TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Now that legacy has taken a very different turn in fintech with outsourcing of a very different kind, with the emergence of embedded finance technology. This is Citi Ventures’ first investment in a fintech out of India, and this round overall underscores how far the fintech and embedded finance ecosystem have come along in recent years.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At TechCrunch Disrupt, I spoke to three investors about how they use TAM to guide their decision-making. Kara Nortman, a managing partner at Upfront Ventures, said the TAM numbers given in a pitch do not control whether she’s likely to invest. “I 3 investors explain how finance-focused proptech startups can survive the downturn.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Why more SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing. The consequences of SaaS sprawl: A real-world study. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Disrupt is right around the corner, and this year the show is packed to the brim with incredible panels and conversations, an absolutely stacked Startup Battlefield cohort of companies launching on our stage, investor insights and a virtual expo hall full of exciting new products and services in the Startup Alley. We can’t wait!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2021

Disrupt is right around the corner, and this year the show is packed to the brim with incredible panels and conversations, an absolutely stacked Startup Battlefield cohort of companies launching on our stage, investor insights and a virtual expo hall full of exciting new products and services in the Startup Alley. We can’t wait!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Disrupt is right around the corner, and this year the show is packed to the brim with incredible panels and conversations, an absolutely stacked Startup Battlefield cohort of companies launching on our stage, investor insights and a virtual expo hall full of exciting new products and services in the Startup Alley. We can’t wait!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments. Venture capitalists love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. and Germany; and “tech” means B2B SaaS/fintech or consumer apps.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? Then these firms raised larger funds to invest in LBOs, but they diversified, too. The competitive dynamics in the market where access to invest is more valuable than capital. in the New Yorker. Third, VCs have specialized.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Disrupt is right around the corner, and this year the show is packed to the brim with incredible panels and conversations, an absolutely stacked Startup Battlefield cohort of companies launching on our stage, investor insights and a virtual expo hall full of exciting new products and services in the Startup Alley. We can’t wait!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Disrupt is right around the corner, and this year the show is packed to the brim with incredible panels and conversations, an absolutely stacked Startup Battlefield cohort of companies launching on our stage, investor insights and a virtual expo hall full of exciting new products and services in the Startup Alley. We can’t wait!

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. My angel investing hobby was making me a better Founder, CEO, and business leader.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Disrupt is right around the corner, and this year the show is packed to the brim with incredible panels and conversations, an absolutely stacked Startup Battlefield cohort of companies launching on our stage, investor insights and a virtual expo hall full of exciting new products and services in the Startup Alley. We can’t wait!

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process. Backstage Capital : founded by Arlan Hamilton, Managing Partner, the firm invests in the very best founders who identify as women, People of Color, or LGBTQ.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu , a Berlin-based startup that describes itself as an SaaS banking platform — providing, by way of APIs, technology to banks and others to power lending, deposit and other banking products — has closed a round of €110 million (about $135 million at today’s rates). That could lead to consolidation, too.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a Brazilian startup. Atlantico participated in the financing as a new investor in addition to all existing backers including Monashees, Kaszek and OneVC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Not only are venture capitalists raising more capital than ever , but new methods of financing startup activity are maturing. Not just SaaS. The capital market for startups has perhaps never been more attractive than it is today. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Let’s talk about it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Debt is an increasingly popular alternative, as is non-dilutive, revenue-based financing. Both Clearco and Pipe offer revenue-based financing and both have raised large sums of venture capital themselves, some might say ironically. ” Mathew argued that the majority of startups are actually not a great fit for venture investment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

No one likes dilution, and that’s why every founder is looking for alternatives to traditional equity investing by venture capitalists. SaaS securitization will disrupt VC’s biggest returns this coming decade. to deliver fast cash to SaaS companies. million seed led by Caffeinated Capital. Capchase raises $4.6M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Apply to Startup Battlefield 200 anyway — and announce your public debut at TechCrunch Disrupt! 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook. “It’s attention.”

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: .

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 15, 2015

Open source is a disruptive distribution strategy. As a result of both the disruptive nature of open source distribution, and the changes in buyer preferences, the number of open source financings has increased nearly monotonically since the genesis of the movement, and it shows no signs of slowing. RedHat is worth 14.4

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. The reason one would accept losses is when they are investments in fueling faster growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

In the second quarter of 2022, according to CB Insights, investment into fintech startups wasn’t too far behind that in the second quarter of 2022. That’s not far off from last year and signals that while, yes, fewer dollars are being invested generally, fintech is still attracting serious investor interest. Another thing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It’s been more than 10 years since that percentage fell below 30%,” reports Mary Ann Azevedo, who analyzed “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a report released by investment firm Revolution and PitchBook. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022. Walter Thompson.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Today I’m excited to announce we’ve recently raised $30 million in growth finance led by 8VC , with Kimmy Scotti joining our board. We’ve invested heavily in inventory management software so we can track every bin and every item of your stuff and know where it is at all times. We’ve been delighted with 8VC as a co-investor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 13, 2022

Register Chainalysis , the blockchain data platform , announced a $170 million Series F financing led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC , bringing its valuation to $8.6 Chainalysis customers also had huge success disrupting criminal activity and recovering funds. Other successes include the $2.3

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. Khurshid said that he expects to close by the end of the second quarter and start investing in the third quarter. It’s been a busy day for new funds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: .

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 13, 2022

With over ten years of operation and development, DKRA Group is Vietnam’s top real estate service brand, providing comprehensive solutions ranging from market research to investment advising, marketing and distribution, and building management.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Rupifi has raised $25 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup, which currently provides buy now, pay later service to several marketplaces to serve their merchants, looks to expand its business-to-business payments offerings. set to disrupt B2B? Is India’s BNPL 2.0

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

“Subscriptions are not dying; they are just evolving,” says Chargebee CMO Sanjay Manchanda, who notes that more than half of all SaaS companies plan to roll out usage-based billing by next year. Felicis, Lux Capital and Upfront Ventures tackle TAM at Disrupt. “Outside the Big Four, investments ballooned to $1.4

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