Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elevator pitch. So it’s incumbent on you to know what a smart business plan and use of cash looks like. It goes something like this … VC: “How much money are you raising?” Annoying, I know.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services. I did, too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

million in venture financing from investors led by Equal Ventures and including Operator Partners, Box Group, Greycroft, Sandeep Jain and Xuan Yong of RigUp, returning angel investor Kiran Bhatraju of Arcadia and Jason Jacobs’ recently launched My Climate Journey Collective, an early-stage climate tech fund. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. Are you open to cold pitches? In some cases, this is postponing the inevitable. How can founders reach you?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

“They are the strongest company in the segment and well financed in this growing market,” said Forrester analyst Craig Le Clair. Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. ” Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The latest to show its hand is Berlin-based Flink , which today is announcing that it has raised a hefty $52 million in seed financing. Meanwhile, the new financing will be used to expand further within Germany and into additional European markets this year. Cristina Stenbeck from Kinnevik also joins the round in a personal capacity.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there were lofty claims that everything about the industry was about to change. Founders pitched carriers a tech-forward relationship with the customer, focusing on: With tech’s embrace, people were about to soon “love their insurance!”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

in average transaction fees, digital senders like NALA pitch themselves to customers as platforms with the best rates and lowest prices. to select African countries include unicorn Chipper Cash , Lemonade Finance, Zazuu and Sendwave. With Africa being the most expensive region to send money to, with 10.6%

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. According to an HBS case study , “in December 2018 the interest rate in Brazil for corporate loans was 52.3%, for consumer loans it was 120.0%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

And last but definitely not least, the latest extension — which closed in December but is only now being publicly announced — effectively doubles Human Interest’s valuation from its financing a few months prior. . It was later revealed that American Express Ventures had joined the financing as an investor. ” .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Its pitch to customers is that while banks take weeks or months to give cards, Sudo Africa takes days. Sudo collects card production and personalization fees cheaper than incumbents’, claims Shittu. But with the introduction of virtual dollar cards in a few digital banks and fintech platforms, this has become less of an issue.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

Then the next, I open my inbox to see pitches for nine-figure funding rounds (hello, SpotOn ) and the birth of new unicorns (looking at you, Unit ). I find it kind of fascinating when fintechs buy incumbents, and I expect we’ll only continue to see more of it. Stripes led the latest financing. Here we are today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Serendipitously, while studying at Brown, he realized he wasn’t alone in his desire to help this population when he, Evan Jackson and Alex Rothberg wound up in the same class pitching the same idea — separately — to their teacher. million in May of 2021 from some angel investors and smaller institutional investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

market, pitched as “authentic, real-time AI search.” It’s clear that Neeva has its work cut out if it’s to differentiate in a market that includes long-established billion-dollar incumbents, and other agile startups, with much the same goals. “In our upcoming upgrades, Neeva can.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Instead, the challenge was how to rebuild the concept of a bank in a country where banking is widely hated, all while the incumbents heavily entrenched with the state worked to block every move. But years would pass and Velez still had no idea what he wanted to do.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank positions itself as a “utility” on which other companies — spanning fintech upstarts, challenger brands, to incumbent banks that want to re-factor their tech — can build and sell various financial services or add fintech features to their products. Railsbank raises $10M Series A for its open banking and compliance platform.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

But Amy Spurling, the CEO of Compt, makes the case that incumbent solutions are overly reliant on vendor marketplaces or benefits cards, which limit the ways in which employees can use their perks. She pitches Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Compt as the answer. ” Image Credits: Compt.

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