TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

The company touts itself as “the first charge card for e-commerce” with raised limits that are on average 10 to 20 times higher than traditional business credit cards, like CapitalOne, American Express and Brex. The company focuses on the middle market — companies doing $3 million to $100 million in annual sales.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 26, 2021

He also highlights Brex’s newly launched venture debt offering. Brex is a YC portfolio company that provides an all-in-one finance solution to their customers. With Brex’s new offering, they have plans to make the venture debt process simple and transparent. What is Venture Debt?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. Over the past four years, it’s updated the list to reflect the current status of its most valued companies. What this means is that more companies, particularly outside the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Companies that have partnered with TC Early Stage include Brex , FlashCloud Intelligence , FYELABS , Justworks , Otter.ai , Prepare 4 VC , Remote , Sophi , Tonik , Torc , Vanta and Zeni. Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at TechCrunch Early Stage? Buy your ticket today — student tickets start at just $99!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Notably, workforce platform unicorn Rippling recently entered the corporate management space, making it a direct competitor with Brex. Hello, hello. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Here’s a rundown of some others: Remote payroll startup Deel acquired fintech Capbase for an undisclosed amount in a cash and stock deal, the companies shared with me exclusively.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Earlier this year, Brex reached decacorn status with a $300 million raise. Especially when Blond was reportedly one of the company’s first 20 employees. Let’s goooo!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Many big companies in the fintech world cut jobs in the past month. The Stripe news closely follows Chime confirming this week that 12% of its employees would be laid off and Brex revealing last month that it was cutting 11% of its workforce. What resulted was “a lack of discipline around company fundamentals,” she added.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

major players include Brex, Ramp, Airbase and now, TripActions. I have talked at great length with the founders of Brex and Ramp in the past, as well as the individual in charge of that segment within TripActions. The company also plans to expand its offering to include more features. , sign up here. Here in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. It claims that by using Signal, companies can “unlock instant ACH.” Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

Fintech has fallen a long way from the highs of 2021, and while 2022 was largely about the reset of the funding environment, 2023 is going to be a year of recalibration for fintech companies. The great news is that large enterprise and midmarket companies care more than ever about bottom-line impact. What’s hot.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

The startup, which provides corporate cards to Mexican companies, raised funds earlier this year when it was busy launching its product. Since then, growth has proven rapid for the Mexico City-based company. The short gist is that the company’s growth, and market, allowed it to raise easily.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

When the SEC announced that it planned to require companies under its purview to disclose their climate-related risks and emissions, plenty of companies started publicly clutching their pearls. No surprise there: Companies strike a similar tone every time a new regulation is proposed. The company is announcing a $2.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It’s not disclosing its valuation but sources close to the company tell me it is now in the region of $800 million. . “W e are focusing on e-commerce companies,” El-Sabini said. “However marketing is an important function in all e-commerce companies.” It didn’t give actual customer numbers.)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With a two-pronged approach, Evergrow aims to be the world’s first dedicated carbon offtake company — rapidly funding climate developer projects and initiating long-term offtake agreements for these projects. Evergrow believes that these companies are signals for market readiness, not necessarily direct competitors. . “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Pave, a San Francisco-based startup that helps companies benchmark, plan and communicate compensation to their employees, has raised a $46 million Series B. Pave launched with an ambitious goal: Can it measure pay across venture-backed tech companies in real time, and help startups move their comp table off of spreadsheets?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

A few months ago , it looked like all the pieces had fallen into place for a hot secondaries summer: Buyers were coming back to market, some companies and sellers were getting desperate, and the bid-ask spread — the difference of what buyers are willing to pay and the price sellers are setting — was tightening.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Han, who was a product manager at Slack, also worked at Brex the same time that her sister was a technical recruiter there and heard about the pain points. million in funding, led by Accel, that included Webb Investment Network, some of Han’s former leaders at Brex and a Zoom product lead. Its co-founders are from Dropbox and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The round and deal were announced just a week after competitor Brex shared news of its own acquisition — the $50 million purchase of Israeli fintech startup Weav. That deal was made after Brex’s founders invested in Weav, which offers a “universal API for commerce platforms.” Earning more by spending less.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

And we have five more for you: Brex expands into travel : Mary Ann reports that Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel. Romain writes that this new feature, called Issuing, “represents a business opportunity for fintech companies. Come join us !

