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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. Or that venture capital is a meritocracy? This doesn’t take into consideration, however, that venture capital is a financial product—a product that works for some people and doesn’t work for others. That adds risk.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The insurtech market has been through a rough time this past year, so we reached out to eight active investors in the space to get a read of what’s been cooking as the markets aggressively recalibrated what an insurtech startup is worth. 8 investors weigh in on the state of insurtech in Q3 2022. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

If you think embedded insurance is the only hot thing in insurtech these days, we’ve got a surprise in store for you: While it’s true that startups that help sell insurance together with other products and services are enjoying tailwinds, there are plenty of other opportunities in the space, several investors told TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Melonn , a Colombian startup that provides fulfillment and software services to small and medium-sized e-commerce companies in Latin America, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Now of course, this is a well-formed market and the category has different players, and so incumbents and clouds and so on, and we’re clearly ahead. And so you have to accelerate the building of those capacities, and that’s very expensive and very hard,” he said. This is like consumer-based adoption of B2B deep tech stuff.

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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. PitchBook data shows that edtech startups around the world raised $10.76

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The startup was founded earlier this year to build a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America. Besides Tiger, a slew of venture capital firms also participated in the Series A, including Insight Partners, Index Ventures, monashees, SciFi, QED Investors, BoxGroup, Greyhound, Gilgamesh Ventures and Clocktower.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Maple VC’s Andre Charoo told TechCrunch that the startup has returned (unrealized) one-third of the firm’s second fund so far. Presently, the startup has over 650 employees and will also use its new capital to hire another 100 more or so people at its Winnipeg and Calgary campuses.

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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. Akeyless’s co-founders attribute the startup’s success in part to the comprehensiveness of its product offerings. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. Interestingly, the startup also got some industry validation in the way of investors. Are insurtech startups undervalued? million in a seed round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Each story is based on an interview with a founder or investor who addressed some of the most common startup dilemmas. Predictably, they’re mostly focused on the how and why: How do I get into an accelerator? Chinese startups rush to bring alternative protein to people’s plates. When should I hire a sales team?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2021

This is a large Series B by any standards, but particularly so for a Latin American startup. million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. The startup has now raised a total of $152.7 Today, the startup has more than 120,000 customers. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

Hi all, it was a roller coaster of a week in the world of fintech as I published two separate articles on startup layoffs and a nine-figure funding round in the span of a few hours. with $488 billion in assets, acquired a 12-person startup called Long Game in an effort to attract more GenZ and millennial customers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Spradling through the Antler accelerator, a Singapore- and New York-based early-stage investment and advisory services program that connects entrepreneurs and tech operators to launch new businesses. This is where venture capital firms should be putting their dollars — in companies where technology and talent unleash a lot of value.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Today, incumbent financial institutions, insurance carriers, and other industries that underwrite risk for a living now have to contend with these innovative new players and adapt to change if they want to survive. This is further accelerated by the mainstream adoption of technologies like blockchain, DeFi, cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

T he startup uses blockchain with the aim of creating a richer network effect of data that allows credit bureaus and others to predict the creditworthiness of people who are not in the traditional credit bureau system. We knew a relationship with TransUnion in particular had the capacity to significantly accelerate our business,” he said.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. On top of this, the cost of bringing projects online has fallen, it’s become more fashionable to play the startup game, and so forth. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Morgan Stanley has meanwhile been beefing up its stock plan administration business, acquiring Solium Capital early last year and more recently purchasing Barclay’s stock plan business. What can Pulley offer startups that Carta cannot? YW: We offer startups a better product compared to our competitors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Gleitzman was a senior software engineer at Hunch and eBay before cofounding several startups including a “virtual reality therapy platform” called Mona. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital. “Automation is now part of the.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Nelo , a startup founded by former Uber international growth team leads, began offering buy now, pay later services to Mexico earlier this year. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. Still, Latin America remains an under-penetrated market in the increasingly crowded space.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

A group of startups poised to benefit from this shift are those offering banking as a service. One such startup, Unit , has raised $51 million in a Series B round to further its goal of making it possible for companies and fintechs alike to build banking products “in minutes.”. It’s already integrated with Plaid , for example).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Via email, a spokesperson told me that the IO Mastercard is designed to help startups scale their business. 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. Today, he serves as the startup’s CEO. Seen on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips. The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Startups are once again considering layoffs as a way to control cash consumption and attract new capital. News that Fast, a one-click checkout software provider targeting the e-commerce market, is offering sharp staff cuts to investors in hopes of securing new capital is notable, but a single data point.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. “We Image Credits: Pismo.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. The investors: Boaz Dinte , managing general partner, Qumra Capital. Oh, and one more thing.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. As venture capital investors, we value investment opportunities that are exposed to huge shifts in a given market — particularly really large markets such as the U.S. healthcare market. We are willing to bet on it.

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

Post-Pandemic Geography: Predictions for Living, Working, & Traveling Post-Covid in America’s Startup Cities Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Announces that Airbnb Co-founder and CEO, Brian Chesky, will join Steve Case for the Tech Talent Tour Mainstage Discussion (Thursday, June 24th, 2021 at 12:00 PM ET). Please join us.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Places like India, Africa and Latin America could accelerate at the same time because they are mainly starting from zero. As part of the investment, Clara Sieg, partner at Revolution Ventures, is joining the company’s board. Revolution tends to look at fintech startups from a consumer angle.

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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. Local delivery: Instacart, DoorDash, UberEats, etc.

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