TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Sales in this area topped $100 billion in 2020 , driven by the 48 million dogs and cats that were adopted over the past three years. The big story in 2020 was that everyone needed telehealth services for themselves, and we saw that transfer to pets and then exacerbated by the industry,” he added. Pets are big business.

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capital incumbents education health 98

American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Founded in 2020 by Poddar and Vineet Goel, the startup has provided nearly $1 billion in annual funding for tens of thousands of small businesses in the U.S. The recent closing of a $100 million Series C financing at a $750 million valuation positions the company for accelerated growth. and Canada.

finance 98

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies.

incumbents 107

incumbents VC accelerator investing 107

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.”. The company aims to reach $1.2 billion this year. per package wholesale as of this year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The European grocery market is currently worth €2 trillion, but access to customers for high-quality, smaller producers is still tricky and blocked by incumbents. It also uses a 100% electric fleet serving big cities and suburbs, and its model is to have zero food waste.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since the company launched its platform, business was building steadily, and took off in the second half of 2020. Places like India, Africa and Latin America could accelerate at the same time because they are mainly starting from zero. The company raised a $7.7 million seed round earlier in the year.

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development real estate incumbents ventures 103

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There In 2020, it was $41 million. TC: Was it worth it for you to get a charter as a company?

incumbents 123

incumbents sustainability capital health 123

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. The “last time” was a $15 million Series D round in 2020, also led by Novator. The marketplace now has more than 30,000 items.

peer-to-peer 97

peer-to-peer capital innovation incumbents 97

Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

3 In 2020, it is China’s second largest e-commerce platform on an active user basis only lagging behind Alibaba. Pinduoduo is one of the first companies to successfully create a social shopping experience online, and has accelerated the transition of commerce from offline to online in China.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? For higher ed, I expect that there will be an acceleration in online learning for adults as they continue to look to reskill or upskill.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

That fall, the startup (short for Tomorrow’s Credit) was accepted into the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars. Unlike incumbent credit card issuers, we aren’t incentivized by slapping fees on borrowers for making late payments — we make money as our cardholders spend — so we grow as you grow,” Kim added.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Enables natural expansion : MongoDB and Ethereum, two database companies with nearly identical revenue trajectories through 2020, both employ usage-based models that have supported their explosive growth. Annual prepay generates cash flow to accelerate growth. What should my unit of pricing be? Moving to annual prepay too late.

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SaaS strategy enablement startup 109

TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The fintech then launched its product in October 2020 and today offers a checking account combined with a software layer that aims to help SMBs manage their financials. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In late 2019, the company realized that every other company, like ManageXR, would have to solve the same problems on its own, so it pivoted to focus solely on ManageXR in early 2020. Its competitors include incumbent mobile device management companies, which build similar tools for mobile phones and laptops, and some device manufacturers. “XR

incumbents 87

incumbents hospitality collaboration enablement 87

TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

It’s doubtful that accelerating staff reductions will make the startup labor market dramatically less talent-friendly. Upstart technology firms must compete with both industry incumbents, like Apple and Microsoft, for talent, as well as traditional firms building out their own in-house engineering and data teams.

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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. It ended 2020 with less than 10 million accounts total. billion in transaction volume a month.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“In today’s economic environment, Teampay’s software-led approach has proven resilient — as we saw in late 2020 to 2021, when the economy rebounds, Teampay benefits disproportionately through accelerated growth … We increased our debt facility for additional flexibility in uncertain times.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Spradling through the Antler accelerator, a Singapore- and New York-based early-stage investment and advisory services program that connects entrepreneurs and tech operators to launch new businesses. Miami-based Marco Financial is launching a revenue-based lending service for Latin American SMEs. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. They’ll have to back up the truck for their best companies, take acquisitions off the table, and go right after the incumbents head-on. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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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. Last month, Y Combinator said that it had intentionally reduced its summer cohort by 40%.

