TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Startups operating in the financial side of the real estate tech market suddenly faced a surge in demand, and many departed on hiring sprees to keep up. Nima Wedlake, principal at Thomvest Ventures, agreed, noting that agility is a critical trait. Nima Wedlake , principal, Thomvest Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Although SVB’s failure can’t be blamed on the venture ecosystem, some policymakers have joined the general public in maligning the bank’s depositors — in large part venture-backed startups. This negative narrative has immense implications for the venture community. This is an inflection point.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

It also resurfaced talk of when Stripe reportedly pressured investor Sequoia to back off from an investment that smelled like competition. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. million in a round led by Firebrand Ventures. It expects to achieve a second close by the end of June.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2022

Retail investment behemoth Robinhood laid off 23% of its staff — just 3 months after letting go of 9% of its workforce. For years, the real estate technology company has touted itself as using its pricing technology to provide “more accurate offers and lower costs,” said the FTC. Another day, another Q2 funding report.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

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. In other Goldman Sachs news, Bloomberg reported that the investment banking and financial services giant is “ embarking on its biggest round of jobs cuts since the start of the pandemic.”

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. Just eight years from founding to dominance with an entirely new model: the largest taxi company in the world owns no taxis and the largest hotelier in the world owns no real estate. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

“We were immediately intrigued because Ohio-based Lower echoes both of these themes,” said Accel partner John Locke, who led the firm’s investment in Lower and is taking a seat on the company’s board as part of the investment. Like Galileo, Lower will be one of the most successful bootstrapped fintech companies globally.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the myriad ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. The state of venture. Reporting on startups and the venture world at a time like this is a series of contradictions.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. So, about two years ago, as a Bay Area resident, living right off Sand Hill Road, started intentionally investing outside the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

Celebrating female-led ventures I, as many of you I’m sure, continue to be disappointed in the lack of LP (limited partner) dollars flowing toward female-led venture capital firms. It plans to invest $1.5 During their time at Amex, they worked on investments in companies such as Plaid, Stripe, Melio and Trulioo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. The funding brings the total investment to date for Portland, Oregon-based Sila to $20 million.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? I don't know if you recall this Sam, that there was something that was said about VCs or investment or something. You can invest in things. We're also going to talk about your ideas.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.

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