TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

One-click checkout continues to stretch out its moment, and Sleek is the latest startup to get in on the venture capital action, where similar companies like Ownit , Bolt , Checkout.com , OurPass and Rapyd have collectively raised over $3 billion in investments within the past 18 months. It raised $1.7 billion by 2026, up from $3.5

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 16, 2023

Having accumulated more than 40 million app downloads and disbursing over $4 billion in loans, Atome Financial has demonstrated its impactful presence in the fintech sphere. Atome’s extensive network encompasses over 15,000 retail partners across ten Asian markets, enabling seamless and flexible payment options for consumers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Funding backers included Y Combinator, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, Canary, Hustle Fund, Necessary Ventures and the co-founders of TaskUs. The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. Yummy’s app can be downloaded for free, and the company charges a delivery fee or merchant fee.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Salt Labs, a rewards platform for hourly workers, today emerged from stealth with $10 million in pre-seed funding led by Fin Capital with participation from Anthem Venture Partners and others. “The mission of Salt Labs is to enable hourly workers to own the long-term value of their work,” Lee said via email.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. By 2021, the app had gone viral after Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures wrote a blog post about it. “We By the time it raised its $2.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Q1 VC results tread water, but that’s cold comfort for SaaS unicorns Image Credits: Nigel Sussman/TechCrunch As Q1 2023 draws to a close, Alex Wilhelm reviewed early data from PitchBook to get a feel for key VC trend metrics like deal count and total capital invested. Tweet at Christine and let her know your favorite piece.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Main investors include TMT Investments, TLF Ventures, Flyer One and others. Ahrefs claims to have become a $100 million company in annual revenue without venture capital. seed round funding for its warehouse robotics solutions, led by SMRK VC, a Ukrainian venture fund. It has raised $14.7 Incorporated in Delaware, USA.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Arrington Capital and Cumberland DRW co-led the round, which also included participation from Coinbase Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Signum Capital, CMT Digital, CMS Holdings, Three Commas and a slew of others. The new investment brings Vega’s total funding raised to over $10 million, according to Crunchbase data.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

Appstore downloads of the top remote working apps rose from 1.4 MeMed – Provides diagnostic insights to distinguish between bacterial and viral infections and provides solutions to enable early intervention, before the onset of COVID-19 symptoms. The new shape of the world economy is already beginning to emerge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. Venture capital will be easy and then hard. That’s what Deliv enables. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? Will this Trend Last? That always happens. Retailer wins.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

SaaS has been bucking many of the venture slowdown trends , while data from Gartner indicates that SaaS constituted the lion’s share ($123 billion) of cloud end-user spending ($332 billion) last year. “Today, security is about enabling the business and its employees to move fast, safely and securely.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Get ready for your close-up : PhotoRoom, a photo-editing app for e-commerce sellers that enables users to remove the background behind objects, has attracted 40 million app downloads and now raised $19 million, Romain reports. We are nothing if not creatures of habit, after all. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

That same year, Latka launched a podcast and has since interviewed one SaaS founder nearly daily — recording 2,500 episodes to date that have had 18 million downloads, he said. I owned less than 40% of the business on a fully diluted basis.”. Plus, Matthews himself spent the first half of his career as a bootstrapped SaaS founder. (He

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

“Is there actually an AI market in the pure sense, or is it enabling technology that will soon be built into everything, making how we view it less clear?” ” The civil rights movement comes to venture capital In light of the fact that Black women receive less than 0.5%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Those hints included the revelation that the startup had generated just $600,000 in revenue for all of 2021 despite raising $120 million in venture capital earlier in the year (in a round led by Stripe) and rumors that the company was having trouble raising more funds, and as a result, might be seeking a buyer. customer information.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2011

First of all, their CrunchConnect product will make your pitches a lot easier, by not forcing your clients to download plugins to do over the web presentations. That’s unfortunate, because Salescrunch is one of the most exciting deals I’ve ever seen and Sean Black is the right person for the right job if I’ve ever seen one.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

But as a person who has sat in the room for years while executives present I’ve seen well-intentioned board members checking email, reading Facebook, scanning Twitter, downloading movies for their flights home, sending texts to friends, reading the news or any other number of things that distract from a productive group discussion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Egyptian fintech Paymob , which enables merchants to accept digital payments online and in-store, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series B funding. PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, New-York-based venture capital Kora Capital, and London-based Clay Point led the round.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

