TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Telemedicine, the standout offering, witnessed massive adoption during the pandemic, and in the last five years, no other service has been launched more by healthtech startups. These startups digitize the supply chain and distribution to providers. However, a particular segment has achieved scale faster within the past year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,”

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. Early success: Foundations built on product and community.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. Community meets product. As TechCrunch wrote last year, in many ways, the chief community officer is the new chief marketing officer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Community-led growth (CLG) has emerged as a popular mechanism for driving business, as companies strive to foster an ecosystem of fervent users that draws in new customers organically, serves as a support network for millions and bangs a company’s drum completely off its own volition. Eagle Eye app. I mage Credits: Crowd.dev.

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Dream It

JULY 24, 2020

This presents a huge opportunity for startups. As a startup, you may be ahead of the market with a next-generation product. Build credibility with peers The security community is a tight-knight one. Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. This is your opportunity to highlight it for them.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

So it also didn’t surprise anyone that this reduction would trickle down into other regions; for instance, eight startups in Africa got into the accelerator this summer compared to 24 from the previous batch , representing a 60% reduction. Therefore, it is plausible that being an in-person event has led to fewer African startups.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

Hunter Walk: Textio , the startup you founded and CEO’ed until a few months ago, is almost 10 years old. A recent essay covered the ‘AI gold rush’ and as it related to startups operating in this area, very much ‘caution ahead’ in terms of building a sustainable, differentiated business. As I see it, startups have two major advantages.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. It is about building and recreating communities. Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. Older adults have so much to offer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The banks and incumbents take advantage of that and make people feel like they’re not smart enough to manage their money. Flink has also built a community around the product so that people can share ideas and try to help each other, including a Facebook group made up of more than 35,000 people. . We need to educate on a basic level.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Eddie Thai , general partner, 500 Startups and general partner, Ascend Vietnam Ventures. Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different. In our view it’s key to embrace a crypto native approach of building and experimenting with the product while also involving your community in the process.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

As part of the Insights from the Field campaign, I wanted to hear from other ecosystem builders in the field about their approaches to DEI, and hopefully identify specific techniques that they’ve incorporated in their communities. Building Entrepreneurship Ecosystems in Communities of Color. It’s not an afterthought.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Keyway , a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of a $15 million equity raise. EasyKnock, a startup that buys homes and rents them back to sellers, recently raised $57.2 million in Series C funding. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

That’s the problem that startup TomoCredit is trying to solve. That fall, the startup (short for Tomorrow’s Credit) was accepted into the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars. TomoCredit is a credit card that operates with a debit card model that is issued by Community Federal Savings Bank, a member of the FDIC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

According to one source, generative AI startups raised $1.7 There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. As for Re, he’s co-founded various startups, including SambaNova , which builds hardware and integrated systems for AI. billion in Q1 2023, with an additional $10.68

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

According to one recent survey (from MLOps Community), 84.3% 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. “The user only has to add a few lines of code.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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. When Zeszut was putting the company together, she reached out about getting involved. The Naked Market flashes some new capital to create better-for-you food brands.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. There are a number of startups tapping into this major trend of pets to capture that household spend in the areas of healthcare, insurance and food. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Right now this care is antiquated and run by incumbents, many of which still run off paper and Excel. We are now seeing a new wave of startups turn up to tackle this space by applying Apple’s age-old model of owning the experience end-to-end and running everything on a platform. startup Lifted , which has now raised $6.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

With fans of various sports including football, becoming increasingly interested in virtual versions of their favorite sports, startups from these regions are satisfying their cravings by providing fantasy sports platforms. Eksab takes a percentage of all the fees paid on the platform, especially on premium contests and merchandise.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

This includes long-established incumbents such as Unity, developed by tech powerhouse Unity Software, which is currently in the process of merging with IronSource. ” On top of that, having one of Red Hat’s original founders on board as an investor can only be construed as a major coup for a startup that is just eight months old.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“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.”. The company has amassed a community of 4,000 members that help Immi with rapid taste testing. “We billion of value in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Today we have a few angles on the startup market. Risk-on, risk-off : The startup fundraising game is in flux at the moment, with some investors putting capital to work in companies that have yet to fully form, as the public market takes body blows and earnings disappoint. Startups/VC. PST, subscribe here. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Previously relegated to underground communities and rave culture, drugs like ketamine, MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and psilocybin are now being studied to develop therapies to treat everything from PTSD to cluster headaches. Can you talk about the impact of the pandemic on market prospects for psychedelic startups?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

earned new investment as it strives to topple incumbents like Coinbase. Buy your pass today, and then join the web3, DeFi and NFT communities to keep up with the ever-evolving and always exciting cryptoverse. The company has continued to diversify its offerings and scour for new markets. Competitors have also been taking notice.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the many ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. Welcome to my new weekly fintech-focused column. It’s an incredible time to be a financial technology journalist. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Welcome Tech , a startup aiming to build “an operating system” for immigrant families in the U.S., ” So in its first years of existence, Welcome Tech focused on providing educational resources, information and services for immigrant populations, with an initial primary focus on the Hispanic community in the U.S. the company says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The three-year-old startup is today announcing its first institutional funding, securing a $11 million seed tranche from a slew of backers including lead investor Aleph , an early-stage VC firm that has previously backed the likes of WeWork , Lemonade , and Houseparty. So what, exactly, is Daily.dev hoping to bring to the mix?

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a sign that national security tech is a safe bet even during troubled economic times, defense- and security-focused VC firm Razor’s Edge Ventures today announced the closing of its third startup investment fund at just under $340 million. maintain “technological superiority.” In the U.S.,

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Startups fail when they run out of money. Startups run out of money when they lack focus. Without a maniacal focus on serving customer needs in a unique way, startups can flounder amidst competition. That’s why it’s critical to identify and focus on your startup’s competitive advantage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Given a large number of startups will not generate a profit near and are cash-flow negative in the near term, they will have to raise more capital in a difficult environment.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Pinduoduo, on the other hand, has tried to mimic the offline shopping experience online by building community via their team purchase model, driving engagement via fun and interactive games and rewards, and offering personalized experiences and value via recommendations. Creating Community via Team Purchase.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

She had previously served as the London-based fintech startup’s CFO and COO for about 18 months before her promotion. payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. While we’ve grown a lot in APAC and EMEA, the U.S.

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