StartupNation

MAY 13, 2021

Consumers around the world spent $900 billion at online retailers in 2020, according to report from the Mastercard Economics Institute. This growth, regardless of sales channel, has been massively powered by startups and small businesses. Up to 30% of that shift is expected to be permanent, too.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

These innards show an exciting business — and a larger story about how the year is going for tech companies in general. Will this be bad for DoorDash’s business? Otherwise the price makes no sense. The initial success reported Monday by BioNTech and Pfizer may mean that these two companies are close to success.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

“I realized that there’s a real business use case for this,” Adato said. Bria’s platform enables businesses to create visuals for social media posts, ads and e-commerce listings using its image-generating AI. Bria isn’t the only venture exploring a revenue-sharing business model for generative AI.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Amenli, founded by Shady El Tohfa and Adham Nauman in 2020, is addressing an untapped $2 billion market, being the first licensed online insurance broker in the country. Managers of delivery businesses handle hundreds or thousands of delivery points every day. Some have established businesses in both these regions and also in Africa.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Image Credits: Getty Images under a GK Hart/Vikki Hart (opens in a new window) license. Image Credits: Getty Images under a jayk7 (opens in a new window) license. Yesterday, they reviewed a detailed report from NYC-based VC group Work-Bench on the city’s enterprise tech startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

It has become one of the largest eyewear players in India by undercutting the competition, offering premium glasses at affordable prices. Lenskart has been able to keep the prices low because it’s bringing more efficiency into the eyewear sector, Peyush Bansal, co-founder and chief executive of Lenskart, told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company reported its second-quarter earnings Monday after the bell. The startup was the first scooter operator to go public via the SPAC route , and many in the industry wish it wasn’t so after consistently meh earnings reports. Helbiz reported around 1.2 Before we dig into the financials, a little context.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Years ago, Big Tech companies like Google decided that they profit more by stealing smaller companies’ intellectual property than buying or licensing it. Google has a reported $142 billion in cash in the bank. Thus, Google undercut Sonos’ prices — a common commercial practice by patent pirates.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The potential for telehealth across Africa is vast and promising as mobile connectivity deepens, and innovations that could potentially bridge the doctor-patient ratio gap increase according to a Deloitte report. It is raising more funding to further grow its business across the continent. “We We currently have five centers open.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Super — which has built a business providing repair and maintenance for electrical and mechanical systems, appliances and plumbing by way of a monthly subscription — has closed a growth round of $50 million. AAA for example has a notable business not just in roadside assistance but also insurance coverage.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Avarni automates much of the process and says it can cut down the amount of time spent on carbon reporting from months to minutes. Avarni’s platform aggregates supply chain and spending data into one comprehensive dataset, and it uses that and AI to help clients report and forecast their carbon footprint.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In Argentina, it was granted a Mastercard and payments license. Each market has its own regulation and nuances, and legacy providers offer poor technology at expensive prices,” he said. The company also plans to use its new capital to accelerate its product road map and toward business development efforts. Image Credits: Pomelo.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

(One founder even played a prank once, listing that Andreessen Horowitz was an investor in his startup on Crunchbase; when other investors piled on looking to put money into his upstart, he explained it was a joke to show the poor quality of data on the platform, reports Bloomberg).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The port combines chemo-port efficacy with sensor technology to measure and remotely monitor early onset of complications by reporting and tracking patient response over the course of their treatment. The NXgenPort itself will cost a bit more than a standard port, which is usually priced at around $270.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

And there’s maybe a little bit of machismo going on where, ‘Hey, I want my moment to trade for a higher price.’ But a lot of the appreciation of these moments — if you get one in a pack and you sell it for a higher price — 95% of that appreciation goes to the owner. DP: There are two reasons.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Given the high cost of care in the United States compared to other nations, pairing fintech with health tech is just good business. opens in a new window) license. Not long after, one of its chief rivals clapped back by announcing that “OpenDoor is open for business and continues to scale and grow,” reports Ryan Lawler.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Spreadsheets, on the other hand, are pretty much the de facto standard for managing virtually anything in a business. But that also means that users often end up exporting their issues to create reports and visualizations, for example. Pricing for JXL seems quite reasonable, starting at $1 flat for teams with up to 10 users.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

ai and their bankers should have priced higher regardless to take advantage of all of the enthusiasm. It’s hard to avoid reactions like that, after DoorDash, for example, doubled its final private share price to $102 for its public debut on Wednesday — only to see the price climb to $175 at the end of the week.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Runa Capital’s Asia business development manager Denis Kalinin studied data from iTjuzi, a database of Chinese venture capitalists, and found: “…Chinese funds invested around $250 billion in 2020 (three times higher than the figure reported in Crunchbase). 3 keys to pricing early-stage SaaS products.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Amazon and other tech giants are encroaching on their business. The cameras will look for missing products as well as price-tagging errors, Golan says, and whether the shelves are aligned with planograms, the diagrams showing where items should be placed in order to maximize sales.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Instead, as TC+ editor Alex Wilhelm reported , UBS “invested $69.7 When the acquisition agreement was first announced in January, both companies touted all the ways that combining forces would help their respective businesses grow. billion was scrapped. million in the company at a valuation that Wealthfront described as $1.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

