TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Similar to other insurance products, disability insurance was sold the same way for more than 20 years: using outdated technology, data science and underwriting that didn’t provide consumers an appropriate policy based on their occupation and health.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. I’ve characterized it in a chart below.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a sign that national security tech is a safe bet even during troubled economic times, defense- and security-focused VC firm Razor’s Edge Ventures today announced the closing of its third startup investment fund at just under $340 million. maintain “technological superiority.” In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index. Jake Jolis. Contributor. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

David Friend is a serial entrepreneur, six-time founder, and the current co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company, Wasabi Technologies. There’s clearly a lot of venture money to be raised — and most tech entrepreneurs happily take it in exchange for equity. David Friend. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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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. We talk in technology that you are either arming the ‘rebels’ or the ‘empire,’ and in their case, they work with both.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

This time it’s $35 million with new investors, including Citi Ventures and MUFG Innovation Partners, bringing the company’s total raised so far to $95 million. Returning investors include notable firms like UBS Next, Singapore’s EDBI, Prosus Ventures (owned by Naspers), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Singtel Innov8 and Endowus employees.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. The rocket will provide low-cost space access for science experiments, technology demonstrators, and academic payloads. The first launches of the Dorado rocket are slated for mid-2024.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. Justin Da Rosa is a vice president with Battery Ventures in San Francisco. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Justin Da Rosa. Justin Da Rosa.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo. Clocktower Technology Ventures makes $25M bet on Latin American fintechs. incumbents. “It This round caught our eye for a few other reasons.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. But it pivoted within the last several years to general-purpose computing as well as generative AI technologies, like text-generating AI models.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Vignesh Chandramouli , a partner at Oak HC/FT, focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in healthcare. As incumbent banks embraced startups, investors leaned into novel ways to reduce friction and improve accuracy, increasing annual mortgage origination by nearly 40% compared to the last decade. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Dave Wechsler leads insurtech investing for OMERS Ventures. Despite serving as the backbone of global growth, insurance lagged the pace of technology adoption enjoyed by other industries. Despite serving as the backbone of global growth, insurance lagged the pace of technology adoption enjoyed by other industries.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7 Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. million (CAN $299 million) since its 2019 inception, and values the company at over $784.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. With corporate venture fund creation rebounding to near record levels and the value of deals that CVCs participated in soaring, we wanted to look more deeply into why companies are building their own investing arms. But it’s not a pure venture capital story.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It might be hard to remember in this age when companies like Facebook are subject to increasing government investigation, but for decades the technology industry generally existed and thrived outside the public eye. I’d venture that companies that reach unicorn status fastest have a higher likelihood of getting regulated.

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Dream It

MAY 13, 2020

The group discussed different healthtech topics including venture investment, trends, reducing burn, enterprise sales, and market performance, highlighted below. Venture Investing | How will VCs adjust to the pandemic over the next two quarters? . “ Venture investors are getting away with more draconian terms. ”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When it comes to growing that proportion, however, m obile money — based on simpler technology and with an easier onboarding process — wins out, and it is set to capture more market share faster than traditional banking in the region. Neobanking, based on mobile technology too, falls somewhere in the middle of the two). .

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Prosus Ventures, Quona Capital, Mouro, IFC, Acrew and Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the round. WTI provided $20 million in venture debt, Möller said. One advantage for Klar, according to Möller , is that its “cost to serve a user” is about 1/20 of what the incumbents pay. he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu , a Berlin-based startup that describes itself as an SaaS banking platform — providing, by way of APIs, technology to banks and others to power lending, deposit and other banking products — has closed a round of €110 million (about $135 million at today’s rates). The funding gives Mambu a post-money valuation of €1.7

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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

APRIL 27, 2023

Now of course, this is a well-formed market and the category has different players, and so incumbents and clouds and so on, and we’re clearly ahead. The company is seeing interest from businesses of all sizes, including technology companies like Shopify, Gong and Zapier. I’ve never seen anything like this.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Founder and CEO Nash Ahmed wouldn’t go into too much detail about the technology that allows Undock to accomplish this. The startup recently closed a $1.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Rebag , which buys, sells and trades luxury items like handbags and accessories, raised a $33 million Series E round following a year of technology development and category expansion. Gorra cites the company’s ability to triple its sourcing capabilities after launching its Clair AI and Clair Trade technology in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. ” He has a point — insofar as incumbents are feeling the pressure, at least. According to one source, generative AI startups raised $1.7 billion in Q1 2023, with an additional $10.68 Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Bjorn Bergstrom has vast experience from consumer scale-ups, venture capital and management consulting. Eyewear has to date been a very traditional industry with large incumbents, but is now ripe for a tech-enabled global transformation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Today, wind power and wave action are just two technologies leading investors to take a closer look at ocean conservation technology, reports Tim De Chant. Sub)stacks o’ cash : Alex wonders if perhaps Substack can grow just fine without venture dollars.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Israeli startup provides software-based internet routing solutions to service providers to run them as virtualized services over “ white box ” generic architecture, and today it is announcing $262 million in equity funding to continue expanding its technology, its geographical footprint, and its business development.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

Brody is an award-winning entrepreneur, venture capitalist, bestselling author and two-time Emmy-nominated media visionary. It’s not about technology and it’s not about business models, but it’s about us,” Brody continues. Reinvent your incumbent enterprise before you’re disrupted by another, or you risk becoming obsolete.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

a company that has developed a precision fermentation technology to make animal-free proteins, like eggs, is having a good 2021. First the company, formerly known as Clara Foods, secured a deal in April with BioBrew , an investment of AB InBev’s investment arm, ZX Ventures, to brew its animal-free protein at scale. The EVERY Co. ,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

This requires more sophisticated technology. The round was led by Balderton Capital, alongside existing investors Coparion, Venture Stars and Signature Ventures, as well as an undisclosed investor. Institutions need to keep their crypto assets somewhere. Finoa , has closed a $22 million Series A funding round, to do just that.

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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. . ” Image Credits: ManageXR dashboard / ManageXR. Qualcomm launches new AR dev kit, acquires Clay AIR.

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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. Then there’s incumbents like Automation Anywhere and UiPath, which occupy the enormous robotic process automation market.

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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

MAY 11, 2021

It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. GreatPoint Ventures and August Capital, among other existing investors, are participating in the Series B round as well. “We

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