TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

These kinds of numbers have been hard to come by in a conservative investment environment, but the company is growing fast and investors saw an opportunity to grab a market leader, says Pinecone CEO and founder Edo Liberty. “We We are clearly the creators of this category and the leaders in it.

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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. Moreover, penalties for noncompliance could permanently damage a company’s ability to raise capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

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. has created a software-centric, purpose-built … platform that exclusively targets this large market opportunity. “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine. With VCs pulling back on the reins, valuations slipping, and 2021’s hype fading, founders are finding themselves working harder to raise capital than they were in 2021, Alex Wilhelm found in his analysis of early data from DocSend.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 Ian Chiu, managing director, Owl Ventures (a large edtech-focused fund backing highly-valued companies including Byju’s, Newsela, and Masterclass) .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

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. One advantage for Klar, according to Möller , is that its “cost to serve a user” is about 1/20 of what the incumbents pay. he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. and it was refreshing. So I upped and moved to San Francisco.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. Charles Gorra, founder and CEO of Rebag, declined to talk about valuation, but did say it was “a steep evolution from the last time.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

BrokerTech Ventures (BTV), a group consisting of 13 tech-focused insurance agencies in the U.S. TrustLayer co-founder and CEO John Fohr said the company was founded on the premise that verification of insurance and business credentials is a major pain point for millions of businesses.

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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: Just over five years ago, the insurance industry entered the crosshairs of the tech world.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. If they win, we win,” said Sebastián Núñez Castro, CEO and co-founder of Geopagos. The bootstrapped are coming, the bootstrapped are coming.

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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. It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The company claims that besides having founders that have years of experience at a company with a reach like Zillow’s, they also aim to be different from other competitors in the space in that they are strictly focused on the buyer. And it’s because the incumbents have no reason to fundamentally change.”. They were once rivals.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 Kennan Davison, an engineer who previously worked at Hulu and Pinterest, founded the startup in April. billion earlier this year after a $227 million raise. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. Venture capital firms Invenfin , Base Capital, Savannah Fund, P1 Ventures, Luno and FireID took part in the round, including some high-impact angel investors.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Thanks to San Francisco-based Cardless , that opportunity may be less of a stretch than you think. 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. Of the 200 that exist in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

We quickly found that most incumbents focusing solely on the financing of SaaS receivables lacked reliable data and market traction to sufficiently validate their business models,” Chupryna said. For his part, co-founder Lee said he grew up in a “pretty rough part of LA” and has “always been viewed as an underdog.” He joined the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It developed payments APIs to automate end-to-end insurance payments and to offer a buy now, pay later financing option for distribution of commissions and carrier payables, something co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Wynn, said was rather unique to commercial insurance. This is the first funding for the company that is live in 20 states.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. The company wasn’t actively in the market, according to CEO and co-founder Igor Senra, but was approached by existing backer Greenoaks and other investors. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

To learn more about the opportunities they’re chasing and to discover how climate change is shaping their investment thesis, he surveyed: Daniela V. Sub)stacks o’ cash : Alex wonders if perhaps Substack can grow just fine without venture dollars. You can sign up here. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

I recently wrote about a new company called Glean AI , started by former OnDeck and Better.com CFO Howard Katzenberg, which aims to help businesses save money by using machine learning to analyze things like deal terms, line-item data, redundant offerings and negotiation opportunities. Image Credits: Mila Ferrell / Cervin.

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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. Funding and M&A.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. Spring Labs founder and CEO Adam Jiwan told TechCrunch that the two companies’ recent partnership evolved out of a series of discussions that began a couple of years ago.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Doug Petkanics is the co-founder and CEO of Livepeer , an open video infrastructure for livestreaming. It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. Doug Petkanics. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. FOMO is real.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

New backers Movement Mortgage, First American Financial and FinVC joined existing investors 8VC, Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall in participating in the round. Adam Carmel, founder and CEO of Polly , says the company has increased its customer count by nearly 3x over the past year, including “several of the country’s top 100 lenders.”.

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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. Meet our interviewees: Tim Schlidt , co-founder and partner, Palo Santo. Ryan Zurrer , founder, Vine Ventures. Dina Burkitbayeva , founder, PsyMed Ventures.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

So I talked to Varo CEO and founder Colin Walsh to find out if it was worth it. This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. We also saw these decisions as an opportunity to build a longer runway.” His answer?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Far from it. Lots of it. Startup Lessons'

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Menlo also put money in the company’s latest round, in addition to 40 angel investors, including tech unicorn founders and chief financial officers. If you see a gap in an opportunity, you can immediately put resources toward that in days, not months,” she said.

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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. As insurtech valuations have become more realistic, many companies are probing, looking for M&A opportunities,” Wechsler said. “I

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? In addition, founders have raised capital to transform many of the fundamental industries: transportation, hospitality, lending, health insurance, and banking.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

“Our goal is to enable digital commerce throughout LatAm, and BNPL in Mexico is our first step towards that vision,” said CEO and co-founder Kyle Miller. I believe Nelo has built the team, product, data moat and go to market playbook that is best positioned to capitalize on this incredible market opportunity,” she said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Founders : Ahmed Ismail, a second-time founder who has worked for Goldman Sachs and Barclays, is the CEO. Website : [link]. Robert Nyangate is the company’s CTO.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. Regulation becomes the friend of the incumbent in highly regulated industries through a process known as regulatory capture. we immediately thought of Wealthfront , the automated investment service started by Benchmark founder Andy Rachleff.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Revolution, what is it?

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