TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The decentralized reality of office work after the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive plenty of startup activity. The startup has just closed a $10 million Series A to continue building out its workplace management SaaS for landlords and office managers — which offers features like resource scheduling (booking meeting rooms etc.),

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Opaque Systems , a startup developing what it describes as “AI for confidential computing,” today announced that it closed a $22 million Series A funding round led by Walden Catalyst Partners with participation from Storm Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Intel Capital, Race Capital, The House Fund, and FactoryHQ.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia disclosed 15 early-stage startups it has selected for the seventh cohort of its accelerator program Surge, pushing ahead with new investments even as the deal activity has considerably slowed in the region. Following is the list of startups available in the seventh cohort.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. We have to have strong conviction in the quality of the team and the opportunity and commit more quickly. The legends of Silicon Valley?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, January 24, the inaugural cohort of startups from i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator program presented their groundbreaking innovations during the Bridge2 Demo Day at Sailor & The Dock in Oklahoma City. During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Register CLASSUM , a South Korea-based B2B SaaS company that provides and interactive learning platform, has announced raising $11 million in its pre-Series B funding round. The startup, founded in 2018, said it will use the fresh capital to attract more top tier talent and scale its presence across more key geographies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The demand for SaaS products that enables online transactions has dramatically increased during Covid-19, according to CEO of Upflowy Guillaume Ang. To help entrepreneurs and marketers, especially startups, boost conversion rates and user flows, Ang and two other founders, Matthew Browne and Alexandre Girard , founded Upflowy in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. Dear Sophie, My co-founder and I launched a B2B SaaS startup in Poland a few years ago and are now looking to expand in the United States for market access since we have product market fit in a few countries in Europe. You must tell the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Early-stage venture capital fund Newtopia VC launched Monday with $50 million to invest in tech startups based in Latin America. The fund will invest between $250,000 and $1 million in startups at the seed stage to help them achieve the milestones needed on the path to raising a Series A.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2015

See also: Innovator’s Solution for SaaS Startups. There’s a familiar path now to SaaS companies that start in the SMB (small-to-medium business) part of the market. In short, new startups leverage a distribution advantage to acquire SMB customers at scale. Why does this happen?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Startups have never had it so good. For example, within a company of 200 to 500 employees, a salesperson can see the frequency employees logged in and be alerted of when the best opportunity is to make the sale. That was the missing piece of it and sales teams ended up talking to the wrong people.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Register The global events and meetings industry is a powerhouse, driving billions of dollars in economic activity with countless business opportunities. Founded by Younghak Ahn, EVENTUS is not just another startup; it’s a tech force rewriting the script for business events, and its impact is felt far beyond Korean shores.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Performance marketing was once a steroid for company growth, enabling businesses to grow cost-efficiently as they only paid when they achieved desired outcomes. They were told this would offer greater choice and more opportunities to embed the most modern technology into their platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Running a startup can be a chaotic time; a million things need to be built, done, tracked, analyzed, considered, reported and validated. StartupOS’s stated mission is that it “aims to dramatically increase the overall number of startups and their probability of success for new, diverse generations of founders.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Series A funding will be put toward international expansion — including eyeing potential growth opportunities in LatAm. The startup also offers insurance companies access to an “insurance product creator” to manage variants of their current product suite for specific groups of users.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This by far the biggest investment Sendcloud has ever had: the Eindhoven, Netherlands-based startup has been around since 2012 and before now had raised just over $23 million ($23 million, 23,000 customers has a nice ring to it).

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Meet Qaiser — Founder of BAE INTERNET & GO ONLINE who is Pioneering Change in Tech In the dynamic world of technology and startups, few entrepreneurs stand out with their innovative approaches and compelling vision. What motivated you to launch your startup? What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup?

