TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

That’s why we’re excited to announce that Mathilde Collin, co-founder and CEO at Front, Deidre Paknad, co-founder and CEO at WorkBoard and Adriana Roche, chief people officer at Mural, will tackle this topic onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco. Early action equals bigger savings.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We just wrapped up a three-day virtual event that included discussions and interviews with some of the most notable people in technology, media, government and venture capital. Even in person, there’s no way to absorb Disrupt in its entirety. Full coverage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Now, a startup building SaaS software to help finance departments manage this more intelligently is announcing some funding to expand after seeing strong demand. ” Singapore’s SWC Global led the funding round with participation from existing backers 3one4 Capital and angel investors. million Series A.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Why more SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing. The consequences of SaaS sprawl: A real-world study. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

As the market swoons, venture capital firms continue to announce new funds. As the global venture capital market slows, is the US dodging the downturn? Lorena Suarez, one of the managing partners of Argentina-based Alaya Capital , a 10-year-old early-stage VC firm, invests in impact-driven startups from Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The language learning company launched nearly a decade ago on the Disrupt stage with no monetization plans. CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn returned to TechCrunch Disrupt this year to explain how the sophistication of public markets impacts the company’s strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed. Of course we can’t. dot-com bonanza.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt has a long history of bringing leading venture capitalists to the stage to yammer about their industry. Our impending TC Disrupt conference happening on September 21-23 is no different.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Venture capital is a popular source of capital for early-stage startups, but it’s definitely not the only one. Both Clearco and Pipe offer revenue-based financing and both have raised large sums of venture capital themselves, some might say ironically.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At TechCrunch Disrupt, I spoke to three investors about how they use TAM to guide their decision-making. The way it’s calculated and the way the founder is thinking about it tells us not necessarily about the business or its future, but about how the founder thinks about company creation,” said Deena Shakir, a partner at Lux Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The capital market for startups has perhaps never been more attractive than it is today. Not only are venture capitalists raising more capital than ever , but new methods of financing startup activity are maturing. Not just SaaS. That fact may lead to startups not wanting to pursue equity-only transactions when possible.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above. in the New Yorker.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 20, 2023

Register Singapore-based private equity firms Capital Square Partners (CSP) and Basil Technology Partners (BTP) have publicly announced a partnership that seeks to build a leading regional technology investment platform. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Everstream Analytics , a supply chain insights and risk analytics startup, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Morgan Stanley Investment Management with participation from Columbia Capital, StepStone Group, and DHL.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

million in seed funding from Sequoia Capital India. The new capital will be used for tech development and hiring, and brings Outplay’s total raised so far to $9.3 Its previous funding was a $2 million raise from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge announced in March after Outplay took part in the program’s fourth cohort.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Runa Capital’s Asia business development manager Denis Kalinin studied data from iTjuzi, a database of Chinese venture capitalists, and found: “…Chinese funds invested around $250 billion in 2020 (three times higher than the figure reported in Crunchbase). 3 keys to pricing early-stage SaaS products.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

– SaaS MarTech startup that drives sales of travel products by connecting brands, influencers, and travelers. The fund’s portfolio companies have raised about $191 million so far as they scale and disrupt industries.” Founder, CEO Olivia Rutman, CTP Landng Inc. Actual amount invested depends on total dollars raised.

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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

JULY 28, 2021

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a Brazilian startup. Pipo, she said, was created to “disrupt this landscape” with the use of technology and data. Although, notably, Thrive has also put money in Nubank and Loft.). Image Credits: Pipo Saude.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What has particularly surprised me is how many funds tell exactly the same story and invest in exactly the same areas: B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure tech, e-commerce brands and crypto/fintech. What is amazing is how many marketing SaaS companies still get funded: Image Credits: Scott Brinker of chiefmartec and MartechTribe.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We wanted to bring it online at checkout and empower businesses by making access to capital easy.”. Today, the company announced $8 million in seed funding from a group of backers that include Global Founders Capital and founders of Dropbox, DoorDash, Opendoor, Plaid, PlanGrid, Mercury and Pilot.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. Indian logistics SaaS startup FarEye raises $100 million. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and reimagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth — new stages, new content, and new opportunities. Oh, and if you were laid off recently, we are offering a free Expo+ pass to TC Disrupt 2023.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. He called Bhettay “an energetic and smart entrepreneur” who is building a strong team to go after a space that is ripe for disruption. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2015

In the Innovator’s Dilemma for SaaS Startups , I outlined the path of many software companies, which disrupt incumbents by first serving the small-to-medium business and then move up-market by transitioning to serve larger enterprises with outbound sales teams. This is the “traditional” way of disrupting.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The startup has already amassed dozens of exporters on its platform — despite the hands-on nature of this business, which as you can imagine, has been severely disrupted by the coronavirus. (The startup makes money by charging a licensing fee for its service to exporters.).

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

You have four — count ’em, just four — more days to take advantage of early-bird pricing on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Expand your knowledge in dozens of presentations — vote here for the Audience Choice breakout sessions and roundtable discussions you want to see at Disrupt!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital , a former entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. Veeva was a pioneer in “vertical SaaS” — software platforms that serve niche industries — which in recent years has become a popular category. Jeff Bussgang. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The account receivables automation startup is out to change how businesses manage the debt owed to them by their customers through its SaaS product, which automates the processes of reconciling incoming payments and invoices, a labor-intensive process that is still predominantly manual for most local companies. SMEs have a huge financing gap.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

. “Subscriptions are not dying; they are just evolving,” says Chargebee CMO Sanjay Manchanda, who notes that more than half of all SaaS companies plan to roll out usage-based billing by next year. Deena Shakir, partner Lux Capital. Felicis, Lux Capital and Upfront Ventures tackle TAM at Disrupt.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It’s when it feels like the New Thing has limitless upside, that “anything is possible and everything before will be disrupted” mindset. Investopedia So to suggest we’re in an AI Bubble is to say that the total enterprise value of AI that can/will be captured by private companies is less than the capital being invested into them right now.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Atlanta, Georgia has emerged as one of the buzziest new hubs in the nation, with booming enterprise, cybersecurity and SaaS sectors, as well as a slew of investors looking to back the hot new startups coming from the city. Some well-known companies from Atlanta include Calendly, Kabbage, One Trust and FullStory — all unicorns, by the way.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Even more likely is eventual technology disruption where drones deliver foods and make it hard for existing car delivery services to compete. ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Decades after Palo Alto’s first garage startup, talent and capital has become more evenly distributed: This year, Bay Area startups only attracted 27% of all U.S. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022. seed- and early-stage venture dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. What tech has our capital raised gone into? And here’s the thing.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Register CLASSUM , a South Korea-based B2B SaaS company that provides and interactive learning platform, has announced raising $11 million in its pre-Series B funding round. The funding round was anchored by Dunamu & Partners and participated by Silicon Valley-based Big Basin Capital and South Korean investor Pearl Abyss Capital.

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