TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup. Coast co-founders Daniel Simon and Andrew Woolf.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding.

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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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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

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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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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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

With hundreds of billions of dry powder, plenty of healthy cash flows generated by SaaS publics, & the leverage of the inevitable shareholder lawsuit if a board rebuffs the 30% premium of a tender offer, private equity becomes the dominant M&A option in dollar terms for 2023. The ML stack folds into the classic data stack.

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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

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. Peter Levine, who is leading today’s investment for Andreessen Horowitz and will be joining the Pinecone board, sees the vector database as a key piece of the AI stack.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

All over the world startups are piling into the space marked “virtual interaction and collaboration”. What if a startup created a sort of ‘Club Penguin for adults’? Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. It has now raised $2.6m

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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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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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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

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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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. If the first move on the chess board was free, it leads me to believe that for most, the second and even third moves will be costly.

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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

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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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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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

JULY 29, 2021

m, a startup that wants to upgrade student transportation, a five-year $150 million contract to modernize its transport service throughout the district. m’s five-year $53 million contract with Oakland Unified School District, which began in 2020, the SFUSD contract is the largest the startup has ever won. Aside from Z?m’s

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

She worked at a startup as a product development manager, but ultimately left that behind to find a different calling. That attention to detail and care for pets is what attracted many of Maev’s investors to jump on board. “We Prior to starting the company, Spies started her career as an engineer, stacking up three degrees.

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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. CMOs have gotten a whole new software stack to run marketing in the past decade, so why not CFOs? Screenshot of Mosaic’s planning function.

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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. Notably, this is the second round of funding for the startup in the space of six months, after it picked up $20 million in a Series B last June. Weber acquires smart cooking startup June.

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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 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. It requires the technical and financial know-how to develop and implement a new backbone in a highly regulated industry,” said Strange, who joined Vesta’s board as part of the financing.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2022

This includes long-established incumbents such as Unity, developed by tech powerhouse Unity Software, which is currently in the process of merging with IronSource. ” On top of that, having one of Red Hat’s original founders on board as an investor can only be construed as a major coup for a startup that is just eight months old.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Startup insurance provider Vouch raises $90M, now valued at $550M. Startups like Ascend aiming to disrupt the insurance industry are also attracting venture capital, with recent examples including Vouch and Marshmallow , which raised close to $100 million, while Insurify raised $100 million. Ascend app.

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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. However, it does point to an opportunity for incumbents to disrupt their disruptors.

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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

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. You’ll want to share any offers with your board and key investors to make sure you’re atop all governance requirements.

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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 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. O ther players in the space facilitating transfer from the U.K. Whether that’ll happen remains to be seen.

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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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Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

In assessing myself as an investor, I don’t think about having multiple bites at the apple, nor do I think about being a sharpshooter and picking the exact right startup out of the thousands that could be worthy of that Series A or B check. I also don’t have lots of direct experience with Series A or B deals.

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