TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Of course, startups often manage to find a way to take down incumbents and a distraction for Carta, at least, in the form of a very public gender discrimination lawsuit by a former VP of marketing, could be the kind of opening that Pulley needs. What can Pulley offer startups that Carta cannot? Carta was just valued at $1.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Co-founder and CEO Chris Cochran says that the company approached H.I.G. to “scale given the market opportunity.” Image Credits: ProsperOps Lots of cloud optimization startups claim to do the same, like Sync Computing. Growth Partners with participation from Active Capital and other unnamed investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

The competition is not your market competitor or incumbent. Fundraising in healthcare, especially in a macro environment like the one we’re in, is an opportunity to differentiate and take control of the narrative. This is an opportunity for you to capture this capital pool. Reframe the macro view. Get granular.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Startups operating in the financial side of the real estate tech market suddenly faced a surge in demand, and many departed on hiring sprees to keep up. This meant that the once high-flying startups were suddenly dealing with the opposite problem — too many employees and not enough transactions to make money.

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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. EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. startup ecosystem lost an important business partner. With the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup. Coast co-founders Daniel Simon and Andrew Woolf.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.” Amira Yahyaoui, the founder of Mos.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

And it’s part of what can go wrong in startup land. For starters – the co-founder of Clutter.io, Ari Mir, is a friend and 6 years ago I backed the first startup he co-founded with Ophir Tanz , GumGum. And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9%

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry. This is ok!

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A blueprint for building a great startup founding team. For startup founders, these words aptly describe the road ahead. Successful startups will inevitably draw the attention of powerful incumbents in their industry. Most startups follow one of two paths, and the first step is to determine which one you’re on.

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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. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

A recent survey by TechCrunch+ indicates that investors and founders are, instead of simply looking for attractive opportunities, increasingly putting their minds to building the foundations for an industry that can employ the power of psychedelics to change lives.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Challenger banks continue to see huge infusions of cash from investors bullish on the opportunity for smaller and faster-moving tech-based banking startups to woo customers from their larger rivals. Digital banking has reached a tipping point,” said Anne Boden, founder and CEO of Starling Bank, in a statement.

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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. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Legal and corporate due diligence , which involves a detailed investigation on the startup, the founders, contracts, corporate structure, product, compliance, contracts, offering, and more. What is due diligence?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. ” Going up against incumbents. . ” Going up against incumbents. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. Image Credits: Wave.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Fashion startup Virgio, co-founded by Amar Nagaram, former chief executive of Myntra, has raised $37 million in a new financing round as the young firm looks to build “a global fashion brand” from the South Asian market. The startup’s approach has prompted some to draw comparisons between its model with that of the behemoth Shein.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2019

Which sectors see more startup company formation than others? Eight years ago, there were nearly zero AI startups seeded. Blockchain - another exponential curve that shows growth from 0 to 200 startups in eight years. Consumer preferences are evolving and startups are rising to meet the demand. Let’s take a look.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. Older adults have so much to offer.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups are innovation machines. They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world. Brad Birnbaum, founder and CEO of Kustomer , discussed the challenges of innovating on two dimensions simultaneously on the [Saastr podcast](). At the outset, Brad also sought to change the pricing model.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. Before starting Ayoconnect, founder and CEO Jakob Rost was a managing director at Lazada.

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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. Klar experienced a “7x” year-over-year increase in revenue and 4x bump in transaction volume over the same time period, according to Klar co-founder and CEO Stefan Möller. he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Now two years later, despite a much different funding environment, especially for fintech startups , Endowus is announcing another round. Participants also include “four of Asia’s wealthiest families,” the startup said in its press release, whose operating businesses encompass banking and real estate across Southeast Asia and China.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“There’s a big wave of innovation in managing cloud costs,” Team8 co-founder and managing partner Liran Grinberg told TechCrunch as part of our latest cloud investor survey. As time and mergers went by, it became clear that there was more than startups in this space could do for their customers. So what might be next?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. At the time, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Segun Adeyemi , said that he was taking a break and would “likely start another company” later.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding. The Buenos Aires-based startup’s new infrastructure aims to allow fintechs and embedded finance players to launch virtual accounts and issue prepaid and credit cards via “compliant” onboarding processes.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu , a Berlin-based startup that describes itself as an SaaS banking platform — providing, by way of APIs, technology to banks and others to power lending, deposit and other banking products — has closed a round of €110 million (about $135 million at today’s rates). The funding gives Mambu a post-money valuation of €1.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Grocery delivery startup Tiggy is a new player in the Canadian quick commerce space, announcing Friday $6.35 Many individual grocers offered their own delivery during the global pandemic, in addition to the delivery incumbents Instacart, PC Express, Inabuggy, DoorDash and Uber Eats.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

and over $200m has been raised over the last two years to open even more,” Dina Burkitbayeva, founder of PsyMed Ventures, said. ” A more favorable regulatory and social landscape is helping psychedelic startups gain a foothold, but they still have to walk a tightrope that’s susceptible to the vagaries of market sentiment.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. Infrastructure providers have a unique opportunity to be a bright spot amidst all the doom and gloom. Laura Spiekerman. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

The Series B round was led by Accel, Citius and Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors AC Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Lightspeed and Sequoia Capital India. The startup is competing with incumbents like Sayurbox, HappyFresh and TaniHub to win over users.

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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. Founders pitched carriers a tech-forward relationship with the customer, focusing on:

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The startup launched its banking services in 2017, aimed at making younger consumers comfortable doing all their banking online. Today, the startup competes with Chime, Current, N26, Level, Step and Moven, among many others. I caught up with Colin Walsh, the company’s chief executive and founder, to get an update. consumer bank.

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