TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Replicant , one of the more prominent vendors in the call center automation space, today announced that it raised $78 million in Series B funding led by Stripes with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Omega, IronGrey, Norwest and Atomic. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

One analyst estimated $15b+ of incumbent market value was wiped out. 5/ (Pill) Bottle Returns – This is the part where we talk about the venture-scale return. 4/ Not A Great Of Contact High – As soon as the news of PillPack hit, various public pharmacy and drug store companies got pummeled in the markets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Startups like Ascend aiming to disrupt the insurance industry are also attracting venture capital, with recent examples including Vouch and Marshmallow , which raised close to $100 million, while Insurify raised $100 million. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 Ascend app.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

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

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Wondermed claims that it is, as do rivals Mindbloom and Fieldtrip Health. ” Natasha notes that former and current employees have previously spoken about the health tech company’s inability to gain meaningful revenue from newer products. In drug-related news, a startup called Wondermed raised $4.6 Now, you might ask, Is this safe?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. He teamed up with John Dada two years later to build Curacel, a fraud detection system for health companies at the time. Remedial Health. Website: [link].

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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. Sindhya Valloppillil. Contributor. Share on Twitter. The people that struggle have been the companies that spend so much money in just a few years.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Here are 6 tactical guidelines drawn from my work with 15+ global tech upstarts in D2C, B2B marketplaces, SaaS for SMBs, logistics, cybersecurity, and digital health over the last decade: 1. Winning big often means starting small.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Open Co was created earlier this year by the merger of Geru, an eight-year-old o nline lender, and Rebel, a four-year-old startup using AI and bank account data to underwrite risk and assess clients’ financial health. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

In many cases, they are dealing with a foreign and complex financial system, may struggle with finding adequate housing and health care and just generally feeling lost. has raised $ 30 million in new capital to help these individuals not only adjust to – but feel comfortable and “thrive” in – their new environment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

But we’ll remember 2020 as the year that venture truly joined the cloud. Image Credits: Brighteye Ventures. We brought together Udacity co-founder and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun , Eschaton founder and college dropout Ian Dilick , and Cowboy Ventures investor Jomayra Herrera to answer our biggest questions.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. practice of employer sponsored health care coverage. healthcare system rarely thinks of the patient as a customer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Inbal Perlman , partner, TAU Ventures. Dror Nahumi , partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Sharin Fisher , partner, Fort Ross Ventures. Adi Levanon Chazan , partner, Flint Capital. Noam Kaiser , partner, Intel Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is the largest and one of the best-known funding sources for web3 startups. billion pool of capital to work by backing early-stage web3 companies. with Nisha Dua (BBG Ventures), Jenny Fleiss (Volition Capital), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures) and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge Dixon (All Raise).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Last year was a record 12 months for venture-backed biotech and pharma companies, with deal activity rising to $28.5 In the never-ending stream of venture capital funding rounds, from time to time, a group of startups working on the same problem will raise money nearly in unison. billion from $17.8 billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Jeff Farrah is the general counsel of the National Venture Capital Association. The knock-on effect of these reforms for young companies and their venture investors is unclear. Some might argue that acquisitions are more dominant today because of the anti-competitive motivations of current tech incumbents. Jeff Farrah.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards. Bill Gurley : Absolutely.

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