Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

They use pricing as an offensive tool to reinforce their product’s value and underscore the company’s core marketing message. Price low to minimize adoption friction, grow quickly, and then move up-market after developing broad adoption. The very best companies lead their customers in that dance.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Sila announced Monday it raised $13 million in Series A funding for its banking and payment platform that gives software teams tools to build the next generation of financial products and services. He saw a need for financial application development, but was hindered by a banking system “still stuck in the 20th century.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

With that venture, he aimed to challenge traditional banking yet again by bringing personalized financial tools to gamers. That common platform is (obviously) Ant Money. Gleason describes the startup as “a comprehensive, larger vision which now involves three apps and a platform.” Image Credits: Walter Cruttenden / Ant Money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Daily , the makers of a developer platform for real-time audio and video, has been booming in recent months — in part, due to the pandemic’s impact on remote work, virtual events, telehealth and more. million for a productive virtual HQ platform. Teamflow lands $3.9 Image Credits: Daily website.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Weav , which is building a universal API for commerce platforms, is emerging from stealth today with $4.3 Its products allow its customers to connect to multiple platforms with a single API that was developed specifically for the commerce platforms that businesses use to sell products and accept payments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Amplify was another payment platform that launched during that period. However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. Adeyemi launched the fintech with Olamide Sobowale and Gbekeloluwa Olufotebi.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Bubbles , a startup that pitches its platform as the “anti-Zoom” for video messaging, today announced that it closed an $8.5 Co-founder and CEO Tom Medema said the money will be used to further develop Bubbles’ platform while ramping up the company’s customer acquisition efforts. . .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With its API, developers can connect apps to financial accounts. These companies provide engineering and developer tools that reduce the technical and operational effort needed for apps to connect to their users’ financial accounts. Like most API fintech startups, Stitch charges developers and companies per API call.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

With so many apps and tools out there to try, most companies ask you to fill out a standard form and then create a username and password. The interactive demo company, which launched to the public today, is making it easier for companies to create demonstration videos, called “arcades,” that walk people through how their tools work.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

. “We found it counterintuitive that billing tools often constrain and dictate what teams can try out,” Morales told TechCrunch in an email interview. Within the platform, users can model out alternative pricing plans and orchestrate changes in real time, drawing on product usage insights to find revenue opportunities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Yuma’s platform provides ChatGPT-like AI systems that integrate with help desk software, suggesting drafts of replies to customer tickets that are both “relevant and customized to the support agents” (in theory). . “That’s when I knew I was onto something and had to turn this into a real company, once again.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Vectary , a design platform for 3D and augmented reality (AR), has raised a $7.3 Tokyo-based virtual reality game developer Thirdverse gets $8.5 The complexity of using and sharing content created by traditional 3D design tools has been a barrier to the adoption of 3D, which is what Vectary addresses. million Series A.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Now, three alums that worked with data in the world of Big Tech have founded a startup that aims to build a “metrics store” so that the rest of the enterprise world — much of which lacks the resources to build tools like this from scratch — can easily use metrics to figure things out like this, too.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In 2020, Ketch introduced its data control platform for programmatic privacy, governance and security. The platform automates data control and consent management so that consumers’ privacy preferences are honored and implemented. Ketch raises $23M to automate privacy and data compliance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Maintaining source code is one of the toughest challenges that software developers face. In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph, 51% of developers said that they have more than 100 times the volume of code they had ten years ago while 92% say the pressure to release software faster has increased. It’s an acute problem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Accord , a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. DealPoint , Sales Hacker ) to develop similar sales orchestration offerings.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 30, 2024

The finalists are: Brite-Liter, founded by Benjamin Kranz (Hughesville, PA): Brite-Liter introduces a revolutionary tool to enhance literacy retention without the use of blue-light emitting screens. After rigorous evaluation, six outstanding contenders have emerged, each presenting groundbreaking solutions in diverse fields.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 14, 2024

