TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Last year, Teampay launched a Mastercard-branded corporate card, Catalyst, with spend management features, signaling the startup’s intentions to venture further into the heated corporate card space. Just in January, European startup Moss , which offers corporate credit cards for small- and medium-sized companies, raised $86 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Customer support startup Gorgias raises $25M. Even with all of that growth, the company is monitoring its cash burn rate in this new economic environment. It also has grown to 245 employees across offices in San Francisco, Paris, Toronto, New York City, Sydney, Belgrade and Charlotte.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

French startup Riot has raised a $12 million Series A round to iterate on its all-in-one cybersecurity awareness platform for businesses and their employees. The startup originally focused on fake phishing campaigns. But it feels like things are accelerating. Attacks are becoming more sophisticated and more prevalent.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed unforeseen challenges on entrepreneurs and further accelerated a shift to digital ways of working. To stay competitive in the new economic environment, small businesses must be agile and adapt to shifting consumer preferences.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Schulman added: “Over the past year, we made significant progress in strengthening and reshaping our company to address the challenging macro-economic environment…While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Zoe , a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic with a popular — dare we say viral? We are seeing a big acceleration in customer demand so what we want to do is scale our business significantly to be able to meet that demand,” Wolf said.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By going the debt route, Icertis avoids having to answer the tricky question of valuation in an especially challenging economic environment. Icertis was valued at $2.8 billion as of March 2021 and reportedly as high as $5 billion earlier this year, but valuations in tech are on a steep downswing.)

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