TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

The only unicorn born in Q1 was Egypt-based MNT-Halan, which in early February raised $260 million in equity financing at a $1billion valuation, Mary Ann and Christine report in their look back at the first quarter of the year. This is the first time that has happened since the end of 2016.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The personal finance company went public last year. The firm takes a very hands-on approach and aims to help its portfolio companies with hiring, thinking through distribution, building company culture, getting strategic partnerships and raising their next rounds. “We

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 16, 2025

Vlad isnt just your average founderhes a serial entrepreneur, investor, and someone whos spent over a decade building successful service companies and SaaS startups in SalesTech andMarTech. Were also working on refining our internal culture. As our team grows, its vital to ensure that everyone feels connected to our values and mission.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The early-stage investment fund’s vertical specialties span real estate, finance, insurance, and sustainability. Founder and Managing Partner Constance Freedman and Partner, Liza Benson , oversee the generalist venture capital and growth equity firm.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Startup culture is informal, which is why some workers end up with job titles like “customer delight manager” or “product whisperer.” 5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. 5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. Thanks very much for reading! Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Ubie , a Tokyo-based startup providing an AI-powered symptom checker app and hospital SaaS products, has closed a $19 million extension to its previous Series C round. The extension round consists of 90% equity and 10% debt financing, according to the co-founder and CEO of Ubie Kota Kuto. million in Series C. and opened a U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

This tends to foster a collaborative work culture, but it also makes it easier to pivot when needed, and the work is less ego-driven. Here come the single-digit SaaS multiples. SaaS startups have seen smooth sailing, but in this ongoing downturn, stormy weather is on the horizon. To win insurtech 2.0,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The company announced Friday $355 million in Series E financing to give Bolt an $11 billion valuation, according to sources close to the company. Checkout technology company Bolt continues to make quick work of attracting new capital. The company also says 100 million shoppers are poised to join the Bolt network over the next 18 months.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2022

The company said it will use the fresh funds to upgrade operational infrastructure, hire more local talents, strengthen its Multi Channel Network operations, improve digital management and research and development of SaaS systems, and improve its professional brand incubation ability.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Today, Truora describes itself as a SaaS startup that builds authentication and communication tools for Latin American startups, marketplaces, fintechs and banks. Truora also plans to use its fresh capital to do some hiring and insists that it wants to create a workplace culture “where women can thrive.” That March, it raised $3.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Unfortunately, some of the best salespeople are often deterred from the profession because of sales culture. Sales leaders need to create a culture of success for all salespeople regardless of background. The reality is that many go-to-market (GTM) plans are shifting to product-led growth (PLG).

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Ethena is a SaaS startup building modern compliance training. And while I passed on leading their seed, I did contribute a smaller amount into the financing, along with three subsequent pro rata/super pro rata investments. Now, the situation here that enabled such a frank discussion is a bit atypical.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

Hiring continues to be one of the hardest parts of building a startup, and those early employees can define the trajectory, culture and eventual success of it. We got into two different businesses and their approaches on how to serve farm robots, from SaaS leases to selling the robots one by one.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

2/ Luxury Productivity SaaS: Another benefit to entrepreneurs of “prosumer being the new consumer” is that these customers have a willingness to pay for better software products. 4/ Competitive Financings: As is the case with most breakouts, there was a competitive financing for the company in 2019, ultimately led by a16z.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

It is now enabling financing for over 2,500 businesses in the U.S. One of the areas where Murata says Slope is differentiating itself from other financial providers is its focus on a developer-centric approach, where others are taking a finance-centric approach, and “integration and underwriting have been so bad as a result,” he added.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Buying yet another SaaS tool or consultant service may feel like a nice to have, versus a need to have, depending on how good Continuum’s sales team is. “We’re We’re talking about a very marginal cost to be able to maintain your brand, your reputation and your going-forward culture,” Church said. “If

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Notably, Y Combinator also participated in the financing. The company describes itself as building out financial services and digital payments infrastructure “in which the next generation of Southeast Asian SaaS companies can be built on top of,” or put more simply, it aspires to be the Stripe of Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At the same time, Kunkolienkar was running a Lambda School for India, but realizing that “the financing and collections infrastructure in India isn’t evolved enough to run ISAs at scale.” Stoa has partnerships that allow it to offer EMI-based financing options, in which students can pay on a monthly basis.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Assess Your Professional Skills: Take an inventory of existing skills that can be used when starting up a business apply to a startup that includes sales, marketing, operations, financing, human resources, hiring, communication networking, problem-solving, and more. Seek out financial advice because it takes time to improve a score.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

billion, only slightly below the $10 billion implied valuation from the Indian startup’s previous financing round in 2019. But some of its missteps — “toxic culture,” lapse in governance and relationship with many hotel owners — have scarred its growth. The investment confirms a TechCrunch scoop from last month. in recent years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

