TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This works for some, but too often founders find themselves diluting their equity to unrecoverable portions rather than considering other financing options that allow them to hold on to their company — options like debt capital. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

But these disclosures carry significant financial costs for small, private companies — and they carry the extra risk of exposing sensitive financial information to competitors and large corporate incumbents. Moreover, penalties for noncompliance could permanently damage a company’s ability to raise capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. And really, this was where my race became an obstacle.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

venture capital firm Lightspeed, with participation from other notable backers including Virgin Group , which counts Richard Branson as its sole shareholder. . based fintech called Lightyear , though it’s focused on bookkeeping, while the heavily VC-backed Dutch startup called Lightyear is all about electric cars.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For Clarisse Lam , associate at New Alpha Asset Management , this makes sense: “The repricing represents a great opportunity for incumbents to make strategic acquisitions and accelerate their digital transformation. ” VC money is definitely drying up for some, such as neo-insurers whose unit economics are under scrutiny.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

“Insurtech startups that do not offer embedded insurance, and rather provide other innovative solutions will still attract VC funding this year, especially if they can show cost-efficient and sustainable growth,” said Nina Mayer, a principal at Earlybird. Wechsler said, “Many firms who dabbled in insurtech (A.K.A.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. Hareven didn’t mention during our conversation, but Akeyless is also likely to benefit from the continued broader VC interest in cybersecurity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. For his part, Valar Ventures’ Andrew McCormack said that financial services companies can “leverage whatever technologies they want to provide better customer experiences.”. “At

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. Some include U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies. VC funding into private fintech companies crossed $134 billion in 2021, rising by 177% from a year earlier, according to Crunchbase.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. Money has been coming into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. While reporting delays could change this total, VC dollars have more than doubled since the pandemic began. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 billion last year, compared to $4.7 billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Besides traditional VC, crowdfunding, venture banks and venture debt funds are all viable options. Think of capital availability as a spectrum, from low risk and low return (venture banks) to high risk and high return (venture capital), with venture debt funds sitting somewhere in the middle,” advises Weyer.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Marco was backed last September by a small seed round from Struck Capital and Antler and over $20 million in a credit facility underwritten by Arcadia Funds. This is where venture capital firms should be putting their dollars — in companies where technology and talent unleash a lot of value.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Goodwater Capital, Kairos Angels and Bridge Partners also participated in the Series A round in addition to angels such as Joe Schmidt IV , vice president of business development at insurtech Ethos and former investor at Accel and Kyle Nakatsuji , founder and CEO of auto insurance startup Clearcover (and also a former VC).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”. The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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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. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. On a more positive note, Tage Kene-Okafor wrote about how Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in fintech in emerging markets, launched a $30 million fund. million in a round led by Firebrand Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The startup, which is out to give brands and tech companies a way to launch custom co-branded credit cards, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Activant Capital. Other investors include the owners and management of the Phoenix Suns and Boston Celtics and existing backers such as Accomplice and Pear VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Startups and VC While most established automotive players call the shots from sprawling, corporate palaces, Scout bases much of its operations — at least for now — out of a WeWork near Washington, D.C., Basically, it’s Uber’s attempt to follow the Instacart model, which is working well for the incumbent grocery delivery company,” she reports.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

If your business requires a lot of preparation to understand the nuances before you meet the VC, you probably need to reframe your story a little bit and simplify,” she said. ” Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital. Being a successful early-stage investor is about a lot more than simply identifying trends; a successful VC needs to think several steps ahead.

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Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

I do not have much experience with evaluating Venture Growth deals — but as the larger VC platforms have scaled, their funds have matured to the point where they have multiples bites at the apple. One successful VC told me, paraphrased “Take more shots on goal. You want to be in companies that people recognize.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value. There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. Image Credits: Mila Ferrell / Cervin.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

One analyst estimated $15b+ of incumbent market value was wiped out. PillPack didn’t over-raise venture capital, likely had several million on the balance sheet when it was acquired, and the acquisition presents a terrific outcome for the Boston area.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Since the majority of VC returns come from a small number of deals, “obvious” investments seldom return such incredible multiples. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The VC says she experienced that firsthand when running product growth and monetization at Invoice2go. . Regarding established incumbents in this space, we hear from their users that a lot of analyses and forecasts still default to Excel files being emailed back and forth,” she added. “Forecasting can’t be an ivory tower process.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Startups/VC. But first up is Natasha’s dive into Mos , which founder Amira Yahyaoui says is gunnin’ to become “the incumbent bank in the U.S.” The company’s earnings were far from popular with investors, who slashed the value of the company’s stock. Today’s startup news has a few Tiger rounds, a toilet paper headline and more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Morgan Stanley has meanwhile been beefing up its stock plan administration business, acquiring Solium Capital early last year and more recently purchasing Barclay’s stock plan business. Carta was just valued at $1.7 billion by Andreessen Horowitz, in a deal some see as rich. 6 considerations for managing your cap table.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

In addition to these FTC challenges, it is also now becoming clear that relying on VC-subsidized products and celebrating outrageous valuations can be problematic for D2C brands. Last year, Edgewell Personal Care ditched its debt-heavy $1.37 More than three years after Unilever acquired Dollar Shave Club, it was still unprofitable.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The first iteration of the app launched last August, and in the intervening months the company raised an “over-subscribed” $700,000 pre-seed round of funding from backers including early-stage Swiss venture capital (VC) firm Wingman Ventures, as well as U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

In fact, Galileo founder Clay Wilkes introduced the VC firm to Dan Snyder, Lower’s founder and CEO. The two companies have a few things in common besides being profitable: they were both bootstrapped for years before taking institutional capital and both have headquarters outside of Silicon Valley. “For

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Startups and VC. Some affected founders are pushing the narrative that incumbent banks lobbied the RBI to reach a decision favorable to them. The Titanium-clad M-A Titan takes film, and — if that weren’t unobtainable enough — costs an eye-watering $20,000. Perhaps it can be forgiven for charging a premium.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

There are plenty of well-deserved articles by Axios and Forbes and tweets of praise for Qualtrics (must read Utah-based VC Bryce Roberts’ storm here ), which you can and should read. Of course, SAP or others could’ve made a run at Qualtrics earlier, and who knows – maybe folks had tried and failed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

“Like a pressure cooker, COVID blew the lid off what was a simmering mental health crisis for over a decade,” VC Tim Schlidt told TechCrunch. According to the World Health Organization, the global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25% in the first year of the pandemic.

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