TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

ManageXR announced today it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Rally Ventures , with venture partner and previous lead angel investor Jay Borenstein joining the company’s board of directors. . Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

GV (formerly Google Ventures) led its $20 million Series A this year, and Menlo Ventures led its $4.2 The B2B SaaS startup thus aims to become a command center for the finance and executive teams to see how a business is doing in real time and to be able to make necessary operational changes faster. Image Credits: Vareto.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Several have substantial venture backing; the aforementioned Retool raised $45 million at a $3.2 Menezes says he thinks about the competitive landscape in three ways: build-it-yourself, legacy incumbents and low-code startups. Rivals include Appsmith , Snapboard , and Airplane. billion valuation in July. ”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Our platform not only reduces the friction with payments by enabling customers to pay how they want to pay, but also helps carriers sell more insurance.”. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. The software — which only supports Chrome for now — detects and “remembers” elements on webpages, enabling the sharing of shortcuts (called “magic packs”) with other users and teams.

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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. So, to better understand the market for fintech extension rounds today, we have a set of answers from a group of fintech venture investors we recently surveyed.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Here are 6 tactical guidelines drawn from my work with 15+ global tech upstarts in D2C, B2B marketplaces, SaaS for SMBs, logistics, cybersecurity, and digital health over the last decade: 1. Winning big often means starting small. Putting it all together Quality beats quantity when it comes to launching.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The company claims to be the first supermarket in Mexico with no physical store that enables customers to buy groceries directly from its website, or an app, and Jüsto will deliver the order to the customer’s location of choice. Meanwhile, the online grocery industry in the U.S. is poised to be a $187.7 billion industry by 2024, up from $95.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Replicant , one of the more prominent vendors in the call center automation space, today announced that it raised $78 million in Series B funding led by Stripes with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Omega, IronGrey, Norwest and Atomic. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A fascinating example of this is SaaS marketplace Juggle. ’s leading angels, and also includes Oxford Capital , Social Capital , and 7percent Ventures. Flexibility enables people to maximize their energy and skills, and that’s a huge benefit for employers once they realize it.”. It’s now disclosed its funding of $2.1

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces) and verticals.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

million in seed funding led by Homebrew, Golden Ventures and Inovia Capital. ResQ has now raised $9 million in known venture capital to date. SaaS-enabled marketplace. It charges a monthly SaaS fee per rooftop to a restaurant group. ResQ announced today that it has raised $7.5 ResQ product mock-up.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Cloud native engines maximize customization Today’s engines are monolithic desktop applications originally designed before modern cloud architecture and the SaaS age. A cloud native engine will enable creation of 3D experiences using any device from anywhere via a browser.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the myriad ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. Those apps are increasingly adding an ‘investment button’ that enables consumers to purchase US Equities.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Image Credits: The trio — who just graduated five months ago — raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding for their venture in March of 2020 and then another $1.6 The startup operates as a SaaS business and its customers are the organizations providing care.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Call center service provider incumbents like Dialpad offer sentiment analysis features, as well, as do companies including Cogito , Saygent and SugarCRM. Bow Capital and ServiceNow co-led the Series A alongside existing investors Floodgate and Vertex Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We Fast slows its roll. ” So what’s next for Fast?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Inbal Perlman , partner, TAU Ventures. Dror Nahumi , partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Sharin Fisher , partner, Fort Ross Ventures. Tal Slobodkin , partner, StageOne Ventures . Natalie Refuah , partner, Viola Growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These tools might enable online booking, provide the ability for more frequent customer-provider communication, facilitate surveys and feedback, automate follow-up correspondence, and anticipate customer needs. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. healthcare market.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

What are the advances that you anticipate seeing that are going to sort of change the way people interact with these, [and] enable new kinds of products being built? You know, incumbents versus startups. There’s a take out there now on AI, which is, this time it’s different, and the incumbents are the real winners, right?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. Dharmesh: HubSpot's a classic venture backed playbook company. that people love. Sam: Can I say my opinion, Dharmesh?

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