Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

While the Bird Zero has shown massive improvements, as you can imagine the company has built an entire vehicles team and designed an entire roadmap of scooters that will hit the roads in 2019 / 2020. You can’t simply drop a bunch of electric scooters in a market and hope to compete with the data and software advantages of the incumbents.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. expectations.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding. ” Customers that have integrated with Tractable to date include Geico in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g. Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The direct listing becomes the standard way for startups to go public in 2020. Most startups at IPO have plenty of cash and don't need to raise more in the public markets. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu has been seeing 100% growth year-on-year, but notably, Mambu covered 50 markets when it last raised money, €30 million in 2019 , so you can argue it has some investing and expanding to do on that front. offices established in Miami.). That could lead to consolidation, too.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

Hunter Walk: Textio , the startup you founded and CEO’ed until a few months ago, is almost 10 years old. A recent essay covered the ‘AI gold rush’ and as it related to startups operating in this area, very much ‘caution ahead’ in terms of building a sustainable, differentiated business. As I see it, startups have two major advantages.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

million (CAN $299 million) since its 2019 inception, and values the company at over $784.8 Maple VC’s Andre Charoo told TechCrunch that the startup has returned (unrealized) one-third of the firm’s second fund so far. Canadian digital bank Neo Financial has raised $145.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

And if you want to build one in a sector crowded by both incumbent companies and richly funded startups, it can be super expensive. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Here are the big numbers: 57% revenue growth from £166 million in 2019 to £261 million in 2020. — Alex.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. billion in 2019. The digital logistics market is estimated to climb to $46.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

That’s the problem that startup TomoCredit is trying to solve. 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. It’s difficult to get credit if you don’t have credit. Kim, who immigrated to the U.S.

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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

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. Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Healthtech startups across Africa, such as Ivory Coast- and French-based Susu are stepping up to fill this need. And in a bid to continue providing affordable and accessible healthcare for its customers in Ivory Coast, Senegal and Cameroon, the Ivorian startup is being backed with $1 million in pre-seed funding. “At Susu founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

For three Palantir alums, the hope is that CFOs will turn to their new startup called Mosaic. 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. Screenshot of Mosaic’s planning function.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

T he startup uses blockchain with the aim of creating a richer network effect of data that allows credit bureaus and others to predict the creditworthiness of people who are not in the traditional credit bureau system. Coinbase’s direct listing alters the landscape for fintech and crypto startups. Spring Labs is one of them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

This is a large Series B by any standards, but particularly so for a Latin American startup. The startup has now raised a total of $152.7 million since its 2019 inception. Today, the startup has more than 120,000 customers. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Having noticed tailwinds for the wave of B2B startups that offer cloud cost-optimization solutions, and cloud management more broadly, we were curious to know where VCs thought the space was headed — and the answers we heard show promise. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Fashion startup Virgio, co-founded by Amar Nagaram, former chief executive of Myntra, has raised $37 million in a new financing round as the young firm looks to build “a global fashion brand” from the South Asian market. The startup’s approach has prompted some to draw comparisons between its model with that of the behemoth Shein.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And even though investment activity decreased this year, it still remains well above where it was in 2019 and 2020. Infrastructure providers can help connect fintech companies with incumbent banks so that they can both reap the benefits of the interest rate environment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors. PitchBook data shows that edtech startups around the world raised $10.76 billion in 2019. In the United States, edtech startups raised $1.78

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

billion (up from $1 billion in its previous fundraise in 2019), sources told TechCrunch, requesting anonymity as the matter is private. Incumbents, despite all their resources have launched products which appear as another variant of an ICE product and lack the punch. billion to $3.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Mexico City-based digital bank Klar has raised $70 million in equity funding at a valuation of $500 million, the startup announced today. In total, the company has raised over $150 million in equity funding since its 2019 inception. For example, the startup claims that users can open an account online “in five minutes” through its app.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Today, one of the startups that has seen a lift in its business as a result of that is announcing a round of funding to expand its operations. Notably, this is the second round of funding for the startup in the space of six months, after it picked up $20 million in a Series B last June. Weber acquires smart cooking startup June.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. At the time, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Segun Adeyemi , said that he was taking a break and would “likely start another company” later.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. On top of this, the cost of bringing projects online has fallen, it’s become more fashionable to play the startup game, and so forth. I am expecting a downturn at some point. Dreams can be fueled here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The startup, which is out to give brands and tech companies a way to launch custom co-branded credit cards, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Activant Capital. The financing brings the two-year-old company’s total raised since its 2019 inception to $50 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

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. The company estimates it helped keep more than 2,000 pounds of food from being wasted and saved 250,000 gallons of water since launching in 2019.

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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 26, 2022

Israeli startup Firebolt has been taking on Google’s BigQuery, Snowflake and others with a cloud data warehouse solution that it claims can run analytics on large datasets cheaper and faster than its competitors. billion valuation. “We rarely see people not liking Snowflake. In a room, they will never say we want to replace it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips. And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. Consolidation everywhere.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! Unfortunately, as with most private companies, neither startup will share hard revenue figures. But they do at least provide some metrics.

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