While there is no shortage of companies enabling cross-border payments, the startup’s emphasis on crypto is a differentiator. Our team has a clear plan on making crypto universally available by enabling cheap and straightforward transactions,” Kozyakov said. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The Japanese fintech startup said today it has raised a $20 million (2 billion JPY) Series A funding round led by Globis Capital Partners with participation from Z Venture Capital, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, and DBJ Capital. Another is through lending.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

Take trends like the rise of building in public or the unbundling of venture capital. Or remote work’s shift from enabling communication to now needing to enable passive and active collaboration. 2020 brought several million downloads to the podcast, and we’re super thankful to all of y’ all for tuning in.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles. You can watch on YouTube or download the podcast (for the gym!) Nate, tell us a bit about Rustic Canyon Venture Partners. I agree with him. Hope you’re enjoying the show.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I’ve worked at a large investment bank and a large single family office before diving into the world of venture and startups to build Chisos Capital. We also do some old school.csv download and pasting Q: What processes are you focused on improving? My background is finance, investments and operations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Last year, during the pandemic, a free browser extension called Netflix Party gained traction because it enabled people trapped in their homes to connect with far-flung friends and family by watching the same Netflix TV shows and movies simultaneously. It also enabled them to dish about the action in a side bar chat.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. Flywire, a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, filed to go public Monday.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

The company’s goal is to enable anyone creative to make an income through the use of NFTs — that means developing tools to make it simpler for its users to mint NFTs, but also, building out its existing creator-focused social network. ” Twitter is making NFTs now, apparently.

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Gust

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Readers joining this series in progress may find it helpful to download the sample term sheet from my firm’s website and review the earlier posts covering the basics. In Parts II and III, we looked at commonly used mandatory and voluntary conversion language in convertible notes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The new round was co-led by New York-based VC firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital and includes new investors Migdal Insurance, Altshuler Shaham, and Shavit Capital. Meanwhile, downloads for its popular Videoleap video editing apps jumped 70% since the start of the pandemic, as TikTok adoption also grew.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2010

A step further would be to actually create a platform—a place for apps to not only play more deeply within your product with advanced functionality, but one with a marketplace that enables discovery of third-party tools and services. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

based seed-stage venture firm that has, from its outset, attracted the attention of VCs who think the firm has an eye for nascent talent , staged its seventh annual demo day earlier this week, and while it was virtual, one of the startups has already signed a term sheet from a top-tier venture firm. June Motherhood. The pitch: The U.S.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Time moves on, the company grows and needs more funds to expand, so decides to go to market again and do a Series A round of capital raising. To enable this, the company issues another 5m shares, increasing the total number of shares to 15m. You invest $100k and purchase 1m shares, which means you own 10% of the company.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

Unfortunately, as long as content is produced by people who send nastygrams to people building great consumption experiences , like Pulse, and who want us to download a new app for every site we visit, you can expect little change. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. Ok… that’s all I got.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Statsig’s platform enables product developers to run quick product experiments and analyze how users respond to new features and functionalities. Raji sees adoption of Statsig coming from a few different places: developers and engineers that are downloading it and using it to serve a few million people a month, and then through referrals.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

When you materially improve an offering, and create new features, functions, experiences, price points, and even enable new use cases, you can materially expand the market in the process. The service relies solely on payment enabled through a smartphone application. There are multiple reasons why this is a flawed assumption.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

UberPool builds on the incredible scale that the company has already achieved, and can leverage the existing base of millions of customers that have already downloaded the application. So UberPool is a fundamental enabling technology for Uber in addition to providing lower price points and increased efficiency. Jeff Bezos.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

with a wall of amazing content for you to download straight into your brain. Taiwan-based automotive giant Hotai Motor enabled thousands of iRent customer documents to be accessible via the internet. As January is coming to a close, the TechCrunch team is firing on all cylinders (do we still say that, in a time of electric cars?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Left Lane making a right turn when it comes to investments : It was the gift that keeps on giving for Left Lane CEO and managing partner Harley Miller, who closed the venture capital firm’s $1.4 Not much of a surprise here, but TikTok was the most downloaded app in the first quarter worldwide. billion fund on his birthday.

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