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Jason Malki

APRIL 11, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Justin Dorfman, the Co-Founder and CEO of AssetMule , a SaaS product that product marketing and sales teams use to create personalized interactive sales assets. What motivated you to launch your startup? As such, I think there’s a real opportunity to empower and elevate product marketers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

OctoML , a Seattle-based startup that helps enterprises optimize and deploy their machine learning models, today announced that it has raised an $85 million Series C round led by Tiger Global Management. Around the time of its Series B earlier this year, the company had just started onboarding some early adopters to its SaaS platform.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2019

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern PA provides investment capital and business support services to tech-startups and small manufacturers located in our 32-county footprint. The post Six More Tech-Startups Will Get “Their Start” With Ben Franklin Technology Partners! www.boostpoint.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. A new wave of startups is helping them succeed at it. Enabling product-led growth. The rise of product-led growth is creating opportunities for startups by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch. Sign up here. Let’s explore.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Media technology company Amagi announced Friday $100 million to further develop its cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected televisions. What Amagi does is enable a content owner with zero technology knowledge to simplify that complex workflow and scalable infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

It’s noteworthy that Countingup has previously taken investment from ING, and the addition of Sage as a backer is interesting since both could help the startup reach more business customers. “This will accelerate our roadmap enabling more swim lanes of product work to be on the go concurrently,” he says.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The new cash will be used to support product development and R&D efforts, CEO Matthew Carroll said, as well as expand Immuta’s sales, marketing, customer success, and support teams and enable “key” acquisitions in the data monitoring space. Immuta recently launched a software-as-a-service deployment, Immuta SaaS.)

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 9, 2015

There’s a magical property to the classic sales funnel SaaS startups use to evaluate the effectiveness of their go-to-market organizations: an increase in effectiveness at any stage of a sales funnel cascades through to the end funnel. Most startups employ a four stage funnel: prospect, lead, opportunity, customer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

If the past few years, and even the past week , has reminded us soundly of anything — it’s that the startup world will never be predictable. To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

About $1B has been invested in early stage SaaS startups as of November 1. Over the last nine months, marketing startups have raised more dollars in aggregate than any other segment. Operations teams following second, with human resources focused startups in third. The median round size for vertical startups is $9.1M

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

For example, Mitre Att&ck framework for classifying threats and alerts (If it’s a SaaS offering) SOC2 certification There are many other certifications such as Common Criteria that provide assurance your product meets minimum requirements. When startups present to the Dreamit team, we love to see use cases.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 15, 2023

The startup plans to utilize the fresh capital to consolidate its foothold as a preeminent fintech lender for burgeoning online businesses, encompassing e-commerce, SAAS, and consumer-tech companies. This approach enables real-time monitoring of business activity and health, expediting credit underwriting and risk assessment.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Register Prismforce , an India-based vertical software as a service (SaaS) firm , has announced recently that it raised fresh investments amounting to $13.6 million in seed funding from select industry thought leaders, serial entrepreneurs and SaaS founders as angels. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and reimagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth — new stages, new content, and new opportunities. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Indian logistics SaaS startup FarEye raises $100 million. “We We enable integrated production of complete sets of equipment consisting of custom-made parts such as sheet metal, machined parts and structural frames. Singapore’s logistics tech startup Parcel Perform raises $20 million. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement. In fact, among the earliest use cases for the company was helping startups track engagement with their pitch decks at VC firms. DocSend raises $8M for smarter document sharing.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

Should you price your SaaS per seat or per use? One of the most memorable parts of the session is when modified shared with us that the most common pricing mistake in a land and expand motion is to cede too much value in the free/lesser product, scuttling any expansion opportunity. A hybrid approach. Segment is a good example of this.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Redbird , a Ghanaian healthtech startup that allows easy access to convenient testing and ensures that doctors and patients can view the details of those test results at any time, announced today that it has raised a $1.5 It was the second African startup after fellow Ghanaian startup mPharma to take part in the six-month-long program.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

A hallmark of that spirit is quite visible these days in the country’s flourishing startup ecosystem, which has expanded rapidly in the past few years, to say the least. However, the global slowdown has impacted startups’ growth in the country, just like everywhere else in the world.

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