TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

When robotic process automation company UiPath filed to go public in March 2021, the startup had just closed a $750 million round that helped it clinch a $35 billion valuation. Last quarter, UiPath grew its revenue by 39%, so “the company fits neatly into the high-growth SaaS bucket,” wrote Ron and Alex Wilhelm.

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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

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.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Thinking beyond traditional approaches towards growth Image credits: [link] You’re a tech founder with a vision of building a product that will establish and dominate a brand-new category. a critical juncture of your venture’s life cycle, as a majority of startups have only one chance to make a strong first impression.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Recurring revenue as an asset class is a relatively new concept, and made more popular by startups such as Pipe , which has built a marketplace connecting investors to companies with businesses that have predictable, recurring revenues. To date, the startup has raised a total of $25.5 million Series A funding round for Crowdz.

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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. Startups are way easier to sell to (early adopters) vs. legacy industries (laggards, non-tech-adept). Tip: All startups are badly broken at some point.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. The company’s “big focus is continuing the vision of transforming healthcare,” said Sid Viswanathan, president and co-founder of Truepill.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”. billion in capital commitments.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

A year after the FTC blocked Harry’s from getting acquired by Edgewell Personal Care, the direct-to-consumer razor startup raised $155 million in Series E financing to give it a $1.7 The same filing listed the co-founders alongside Zola’s co-founder Shan-Lyn Ma, Addition Capital founder Lee Fixel, Campbell Soup Co.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The direct listing becomes the standard way for startups to go public in 2020. Most startups at IPO have plenty of cash and don't need to raise more in the public markets. With SaaS penetration roughly 20-30% by our estimates, there's several hundred billion in market cap to be created in the next few years.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

Second, the key systems of record in SaaS are already in place. Subverting those incumbents is going to require a meaningfully better product or substantially more effective customer acquisition channel. We haven’t really seen a discontinuity of the magnitude SaaS presented to server/client, yet. Chat bots, too, are early.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The cloud-focused startup’s investment was led by Animo Ventures , with participating checks from Uncorrelated Ventures , B Capital Group and Moxxie Ventures. The hybrid open source (OSS) and commercial combination is an increasingly popular startup method of attacking markets. . Kunovsky has big aspirations for the company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

TrustLayer , which provides insurance brokers with risk management services via a SaaS platform, has raised $6.6 Interestingly, the startup also got some industry validation in the way of investors. Are insurtech startups undervalued? million in a seed round. Twenty of the top 100 insurance agencies in the U.S.

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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. Welcome to my new weekly fintech-focused column. It’s an incredible time to be a financial technology journalist.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

.” Prior to co-founding Superblocks, Menezes was a lead product manager at Yelp and senior director of product management at Datadog, as well as an angel investor in enterprise startups at Sequoia. Menezes says he thinks about the competitive landscape in three ways: build-it-yourself, legacy incumbents and low-code startups.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2021

For three Palantir alums, the hope is that CFOs will turn to their new startup called Mosaic. Mosaic founders Bijan Moallemi, Brian Campbell and Joseph Garafalo. Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. Photos via Mosaic. Screenshot of Mosaic’s planning function.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

At TechCrunch Early Stage this month, we sat down with Felicis Ventures partners Viviana Faga and Niki Pezeshki to talk about scaling, product-market fit, and why it’s crucial to be “10x better” than the incumbents. Startups must be able to demonstrate that they have users that love their product. Product-market fit.

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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. Menlo also put money in the company’s latest round, in addition to 40 angel investors, including tech unicorn founders and chief financial officers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. So, will Prezent.ai

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Its digitally-native approach can save pet parents up to $750 a year on healthcare expenses, Zubin Bhettay, co-founder and CEO of Fuzzy, told TechCrunch. There are a number of startups tapping into this major trend of pets to capture that household spend in the areas of healthcare, insurance and food. Fuzzy live chat via its app.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Startups fail when they run out of money. Startups run out of money when they lack focus. Without a maniacal focus on serving customer needs in a unique way, startups can flounder amidst competition. That’s why it’s critical to identify and focus on your startup’s competitive advantage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Given a large number of startups will not generate a profit near and are cash-flow negative in the near term, they will have to raise more capital in a difficult environment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The startup will continue to look for ways to expand its partner network of hardware and software companies across the globe, Luke Wilson, founder and CEO of ManageXR told TechCrunch. The company will focus more on large enterprises next year, he added. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. He’s the co-founder of Magical , an RPA startup that’s designed to move data across websites and web apps with a few keystrokes. This sparked the idea for Magical.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. This has led to hyper-growth in the headless CMS category,” Oliver Thomas, a co-founder and partner at Expedition, told TechCrunch via email. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

The emergence of SaaS business models has further set the stage for companies like Gusto to transform SMB operations. In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. When Gusto founders Josh, Tomer, and Eddie came together in 2011, they saw an unmet need in small business payroll.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Strategic angel investors include Phil Bentley, CEO of Mitie, and Naman Budhdeo, co-founder and CEO of TripStack and FlightNetwork. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D. Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 era.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

In fact, many founders have already started that pursuit. Blockchain startups have already targeted major buyers of software, from email security products to job marketplaces, from legal products to human resources software. The SaaS wave of the last ten years optimized intra-company operations. But that’s myopic.

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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. Startup insurance provider Vouch raises $90M, now valued at $550M.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sindhya Valloppillil is the founder and CEO of Skin Dossier, a venture partner at Next Gen Ventures, a freelance writer and formerly a beauty industry executive and marketing professor. Last week, Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced that it was terminating plans to acquire razor startup Billie following a U.S. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

“We wanted these big things out of our healthcare system, like value-based healthcare or personalized medicine,” explains AcuityMD’s founder and CEO Mike Monovoukas. “Instead we got 140 instruments in a surgical tray. That’s how much product complexity there is in this space.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

This is where he says the differentiator is between his company and the incumbents, like Momentive/SurveyMonkey or Typeform, which focus more on the research space, while EnquireLabs is focused on how to put the data to use in real time. million in seed funding. The round was led by True Ventures, with participation from V1.VC,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

He was an angel investor in ChefHero, a part-time owner in an Australian-style meat pie shop and, now, is the founder of ResQ , a startup that helps restaurants repair and service their equipment through contractor work. SaaS-enabled marketplace. It charges a monthly SaaS fee per rooftop to a restaurant group.

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