TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

billion as of this year and was declining slightly since 2016, IBIS World reported. Breeze raised $10 million in Series A funding in a round led by Link Ventures that Nabity boasts is the “largest first round of institutional capital ever invested in a Nebraska-based software startup.” market for disability insurance was valued at $19.1

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Notably, sales startups raised the least amount of capital. If we compare these trends to the total aggregate market capitalization of public SaaS companies by buyer, we observe a few interesting patterns. In addition, there were quite a few analytics companies raising capital this year. Series B medians were $19.0M

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. He soon began to invest in everything from ramen and hotpots to bottled beverages.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

From an investment point of view, managing and deploying capital in the same physical area makes sense, where investors can work with young companies and help them with a variety of things. San Francisco proper was #1, and taken on the whole, the Bay Area, of course, receives more venture capital investment than anywhere else, naturally.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

When Pedro Conrade started Brazilian digital bank Neon in 2016, he was a 23-year-old business school student who was frustrated with the service and costs associated with traditional banking in his country. “I I had a catastrophic relationship with incumbent banks.”. It was super expensive, and the service was terrible. ’” .

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” ” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The company notched gross revenue of $265 million in 2020 and has raised capital over the years from backers such as General Atlantic and Tiger Global Management. Founded in 2016, San Francisco-based Zero Financial has raised $147 million in debt and equity , according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. There is no question that fintech has exploded in recent years. Image Credits: Pismo.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. ” The round is being led by Stripes, with Valar Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Rainfall Ventures, and BoxGroup — all of whom backed Novo in its $40 million Series A , just six months ago — also participating. .

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. Venture capital firms Invenfin , Base Capital, Savannah Fund, P1 Ventures, Luno and FireID took part in the round, including some high-impact angel investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus.

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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. To lead this endeavor, Neso Brands has appointed Bjorn Bergstrom as founding CEO.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. As such, entrepreneurs need to raise capital accordingly. “We are simply seeing a reality check happen,” he said.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

You have an initial product, and maybe even raised capital. Another example is Stone, a Brazilian fin-tech unicorn started in 2012, which disrupted the incumbents’ sales strategy by creating a hub-and-spoke model that deployed a passionate salesforce of “Stone Warriors” throughout the country.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 16, 2016

2016 has been a volatile year. Major capital investments fell 55% in Q3. 2016 is on pace to match the past three years of software acquisition trends which vary from $64B-$70B. However, in 2016 the total number of acquisitions will likely fall by 40% from an average of 150 per year to 92.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 3, 2016

But I do believe that they are the harbingers of a very active software acquisition market we’ll see in 2016 and 2017. Large software incumbents must bolster their product portfolios so their sales teams have new products to sell. Software multiples in the public markets have compressed, falling by 57% at their nadir.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Founded in: 2016. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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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. Subverting those incumbents is going to require a meaningfully better product or substantially more effective customer acquisition channel. However, Pitchbook analysis corroborates this trend.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. “We’ve been working on this speaker technology since 2016.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

As the founder of an infrastructure project that has been around since 2016, I want to remind you that web3 isn’t just a drop-down menu of features to be bolted on to your project. Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents? FOMO is real.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

billion by 2025, a steep climb from $190 million in 2016. Call center service provider incumbents like Dialpad offer sentiment analysis features, as well, as do companies including Cogito , Saygent and SugarCRM. Bow Capital and ServiceNow co-led the Series A alongside existing investors Floodgate and Vertex Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

Celebrating female-led ventures I, as many of you I’m sure, continue to be disappointed in the lack of LP (limited partner) dollars flowing toward female-led venture capital firms. According to the CB Insights’ latest State of Fintech report , this is the first time that has happened since the end of 2016.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Thndr, launched in late 2020 by Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr , is filling the gap by making it easier to open and manage investment accounts, consequently replacing traditionally slow and outdated processes by incumbents. Tiger Global, Dubai-based early-stage VC BECO Capital and Prosus Ventures co-led the Series A investment.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards. He talks about his view that maybe democracy [and capitalism are just going to eat each other alive.

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