Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Software M&A in 2019 reached about $170B up from $136B in 2018, up 25%. And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. In it, 65% of founders believe the fundraising market in 2020 will present more challenges than 2019. Here are my 2019 predictions and my analysis of them.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany). Next stop, Norway. Making sense of Klarna.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Kristy Kim came up with the concept for the company after being rejected multiple times for an auto loan while in her early 20s. So she teamed up with Dmitry Kashlev, a Russian immigrant, in January of 2019 to create a solution for other foreign-born individuals and young adults facing similar credit challenges.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. And even though investment activity decreased this year, it still remains well above where it was in 2019 and 2020. Laura Spiekerman. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. The company will focus more on large enterprises next year, he added. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The company was founded in April 2019 by Bijan Moallemi, Brian Campbell and Joe Garafalo, who worked together at Palantir in the company’s finance team for more than 15 years collectively. Mosaic founders Bijan Moallemi, Brian Campbell and Joseph Garafalo. Photos via Mosaic. Screenshot of Mosaic’s planning function.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” I am expecting a downturn at some point. Dreams can be fueled here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Co-founders Kevin Lee and Kevin Chanthasiriphan both grew up in food families from Taiwan and Thailand, respectively, and met a decade ago while working at the same tech company. Immi is putting a healthy spin on instant ramen by going plant-based and offering more bold tastes. The company announced Tuesday that it raised $3.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To give you an idea of just how bad it is, reports indicated that in 2019, credit card interest rates neared a staggering 300% in Brazil. “It’s a huge market that is still controlled by incumbents charging extremely high interest rates, which makes it difficult for people to pay back their loans.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“There’s a big wave of innovation in managing cloud costs,” Team8 co-founder and managing partner Liran Grinberg told TechCrunch as part of our latest cloud investor survey. Meanwhile, cloud cost-optimization tools (represented by Spot, Granulate) allowed for tactical changes to lower costs.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Strategic angel investors include Phil Bentley, CEO of Mitie, and Naman Budhdeo, co-founder and CEO of TripStack and FlightNetwork. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D. They started Marco in 2019 and now have offices in New York, Dallas and across Latin America. “Now

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. Spring Labs founder and CEO Adam Jiwan told TechCrunch that the two companies’ recent partnership evolved out of a series of discussions that began a couple of years ago.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The financing brings the two-year-old company’s total raised since its 2019 inception to $50 million. today, only one is from a company that is less than two decades old, according to Cardless’ co-founder and president Michael Spelfogel. Accomplice and Greycroft co-led its $7 million Series A last June.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million since its 2019 inception. The company wasn’t actively in the market, according to CEO and co-founder Igor Senra, but was approached by existing backer Greenoaks and other investors. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7 The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Maev founder and CEO Katie Spies. Though they officially started the company in 2019, Busaba and Spies didn’t launch their first product, the raw dog food, until 2020. She worked at a startup as a product development manager, but ultimately left that behind to find a different calling. Image Credits: Maev .

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

The company has a total of $13 million in venture-backed investments since Rise was founded in 2017, founder and CEO Hank Adams told TechCrunch. Though he began in 2017, Adams, who has a background in sports technology, said he spent a few years working on prototypes before launching the first products in 2019. Ever since Climate Corp.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Klar experienced a “7x” year-over-year increase in revenue and 4x bump in transaction volume over the same time period, according to Klar co-founder and CEO Stefan Möller. In total, the company has raised over $150 million in equity funding since its 2019 inception. I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After finding it, the three co-founders together built a service for managing passwords, API keys and digital certificates, which evolved into a fully fledged business — Akeyless — over the course of the next several years. If Akeyless’s co-founders have concerns, they didn’t show it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It then went on to secure another $15 million in Series A funding and $40 million in Series B funding in 2019. Arturo Elizondo, founder and CEO of The EVERY Co. The Series B in 2019 was about proving the technology and now with Series C, it can bring products to market and leverage the capital to drive scale, he added.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy. Willson Cuaca, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of East Ventures, said that as an early supporter of Komunal, they have witnessed the company’s growth and many achievements.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

David Rabie, the Chicago startup’s co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch that it plans to use the funding in large part to open a second facility, most likely in Utah, to help with fresh food distribution to the western half of the U.S. .” Tovala , the smart oven and meal kit service, has closed a Series C of $30 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) led its $20 million Series A in May of 2019. The challenger bank was created to target millennials dissatisfied with the incumbent banking options.

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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. Accel actually invested in Galileo before it sold to SoFi in October of 2019. ).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in 2019. Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education (a leading edtech seed fund in Europe with portfolio companies like Aula, Unibuddy, and BibliU) . Daniel Pianko , co-founder and managing director, University Ventures (a higher ed and future of work fund that is backing Imbellus and Admithub).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation. billion ($1.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services. Funding and M&A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Co-founder and CEO Chris Cochran says that the company approached H.I.G. ” Several years ago, the market for cloud optimization software and “ FinOps ,” while nascent, was consolidating as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw the opportunities presented by cloud cost optimization. ” “H.I.G.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We And of course, by Q3, it had plunged to just 13.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. ” NeuReality was co-founded in 2019 by Tzvika Shmueli, Yossi Kasus and Tanach, who previously served as a director of engineering at Marvell and Intel.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Including the company’s debut round of $110 million led by Pitango when it first came out of stealth mode in 2019, DriveNets has now raised just over $580 million. The funding, we should point out, is a also a measure of the faith investors have in repeat, successful founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The seed round is coming almost three years after NALA secured a seven-figure pre-seed round led by Accel in 2019. Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. Sheel Tyle , the founder and general partner at Amplo, will join NALA’s board, the company said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Silicon Valley-based Accel led the round for Unit, bringing the company’s total raised since its 2019 inception to nearly $70 million. Founders Itai Damti and Doron Somech are no strangers to growing companies. Unit raises $18.6M to offer banking features as a service. Unit has dual headquarters in Tel Aviv and New York City.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The opportunity is that companies and other organizations are finding themselves needing tools to address the current state of play: Workforce growth today doesn’t look like it did in 2019, and so incumbent solutions like ADP, or cobbled together solutions covering multiple geographies, either don’t cut it, or are too costly to maintain.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 We quickly found that most incumbents focusing solely on the financing of SaaS receivables lacked reliable data and market traction to sufficiently validate their business models,” Chupryna said. million Series A funding round for Crowdz. million. . “A He joined the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Having worked in a luxury firm, as an investment banker at JP Morgan and her own consulting firm, Bardet decided to start Susu in 2019. Susu founders. So that’s how the story started.”. According to a few reports, the medical insurance penetration rate is less than 3% in Africa.

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