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

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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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.

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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

MARCH 2, 2021

The European grocery market is currently worth €2 trillion, but access to customers for high-quality, smaller producers is still tricky and blocked by incumbents. Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik bags $230M to expand across Europe. Crisp is taking advantage of consumers moving online, and wanting fresher food.

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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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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder? It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. Board commitments to DEI.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Today we have a few angles on the startup market. Risk-on, risk-off : The startup fundraising game is in flux at the moment, with some investors putting capital to work in companies that have yet to fully form, as the public market takes body blows and earnings disappoint. Startups/VC. PST, subscribe here. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added. The startup has a number of Microsoft veterans on its board of directors, including Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft’s former head of global channnel partners, and it’s regularly featured in the tech giant’s marketing materials.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. 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. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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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. Chinese startups rush to bring alternative protein to people’s plates. More than 10 startups raised capital to make plant-based protein for a country with increasing meat demand. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

She worked at a startup as a product development manager, but ultimately left that behind to find a different calling. During that time, the company has been growing both its revenue and customer bases, investing in supply chain and solidifying its innovation. Alpha Paw brings in $8M to carve out its niche in the pet wellness space.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. They had instilled in me a discipline that few well-funded but inexperienced startups have.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Today, one of the startups that has seen a lift in its business as a result of that is announcing a round of funding to expand its operations. Other investments will include improving customer service and bringing in more talent. And back in 2017, Electrolux acquired sous vide startup Anova for $250 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Fintech Farm , a newly launched fintech startup based in the U.K. 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.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

For three Palantir alums, the hope is that CFOs will turn to their new startup called Mosaic. Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. million seed investment led by Ross Fubini of XYZ Ventures in mid-2019, who was formerly an investor at Village Global. Photo via Mosaic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Now, a startup called Rows that’s built on that ubiquity, with a low-code platform that lets people populate and analyze web apps using just spreadsheet interfaces, is announcing funding and launching a freemium open beta of its expanded service. Christian Reber has also invested in this round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Startup insurance provider Vouch raises $90M, now valued at $550M. 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. Ascend app.

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Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

More often than not, I believe it is largely impossible to predict the shape of an outcome when making an initial venture investment. The insight and data venture investors have to work with increases as a company matures — the earlier the investment, the more unknown the outcome is. Seed is what I know.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By platform shift, I mean, why has the value accrued to the incumbents and why hasn’t there been a new set of AI-native companies that have come up and displaced them? For the first part of this talk, I’m going to argue that the capabilities have all been there, but the economics just haven’t for startups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Lower is also something that is kind of rare these days in the startup world: profitable. We were immediately intrigued because Ohio-based Lower echoes both of these themes,” said Accel partner John Locke, who led the firm’s investment in Lower and is taking a seat on the company’s board as part of the investment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. Sheel Tyle , the founder and general partner at Amplo, will join NALA’s board, the company said in a statement. The investment will allow NALA to hire more talent and foster growth efforts in the U.K.,

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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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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. We invested anyway.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

If they invest in someone that is unknown within their social circles, they run the risk of being challenged by their partnership on why they made that decision, so the personal risk of going out on a limb is big. Initially, my board, which is all white and male, didn’t understand this market and was a bit cautious.

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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. 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. The 2020 Effect?—?Institutional

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 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! ” The move is an interesting one as the investment giant has for years been strategically scooping up fintech companies.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. “We have some very experienced people in our advisory board who are really active in the team.

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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%. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. expectations.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. There’s no reason why a culture needs to fall apart at the seams in a hypergrowth startup.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

By providing these products as a unified strategic solution, the goal is to enable hardware manufacturers the ability to get to production volume without investing in the specialized facilities or headcount historically needed to manage electronic components. ” The passage of the CHIPS Act could launch another US startup renaissance.

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