TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. With corporate venture fund creation rebounding to near record levels and the value of deals that CVCs participated in soaring, we wanted to look more deeply into why companies are building their own investing arms. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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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. Startup Battlefield Company Boomerang Commerce. reported this month that $51 billion of venture capital was invested into U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. million in debt) Series B led by Fin Venture Capital with participation from Mastercard, Proof Ventures, Trestle and Espresso Capital, bringing Teampay’s total raised to $65 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the financing. My weekly fintech newsletter, The Interchange, launched on May 1!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. Incumbents feel threatened.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. The startup was founded earlier this year to build a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! Unfortunately, as with most private companies, neither startup will share hard revenue figures. But they do at least provide some metrics.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. Some include U.K.’s Image Credits: Sylndr.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Melonn , a Colombian startup that provides fulfillment and software services to small and medium-sized e-commerce companies in Latin America, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

produces more new startups and unicorns each year than any other country in the world, but 90% of startups fail , with cash flow often being a major challenge. There’s clearly a lot of venture money to be raised — and most tech entrepreneurs happily take it in exchange for equity. More posts by this contributor.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

That platform, called Flink , attracted the attention of Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Accel, which just led a $12 million Series A for the company. Mexico’s ALLVP, Clocktower, Kevin Efrusy and Oskar Hjertonsson and existing backer Raptor Financial Group participated in the financing as well.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

Hi all, it was a roller coaster of a week in the world of fintech as I published two separate articles on startup layoffs and a nine-figure funding round in the span of a few hours. with $488 billion in assets, acquired a 12-person startup called Long Game in an effort to attract more GenZ and millennial customers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Maple VC’s Andre Charoo told TechCrunch that the startup has returned (unrealized) one-third of the firm’s second fund so far. Presently, the startup has over 650 employees and will also use its new capital to hire another 100 more or so people at its Winnipeg and Calgary campuses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. Interestingly, the startup also got some industry validation in the way of investors. Are insurtech startups undervalued? million in a seed round.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Mexico City-based digital bank Klar has raised $70 million in equity funding at a valuation of $500 million, the startup announced today. General Atlantic doubled down on Klar , leading its latest financing in addition to its $70 million Series B last July. WTI provided $20 million in venture debt, Möller said.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

Conversely many VCs believe that constraining cash can often lead to increases in creative solutions at a startup. A VC wants to know that you have a solid plan to execute a stand-alone business and if you require capital for an acquisition they’d rather evaluate it at the time rather than over-fund you now. Annoying, I know.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. This sea of SaaS startups have reshaped the market. Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Salesforce was founded in 1999.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Amadeus has 16,000 employees and earned more than $2 billion in revenue last year, but early-stage startups can learn from its digital transition, Ron writes. 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Vareto , a startup aiming to help companies conduct more forward-looking financial planning and analysis, is coming out of stealth today with $24 million in total funding. 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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

There are so many startups pledging to reinvent the mortgage process that it’s hard to keep up. The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow. No doubt it has plenty of competition.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Startup insurance provider Vouch raises $90M, now valued at $550M. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

This is a large Series B by any standards, but particularly so for a Latin American startup. million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. The startup has now raised a total of $152.7 Today, the startup has more than 120,000 customers. million since its 2019 inception.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio, a startup that aims to take the pain out of selling subscriptions for brands on Shopify, has raised $3.7 Kennan Davison, an engineer who previously worked at Hulu and Pinterest, founded the startup in April. Prior to founding Adjacent, Nico worked at Point Nine Capital and Insight Partners. million in a seed funding round.

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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. But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Space travel startups look to conquer the final frontier. Email startups raised 22% less.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. Consolidation everywhere.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

I had a catastrophic relationship with incumbent banks.”. ” Neon’s approach seems to be resonating with the Brazilian population, if the startup’s growth and funding history are any indication. In February, Neon raised a $300 million Series D financing that valued the company at $1.6 We’re a purpose-driven company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Charles Birnbaum , partner, Bessemer Venture Partners (a generalist fund with portfolio companies including Guild Education and Brightwheel). Independent thinking suffered.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The startup, which is out to give brands and tech companies a way to launch custom co-branded credit cards, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Activant Capital. The financing brings the two-year-old company’s total raised since its 2019 inception to $50 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. We care about startups. So we pay what we might call minimum-viable attention to former startups that made it all the way to an IPO. TechCrunch isn’t a public-market-focused publication.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. I am expecting a downturn at some point. Dreams can be fueled here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

This is a common refrain in the industry, which is why we are seeing an increasing number of startups pop up in the space. For example, Polly this week announced it has raised $37 million in a round led by Menlo Ventures to automate workflows for mortgage companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Nelo , a startup founded by former Uber international growth team leads, began offering buy now, pay later services to Mexico earlier this year. With the latest Series A financing, Nelo has raised a total of $25.6 Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. million since its 2019 inception.

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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. ” Venture capitalists noticed, and startups closed large rounds of capital. With tech’s embrace, people were about to soon “love their insurance!”

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