Operating as a marketplace platform, Roambler bridges the gap between service providers and consumers in the peer-to-peer web-based economy, streamlining transactions, managing payments, and offering essential communication tools.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Most companies have already integrated software development and IT operations into a cohesive and efficient DevOps lifecycle. Embed cyber awareness into company culture. It’s a set of practices, steps and tools that come together to create a better environment in the whole company. No one type can discover all the issues.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

That’s the product Backbone , the startup Patil helped to cofound, is selling: a platform designed to enable companies to respond to supply chain disruptions by surfacing replacement options, including vendors. ” Building a supply chain backbone. . ” Building a supply chain backbone. . ” Potential customers.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 30, 2024

The finalists are: Brite-Liter, founded by Benjamin Kranz (Hughesville, PA): Brite-Liter introduces a revolutionary tool to enhance literacy retention without the use of blue-light emitting screens. After rigorous evaluation, six outstanding contenders have emerged, each presenting groundbreaking solutions in diverse fields.

peer-to-peer 52

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 14, 2024

Operating as a marketplace platform, Roambler bridges the gap between service providers and consumers in the peer-to-peer web-based economy, streamlining transactions, managing payments, and offering essential communication tools.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 14, 2022

AWI is a venture fund backed by ADQ’s venture platform, DisruptAD and is managed by Alpha Wave Global. 100ms platform brings real-life interactions to the virtual platforms by offering developer tooling for live video. . Our belief is, going forward all companies will embed video experiences into their apps.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 24, 2022

Bayesian statistical analysis has emerged as the most common tool to analyze that data, but it is a challenging concept to learn. Bayesic Technologies developed easy-to-use software to conduct Bayesian statistical analyses that puts “analysis at your fingertips” with a point-and-click option to learn complicated programming code.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 20, 2024

The entrepreneurs pitching their BIG IDEAS have developed products, processes, or innovations that contribute to the PA Wilds economy, encompassing sectors like software solutions, farming, and manufacturing. When: Thursday, June 13 2024 Time: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Meet the Finalists!

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Being a solopreneur means handling all aspects, from setting shop to product development to marketing to after-sales service, of your small business on your own. Through this platform, you can generate $36 worth of business for every $1 spent. What does being a solopreneur entail? Talk about your journey.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Helping Writers Monetize Their Free Readers More Effectively By Opening The Platform Up (and Taking a Cut). Beyond the aforementioned community standards questions they inspire a lot of public debate for something which is basically a CMS, email list management tool and Stripe integration. Consider me a fan of Substack. and so on….

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 20, 2024

The entrepreneurs pitching their BIG IDEAS have developed products, processes, or innovations that contribute to the PA Wilds economy, encompassing sectors like software solutions, farming, and manufacturing. Event Details & RSVP When: Thursday, June 13 2024 Time: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Meet the Finalists!

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When we found product-market fit later that year and started bringing on lots of new customers, instead of spending engineering resources on re-architecturing our platform to scale, we were able to double down on product engineering to accelerate the growth. The longer you wait, the harder it is to embed into your team.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

The lack of access to simple payroll and benefits tools has had a significant impact on the operational efficiency of SMBs and the well-being of their employees. Payroll was the foundation for Gusto to achieve its vision of being a comprehensive “people platform.” Act 2: All-in-one People Platform.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

I've spent a lot of time reading and developing style guides, and this article will tell you everything you need to know about building a content style guide, from what it is, to whether your company truly needs it, to how to put one together. You create better, consistent, and high-quality content for your audience.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Walnut raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Eight Roads Ventures, to continue developing its sales experience platform. Europe and Israel and continue developing its technology and platform, including tools to embed demos into a website for product-led growth.

SaaS 113

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Creating your own payroll tool can be expensive and take years to accomplish. Salsa thinks it should be quick and easy for software companies to embed and launch payroll features. The landscape of legacy payroll tools is that they are hard to use. We have made it simple for developers to put it in their own products.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

EverAfter secured $13 million in seed funding to continue developing its no-code customer-facing tool that streamlines onboarding and retention and enables business-to-business clients to embed personalized customer portals within any product. The Tel Aviv-based company was founded in 2020 by Noa Danon and Tal Shemesh.

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