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

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

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, Polly this week announced it has raised $37 million in a round led by Menlo Ventures to automate workflows for mortgage companies. Existing backers Conversion Capital and Bain Capital Ventures also participated in the round, bringing the company’s total raised since its November 2020 inception to $35 million.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

You are ready to launch and thinking about the right go-to-market strategies that will lead to quick and scalable growth ? —?a a critical juncture of your venture’s life cycle, as a majority of startups have only one chance to make a strong first impression. Winning big often means starting small.

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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. Finally, there’s Equity , TechCrunch’s long-running, Webby-award-winning podcast focused on venture capital and the latest startup news, hosted by Natasha , Mary Ann and Alex.

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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 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. Why VCs don’t need to fear a financial slowdown.

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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. So, to better understand the market for fintech extension rounds today, we have a set of answers from a group of fintech venture investors we recently surveyed. Well, that was fast!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

Phil Edmondson-Jones is a principal at Oxx , the specialist SaaS VC backing Europe and Israel's most promising B2B SaaS businesses at the scale-up stage. Once the uncool sibling of a flourishing fintech sector, insurtech is now one of the hottest areas of a buoyant venture market. Share on Twitter. are all testament to this.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Recently, Loris — which is designed to lay on top of existing customer service systems — began piloting the ability to use sentiment analysis to predict when a customer might churn and recommend the appropriate strategy. Bow Capital and ServiceNow co-led the Series A alongside existing investors Floodgate and Vertex Ventures.

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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. Therefore, as a GTM strategy and as a way to prove out the engine, we are likely to see the developer build the first game (or series of games) on top of the platform.

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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. Tal Slobodkin , partner, StageOne Ventures . Natalie Refuah , partner, Viola Growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We But what’s important is how the failure happened.”

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

While it’s my first Startups Weekly column, you’ve likely seen me on TC here and there, covering chiefly venture, AI and enterprise-related items. ” Trillions might sound optimistic, but what’s certain is LP’s willingness to write checks is fueling an explosion of new ventures in the nascent space.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. 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. There isn’t one most important SaaS metric. There are many styles that work. I can only teach you my style.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. Dharmesh: HubSpot's a classic venture backed playbook company. Dharmesh: [crosstalk 00:09:30] HubSpot too much.

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