TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

TrustLayer , which provides insurance brokers with risk management services via a SaaS platform, has raised $6.6 Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. million in a seed round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. He recalls pre-selling his inventory at a discount in order to get the money to import the goods.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Worse, CFOs are expected to be more strategic than ever about finance, but can struggle to deliver important forecasts and projections given the lack of availability of key data. Mosaic is a “strategic finance platform” that is designed to ingest data from all sorts of systems in the alphabet soup of enterprise IT — ERPs, HRISs, CRMs, etc. —

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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. reported this month that $51 billion of venture capital was invested into U.S. London & Partners and Dealroom.co

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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 million seed financing in the summer of 2020. Their goal was to create a strategic finance platform for the enterprise that had the look and feel of a consumer offering. Talk about validation. Image Credits: Vareto.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, Polly this week announced it has raised $37 million in a round led by Menlo Ventures to automate workflows for mortgage companies. Existing backers Conversion Capital and Bain Capital Ventures also participated in the round, bringing the company’s total raised since its November 2020 inception to $35 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception. So, just how does it work?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the many ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. Now he’s putting his money where his mouth is and launching his own venture fund, called simply The Fintech Fund.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Here’s who she spoke to: Deborah Quazzo , managing partner, GSV Ventures. Ashley Bittner , founding partner, Firework Ventures (a future of work fund with portfolio companies LearnIn and TransfrVR). Jomayra Herrera , principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 Ascend app. Brokers are here to stay,” he added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

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. venture capital activity,” he writes. And as more regions decriminalize the use of plant-based substances, investors are taking notice.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Just one week after closing on its acquisition of Metromile (and laying off about 20% of the latter company’s staff), Lemonade announced on August 4 that it has sold Metromile’s enterprise business solutions unit, a SaaS-based claims automation and fraud detection product, to EIS. Well, that was fast! Another day, another Q2 funding report.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Nurasyl Serik and Volodymyr Fedoriv started Remofirst in 2021 to open up that option to more businesses with a SaaS offering they say is more cost-efficient, quicker and comprehensive than what currently exists. Mouro Capital and QED Investors co-led the financing, which included participation from Counterpart Ventures.

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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. Spurling was previously the COO and CFO at Jana, a mobile advertising company, where she managed HR and finance teams. ”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

billion in an all-stock deal that was a reflection of its continued push into consumer finance. It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g. TechCrunch last reported on Fast in January of 2021, when the startup raised a $102 million Series B financing led by Stripe.

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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. It marked PayPay Ventures’ first check into a MENA startup, and is also indicative of the exploding fintech scene in the region.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. As a SaaS business, Pismo mostly makes money by charging transaction fees.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to the accelerator, the decision to downsize the S22 batch — significantly smaller than its most recent batches — was a result of the economic downturn and changes to the venture funding environment this year. Nigerian YC-backed startup Anchor comes out of stealth with $1M+ to scale its banking-as-a-service platform.

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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

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

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. Image Credits: Brighteye Ventures.

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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

APRIL 3, 2023

The company also revealed it has raised $3 million in seed funding from Sequoia Capital India , Google’s Gradient Ventures , Surge , and January Capital. For instance, incumbent streaming databases solve many problems far beyond what Dozer offers, which is all about serving real-time data updates and APIs in a single product.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

Phil Edmondson-Jones is a principal at Oxx , the specialist SaaS VC backing Europe and Israel's most promising B2B SaaS businesses at the scale-up stage. Once the uncool sibling of a flourishing fintech sector, insurtech is now one of the hottest areas of a buoyant venture market. Share on Twitter. are all testament to this.

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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. As part of the investment, Clara Sieg, partner at Revolution Ventures, is joining the company’s board.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Stitch Health — Our most recent healthcare investment, Stitch is a Y-Combinator seeded SaaS company that serves as home base for healthcare teams that aim to deliver customer-first healthcare. healthcare market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Mexico-based startup closed the $15 million Series A round and $20 million debt financing after participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 cohort. ALLVP and Infinity Ventures, a firm founded by a trio of ex-PayPal execs, co-led the equity raise. Divvy got acquired by Bill.com. In the U.S., Infinity’s Mario Ruiz agrees. “In

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Mix in the impending SPAC-led debut of eToro, general bullishness in the cryptocurrency space, record highs for some equities markets, and recent rounds from Public.com, M1 Finance and U.K.-based Last year was a record 12 months for venture-backed biotech and pharma companies, with deal activity rising to $28.5 But will it?

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