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startup incumbents accelerator finance 81

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

He claims that the startup currently has “several hundred” customers and that it’s been profitable and debt-free since Q4 2020. “Our customers tend to be technical and financial leaders,” Cochran said. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

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investment investing peer-to-peer startup 92

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. billion in 2020. Akeyless has customers across the retail, fintech, insurance and gaming sectors, among others, including Wix and Outbrain. .

incumbents 86

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

That’s why he believes now is the time to accelerate CommerceIQ. The new funding will enable CommerceIQ to accelerate its R&D and M&A activities, which Hariharan said will focus on potential opportunities to go deeper and broader into the vertical SaaS and also look at expansion into the Europe and Asia Pacific regions.

capital 89

capital startup enablement incumbents 89

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

There’s been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations. more data by year-end 2022 than in 2020, amounting to multiple petabytes of data in total. An IDC report commissioned by Seagate projected companies would collect 42.2% billion and growing toward $11.6

incumbents 86

incumbents collaboration enablement ventures 86

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Though Ramesh declined to disclose the valuation of the deal, he did say that as combined online grocery platforms, it would accelerate Misfits Market toward $1 billion in sales and reach profitability in early 2024, something that would not necessarily be possible as two separate companies. billion in 2020. is poised to be a $187.7

incumbents 75

incumbents leadership culture VC 75

TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Shoykhet acknowledges that there’s formidable competition in the payments space — not only from incumbents like Venmo, Amazon and PayPal but from buy now, pay later vendors such as Afterpay and Klarna. ” To Shoykhet’s credit, he’s not the only one predicting a rise in account-to-account payments volume.

incumbents 100

incumbents enablement accelerator financing 100

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

OneStream said annual recurring revenue grew 85% in 2020, with customers growing by 40% to 650 enterprises. “The pandemic accelerated OneStream’s business given that it was a wake-up call for many companies that had not digitally transformed their key finance processes,” said Koefoed.

finance 69

finance financing incumbents enablement 69

TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Damti and Somech founded Unit in late 2019 and spent the first year stealthily building out the platform with the mission of empowering companies to embed financial services into their product, accelerating their time to market.

incumbents 89

incumbents financing finance ventures 89

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Nelo issued its first product in Mexico in January 2020, similar to a debit card offering from a neobank. On top of this, the accelerating adoption of banking and mobile e-commerce in LatAm has created an environment for a breakout company in the space today.”. In the middle of the year, the company launched credit installment loans.

incumbents 92

incumbents finance financing capital 92

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Data-driven AppsFlyer, spearheaded by Oren Kaniel, is an exciting mobile-attribution company that is rapidly growing ($200 million+ ARR in 2020) yet maintains a unique DNA. At TAU Ventures, we have 1,000 sq.

startup 141

startup SaaS mix-use opportunity 141

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. When they joined, Monzo was generating $69M in revenues (in April 2020).

peer-to-peer 40

peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 40

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

In 2020, digital bank Varo became the first-ever all-digital nationally chartered U.S. This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. A chartered bank is often associated with a commercial bank.”.

real estate 82

real estate incumbents opportunity founder 82

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Founded in : 2020. Founded in: 2020. Founded in : 2020. Duplo is tackling this head-on, creating digital wallets to help these stakeholders move money better and make cash obsolete. Website : [link].

startup 91

startup hospitality health finance 91

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

A 2020 study from the Harris Poll, commissioned by AI vendor Interactions, estimates that 46% of customer interactions are automated — a percentage the coauthors predict will rise to 59% over the next two to three years. . “We see an 85% call success rate (as measured by expected business outcome) across customers and use cases.”

incumbents 94

incumbents development culture ventures 94

TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

In 2020, it issued over two million tax forms. The digital asset space experienced a watershed moment during the pandemic, resulting in an accelerated push toward digital payments and alternative stores of value,” Austin Woodward told TechCrunch. As a result, TaxBit has seen impressive growth.

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