The process took weeks and the GM had to create a purchase order and get it approved by the finance team first. But he expects that the proportion of SaaS revenue and “other revenue lines” will grow over time. The product also gives finance teams real-time visibility into where spend is happening, Dubugras says.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Independent sponsors (groups seeking to acquire a company which do not have the equity financing needed in advance) earn nothing upfront, but earn 20% of the deals they facilitate. Similarly, certain Revenue-Based Finance investors (e.g., New York-based “culture-tech” venture investment firm. SHL Capital (Sahil Lavingia).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. Revenue growth is good, but revenue growth with top-tier SaaS metrics is god-tier. “This helps build a meritocratic and less bureaucratic culture, and ensures our team reaps the benefits commensurate with their work product,” he says. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Launching a product in a foreign market where you’re unfamiliar with the language and culture is a necessary step for growing companies, “but the barriers to entry are high” in Japan, Birrmacher notes, which is why building community was foundational to their expansion. . Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Founded out of London in 2019, Ben is a SaaS platform that offers core employment benefits such as life insurance, health, and pension, as well as more lifestyle-based nice-to-haves such as gym memberships and work-from-home allowances. . ” Retention. valuation last December ; and Gympass, which most recently hit a $2.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Laiye’s Series C financing came in three tranches, with the last one to have recently closed at $70 million, an oversubscribed round led by influential Chinese private equity firm Hopu Magnolia. Wang also saw a strong “cultural alignment” between his business and the French startup led by a team of young founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

Is it suffering from cultural dissonance between its high-growth model and more conservative European investors? Bring CISOs into the C-suite to bake cybersecurity into company culture. Bring CISOs into the C-suite to bake cybersecurity into company culture. What to make of Deliveroo’s rough IPO debut.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This has led to some very competitive financing rounds, which from afar is a signal various groups see the market potential of these models. These are examples of high-growth B2B marketplaces that earned competitive financing rounds — of course, there are others, these are not the only ones!

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Teknobuilt, a UK-Canada-based startup with innovative technologies in digital program management, construction workflow automation, and SaaS platform services for AI-based project delivery, participated in KSGC 2020. South Korea is the best country among the other countries in Asia because there’s no cultural barrier here.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

He works as an Evangelist at Dextego , building AI Coaching as a SaaS, defining the future of work. The idea behind it was brilliant, with crowdsourcing funds democratizing access to financing and developing fractional ownership. He identifies as a POC and ESL First Generation Immigrant. He is a trained Crisis Text Line Counselor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

“I believe knowledge is power, and my mission is to change the way companies work by creating a data-driven culture that is accessible to everyone. Its financing reflects this — the company today announced that it closed a $600 million Series F round at a $5.6 billion).

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Haystack

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A few years ago, during a YC cohort (before Demo Day), a few sources told me about a SaaS founder in the batch who was on a mission. I am not surprised that today, he is making a big announcement for the company’s new financing round — People.ai Oleg is a learning machine. No slide deck was needed for the introduction.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Combine that with an ongoing rental car shortage and a cultural zeitgeist that’s embracing all things electric, and UFODrive has got itself a potentially winning product-market fit. . While that number has dropped in recent weeks , it’s still cresting the national average. UFODrive’s U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Toward the end of 2022, a number of entrepreneurs, some citing Elon Musk, told me that they’re bringing back an in-person work culture in the following year to help promote productivity and, in some cases, loyalty. What do recent changes to state taxes mean for US SaaS startups? To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

You need to get straight to the beating heart of the business, understand the culture, involve the right people — and be comfortable telling founders and exec teams things they don’t always want to hear. For instance, in health and finance, credibility and trust are critical.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

4 ways to make DEI a key component of customer service and culture. Joyce Lee, Alorica’s chief culture officer, shares four actionable steps companies can take to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce: Start with an inclusive onboarding process. 4 ways to make DEI a key component of customer service and culture.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Developed a SaaS-based white-label web3 platform that opens revenue streams and strengthens community engagement. On Howly, you gain 24/7 access to thousands of experts in various areas – from finance to household appliances repair.” 17+ years in Finance and Media & Entertainment, with a special emphasis on Ticketing.

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