TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Fetch Package , a last-mile package delivery company for apartment communities, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding and closed on a $10 million venture debt facility. By the end of 2017, the SaaS company was servicing approximately 2,000 apartments in the Dallas area.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A startup called Sanity has built a platform to help businesses (and their people) do that more easily with a SaaS platform that lets developers create code and systems to manage content. Heavybit and Alliance Venture, which led its seed round of $2.4 million to fuel its growth. million to fuel its growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Nervous as a service : After a lengthy period of experimentation, investors have decided that consumer fintech trading businesses are not SaaS companies. The right-to-repair hackers that live somewhere deep within us are mighty pleased. Startups and VC. It’s fundraising season for venture funds, apparently! Go on. ?????.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Since then, many of the key trends and themes we surfaced have come to pass: Airtable clinched an $11 billion valuation in December 2021 after raising a $735 million Series F with help from Salesforce Ventures and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It is the latest startup feeling some investor love as it develops a software stack designed for business-to-business marketers, hosting interactive virtual and hybrid events, to use go-to-market channels and actionable account-based insights for sales teams to show the pipeline impact of events.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

Literally moving us along: Can solid state batteries power up for the next generation of EVs? GM CEO Mary Barra wants to sell personal autonomous vehicles using Cruise’s self-driving tech by 2030. Uber’s mixed Q1 earnings portray an evolving business. Kry closes $312M Series D after use of its telehealth tools grows 100% yoy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

On the bright side, the fact that VCs are more discriminating about where they put their dollars could actually lead to more M&A activity, according to Ruark. That is one reason why a number of VC firms have told their portfolio companies to focus on performance and cut costs,” he told TechCrunch. Well, that was fast!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. The US is settling in for some new form of national gridlock, but state and local propositions are busy defining how technology businesses will be allowed to work (legally) in the US. Subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. At NEA, a venture firm with over $25 billion in AUM, she focused on fintech and consumer products. Super interesting read.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

But Martin says the proof is in the pudding: thousands of hybrid and remote teams use Kumospace today, some for more than five hours per day. Today, Kumospace closed a $21 million Series A round led by Lightspeed with participation from Boldstart Ventures and others. Supporting evidence is mixed.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Unit itself is not a labor union, but instead helps worker-organizers set up, affiliate and manage a union with a mix of software and human resources. The startup has a step-by-step process of how to virtually unionize a workplace that it offers for free public use on its website. When venture is the elephant in the room.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Sony buys Bungie as gaming consolidates : If you have been reading TechCrunch for more than a few days, you’ve seen us cover the Take Two-Zynga deal , and the recent Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal. Today, Sony threw another transaction into the mix, announcing that it will buy Halo-maker Bungie for billions. Startups/VC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The IPO market is sending us mixed messages. From building out Facebook’s first office in Austin to putting together most of Quora’s team, Bain Capital Ventures managing director Sarah Smith has done a bit of everything when it comes to hiring.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

How Monica and Joe Priced Their New SaaS Business Product and Decided their Optimal Pricing Why customers buy based on the perceived worth that the price represents to them, and how you should price to get your fair share of that value. That’s what the VC guy, Albert, told me was the benchmark for saas companies like us.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

. “Bootstrapping Klaviyo, it came out of this: ‘Hey, if we are super disciplined about finding a problem that someone will pay us to solve, we have a real company,'” said Hallen. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The initiatives were painful for both the engineering and finance departments, they say — which is when the pair realized that they wanted more flexibility over how software-as-a-service (SaaS) products were billed and monetized. “They should, instead, enable the flexibility to meet customers where they are.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Startups and VC. Ad-specially for you : Mutiny is using AI tech to optimize ads and landing pages based on customer behavior , which got investors all excited to the tune of a $50 million Series B. Barnacle boxing match : Neptune creates robots to clean ship hulls using robots. Group travel planning is back : Pandemic?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Among the trends they identified are startups in B2B, business automation processes, e-commerce, AI, SaaS and COVID-19-related solutions, as well as “smart” everything: factories, cities, offices, etc. Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. ný , principal, Y Soft Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Startups/VC. Anyone who has been in charge of making food on a regular basis for others can attest to the issues that stem from — to pick a few at random — stale meal rotations, boring ingredient mixes and the sheer ennui of uninspired food creation. How our SaaS startup broke into the Japanese market without a physical presence.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

In our latest installment of the EC-1 series , Natasha Mascarenhas goes deep with the company to understand how it found product-market fit, then figured out how to grow like a consumer tech startup and monetize like a SaaS startup. Flywire, a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, filed to go public Monday. Thanks for reading!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” The VCs who founders love the most.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Developers can use Column to build apps that pull and push money to any bank account, for example, or maintain FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts. .” By contrast, Column, a nationally chartered bank with a direct connection to the Fed, has an in-house ledger and data model to power various fintech services. While some $18.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures. Use discount code MIAMICRUNCH to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Mark Volcheck, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. David Goldberg, general partner, Alpaca. This offer expires on April 30, 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

You may recall that the previously bootstrapped 1Password only raised its first round of external capital in 2019 – a $200 million Series A led by Accel that represented the venture firm’s largest single investment in its 35-year history. In both its Series A and B rounds, the venture firm approached the company about investing.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. I use WordPress. Think Magento.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Use this link, or pop “DC” into the promo code box when you buy your passes to the hottest startup event of the summer. This “island” is not tropical : iPhone fanatics may have doubted the usefulness of “the notch” on the iPhone X, but Ivan writes that the new “Dynamic Island” feature for iPhone 14 is anything but.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Sequoia Capital , Stripes and Spark Capital co-led Fireblocks’ latest round, which also included participation from Coatue , DRW VC and SCB 10X – the venture arm of Thailand’s oldest bank – and Siam Commercial Bank. Siam Commercial bank, for example, is using the company’s infrastructure to transform into a blockchain-based bank.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. “Remember, the goal here is to demonstrate a thorough understanding of your market and how your business scales, which is then reflected through the various assumptions you use to build the model,” writes Millin. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

And this is something that London-based generalist VC firm Playfair Capital knows all about, given its focus on backing super young startups that have yet to make much of a ripple in their respective industries. But some sort of successful track record, in just about anything, is a useful barometer at the early investment stage.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

can stave off a possible shortage of minerals and materials necessary for batteries used for electric vehicles and energy storage. Startups and VC. As a startup nerd with a particular penchant for the art of VC pitching, I’m psyched to attend Lotti Siniscalco’s Pitch Deck Teardown at TC Early Stage in a couple of weeks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Left Lane making a right turn when it comes to investments : It was the gift that keeps on giving for Left Lane CEO and managing partner Harley Miller, who closed the venture capital firm’s $1.4 Startups and VC. The hardware dweebs among us were having a great day today. billion fund on his birthday. Warner Bros.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Sana Labs — which provides an AI-based platform to help people manage information at work, and subsequently to use that data as a resource for e-learning within the organization — has closed a round of $34 million after seeing ARR grow seven-fold in the last year. Menlo Ventures, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms. With the Coinbase direct listing behind us and the Robinhood IPO ahead, it’s a heady time for consumer-focused trading apps.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The Nordic countries make up just 4% of Europe’s total population, but they account for a significant amount of venture capital investment. That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. and Nomono.

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