TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. 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.”

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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

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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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. 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.

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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. In the case of AutoCloud, that’s a SaaS model that will feature pricing tiers based on the number of assets tracked.

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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 10, 2021

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. Heartland led the seed round and was joined by Global Founders Capital, FJ Labs and Redbox Ventures.

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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

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

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. Product-market fit. Startups must be able to demonstrate that they have users that love their product.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The same filing listed the co-founders alongside Zola’s co-founder Shan-Lyn Ma, Addition Capital founder Lee Fixel, Campbell Soup Co. In other words, it may not appear as SaaS growth, but it could appear as value growth. SEC filings show that Harry’s has raised $139.9 million in a new financing event. billion by 2030.

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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. But founder and CEO Sergio Furio told me that he projects annualized revenue of about $200 million for 2021. billion valuation.

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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. The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine. venture capital activity,” he writes. Why VCs don’t need to fear a financial slowdown.

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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 Menlo also put money in the company’s latest round, in addition to 40 angel investors, including tech unicorn founders and chief financial officers. million seed financing in the summer of 2020. Talk about validation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Mosaic founders Bijan Moallemi, Brian Campbell and Joseph Garafalo. Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. million of Series A financing led by Trevor Oelschig of General Catalyst, who has led other enterprise SaaS deals into startups like Fivetran, Contentful, and Loom.

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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. Bhettay is also seeing the larger incumbents focus here, as well as marketing dollars, which he considers validation that the market is shifting to the digitalization of pet care.

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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. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D. How tech can build more resilient supply chains.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

ManageXR announced today it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Rally Ventures , with venture partner and previous lead angel investor Jay Borenstein joining the company’s board of directors. . The company will focus more on large enterprises next year, he added. . Qualcomm launches new AR dev kit, acquires Clay AIR.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Several have substantial venture backing; the aforementioned Retool raised $45 million at a $3.2 Menezes says he thinks about the competitive landscape in three ways: build-it-yourself, legacy incumbents and low-code startups. Rivals include Appsmith , Snapboard , and Airplane. billion valuation in July.

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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. WhatsApp is a good example of such approach: as a text messaging company, its founders homed in on consumers who were paying the highest rates to text?—?immigrant

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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. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo.

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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

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. The round was led by True Ventures, with participation from V1.VC, million in seed funding.

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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. The company raised $31 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint Venture Partners, with support from Benchmark. ”

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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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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. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 Ascend app.

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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.” Image Credits: Magical.

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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. Beauty tech SaaS companies that are worth $5.2 Beauty tech SaaS companies that are worth $5.2 Sindhya Valloppillil. Contributor.

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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. million in seed funding led by Homebrew, Golden Ventures and Inovia Capital. SaaS-enabled marketplace.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Hyperplane led the round, with Founder Collective, Union Labs, 500 Startups, SOSV, E14 Fund, Tectonic Ventures, Scott Belsky, Chad Laurans and Sunny Vu participating. Co-founders Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng, who spun Butlr out of the MIT Media Lab in 2019, refer to their technology as “Alexa for spatial.”

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

By all accounts, the Utah-HQ’d company did everything the right way, was an overnight success 16 years in the making, and only raised venture capital as a growth company after years of bootstrapping. In fact, it feels like old news, even a year after a this New York Times feature on the region.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Since then the economy and capital markets have changed, and so it’s prudent that we adjust as well,” founder and CEO Chris Webb told TechCrunch via email. ChowNow has raised $64 million in venture capital to date, most recently a $21 million Series C round in 2019 led by 3L Capital and Catalyst Investors.

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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

JUNE 3, 2022

We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. TechCrunch is more than just a site with words.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Founders almost never have a real strategy. They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. Founders explain failures with things like “our two main competitors did [thing] to us” or “customers didn’t understand [our point of view].” Often, you can’t.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Cloud native engines maximize customization Today’s engines are monolithic desktop applications originally designed before modern cloud architecture and the SaaS age. Ultimately, these engine unbundling approaches are market wedges to find soft spots where a new creation tool can provide 10x improvement over incumbents.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

With the Series C round — which also included checks from Index Ventures, Airbus Ventures, FM Capital and Exor, the holding company of Fiat-Chrysler and Ferrari — the company has now raised $185 million altogether. It’s also valued at north of $1 billion.

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