And in a breaking development, Sky News reported that The Bank of London (TBOL) (a clearing bank) is allegedly looking at a rescue bid for SVB UK. SVB UK secured a UK banking license in 2012 but became a UK Standalone bank in August 2022 and has 700 full-time employees).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Everyone I know who’s obtained a home or business loan in the recent past started with an online application process. The idiosyncrasies of sales taxes are a burden on small- and medium-sized businesses, but a new legion of startups is emerging to help companies manage the intricacies of cross-jurisdictional taxes. Should you?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Israeli startup is acquiring Azimo — the London-based money transfer business that Facebook once tried to buy to spearhead its own remittance efforts — a deal that will see Papaya Global moving into more markets, and launching more services such as instant payroll payments. The deal will help Papaya Global on two levels.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Introductory calls usually start with the lender seeking out information about, at a minimum: the company’s business overview, market opportunity and revenue model, funding history, valuation of last round, and what the company is looking to achieve with this debt raise. small business loans for their customers).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Qonto is a challenger bank focused on business bank accounts. As The Information’s Kate Clark reported, they want to replace American Express and hand out corporate cards to millions of employees in the U.S. Qonto started out with business bank accounts because that’s the key financial component of European companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

A company spokesperson told me via email: “Program admins will be able to ask Ava for reporting across the travel and spend programs, whether that is via text, graph, PDF, etc. According to Amex, the initial solution will leverage machine learning and AI to automate expense reporting and approvals.” It’s just the nature of the beast.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Authenticity is huge, and speaking for myself and my fellow TC reporters, it is very much appreciated and valued — especially considering it’s not as common as we’d like it to be. Rebecca Szkutak reports on just how hard fintech valuations have fallen this year. Transparency goes hand in hand with that, especially internally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The three major cryptocurrencies are all trading up in the waning months of 2020, with Bitcoin prices nearing (or exceeding) record highs. A report from Reuters flagged Bitso as one of the platforms that criminals like the human trafficker Ignacio Santoyo were using to launder money. “It’s not going away. .”

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is important to recognize the barriers associated with trying to break into a market already saturated with dominant players in an oversupply environment that has already degenerated into a price-driven competition. Intellectual property status such as patents issued, patent applications, IP ownership, or IP licensing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Chromecasts have been a hacker and nerd favorite for a moment or two, and we’re pretty psyched to see the price (with a remote!) billion, Manish reports. Users integrate their exchanges and wallets, and Binocs provides a tax report and other accounting details. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, folks! dropping to $30. Yes, please.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. Quite naively, I thought there are plenty of Muslims who own businesses, surely they face the same problem,” he said. As a practicing Muslim, however, Martin couldn’t use conventional loans.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Although its initial IPO price range was slightly below that figure, post-debut, it bounced back to a $43 billion valuation at $90 per share. A year ago, “RPA was the fastest-growing area in enterprise software,” wrote Enterprise Reporter Ron Miller at the time. opens in a new window) license. per share.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 10, 2013

Every SaaS business must decide how to charge for the service. Pricing plans are some of the most difficult decisions to make. Equally important to the price is determining the point at which the customer pays - the conversion point. Pricing Model User Value Product Complexity End User Buys Avg Seat $. Low/Medium.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. All of the businesses we’ve looked at in the past have been purely SaaS businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The pilot will focus on deliveries to and from small businesses. million at today’s share price, to Freedom’s employees. . Joby Aviation reported its Q4 and full-year 2021 earnings. The company reported a net income of $5 million and an operating loss of $77.2 Deal of the week. in a big way. Adjusted EBITDA loss of $65.2

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

We have seen this play out across several business-to-consumer verticals over the past decade: Airbnb in hospitality, Instacart in grocery, DoorDash in food delivery, and Lyft in transportation. Shippers, trucking companies (“carriers”), and drivers rely on high-priced brokers who coordinate shipments over phone calls and email.

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