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. For three Palantir alums, the hope is that CFOs will turn to their new startup called Mosaic. Photos via Mosaic. So Palantir ended up building its own.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meanwhile, FI senior leaders and board members are intrigued by new products like Microsoft 365 Copilot and how generative AI can automate their internal workflows (and improve their bottom lines). Taken as a whole, FIs are at an especially receptive time for greater software adoption.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! Unfortunately, as with most private companies, neither startup will share hard revenue figures. But they do at least provide some metrics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

How to communicate with your board in tough times. Five success factors for behavioral health startups. The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. Justin Da Rosa. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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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. Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik bags $230M to expand across Europe. million to date.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Tech is rushing in to fill that gap, and today a Berlin-based startup called Taxfix , which has built a popular mobile assistant to address the former of these, is announcing a big round of funding to fuel its growth. This is a major round for the startup: Taxfix has raised around $330 million since being founded in 2016. as a couple.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million.

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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. A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. Consolidation everywhere.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And this has investors, especially foreign ones, excited and looking to get on board. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents. Neobanking, based on mobile technology too, falls somewhere in the middle of the two).

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu , a Berlin-based startup that describes itself as an SaaS banking platform — providing, by way of APIs, technology to banks and others to power lending, deposit and other banking products — has closed a round of €110 million (about $135 million at today’s rates). That could lead to consolidation, too.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

This is a common refrain in the industry, which is why we are seeing an increasing number of startups pop up in the space. And today, Yu and Yang’s new company, San Francisco-based Vesta , is announcing it has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from new investor Zigg Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Startup insurance provider Vouch raises $90M, now valued at $550M. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 The company said this would enable students to explore opportunities in play-to-earn gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi).

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2023

Rippling sells about 13 products for information technology teams, finance teams, & human resources teams like mobile device management, payroll, & talent management. Common design language across products simplifies on-boarding. Today, new startups have to compete with a cloud-native incumbency.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Novo , the startup building a new kind of banking service from the ground up for small and medium businesses, has closed a significant round of funding to take the next step in growing its platform. But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. The startup to date has raised just over $135 million.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. 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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

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. Investors, founders report hot market for API startups. She told TechCrunch she met the company’s co-founders through the Portland ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany). Next stop, Norway.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The internal rate of return (IRR) for companies in other startup hub cities has been even better. Which is just one snapshot, but a relevant one given how hard it can be to produce accurate early-stage startup market analysis at this scale. You can increasingly do a startup from anywhere and make it a success. But will it?

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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. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? More than 50%?

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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 13, 2022

Fintech Farm , a newly launched fintech startup based in the U.K. Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. that creates digital banks in emerging markets, confirmed to TechCrunch today that it has raised $7.4 million in seed funding.

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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. This round is notable for a number of reasons.

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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. Markets at TransUnion, is taking a seat on Spring Labs’ board. Spring Labs is one of them.

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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

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. Given a large number of startups will not generate a profit near and are cash-flow negative in the near term, they will have to raise more capital in a difficult environment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

M&A can be a great outcome for all parties, especially for startup founders and their team. In markets where incumbents are playing catch-up, there is a window when a few companies will get bought. This may require companies to raise bridge financing and/or consider reducing burn. First, some observations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Welcome Tech , a startup aiming to build “an operating system” for immigrant families in the U.S., And, its board of directors is now over 71 percent ethnically diverse, it says. . I think that’s a big moat around any of the incumbents,” he said. “In We want to build an operating system for immigrants,” Hemmat said.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

When Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi joined the YC W17 batch with an idea for a VR startup, they quickly encountered a problem. Cards are particularly a must have for young companies because large vendors don’t often accept ACH and other forms of alternative payment from early startups.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 29, 2014

This is the framework I’ve seen work well for freemium startups. Second, freemium startups leverage usage data to improve their product. Marketing teams can sift through the data to understand market segmentation and funnel efficiency, and product management can parse the data to improve the on-boarding experience.

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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. Hot Tip: create a Miro board mapping all of the efforts and use this to keep your team in check. Planning: You have the resources to craft an effective project planning for RFP (and eventually scope it with account / finance). Chemistry?—?Finals.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. Now with big banks, corporations, and governments on board, Bitcoin and?—?by To me, decentralized finance or “DeFi” is the most fascinating part of the cryptocurrency space today. The 2020 Effect?—?Institutional

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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. With a company that had shut down and an innovator ready to take them on board nearly every employee joined.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Today’s interview was with Tige ( interesting to follow on Twitter ), who has been involved with funded and/or sitting on the boards of Revolution Money, Living Social, Flexcar (now ZipCar) and UberMedia. Startup America , an Obama administration initiative headed up by Steve Case. - The Startup Visa movement.

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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? Can you cancel or reschedule online? Information Collection — Does your doctor make it easy to provide information about your visit? Do they respond?

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. But that’s really just the starting point and that’s when I put out a Tweet three years ago and started meeting with digital healthcare [00:05:00] startups.

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