 million users. The startup’s new funding comes weeks after New Delhi’s crypto taxation rule — 30% on the income — went into effect. Gupta said crypto remains the singular focus for CoinDCX.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Categories like construction, agriculture and health care, among others, were very much looking to automate. Anyone looking to make a quick buck should avoid the category at all costs. No one can accuse the category of being a hype bubble. It hasn’t entered the hype cycle the way things like crypto and generative AI have.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Pintu chief operating officer Andrew Adjiputro told TechCrunch in an email that many Indonesian retail traders see crypto as an alternative investment asset class, and that the majority of retail investors are aged 20 to 35 years old. But the company is starting to see more older investors as crypto gains popularity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

It’s a broad term that encompasses many areas, including payments, banking, credit and crypto. In fact, storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022. We hope you can join us this year at Disrupt 2023 and check out the fintech day of programming.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 1, 2022

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