TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. ” Pando makes a best effort to automate processes around the supply chain.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The company claims to be the first supermarket in Mexico with no physical store that enables customers to buy groceries directly from its website, or an app, and Jüsto will deliver the order to the customer’s location of choice. Meanwhile, the online grocery industry in the U.S. is poised to be a $187.7 billion industry by 2024, up from $95.8

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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. The company’s “big focus is continuing the vision of transforming healthcare,” said Sid Viswanathan, president and co-founder of Truepill.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance.

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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. Register Equatorial Space Systems, a Singapore-based rocket propulsion and space launch startup, has raised US$1.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Justin Da Rosa.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million Series A investment in June from a group of investors that includes Archer-Daniels-Midland Company’s venture arm ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Genoa Ventures, Lever VC, Thia Ventures, iSelect Fund, Stage 1 Fund, Lifely VC and Satori Capital. The move is buoyed by a $17.5 The move is buoyed by a $17.5

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The funding was led by QED Investors with participation from returning investors Geodesic Capital, Allegis Capital, Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. Investor confidence in Kin continues to climb due to its unique business strategy and market focus, which have produced systematic, capital efficient growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Marco was backed last September by a small seed round from Struck Capital and Antler and over $20 million in a credit facility underwritten by Arcadia Funds.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Popularized by Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert, the invention wasn’t all that complicated: issue bonds with very high interest rates and correspondingly high risk, and use that capital to finance the wholesale acquisition of mismanaged, inefficient, and sclerotic companies. billion, against almost $2.8

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Mubadala Capital led the $100 million equity round, with previous backers EQT Ventures , Felix Capital , Cherry Ventures and Partners of DST Global also participating. Meanwhile, the $106 million in debt funding — which Juni will use to fuel its credit products — is coming from TriplePoint Capital. ” .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The investment came from a long list of VCs and angel investors. VCs include WndrCo, DN Capital, Kismet Capital, Spike Ventures, Quiet Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, FJ Labs, VentureSouq, Nellore Capital and Moving Capital. He founded Yassir with Mahdi Yettou in 2017.

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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 billion valuation.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When it comes to purchasing AI solutions specifically, some organizations have a predisposition to buying from larger incumbents, so be sure to have a crisp value proposition for why they should partner with a startup over a larger incumbent with whom they’re already working.

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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. In another win for Alation, the investment from Databricks Ventures is strategic, Sangani says.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

Market : how to compete with incumbents? Startups have negative time to launch in many markets with Adobe, Microsoft, & Salesforce launching Gen AI enabled software in weeks. It’s likely startups start at plug-ins & then move down with scale that affords more usage & more capital to invest.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2022

This Series C is being led by D2 Investments, a new investment fund with LPs from the U.S. and United Emirates; and existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Pitango, D1 Capital, Atreides Management, and Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services are also participating.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

Register Komunal has announced that it secured new investments amounting to $8.5 It was also participated by AlphaTrio Sustainable Technology Fund, Skystar Capital, Sovereign’s Capital, Ozora, and Gobi Partners. Fintech help SMEs manage their finances and capital with convenience and efficiency.

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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

MAY 25, 2022

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. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

First the company, formerly known as Clara Foods, secured a deal in April with BioBrew , an investment of AB InBev’s investment arm, ZX Ventures, to brew its animal-free protein at scale. The investment was co-led by new investor, McWin, and existing investor, Rage Capital. million in seed funding. Europe and Asia.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

PV Boccasam is a partner at Cota Capital. But despite the growing risk of regulation of the software industry, the capital markets continue to reward digital companies, including the larger companies that are under constant scrutiny regarding antitrust claims and consumer privacy. PV Boccasam. Contributor. fintech) software solutions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Founded in September 2020, the New York-based company – which was previously named Unlock – said it uses data science to “ identify, underwrite and close transactions 10x faster than incumbents.” ” It describes itself as a “managed marketplace.” commercial real estate value.

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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. million in debt — led by NGP Capital with participation from Team8 Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners. million in equity and $19.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The round led by 4DX Ventures saw participation from Darwazah Capital, Golden Palm Investments, P1 Ventures and some angel investors from sports and entertainment profession, the company said. . Eksab stated that it intends to use this investment to scale its user base across MENA and Africa. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Lunar has a full banking license (setting it apart from a number of other neobanks, which operate on other banks’ rails), and it offers checking and deposit accounts; loans and other credit services like buy now, pay later; stock, fund and ETF investing for consumers; plus business accounts, loans and financial management for SMBs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Other investments will include improving customer service and bringing in more talent. ” The funding is being led by Left Lane Capital, with Finistere Ventures, Comcast Ventures, OurCrowd, Origin Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Joe Mansueto — all previous backers — also participating. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added. “As many businesses are coming out of the pandemic with a new affinity for hybrid and remote work, modern technologies that can best enable the secure and efficient delivery and management of digital workspaces are in high demand.”

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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. ” In other news.

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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. Some include U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

. “Now was the time to raise the capital and use it to drive our expansion,” De Gruchy said. “I set out to answer that problem and defeat the incumbent solution — the clipboard — and that’s the seed that became Infogrid today.” This brings value far greater than even the cash.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

-based last-mile delivery provider, has raised £4 million in funding, as it looks to invest in its product off the back of 300% revenue growth during the last 12 months. Leading the round is pan-European B2B investor Nauta Capital. I don’t see how the incumbent U.K. Getting a toothbrush to you in 15 minutes is great.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Prior to starting Orum, Viswanathan headed engineering at Affinity, a “relationship intelligence” platform focused on investment banking and private equity firms. “ Orum enables teams to make hundreds of calls in just minutes, while helping automate lead data and improve it over time.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In one development of that theme, today, Taptap Send — one of the startups building tools to manage these money transfers — is announcing $65 million in growth funding as it continues its mission to enable remittances specifically to the most overlooked countries.

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