TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“We continue to see tremendous opportunity in the cloud management space given how early we are in the cloud adoption journey,” Battery Ventures venture investor Danel Dayan said. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ]. There are also reasons to think that we haven’t seen all of it yet. So what might be next?

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

The Chicago-based indoor, smart hydroponic company raised $9 million in an oversubscribed Series A round, led by TELUS Ventures, with existing investors True Ventures and Amazon Alexa Fund and new investor Listen Ventures joining in. The concept of an indoor farm is not new. of the school garden.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. The argument threaded through Fred’s posts above is that significant venture-scale opportunities for VCs existed outside the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The startup launched its banking services in 2017, aimed at making younger consumers comfortable doing all their banking online. Last month, Varo Bank celebrated the two-year anniversary of obtaining its national bank charter. The move made Varo the first-ever all-digital nationally chartered U.S. consumer bank. And if so, why?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

VCs include WndrCo, DN Capital, Kismet Capital, Spike Ventures, Quiet Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, FJ Labs, VentureSouq, Nellore Capital and Moving Capital. Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. He founded Yassir with Mahdi Yettou in 2017.

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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. CoreWeave was founded in 2017 by Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee to address what they saw as “a void” in the cloud market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But China and the United States are far from the only technology markets with developed startup and incumbent cohorts, strong venture capital activity, and capital markets able to translate early-stage ideas into public companies. The Angular Ventures report includes data from Israel, an active deep tech market. China issue.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

The brand began as an online retailer that was later bought by Walmart in 2017 for $310 million. B2B companies face a similar battle against multibillion-dollar incumbents and unicorn startups. They know that this knowledge will become their edge, their primary competitive advantage, against incumbent and nascent competitors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” Image Credits: Mos.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

” The funding is being led by Left Lane Capital, with Finistere Ventures, Comcast Ventures, OurCrowd, Origin Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Joe Mansueto — all previous backers — also participating. And back in 2017, Electrolux acquired sous vide startup Anova for $250 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

earned new investment as it strives to topple incumbents like Coinbase. And while Binance sits comfortably atop the market for crypto exchanges, rising competitors like FTX are looking to find new opportunities to increase their market share, pursuing bold M&A strategies and scaling venture investments.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. But perhaps what is most unique about what Crowdz is doing is that it was built on Ethereum since 2017. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Descript , the audio and video editing platform founded in 2017 by former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, has raised $50 million in a Series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which OpenAI and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage companies.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Back in July of 2017, I wrote a piece noting that their aggregate value had reached the $3 trillion mark. He’s neutral-to-positive, saying that his firm does not “think all the companies in the market will work but still thinks ‘insurtechs’ will take market share from incumbents over the next decade.” trillion, Amazon $1.76

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to the accelerator, the decision to downsize the S22 batch — significantly smaller than its most recent batches — was a result of the economic downturn and changes to the venture funding environment this year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founded out of London in 2017, Zen Educate is setting out to supplant the traditional approach to recruiting teachers, a system that typically involves third-party agencies and hefty fees. million, with backers including edtech-focused VC firm Brighteye Ventures , Adjuvo , Ascension Ventures, and a slew of angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

As we’ve written about before , several years ago, the market for cloud optimization software, while nascent, was consolidating as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw an opportunity to make a mark. In 2017, Microsoft acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Whatley started the company in 2017 with his brother, Daniel, Stuart Kennedy and Nikki McNeil while a Harvard undergrad. Costanoa Ventures led the investment and was joined by Torch Capital and a group of angel investors including Fivestars CTO Matt Doka and Hu’s Kitchen CEO Mark Ramadan.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? Besides traditional VC, crowdfunding, venture banks and venture debt funds are all viable options. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? Startups have more options than ever to lower their reliance on venture capital. This year, it happened.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Solivan has ample experience on both sides of the fence, as she founded TaskRabbit and led it to exit through an acquisition by Ikea in 2017. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Insurance is a huge industry, with McKinsey estimating back in 2017 premiums of more than €4 trillion globally. PitchBook notes that Outrun Ventures and other unnamed investors are in this round. Previous backers were Passion Capital and Investec.

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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. ” Founders : Henry Mascot started a company in 2017 to help hospitals digitize records. Bloom’s offering allows Sudanese to save in U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But it feels like we have written far less about fintechs that exist solely to help the incumbents better compete with fintechs. Other investors include B Capital, Point72 Ventures, Fintech Collective, Reciprocal Ventures, Wells Fargo and Pacific Western Bank. We help the incumbents close the gap relative to those players.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Founder and CEO Simon Kalouche says that Nimble’s new model wasn’t the goal when the pick and pack robotic automation firm launched in 2017. “It The startup’s growth is being fueled, in part by a $65 million Series B led by Cedar Pine that also features DNS Capital, GSR Ventures and Breyer Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

’s leading angels, and also includes Oxford Capital , Social Capital , and 7percent Ventures. Since launching in 2017, Thomas said 62 percent of all placements made by Juggle have been female. Andrew Gault, Founding Partner at 7percent Ventures commented: “The current pandemic will have a lasting effect on the way we work.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

It also brings the startup’s total raised to $230 million since brothers Austin and Justin Woodward founded the company with their cousin Brandon Woodward in 2017. Loverro went on to say that a common refrain that he hears with regards to anything crypto is “Why can’t [incumbent] just add that as a feature?” .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Replicant , one of the more prominent vendors in the call center automation space, today announced that it raised $78 million in Series B funding led by Stripes with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Omega, IronGrey, Norwest and Atomic. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital.

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