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).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup looks to further expand in the country and Southeast Asian markets. “In HR tech and SaaS space, we are now only behind SAP and Oracle in India in terms of revenue,” he said.

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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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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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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.

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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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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. Meanwhile, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock led the Series E investment, with new investors Schonfeld, Invus Opportunities, CreditEase and H.I.G.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

She identified several factors pushing investors in major tech hubs to venture outside their own backyards in search of opportunities. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022. This momentum we’re seeing now? Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products. In his view, Melonn has a “fresh approach to disrupt e-commerce behind the scenes — everything from SaaS and financing to fulfillment enablement” with a tech platform and growing fulfillment network that “is superior to anything else on the market.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

It focuses on early-stage B2B SaaS, so LP concerns were about how B2B software will perform in an inflationary environment, he wrote. Catherine Shu reported on C2 Ventures ’ second $20 million fund targeting startups disrupting legacy industries. It’s been a busy day for new funds. billion in capital commitments. and in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

and Germany; and “tech” means B2B SaaS/fintech or consumer apps. In turn, investors are overwhelmed with poorly qualified opportunities. Christoph Janz from Point Nine Capital wrote on Twitter: The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

We saw a huge opportunity to support immigrants,” Canals told TechCrunch. “We We both believe in the value of immigrants and how financial access empowers them to power opportunities.”. They can provide financing at the point of sale,” Silva Lombardi added. The company is also growing its employee headcount.

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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 Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

When it comes to fintech, consumers have commanded the most attention in the last decade, with banking, credit, investing and other legacy services getting the disruption treatment. The opportunity that Sequence is targeting is related to all of these but is taking target at a more specific gap in the market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Today the U.S. Well, that was fast! Seen on TechCrunch.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By expanding an already-existing growing business , the opportunities for return on investment (ROI) are fruitful. . If there’s a disruption in manufacturing, delay in shipment or product discontinuation, this can affect the nature of your cash flow and consumer trust. You can save time and money. It has a reputable supply chain. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. “[The latest investment] is primarily going to be used for land-grab and expansion opportunities,” Komoni said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

In a previous piece, I looked at how some tech workers are responding to risk by doing more due diligence on potential employers, taking on two jobs, otherwise known as over-employment, or reframing their personal finance mindset. Bain Capital has closed its second Tech Opportunities fund with $2.4

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Having gained 15+ years of experience in a range of businesses — from startups to conglomerates, and experience of Series A to private equity — I’ve had the opportunity to actually apply the tried-and-tested practices of hypergrowth, as well as offer the full stack of C-level support.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

In an attempt to remedy that problem, São Paulo -based Kovi was founded in 2018 to give those people access to those opportunities. . Quona, GFC, Monashees, UVC Investimentos and Globo Ventures also participated in the financing, in addition to Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel through his family office.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Mambu raises $135M at a $2B+ valuation for a SaaS platform that powers banking services. “With so many markets still underserved, the ability to tailor offerings to a segment of one offers the opportunity to increase financial inclusion and adheres to our ideal that easy access to financial services is essential.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Atlantico participated in the financing as a new investor in addition to all existing backers including Monashees, Kaszek and OneVC. Pipo, she said, was created to “disrupt this landscape” with the use of technology and data. Also, the opportunity in Brazil is just so large. “We Image Credits: Pipo Saude.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

E-commerce and other online businesses are becoming increasingly global in their operations and customer bases, and a startup called Airwallex — which has built a banking solution that addresses the opportunity to provide cross-border financial services — has been seeing a massive surge of activity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Remote’ is fundamentally disadvantaged,” said Phil Libin, founder and CEO of startup studio All Turtles and mmhmm at TechCrunch Disrupt. Expensify CEO David Barrett discusses going public and why expense management is a $1T opportunity. Each day, I get up, brew some coffee, and go to work. Image Credits: temmuzcan / Getty Images.

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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.”. VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America. market in the verticals of e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech and software.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Businesses have gone to banks for business loans, but it was a “janky process,” and anyone who can improve it at a rate of five times with technology will be a major disrupter, and if they can do it 100 time, they will revolutionize it, he added. Checkout is the key to frictionless B2B e-commerce.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Consequently, there are many huge opportunities for entrepreneurs to seize. Second, the capital startups require to pursue those opportunities is plentiful. The financing markets are a train and the IPO market and M&A markets are the locomotive, setting pricing multiples and valuations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Momei Qu, managing director, PSP Growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

trillion COVID-19 stimulus package this year that increased funding for affordable healthcare, Wu says opportunities are expanding for startups in this space. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Since the U.S. Congress passed a $1.9 ” Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

“For that reason, cards remain one of the largest untapped opportunities … The Concerto platform disrupts all of this to give businesses the tools and the credit they need, along with the power to easily create and deploy highly customized, remarkably innovative loyalty programs people will love.”

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Travis Connors, Building Ventures At Building Ventures, we see enormous opportunities developing for the use of robotics in construction over the next 20 years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A year ago, we told you about the opportunity that former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan was chasing. To pull car dealers into the 21st century with a snazzy end-to-end automotive SaaS platform like the one he helped develop inside Tesla. billion today, and its total funding from $185 million to $435 million.

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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. Ultimately, it is a new internet-native work model that we are starting with legal because it is a $100 billion market that has not been disrupted much in the last 100 years,” Ahmed said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Supply chain disruptions caused — or exacerbated — by the pandemic continue to affect businesses in a range of industries. Algorithms sort through data on supply chain disruptions and vendors, cleansing it and extracting information before offering recommendations. For example, 36% of small businesses responding to a U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For this survey, TechCrunch spoke to a number of investors about the area’s potential, opportunities and key players. They see a huge opportunity for the region to become a major startup hub by utilizing its diverse workforce and wonderful quality of life. In this survey, these investors agree on several aspects of Miami.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Weaver , a London-based marketplace and SaaS contract negotiation platform for matching homeowners/architects planning major home renovation projects with vetted contractors, has closed a $4 million seed round to expand nationally. in pre-seed financing from a number of angels — bringing its total raised to date to $5.5M.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Goodwater, Greycroft and other unnamed investors also participated in the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to nearly $180 million. Other backers in that early financing included Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), NEA and Greylock. The funding actually closed earlier this year, but is only being announced today.

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