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. CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”. Meanwhile, $1.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. million in debt) Series B led by Fin Venture Capital with participation from Mastercard, Proof Ventures, Trestle and Espresso Capital, bringing Teampay’s total raised to $65 million. million in equity, $11.75

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Neso Brands said it will help eyewear brands grow by leveraging synergies across the Lenskart Group to accelerate international expansion. Bjorn Bergstrom has vast experience from consumer scale-ups, venture capital and management consulting. Neso Brands also announces that Bjorn Bergstrom has joined the founding team as CEO.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

ManageXR announced today it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Rally Ventures , with venture partner and previous lead angel investor Jay Borenstein joining the company’s board of directors. . Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

and United Emirates; and existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Pitango, D1 Capital, Atreides Management, and Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services are also participating. “We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Marco’s factoring product enables new companies to get started without having to put up the significant amount of collateral that banks are asking.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Nima Wedlake, principal at Thomvest Ventures, agreed, noting that agility is a critical trait. Nima Wedlake , principal, Thomvest Ventures. Startups that survive this period will adapt their product offerings to meet the needs of today’s homeowners and buyers,” he said. We spoke with: Pete Flint , general partner, NFX.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

There’s been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations. “With the capital, we will continue to focus on engagement and adoption, collaboration, governance, lineage, and on APIs and SDKs to enable us to be open and extensible,” Sangani said via email.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

“Superblocks is an accelerant for building internal apps.” Several have substantial venture backing; the aforementioned Retool raised $45 million at a $3.2 Menezes says he thinks about the competitive landscape in three ways: build-it-yourself, legacy incumbents and low-code startups. billion valuation in July.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources. “The pandemic dramatically accelerated Ushur’s business.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. million in debt — led by NGP Capital with participation from Team8 Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners. million in equity and $19.5 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

VCs include WndrCo, DN Capital, Kismet Capital, Spike Ventures, Quiet Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, FJ Labs, VentureSouq, Nellore Capital and Moving Capital. Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. He founded Yassir with Mahdi Yettou in 2017.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. The pandemic accelerated the use of digital payment solutions globally, but especially in Latin America, noted Núñez Castro.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’d venture that companies that reach unicorn status fastest have a higher likelihood of getting regulated. Venture capitalists helped power this trend by enabling the creation of hundreds of unicorns and counting. In fact, the third quarter of 2021 alone saw the birth of 42 new fintech unicorns, according to CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

They see opportunities within software, particularly around mobility-as-a-service ventures and fleet management, continued demand for delivery and the push for electrification and batteries as well as the financial instrument — SPACs — that so many startups turned to in 2020. Shawn Carolan , partner, Menlo Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

to enable customers to make online payments using their bank accounts. 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. ” Link claims to be one of the first companies in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors. Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The latter is home to startups like Axie Infinity and Yield Guild Games, which have raised millions of dollars in venture capital owing to the adoption of crypto and play-to-earn models. The company said this would enable students to explore opportunities in play-to-earn gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”. Existing services are expensive and inefficient, creating opportunities for technology enabled service providers to offer better and cheaper services,” he said. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our goal is to enable digital commerce throughout LatAm, and BNPL in Mexico is our first step towards that vision,” said CEO and co-founder Kyle Miller. Two Sigma Ventures Partner Frances Schwiep believes that Nelo has the potential to emerge as the leading financing option for consumers in LatAm, starting with BNPL.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Digital transformation is the name of the game these days, and companies that are enabling businesses to take a leap into the future, by helping them tackle their most complex operations, are reaping the rewards. OneStream ’s platform delivers exceptional customer value,” said Andrew Wynne, a principal at D1 Capital Partners, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Fintech startups are convinced that banks have lobbied the RBI to reach this decision, employing the age-old tactic where incumbents cry foul and rely on the regulator to rescue the day. Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!” ” the founder added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Most of those are product buys to drive or accelerate revenue growth with the secondary benefit of getting new talent, Ruark said. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Replicant , one of the more prominent vendors in the call center automation space, today announced that it raised $78 million in Series B funding led by Stripes with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Omega, IronGrey, Norwest and Atomic. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Inbal Perlman , partner, TAU Ventures. Dror Nahumi , partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Sharin Fisher , partner, Fort Ross Ventures. Tal Slobodkin , partner, StageOne Ventures . Natalie Refuah , partner, Viola Growth.

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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. YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance. Bloom’s offering allows Sudanese to save in U.S. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is the largest and one of the best-known funding sources for web3 startups. with Vanessa Larco (NEA), Kanyi Maqubela (Kindred Ventures), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners), Bryan Offutt (Index Ventures) and Ulili Onovakpuri (Kapor Capital). Acing Venture. with Peter A.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. These companies, of course, join a plethora of others in the U.S. already offering corporate cards, including — but not limited to — Brex, Ramp, Airbase, Mesh Payments and Rho.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Recent legislation will also significantly accelerate the existing market trends. Sales enablement to better equip contractors to close large ticket projects with detailed ROI and performance reports (similar to what exists for solar today). Marketing enablement by aggregating lots of hard-to-acquire data (e.g.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These tools might enable online booking, provide the ability for more frequent customer-provider communication, facilitate surveys and feedback, automate follow-up correspondence, and anticipate customer needs. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. healthcare market.

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