TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

TrustLayer , which provides insurance brokers with risk management services via a SaaS platform, has raised $6.6 Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. million in a seed round.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. Second, the key systems of record in SaaS are already in place. We haven’t really seen a discontinuity of the magnitude SaaS presented to server/client, yet. Chat bots, too, are early.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Last quarter, UiPath grew its revenue by 39%, so “the company fits neatly into the high-growth SaaS bucket,” wrote Ron and Alex Wilhelm. Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Felicis Ventures partners share the four pillars of scaling a SaaS startup. Develop new products.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Ashley Bittner , founding partner, Firework Ventures (a future of work fund with portfolio companies LearnIn and TransfrVR). Jomayra Herrera , principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education). Andreata Muforo , partner, TLCom Capital (a generalist fund backing uLesson).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

With VCs pulling back on the reins, valuations slipping, and 2021’s hype fading, founders are finding themselves working harder to raise capital than they were in 2021, Alex Wilhelm found in his analysis of early data from DocSend. venture capital activity,” he writes. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The same filing listed the co-founders alongside Zola’s co-founder Shan-Lyn Ma, Addition Capital founder Lee Fixel, Campbell Soup Co. In other words, it may not appear as SaaS growth, but it could appear as value growth. Now, months later, Harry’s filed paperwork indicating that it has raised another nine-figure cash tranche.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

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. Families with money can access the banks, but you can’t launch a business without capital, and many owners lack that access to banks.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

The market for MLOps services could reach $4 billion by 2025, by one estimation , and includes startups like Databricks, DataRobot, Algorithmia and incumbents like Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. million in total venture capital. “The user only has to add a few lines of code.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

You have an initial product, and maybe even raised capital. a critical juncture of your venture’s life cycle, as a majority of startups have only one chance to make a strong first impression. You are ready to launch and thinking about the right go-to-market strategies that will lead to quick and scalable growth ? —?a

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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. Bill Trenchard, partner at First Round Capital, met Wynn while he was still with Sheltr. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

As these technologies proliferate in everyday life, we’ll witness the advent of the Internet of Payments …Together, sooner than you might think, the newcomers will unseat the incumbents. Now he’s putting his money where his mouth is and launching his own venture fund, called simply The Fintech Fund. The meteor is about to hit.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

In his Harvard Business School case study “Direct to Consumer Brands ,” Professor Sunil Gupta wrote, “Acquiring DTC brands is easy for incumbent conglomerates, but making them profitable is challenging. Beauty tech SaaS companies that are worth $5.2 Beauty tech is a better bet: Meitu and Perfect Corp. billion at IPO.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The B2B SaaS startup thus aims to become a command center for the finance and executive teams to see how a business is doing in real time and to be able to make necessary operational changes faster. Image Credits: Vareto. It’s a collaborative exercise with executives across the business who own the various inputs.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Replicant , one of the more prominent vendors in the call center automation space, today announced that it raised $78 million in Series B funding led by Stripes with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Omega, IronGrey, Norwest and Atomic. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

At TechCrunch Early Stage this month, we sat down with Felicis Ventures partners Viviana Faga and Niki Pezeshki to talk about scaling, product-market fit, and why it’s crucial to be “10x better” than the incumbents. Product-market fit. Startups must be able to demonstrate that they have users that love their product.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Since then the economy and capital markets have changed, and so it’s prudent that we adjust as well,” founder and CEO Chris Webb told TechCrunch via email. ChowNow has raised $64 million in venture capital to date, most recently a $21 million Series C round in 2019 led by 3L Capital and Catalyst Investors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

million in seed funding led by Homebrew, Golden Ventures and Inovia Capital. ResQ has now raised $9 million in known venture capital to date. The capital will primarily help ResQ double or triple its 60-person team across engineering, sales and operation roles. SaaS-enabled marketplace. ResQ product mock-up.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

By all accounts, the Utah-HQ’d company did everything the right way, was an overnight success 16 years in the making, and only raised venture capital as a growth company after years of bootstrapping. Of course, SAP or others could’ve made a run at Qualtrics earlier, and who knows – maybe folks had tried and failed.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. Finally, there’s Equity , TechCrunch’s long-running, Webby-award-winning podcast focused on venture capital and the latest startup news, hosted by Natasha , Mary Ann and Alex.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We But wait, there’s more. .” Will Holland resign?

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

billion that SoftBank had agreed to invest back in November of last year because he “wanted the capital to build our dream,” knowing “the world was about to get ugly.” . “I PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, New York–based venture capital Kora Capital, and London-based Clay Point led the round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But China and the United States are far from the only technology markets with developed startup and incumbent cohorts, strong venture capital activity, and capital markets able to translate early-stage ideas into public companies. China issue. The first data point that we need to consider is focus.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

With the Series C round — which also included checks from Index Ventures, Airbus Ventures, FM Capital and Exor, the holding company of Fiat-Chrysler and Ferrari — the company has now raised $185 million altogether. It’s also valued at north of $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. As a SaaS business, Pismo mostly makes money by charging transaction fees.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Connie Loizos sat down with Jason Green of leading enterprise-focused firm Emergence Capital to get his view of SPACs , and how they are likely to be used next year and beyond. How to price your SaaS product for a bottoms-up growth strategy. Mental health startups are raising spirits and venture capital. Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

The investors: Boaz Dinte , managing general partner, Qumra Capital. Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Sharin Fisher , partner, Fort Ross Ventures. Adi Levanon Chazan , partner, Flint Capital. Noam Kaiser , partner, Intel Capital. Boaz Dinte, Qumra Capital.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

healthcare system does not operate as a free marketplace with the type of open-competition that we often associate with capitalism. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Despite widespread belief to the contrary, the U.S. healthcare market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. The funding brings the total investment to date for Portland, Oregon-based Sila to $20 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Part of Mendel’s strategy is to attract customers with high payment volume and low credit risk, while at the same time charging a SaaS fee for the usage of their platform. It also plans to use its new capital to “invest heavily” in product development, including expansion into broader B2B payments, as well as toward marketing and awareness.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Raising capital for a new fund is always hard. In this exciting moment, when younger founders will likely receive more attention, capital and control than ever, it’s crucial to avoid certain pitfalls. The new capital came less than a year after Brex raised $150 million at a $2.9 Let’s break down the pros and cons.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. My colleague Rebecca Szkutak profiles Foley’s latest venture for TC+, called Ernesta. What’s the right NDR target for SaaS startups?

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