TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Last quarter, UiPath grew its revenue by 39%, so “the company fits neatly into the high-growth SaaS bucket,” wrote Ron and Alex Wilhelm. Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. ” Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. opens in a new window) license.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Ushur today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series C round led by Third Point Ventures with participation from investors Iron Pillar, 8VC, Aflac Ventures and Pentland Ventures. Meanwhile, SaaS Labs provides AI tools to automate certain sales and support processes. After all, Jiffy.ai

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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

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

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.

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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

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. “We

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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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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 11, 2022

In other words, it may not appear as SaaS growth, but it could appear as value growth. Regardless of if it goes down the public market path or not, Harry’s goal since birth was to target incumbents in the global shave market, which is forecasted to reach $22.5 billion by 2030.

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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 The B2B SaaS startup thus aims to become a command center for the finance and executive teams to see how a business is doing in real time and to be able to make necessary operational changes faster. Image Credits: Vareto.

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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. Now he’s putting his money where his mouth is and launching his own venture fund, called simply The Fintech Fund.

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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 29, 2021

Here’s who she spoke to: Deborah Quazzo , managing partner, GSV Ventures. Ashley Bittner , founding partner, Firework Ventures (a future of work fund with portfolio companies LearnIn and TransfrVR). Jomayra Herrera , principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

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. Screenshot of Mosaic’s planning function. Photo via Mosaic.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The round was led by Icon Ventures, with existing investors Greycroft, Matrix and Crosscut participating, with additional backing from veterinary clinic groups and individuals, including former Chewy chairman Mark Vadon and Clearlake Group founder Jose Feliciano.

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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. How tech can build more resilient supply chains.

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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. ” Other investors participating in Prezent.ai’s Series A included WestWave Capital and Emergent Ventures, both of which invested in the company’s June 2021 seed round.

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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. And as more regions decriminalize the use of plant-based substances, investors are taking notice.

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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. The market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added.

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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

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 3, 2022

The market for MLOps services could reach $4 billion by 2025, by one estimation , and includes startups like Databricks, DataRobot, Algorithmia and incumbents like Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. million in total venture capital. “The user only has to add a few lines of code.” ” To date, Galileo has raised $5.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company raised $31 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint Venture Partners, with support from Benchmark. “Instead, what ends up happening is the only path that a small company has to get their products to market is to go and get acquired by a big incumbent enterprise. ”

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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 Sindhya Valloppillil. Contributor. Share on Twitter. billion, $1.5 billion at IPO.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

New and existing investors, including Tarsadia Capital, Citius, Arago Capital, Foundation Capital and Quiet Capital also participated in the round to bring Jüsto’s total venture capital investment to date to over $250 million. Meanwhile, the online grocery industry in the U.S. is poised to be a $187.7 billion industry by 2024, up from $95.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A fascinating example of this is SaaS marketplace Juggle. ’s leading angels, and also includes Oxford Capital , Social Capital , and 7percent Ventures. Andrew Gault, Founding Partner at 7percent Ventures commented: “The current pandemic will have a lasting effect on the way we work. It’s now disclosed its funding of $2.1

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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

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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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. UiPath , one of the largest RPA vendors, saw its market cap drop from $35 billion to $15 million within the span of a year. Image Credits: Magical. At the moment, Magical doesn’t charge for its services.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

million in seed funding led by Homebrew, Golden Ventures and Inovia Capital. ResQ has now raised $9 million in known venture capital to date. SaaS-enabled marketplace. It charges a monthly SaaS fee per rooftop to a restaurant group. ResQ announced today that it has raised $7.5 ResQ product mock-up. Image Credits: ResQ.

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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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