Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Scott Lenet is president of Touchdown Ventures. Is there a creed in venture capital? Unfortunately this is all too common among the leadership of incumbent corporations. Seeing the future is also the goal of startup founders, corporate leaders and venture capitalists. Scott Lenet. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

They imagine it to look something like this: They think that there are some deals that are automatic yeses and some that are just bad, but there’s a whole lot that are kind of in the middle—deals that can be nudged over to one side or the other based on things like clever fundraising strategy or the presence of bias. This isn’t surprising.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

It’s rarer still that companies built on a feature make for VC-investable companies with the potential for VC-scale returns. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. “Our primary markets (around 80%) are services industry, logistics, manufacturing, automotive, health care and government.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

And according to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.” ” On the flip side, he predicts that corporates with venture capital arms that are “committed to the insurance sector will likely step up their involvement.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

million in funding from Anthemis, Financial Venture Studio and Soma Capital. ” Ivella isn’t just competing with the theory of joint accounts pushed by incumbent banks, but also venture-backed startups seeking a multiplayer fintech world.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow. And it’s because the incumbents have no reason to fundamentally change.”. No doubt it has plenty of competition.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Similar to most other sectors today, that crumbling of confidence in the sector has trickled down to the private markets as well, slowing down venture dealmaking and further shrinking deal sizes in an already parched venture market. is discussed,” said Amy Kruse, chief investment officer, Satori Neuro. Will they take the lead?”

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development.

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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. . Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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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. As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce

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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. venture capital activity,” he writes. “Our engineers are excited about this move,” said Pellisé.

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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. We are focused on how we can help the SMEs improve their cash flow so they can thrive.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

In fundraising, a founder’s greatest challenge is not selling any particular product or strategy. The competition is not your market competitor or incumbent. In this environment, funds will be looking for acyclical markets to invest in. Galym Imanbayev joined Lightspeed in 2020 as a partner focused on the healthcare sector.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Lunar has a full banking license (setting it apart from a number of other neobanks, which operate on other banks’ rails), and it offers checking and deposit accounts; loans and other credit services like buy now, pay later; stock, fund and ETF investing for consumers; plus business accounts, loans and financial management for SMBs.

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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. New backers Movement Mortgage, First American Financial and FinVC joined existing investors 8VC, Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall in participating in the round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There TC: Was it worth it for you to get a charter as a company? And if so, why?

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Over that 20 year period, annual SaaS investment has increased 20x, peaking in 2014 at $7B. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents.

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Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

More often than not, I believe it is largely impossible to predict the shape of an outcome when making an initial venture investment. The insight and data venture investors have to work with increases as a company matures — the earlier the investment, the more unknown the outcome is.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere. ” In other news.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. Chief corporate development and strategy officer Greg Orenstein will move into its CFO seat.” Nihar Bobba has “dipped” out of Wharton to join fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures as a principal, according to this tweet.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Better Tomorrow Ventures led Super.mx’s $2.4 million seed round, which also saw capital from 500 Startups Mexico, Village Global, Anthemis and Broadhaven Ventures, among others. Like the US, a two-tier venture capital market is emerging in Latin America. It’s really a different strategy than what you would find in the U.S.,”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Descript , the audio and video editing platform founded in 2017 by former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, has raised $50 million in a Series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which OpenAI and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

“It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry,” Ryan Lawler writes. The hyperactive late-stage market should keep the startup investing game afoot.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. ” The round is being led by Stripes, with Valar Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Rainfall Ventures, and BoxGroup — all of whom backed Novo in its $40 million Series A , just six months ago — also participating. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

While the CEO sets strategy, messages, and builds culture, the CFO needs to know everything that it is going on in an organization. Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. Other investors in the Series A included Felicis Ventures, plus XYZ and Village Global. Photo via Mosaic.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

“We strongly believe that the way is not just by latching banking-as-a-service on a payments platform, but there has to be proper banking as a service platform built with the right infrastructure and go-to-market strategy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Businesses today feel, more than ever, the imperative to have flexible e-commerce strategies in place, able to connect with would-be customers wherever they might be. Previous backers One Peak and Project A Ventures also participated. We understand that this latest funding values Berlin -based Spryker at more than $500 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

We also provide analytics for their strategy and where they should be spending it — which store, on which supply. Costanoa Ventures led the investment and was joined by Torch Capital and a group of angel investors including Fivestars CTO Matt Doka and Hu’s Kitchen CEO Mark Ramadan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Four strategies for getting attention from investors. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital. Four strategies for getting attention from investors. Image Credits: Generation Investment Management.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Bob Ruark, principal and banking and fintech strategy leader for KPMG US, noted that pricing is difficult now given the rapid decline in valuations. Retail investment behemoth Robinhood laid off 23% of its staff — just 3 months after letting go of 9% of its workforce. Another day, another Q2 funding report.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!” Fintech startups are convinced that banks have lobbied the RBI to reach this decision, employing the age-old tactic where incumbents cry foul and rely on the regulator to rescue the day. ” the founder added.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

As an investor in startups, there is considerable conventional wisdom around the idea of investing only in the Bay Area. Until then, the overwhelming majority of Haystack investments were in the Bay Area. In the six years Haystack has been around, here is a rough map of where our investments have been located.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

billion transaction — led by Permira and Hellman & Friedman — gave investors a way to get some return on their investment, albeit below the $17 billion offer they got in February. Some affected founders are pushing the narrative that incumbent banks lobbied the RBI to reach a decision favorable to them. Ron notes that the $10.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Deqode engineer Shivam Bohare said Leda Health’s system relies on Ethereum infrastructure services from Blocknative , a company that attracted investment from Coinbase Ventures, and Infura , a startup partially owned by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin.

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