TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

During this period of change, I thought about consumption and how it affects our well-being and health system.”. Joining Lerer Hippeau in the investment are Siddhi Capital, Idea Farm Ventures, Simple Food Ventures, Animal Capital and American Pie executive Alan Mitzner. Immi takes in $3.8M to cook up plant-based instant ramen.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data. Email startups raised 22% less.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

And for employees, Gusto’s goal is to help put the individual in the driver’s seat of their financial health and their career. In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

These platforms have become popular with neobanks or upstarts in different segments trying to embed financial services into their offerings because large, incumbent banks have been relatively slow to bring their services up to speed with the pace of change in the world of tech and banking.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. At Stripes, we only invest in companies building amazing products, and Novo’s rave reviews, strong retention, and incredible growth make it clear it has built something that small businesses love.” “We are competing against big banks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Today, psychedelic therapeutics are being used to treat a variety of mental health issues. With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics. Dear Sophie: Supporting Ukrainians with H-1Bs and beyond. .

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. This did not happen by magic.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. In addition, one of the only ways insurance companies can make a profit is by taking those hundreds of millions of dollars in payments and investing it. They want all of their money up front so they can invest it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

beU delivery is YC’s first set of investments in Africa’s food delivery space alongside Heyfood, another startup in this batch. Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

QED Investors said it has expanded its mental health initiative aimed at tackling addiction among entrepreneurs to its Spanish-language portfolio companies. Last year, TechCrunch published an op-ed from Nigel Morris around mental health stigma in the tech community when the initial program was announced. Seen on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

While Africa’s health systems are still reeling from the effects of the COVID pandemic, the adoption of digital health services has been revved in some countries. The report says 36% of all-time funding reported by the health supply chain startups it profiled was raised in the last 12 months.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Open Co was created earlier this year by the merger of Geru, an eight-year-old o nline lender, and Rebel, a four-year-old startup using AI and bank account data to underwrite risk and assess clients’ financial health. Its aim is to “finance consumption for Brazilians in a healthy way.” Naturally, it will also be doing some hiring.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Jackson had been introduced to the senior care space when in high school as he worked alongside a mentor in private equity who invested in and acquired elderly care facilities. We’re trying to address some of the core issues surrounding the way health care has been built,” Felton said. But more of ‘How do we prevent that?’

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Mironov came from the finance world, having spent several years as a private equity analyst, associate and consultant. And of course incumbent payroll providers like Square offer their own solutions. In fact, one survey found that three out of every five gig workers lose earnings because of technical difficulties clocking in or out.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

In many cases, they are dealing with a foreign and complex financial system, may struggle with finding adequate housing and health care and just generally feeling lost. Joining TTV in doubling down on their investment in the company were Owl Ventures, SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, Mubadala Capital and Next Play Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Now we’re very much a data-driven, thesis-driven outbound firm, where we’re reaching out to entrepreneurs soon after they’ve started their companies or gotten seed financing. I think that’s what’s required to build a relationship and the conviction, because financings are happening so fast. What will tomorrow’s tech look like?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

These include a wide swathe of incumbent companies that do a lot of their business in areas like debt collection, and other specialists like Scaleworks-backed Chargify — which itself got a big investment injection earlier this year from Battery Ventures, which put $150 million into both it and another billing provider, SaaSOptics, in April.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. practice of employer sponsored health care coverage. healthcare system rarely thinks of the patient as a customer.

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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? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

A separate measure, of total value of paid-in investment, revealed 1.67x returns for other hubs versus 1.60x in the main Silicon Valley and Bay Area tech cities. How should they think about competition, strategic investment versus top-tier VC firms and how to build their board? per year on syndicated deals elsewhere versus 17.5%

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.” We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.

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