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Not every company is struggling in this downturn. The feat would be impressive in normal times, but is particularly so when tech companies — big and small — are laying off, freezing hiring and/or reporting slowing growth. It also saw a more than 50% increase in mid-market customers, and about a 22% bump in SMB clients.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

People leave jobs for all kinds of reasons, but when it’s a CFO departing a richly valued company as the company itself conducts layoffs, the exodus can be a sign of a larger issue. He also introduced me to the idea of zombie companies, which I appreciated as it is officially spooky season and we love a festive framework.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As Series Cs can be considered the first “late” startup stage, companies looking to raise the particular tranche appear to be running into backwash from the public markets, where tech valuations have come down sharply and IPOs are moribund at best. However, further data focused on the U.S. Recent data is even more dismal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

Along with pretty much every other corner of the startup world, YC was also affected by Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse: 30% of companies are exposed through SVB and are at risk of not being able to make payroll, he tweeted Saturday. And it seems like it’s been an eventful onboarding process thus far.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Thanks to Brex data shared with SaaSletter , we can get a bit more granular. Regardless of our inability to note an incipient bank run, the dataset formed an interesting conclusion in our minds: Startups were failing, at least in the United States, to truly reduce their burn rates. New data paints a slightly more nuanced picture.

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Y Combinator

JULY 21, 2023

Brex’s co-founders originally wanted to build a VR headset. It turns out many of the billion dollar companies you know and love today pivoted on the way to getting there, and that’s what the first episode of our newest video series Office Hours is about. Instagram was a Foursquare competitor. Slack was a game.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. companies “gaining attention and recruiting top talent.” Here’s what I found out: Seven fintech companies ranked in the top 50: Brex (No. Brex is 100% remote.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

From our previous episodes, you might remember that the digital mortgage company began performing layoffs in December, and not in the most empathetic of ways. What am I worth, part 1 : That’s a difficult question right now as the market makes corrections and companies make their own corrections vis a vis their valuations.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The first is on some former Googlers rallying around their peer Caesar Sengupta, who raised $90 million to scale Arta Finance, a company that will provide individuals similar access to alternative assets that are usually reserved for the ultrawealthy. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Less than five months after raising $115 million, spend management startup Ramp announced today it has raised $300 million in a Series C round of funding that values the company at $3.9 Indeed, such big growth numbers are more commonly seen in the very early stages of a company, and tend to lessen over time as a company matures. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

The company’s eventual selling price looks like it will be a fraction’s fraction of its once great worth. Foxconn is investing more in India , underscoring how critical it is for major electronics supply chain companies to diversify out of China — and the immense costs involved.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

At least that’s what Teampay CEO Andrew Hoag has done with his company’s new $5 million investment, adding it onto its September, 2019-era Series A. TechCrunch covered that round , and the company’s $4 million seed round in 2018 , keeping tabs on the corporate spend-management company as it grows.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Venture history purists could argue that Ramp’s new raise was the company’s Series B — the second priced round after its seed — or that it is really a Series C, as the startup’s seed round was as big as a 2000s-era A and was also a priced event. Ramp did not need the funds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Many companies are struggling to get funding these days in an increasingly tight investment environment. Company co-founder and CEO Barry McCardel says he wasn’t looking for funding when Sequoia came knocking on his door. We weren’t raising, and didn’t need the money — we hadn’t touched a dime of the last round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The corporate spend market is also a notable startup battleground, with Airbase competing with other well-known firms, including Brex ( which most recently raised $300 million ), Ramp ( $200 million in its most recent round ) and Divvy ( sold to Bill.com for $2.5 TechCrunch’s Mary Ann Azevedo has more here.).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Corporate spend and cash management company Rho today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group. With a sweet spot for companies with 30 to 500 employees, Rho sees SMBs looking for frictionless workflows across banking, cards and accounts payable.

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