TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

-based maker of cap table management software aims to solve that same problem and has so far raised $10 million toward that end led by the payments company Stripe, with participation from Caffeinated Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC and numerous angel investors. YW: We’re currently focused on founders rather than investors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. Charles Gorra, founder and CEO of Rebag, declined to talk about valuation, but did say it was “a steep evolution from the last time.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech needs to reach beyond underfunded public school systems to become more sustainable, which is why more investors and founders are focusing on lifelong learning. John Danner , managing partner, Dunce Capital (an edtech and future of work fund with portfolio companies Lambda School and Outschool).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Its digitally-native approach can save pet parents up to $750 a year on healthcare expenses, Zubin Bhettay, co-founder and CEO of Fuzzy, told TechCrunch. In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.

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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. It’s certainly not slowed down.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

4-year founder vesting is dead. For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index. Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

David Friend is a serial entrepreneur, six-time founder, and the current co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company, Wasabi Technologies. Even if you’re growing quickly, not all founders want to set a valuation for their company. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works. Startups often fall into the trap of writing off incumbents as too big to act, too clueless to know what customers want and too incompetent to deliver good products. That’s a convenient story, but it often isn’t completely true.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? Or that venture capital is a meritocracy? I don’t have enough traction.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. For starters – the co-founder of Clutter.io, Ari Mir, is a friend and 6 years ago I backed the first startup he co-founded with Ophir Tanz , GumGum. ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents. Congratulations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Colle, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, and Max Levchin’s SciFi VC — as well as more than a dozen angels including founders of Plaid, Flexport, Marqeta, Bread, Albert, Addi, Lithic, and other fintech and logistics startups — also put money in the round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Realizing that modern, complex businesses can no longer be adequately managed using spreadsheet-style programs, the founders of Pigment decided there had to be a better solution. million, led by Blossom Capital. Their business forecasting platform has now raised a substantial Series A of $25.9

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Many individual grocers offered their own delivery during the global pandemic, in addition to the delivery incumbents Instacart, PC Express, Inabuggy, DoorDash and Uber Eats. Heartland led the seed round and was joined by Global Founders Capital, FJ Labs and Redbox Ventures.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. Maple is based in San Francisco, but focuses on investing in founders with Canadian roots. Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

PostEx co-founder and CEO Omer Khan told TechCrunch that according to the World Bank, about 100 million adults in Pakistan don’t have a bank account. As a result, businesses have limited access to working capital and lack adequate cash flow. It has raised $8.6 It’s refreshing to see new solutions to old problems.”

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elevator pitch. Founder: “$8–10 million” VC: “What’s your current burn rate?” Founder: “$250k / month.” Founder: “Um. Why are you raising so much?” Let me check my plan.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo. This is a problem the company’s founders experienced firsthand in previous roles, and are eager to solve by creating a new payments infrastructure. “We incumbents. “It

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The round was led by an unnamed party, but round participants included Accel, Lakestar, HV Capital, Project A and Scania. Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. Digital freight forwarder Forto raises another $50M in round led by Inven Capital.

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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

JUNE 9, 2022

Klar experienced a “7x” year-over-year increase in revenue and 4x bump in transaction volume over the same time period, according to Klar co-founder and CEO Stefan Möller. Prosus Ventures, Quona Capital, Mouro, IFC, Acrew and Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the round. I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. Several high-profile angel investors were also involved, including Scott Banister, one of the co-founders of PayPal, and Jeff Hammerbacher, a Cloudera founding employee. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure). So what does Together bring to the table?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Its backers include institutions such as Lone Pine Capital, Warburg Pincus and The Rise Fund, as well as U2’s Bono and NBA player Russell Westbrook. I caught up with Colin Walsh, the company’s chief executive and founder, to get an update. CEO and founder Colin Walsh. billion at the time of its last raise in 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

The SEC’s current agenda — a public list of the regulations the agency is considering — contains proposals that will increase barriers to capital for companies and funds, constrain investor access and potentially push more companies from private to public. In short, the SEC’s actions could slow one of our greatest engines of innovation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

CEO and co-founder Eugene Danilkis said it will be using the money to expand deeper in the 50 markets where it is already active, as well as focus more on specific regions like South America and Asia. The funding gives Mambu a post-money valuation of €1.7 billion (just over $2 billion at today’s rates), the company has confirmed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Bain Capital Ventures led the seed round alongside South Park Commons, Core Innovation Capital, and Operator Partners. Some prominent angel investors also participated in the round, including Opendoor founder Eric Wu and former Wealthfront CEO Adam Nash. Column Tax co-founders Gavin Nachbar and Michael Bock.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Founder and CEO Nash Ahmed wouldn’t go into too much detail about the technology that allows Undock to accomplish this. The startup recently closed a $1.6

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Dream It

MAY 13, 2020

However, deals are still getting done and VCs still have a mandate to deploy capital. “ Paul Martino, General Partner at Bullpen Capital, gave founders good advice on this during a recent discussion with Dreamit. It’s not a good position to be in for founders entering into a recession. Terms are changing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The Long Island-based company was founded in 2019 by Hungryroot co-founder Gregory Harry Struck after he adopted a plant-based diet while battling cancer. “It Joining Lerer Hippeau in the investment are Siddhi Capital, Idea Farm Ventures, Simple Food Ventures, Animal Capital and American Pie executive Alan Mitzner.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there were lofty claims that everything about the industry was about to change. ” Venture capitalists noticed, and startups closed large rounds of capital. Founders pitched carriers a tech-forward relationship with the customer, focusing on:

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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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