TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The latest capital infusion comes less than a year from a $60 million Series C round that happened in June 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

New and existing investors, including Tarsadia Capital, Citius, Arago Capital, Foundation Capital and Quiet Capital also participated in the round to bring Jüsto’s total venture capital investment to date to over $250 million. That is up about 2,000 SKUs from last year depending on the city. is poised to be a $187.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. In addition to expanding the vet network — Fuzzy is operational in 25 locations — his plans for the new funding include the development and launch of new product offerings, additional educational content and new member growth.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The round was also joined by SEEDS Capital and Masik Enterprises. The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. The funding will be used to develop Equatorial Space Systems’s Dorado commercial-sounding rocket family.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Others may call this dichotomy digital versus physical, the disruptor mindset versus the incumbent mindset, start-up world versus Fortune 500, or tech culture versus industrial culture. Most things they have done, from developing software to partnering, have focused on their needs and not customer desires.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. It is still early but if we start to show what we can do, we will be helping 330 million people in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Breeze raised $10 million in Series A funding in a round led by Link Ventures that Nabity boasts is the “largest first round of institutional capital ever invested in a Nebraska-based software startup.” He will also increase Breeze’s headcount in the areas of software development, customer service and marketing. “We

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

Incumbents have seized the moment with Microsoft, Adobe, & others integrating generative AI into their products quickest. In response, startups must develop moats to stake out their market. At the moment, capital & technical expertise create competitive advantage. What are these moats?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Capital allocation is a core part of any CEO’s job, and it’s particularly critical for growth-stage CEOs. Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D).

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Some organizations pride themselves on building their own tech stack in certain areas like patient experience, where others tend to look externally first before considering custom development. We’ve seen many companies spend more than 80% of their total capital raised on compute resources alone. Transparency is critical.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Last November, Bond kicked this off by announcing a partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition to develop a craft meat protein for its product portfolio. We’re really accelerating our process development work to bring down the cost of goods as well as making some fast work of our strain engineering.”. The move is buoyed by a $17.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. “I founded Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. “Together is spearheading AI’s ‘Linux moment’ by providing an open ecosystem across compute and best in class foundation models,” Lux Capital’s Brandon Reeves told TechCrunch via email.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. Market Structure.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

Market : how to compete with incumbents? Moats : how to develop competitive advantage? Startups can integrate with a plug-in, build a prompt-tuning engine (a little model on top of a bigger model), or develop & train their own models. But there are 100 applications compared to 3 infrastructure vendors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Joining Lerer Hippeau in the investment are Siddhi Capital, Idea Farm Ventures, Simple Food Ventures, Animal Capital and American Pie executive Alan Mitzner. In fact, of the $348 billion in annual sales generated by the top 25 food and beverage incumbents in the U.S., Immi takes in $3.8M to cook up plant-based instant ramen.

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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. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. million in equity and $19.5 billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Taking the love of the Asian food they grew up with, they wanted to develop one of those brands for the U.S. “We My dad still eats instant ramen each night, and it is such a massive market: 4 billion packets are sold per year, but it is also a product that has been dominated by the same three incumbents for years.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

The Series B round was led by Accel, Citius and Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors AC Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Lightspeed and Sequoia Capital India. The startup is competing with incumbents like Sayurbox, HappyFresh and TaniHub to win over users.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Amongst these questions are actual costs of therapies, reimbursement coverage, the commercialisation strategy for psychedelic drug development companies, resource bottlenecks with the therapists’ supply and infrastructure, etc,” they told TechCrunch+. is not the only place where psychedelics are seeing interest. Will they take the lead?”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The air taxi developer began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday under the ticker symbol “JOBY,” after completing a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners. billion in total capital to take its air taxi operations to commercialization in 2024. from its prior-day closing amount.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. “We will use M&A strategically going forward, including in relation to product development.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Cora , a Brazilian digital lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $116 million in a Series B round led by Greenoaks Capital. million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. Ribbit Capital leads $26.7M The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

The competition is not your market competitor or incumbent. If you’re in services, frame your business around this labor demand; if you’re developing solutions for software, operations and RCM, leverage this growing gap between the need and the adoption of technology. This is an opportunity for you to capture this capital pool.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

The first is that the company has developed a system that continuously monitors third-party IT services all over the world, giving the startup a direct view into service interruptions down to the millisecond. Parametrix is not a carrier itself, but rather partners with incumbent insurance carriers to payout customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Israeli startup provides software-based internet routing solutions to service providers to run them as virtualized services over “ white box ” generic architecture, and today it is announcing $262 million in equity funding to continue expanding its technology, its geographical footprint, and its business development.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under an open source license back in 2014, though its initial development pre-dates that by several years. It’s basically a software framework that developers can use and reuse without having to redesign the wheel with each new game they create.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 The entrepreneur’s experience with subscriptions goes back to high school, where he said he started skipping class to do web development for a subscription box startup called Conscious Box.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“With the capital, we will continue to focus on engagement and adoption, collaboration, governance, lineage, and on APIs and SDKs to enable us to be open and extensible,” Sangani said via email. The all-equity tranche values Alation at over $1.7 The all-equity tranche values Alation at over $1.7 billion and growing toward $11.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

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. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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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. In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Naked Market flashes some new capital to create better-for-you food brands. Goodles is going after the two oldest incumbents in the space, Kraft and Annie’s, to provide a healthy alternative that tackles both better taste and nutrition. In fact, the company developed more than 1,000 versions of noodles to get the right one.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. We’re looking to develop that as we go,” he noted. Some include U.K.’s

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