TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. Hoag notes that Teampay is low-code and doesn’t require custom development. “With education and innovation, we look forward to bringing best-in-class ‘consumerized’ tools to the finance department.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. The company is able to show what kind of financing can be obtained based on the amount of data customers provide.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

In the latest development, U.K.-based Starling — which competes against incumbent banks, as well as other challengers like Monzo and Revolut — said it will be using the money to continue its growth. based Starling announced that is has closed £272 million ($376 million at current rates), at a pre-money valuation of £1.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. According to the founders, Sylndr also plans on providing seven-day money back guarantee, warranty and availing flexible financing options to users.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. The company also plans to use its new capital to accelerate its product road map and toward business development efforts.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And, while the food type has reached a number of categories, like meat and seafood, there is not much in the space of pudding, nor have incumbents come out with better-for-you options, Hippeau said. In fact, of the $348 billion in annual sales generated by the top 25 food and beverage incumbents in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the financing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

April users connect their payroll, bank statements, mortgage, prior year’s tax return and other finance apps to the platform and then tell April about significant tax events over the past year (e.g., Borodach says it’s extensible insofar as a software development kit lets developers tap into the system and create “new solutions.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Jarkata-based Astro, which provides 15-minute grocery delivery, has recently closed a $60 million Series B financing round, lifting its total funding to $90 million since the business launched just nine months ago. The startup is competing with incumbents like Sayurbox, HappyFresh and TaniHub to win over users.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Salesforce was founded in 1999. Since then, many major categories of software have been saasified.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Innovation continues to drive new developments in lending, payments, crypto and, in particular, infrastructure, showing that the industry still has lots of room for growth. However, as the market grew crowded, infrastructure providers have started competing over who can develop the least expensive product and sign the most fintech companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

This isn’t an issue in developed markets, as healthcare systems change with the times to adequately provide healthcare when necessary. million in debt and grant financing from BPI France , the French government’s public investment bank. The equity raise saw participation mainly from angel investors, as the company also raised $1.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 The entrepreneur’s experience with subscriptions goes back to high school, where he said he started skipping class to do web development for a subscription box startup called Conscious Box.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

million seed financing in the summer of 2020. In its own words, Mountain View-based Vareto is developing a new platform for FP&A (financial planning & analysis) teams with the goal of “building the future of financial planning.”. Talk about validation. Image Credits: Vareto.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

Lee headed finance for the company from $15m in ARR to more than $1b. Second, UBP reduced friction for individual developers to tinker with the APIs. In addition, Lee shared his view on usage-based pricing and defending a startup’s great asset, talent, from poaching during the next recovery. That’s important today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Put simply, Melon is developing tech and fulfillment infrastructure — or the backend — to enable small and medium e-commerce merchants to “easily” sell and grow across multiple channels such as Shopify, Instagram and Amazon, and then deliver almost anywhere in the region. It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Financing from the round came from a mix of private and public funds in China and overseas. OnTime is the ride-hailing service introduced by GAC in 2019 as one of the newcomers competing with incumbent Didi, many of which are either operated by auto OEMs or are close to one. ”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

We’re now seeing a new development where businesses want to offer different products and financial services beyond just payments,” Adeyemi told TechCrunch over a call. “We Anchor wants to “abstract away these complexities” so pure fintechs and businesses offering embedded finance can get started in 5 minutes, said Adeyemi in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. These will typically be at incumbent banks, but they do not offer the same ranges of services to customers. Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. million in a seed round of funding as it develops a one-on-one shopping experience, transforming any cooler or cabinet into a smart grab-and-go.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Looking ahead, the startup plans to use its new capital toward product development, growth, operations and building out a credit offering. We believe Cora is a once in a generation company building efficient digital finance tools for small businesses. About 130 of its employees are “partners” in the company, Senra said.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

As drivers we look out for them, as pedestrians we might be annoyed if they steer in our way but the riders themselves have developed better norms as happens in all forms of transportation. You can’t simply drop a bunch of electric scooters in a market and hope to compete with the data and software advantages of the incumbents.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Angel and individual investors also put money in the round, including: Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton, ex-Venmo COO Michael Vaughan and James Kim, former head of finance at Tinder. . People have different personal finance behavior than in the past, which makes it harder for traditional lenders to evaluate them.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 Brokers are here to stay,” he added.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The startup’s competition includes incumbents like Informatica, IBM, SAP and Oracle, as well as newer rivals such as Collibra , Castor , Stemma , Data.World and Ataccama , all of whom offer tools for classifying and curating data at enterprise scale. billion and growing toward $11.6 billion over the next four years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The injection of cash will be used for continued geographical expansion and to accelerate the development of new products. Notably, this will include plans to launch in 10 new markets as Northmill aims to step on the gas. Next stop, Norway.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

million in seed funding to further develop its tools for more accurate data and analytics. It also helps the finance team understand expenses, including which are valid and those that are not.”. He also intends to use the funding to acquire new brands and on software development. The retail industry is valued at $5.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Tile , the maker of Bluetooth-powered lost item finder beacons and, more recently, a staunch Apple critic , announced today it has raised $40 million in non-dilutive debt financing from Capital IP. In addition to new debt financing, Tile is also refinancing some of its existing debt with this fundraise, it says.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, this complexity is hidden behind a simple software development kit, which is what matters to merchants most,” Shoykhet said. based electronic money and finance data transfers — increased 8.7% Nacha is the organization that manages the development and governance of the ACH network.) currently. .”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. Chief corporate development and strategy officer Greg Orenstein will move into its CFO seat.” Reports Fintech Finance News: Turkish fintech company “ Papara. The relationship between incumbents and upstarts has long been a complicated one.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

In her expanded role, which still includes serving as the company’s COO, Dufétel oversees all operational and go-to-market teams, including finance and marketing. Finance in 2021, and to Fortune’s 40 under 40 in 2020. Close partnership with our merchants to develop solutions together is of the utmost importance to us.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Vouch hopes to leverage Level’s expertise in developing underwriting technologies to underwrite and support complex insurance products. ” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. I did, too.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

Led by Lindsay Holden, the startup had raised more than $20 million in funding and had built a gamified finance mobile app that aims to help people “save, learn and engage” with their finances. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. million in a round led by Firebrand Ventures.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. Unlike most developed countries, the West African nation lacks an advanced credit bureau system to detail people’s credit histories, so there’s some scepticism to how Fintech Farm will use credit cards to operate.

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