TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Worse, CFOs are expected to be more strategic than ever about finance, but can struggle to deliver important forecasts and projections given the lack of availability of key data. Mosaic is a “strategic finance platform” that is designed to ingest data from all sorts of systems in the alphabet soup of enterprise IT — ERPs, HRISs, CRMs, etc. —

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Crisp , an Amsterdam-based, online-only supermarket focused on fresh produce, has raised €30 million in a Series B financing led by leading Target Global and joined by Keen Venture Partners and the co-founders of Adyen and Takeaway.com. Crisp has now raised a total of €42.5 million to date. The typical customer is a young family.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Leading the round is M2 Asset Management, the Swedish investment company controlled by Rutger Arnhult, and asset management firm Coeli. For me, this is an investment in a tech company with long-term owners, who are just at the beginning of their journey. Next stop, Norway. I see great growth potential in the bank.”. Anyfin bags €4.8M

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. banks consumer checking offerings have become less favorable across the board. Regulation becomes the friend of the incumbent in highly regulated industries through a process known as regulatory capture. Checking Account Competition.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million. While it invested mostly on its product in 2021, it plans to put some of its new capital toward its go to market strategy while continuing to be “heads down focused on product.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu has been seeing 100% growth year-on-year, but notably, Mambu covered 50 markets when it last raised money, €30 million in 2019 , so you can argue it has some investing and expanding to do on that front. Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools. That could lead to consolidation, too.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The funding is being led by Teachers’ Venture Growth, the rebranded venture fund the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (a prolific investor for years in tech), with previous backers Index Ventures, Valar Ventures, Creandum and Redalpine also participating. Index led its Series C in 2020 ; Valar led a round in 2018 ).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere. ” In other news.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. could become even more attractive regions for investment. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The company said it plans to use the investment to launch neobanks in eight countries over the next 24 months. Digital banks, neobanks, challenger banks or whatever you may call them, are among the biggest recipients of VC investments in fintech. Investing in Fintech Farm was a strategic investment to that end.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. In addition, one of the only ways insurance companies can make a profit is by taking those hundreds of millions of dollars in payments and investing it. They want all of their money up front so they can invest it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Lower , an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. The financing also marks the previously bootstrapped Lower’s first external round of funding in its seven-year history. “We This round is notable for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The funding brings the total investment to date for Portland, Oregon-based Sila to $20 million. As part of the investment, Clara Sieg, partner at Revolution Ventures, is joining the company’s board. She told TechCrunch she met the company’s co-founders through the Portland ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

to select African countries include unicorn Chipper Cash , Lemonade Finance, Zazuu and Sendwave. Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. This new financing round includes lead investor Amplo , Accel and Bessemer Partners, including local investors like DFS Lab.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. At Stripes, we only invest in companies building amazing products, and Novo’s rave reviews, strong retention, and incredible growth make it clear it has built something that small businesses love.” Kulkarni is joining Novo’s board with this round.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. This did not happen by magic.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. ADT invested in a startup called Zonoff, which was to be acquired by Honeywell for a modest sum. The deal fell through at the last minute and ADT chose not to continue financing the company, which was forced to shut down.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. And that’s been happening pretty clearly… Now, with that said, I think that there’s still a lot of appetite [for fintech] across the board. Robinhood expands into consumer finance while Apple steps up its fintech game.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Retail investment behemoth Robinhood laid off 23% of its staff — just 3 months after letting go of 9% of its workforce. PitchBook reported that “on the heels of a breakthrough year for fintech investment, VC activity in the sector is simmering down.” Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Joining TTV in doubling down on their investment in the company were Owl Ventures, SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, Mubadala Capital and Next Play Capital. and we delivered that by investing heavily in education and building a portfolio of content for the immigrant consumer.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

Institutional Adoption Over the years, I maintained an active interest in crypto, continuing to invest in coins (some great, some garbage), and kept reading and learning more. Companies like Microstrategy were investing large portions of their treasuries in Bitcoin. In early 2021, Tesla also announced their own investment into Bitcoin.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

A separate measure, of total value of paid-in investment, revealed 1.67x returns for other hubs versus 1.60x in the main Silicon Valley and Bay Area tech cities. How should they think about competition, strategic investment versus top-tier VC firms and how to build their board? per year on syndicated deals elsewhere versus 17.5%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two factors often come down to how Q&A will be shared and/or if we are the incumbent. Go 1st, create a feedback-loop, build trust / rapport, and invest in the relationship. Hot Tip: create a Miro board mapping all of the efforts and use this to keep your team in check. There are times to ask questions and times not to.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Can you do this online before your visit, or are you handed a clip-board full of forms where you enter information you have already provided on previous visits? CVS Care Clinic Price Schedule: Benchmark Healthcare Investments. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.” We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.

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