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 Ascend app.

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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. The capital will enable us to bring in the best talent, make strategic acquisitions and expand into Europe, which is important to us.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

A spokesperson told me via email that “the reorganization impacted nearly all teams and the decision was in service to the larger strategy we have been enacting at Notarize, and will enable us to move faster to best serve our customers.” How can finance-focused proptech startups survive the downturn? Our TC+ recap has the highlights.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

But the company later broadened its scope to other aspects of corporate finance, like credit and fraud monitoring and compliance. The service can scan public sources including news publications, blogs, and SEC filings to gauge consumer sentiment, for example, or predict how supply chain disruptions might impact a business.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The company decided to develop secured loans for products that enable borrowers to improve their income — like motorcycles, cars and trucks — and unlike their competitors providing used vehicles, Canals said Migrante offers new vehicles. They can provide financing at the point of sale,” Silva Lombardi added.

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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. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. 20% initial ownership.

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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., Methods in between are a tradeoff of compensation and carry.” SHL Capital (Sahil Lavingia).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Sweetgreen’s IPO pricing guidance illuminates valuation range for tech-enabled companies. That’s a lot of lettuce, but the pricing shows how much tech-enabled DTC firms can flex, writes Alex Wilhelm, who compared Sweetgreen’s range to IPO pricing for Allbirds and Rent the Runway. and a valuation between between $2.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We are now seeing the second-order effects of the fintech boom, as the same set of conditions arise in other soon-to-be disrupted sectors. In the insurance space, similar changes are giving way to innovative models like 180 o in Brazil and Betterfly in Chile.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. 20% initial ownership.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Major capital market disruptions often bring a “VC Reset,” as venture firms rethink fundamentals, often pressured to do so by limited partners. Several top-tier funds recently redefined themselves as “investment advisors,” enabling them to place long-term bets by holding rather than distributing IPO shares.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Mambu raises $135M at a $2B+ valuation for a SaaS platform that powers banking services. This is “low code,” but it typically means that the company needs to work with third parties to enable all of this.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Our mission statement is to enable the vision of cultivated meat by reducing its cost and improving its quality,” Guy Nevo Michrowski, ProFuse CEO, tells Amy Teibel in The Times of Israel. EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. Classiq adds HSBC, NTT Finance to $36M Series B.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata were working at artificial intelligence companies when they found inspiration from their respective family’s businesses to create Slope , which enables businesses an easy way to offer buy now, pay later services.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

While I think BNPL is disruptive, here to stay and might be helpful to many consumers and merchants alike – there’s no denying that it is still a form of debt and those who lack self-discipline could easily find themselves spending beyond their means and in over their heads. Nigerian fintech Grey Finance got backing from Y Combinator.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

RPA has enabled executives to provide a level of automation that essentially buys them time to update systems to more modern approaches while reducing the large number of mundane manual tasks that are part of every industry’s workflow. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. market in the verticals of e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech and software.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 25, 2022

The EVERY Company is the first to produce real egg proteins without chickens, disrupting the $200B egg market. Rogynskyy, a Ukrainian native residing in Silicon Valley for over a decade, had his company finance and help with the logistics of his workers’ escape. Microsoft Azure hosts ThetaRay’s anti-money laundering SaaS.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 25, 2022

The EVERY Company is the first to produce real egg proteins without chickens, disrupting the $200B egg market. Rogynskyy, a Ukrainian native residing in Silicon Valley for over a decade, had his company finance and help with the logistics of his workers’ escape. Microsoft Azure hosts ThetaRay’s anti-money laundering SaaS.

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OurCrowd

MAY 30, 2021

The SaaS solution helps banks, institutions, and businesses increase transfer volumes without the risk of exploitation from terrorist financing, money laundering, and human trafficking by providing full visibility across complex cross-border transaction paths. ” Bizzabo acquires Sweden’s Whalebone.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

“Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions” Who invests in lousy teams addressing tiny markets with outdated solutions? The phrase is quite ambiguous. VC theses are often so vague that they’re meaningless.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

That’s the message from Quiq, an AI-powered conversational platform, which today revealed that it closed a $25 million series C financing round led by Baird Capital. “Phone calls are disruptive and time consuming, email is slow and impersonal. . Chatbots are alive and kicking. human) setups.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

In practice, this leads to founders resorting to using their personal credit cards for SaaS subscriptions or digital marketing, and filing reimbursements regularly. ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces) and verticals. Stripe also set a great example in how they transformed the internet’s payment infrastructure.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

“Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions” Who invests in lousy teams addressing tiny markets with outdated solutions? The phrase is quite ambiguous. VC theses are often so vague that they’re meaningless.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”. – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Its technology enables professionals and companies to create profiles and be matched to opportunities, monitor projects and pay through the platform. Today, Lawtrades works with companies, like Doordash, Gusto and Pinterest, to offer them a marketplace of professionals that can be hired remotely and with flexibility.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”. – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Okwuada started his entrepreneurial journey while still at the university, where he built SaaS products, before using his experience in tech, and training as a pharmacist to launch Remedial together with Benjamin, a pharmaceutical field sales agent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Traditionally, it’s been known for travel/hospitality, healthcare tech and real estate tech, but I’m already seeing emerging trends around blockchain/crypto, fintech, remote work and even some traditional enterprise SaaS. We have also invested in marketplace business models in products disrupting travel, pets, solutions for SMBs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Businesses can choose which one or multiple shipping carriers they want to work with and even enable customers to choose at the time of purchase. One of the things that attracted MacLean to the company was that Reid was building a company outside of Silicon Valley and disrupting global trade far from any port.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Our portfolio is heavy on SaaS, which has weathered things well. In some cases yes, including our e-commerce SaaS companies and my recent Bitcoin exchange investment (MiraiEx). The solution enables podcasters to edit their recordings with the click of a button, as a sort of digital audio technician in your pocket.

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