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 latest capital infusion comes less than a year from a $60 million Series C round that happened in June 2021.

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

Post-Pandemic Geography: Predictions for Living, Working, & Traveling Post-Covid in America’s Startup Cities Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Announces that Airbnb Co-founder and CEO, Brian Chesky, will join Steve Case for the Tech Talent Tour Mainstage Discussion (Thursday, June 24th, 2021 at 12:00 PM ET).

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Comun observed that no incumbent bank offers a full Spanish language banking experience. Seed capital to serve the 44 million Latinos with Spanish as a primary language in the U.S. The bank was founded in 2021 by Abiel Gutierrez and Andres Santos who both faced financial exclusion when they migrated to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. The company plans to launch a full-featured calendar in Q1 of 2021, that would include collaborative editing right within calendar events, and embedded video conferencing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

billion at the time of its last raise in 2021. Its backers include institutions such as Lone Pine Capital, Warburg Pincus and The Rise Fund, as well as U2’s Bono and NBA player Russell Westbrook. In 2021, Varo’s gross revenue was $74 million. and “Economic conditions necessitate an added focus on capital preservation.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But the company will end 2021 with revenues close to 2x its pre-pandemic peak, in spite of continued low interest rates, reduced travel, and depressed pandemic spending. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. This did not happen by magic. expectations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. Notably, it only went live in January of 2021, so it has managed to surpass 1 million customers in a relatively short period of time. Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7

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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.”. trillion in 2021, more than triple that of the No. 2, the U.S. Image Credits: VCG.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million Series A investment in June from a group of investors that includes Archer-Daniels-Midland Company’s venture arm ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Genoa Ventures, Lever VC, Thia Ventures, iSelect Fund, Stage 1 Fund, Lifely VC and Satori Capital. The move is buoyed by a $17.5 Prior to the Series A round, the company raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. million in debt) Series B led by Fin Venture Capital with participation from Mastercard, Proof Ventures, Trestle and Espresso Capital, bringing Teampay’s total raised to $65 million. . billion in 2021. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In October 2021, Valve banned all blockchain-related games from its Steam platform. Rajul Garg , founder and managing partner, Leo Capital. Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different. Beryl Li , co-founder, Yield Guild Games. It was not an entirely unexpected move from Steam.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 The evolution of post-pandemic education will be complex, if not aggressively competitive among the growing cohort of well-capitalized edtech companies. billion in 2019.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

When Pinecone launched a vector database aimed at data scientists in 2021, it was probably ahead of its time. Now of course, this is a well-formed market and the category has different players, and so incumbents and clouds and so on, and we’re clearly ahead. Investors apparently agree.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Salient surveyed over 80 companies across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, 25% more than the number it tracked in its last report in 2021. Last year, two talking points from Salient’s report were the need for increased capital from Africa-based investors and more money to flow into women-led startups. In 2021, they received just $1.6

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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 But what’s important is how the failure happened.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

“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. To get even more specific, the team is projecting to reach nearly $196 million in revenues in 2022, a “3x” growth compared to 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

PV Boccasam is a partner at Cota Capital. But despite the growing risk of regulation of the software industry, the capital markets continue to reward digital companies, including the larger companies that are under constant scrutiny regarding antitrust claims and consumer privacy. PV Boccasam. Contributor. fintech) software solutions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Founded in September 2020, the New York-based company – which was previously named Unlock – said it uses data science to “ identify, underwrite and close transactions 10x faster than incumbents.” Canvas Ventures led the company’s seed round in late 2021, w ith participation from Montage Ventures, FJ Labs and Crosscut.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In February 2021, corporate spend startup Brex was the latest fintech to apply for a bank charter. What does this mean for digital banks as a whole?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

(KBIC) — a subsidiary of South Korean consumer bank, Kookmin Bank — along with Barclays, Knollwood Investment Advisory, BAM Ventures, Passport Capital, Ulu Ventures and Strong Ventures. . We are living in 2021 and open banking is popular, so it’s easier to get access to open banking data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

billion in total capital to take its air taxi operations to commercialization in 2024. That includes $835 million of private-investment-in-public-equity, as well as more than $500 million of capital on the balance sheet. Joby Aviation (@jobyaviation) August 11, 2021. It also now has the highest cash balance.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

I had a catastrophic relationship with incumbent banks.”. While Conrade declined to reveal hard revenue figures, he did share that Neon grew its revenue by 3x in 2021 and he expects that the company will at least more than double it this year. I used to make $300 in a month to pay $200 a year in banking,” he recalls. “It ’” .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. ” Other investors participating in Prezent.ai’s Series A included WestWave Capital and Emergent Ventures, both of which invested in the company’s June 2021 seed round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

With VCs pulling back on the reins, valuations slipping, and 2021’s hype fading, founders are finding themselves working harder to raise capital than they were in 2021, Alex Wilhelm found in his analysis of early data from DocSend. venture capital activity,” he writes. venture capital activity,” he writes.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. USV’s Albert Wenger has been writing his book, World After Capital , which lays out the argument that money is no longer the scarce asset driving the economy, but rather, it’s attention. Getting capital in the earliest stages continues to get easier.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

It was also participated by AlphaTrio Sustainable Technology Fund, Skystar Capital, Sovereign’s Capital, Ozora, and Gobi Partners. Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

has raised $ 30 million in new capital to help these individuals not only adjust to – but feel comfortable and “thrive” in – their new environment. based company’s $35 million Series B in April 2021, which was co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s The raise follows the L.A.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

It achieved unicorn status in August 2021 and at the time was eyeing an IPO. Level was founded by Vladimir Korshin, Asa Schachar and Molly Hogan in 2021.” In September 2021, I covered Vouch’s announcement of $90 million in new funding. Both Vouch and Level are Y Combinator alums. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Their goal was to take that 10 years of experience investing through the venture capital arm of one of the world’s largest credit card companies, and apply it firsthand to new early-stage investments — but with a twist. Huang also acknowledges that in 2021, the trio stepped back from investing “because it was getting way too frothy.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

.” Mason wouldn’t reveal Descript’s valuation post-money, but he noted that the funding — which also had participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital and ex-Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross — brings the company’s total raised to $100 million.

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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. million in debt — led by NGP Capital with participation from Team8 Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners. million in equity and $19.5

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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 has been shipping prototypes to partners since May 2021, Tanach says. To date, it’s raised $48 million in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Other backers include Global Founders Capital and a number of high-profile angel investors, such as GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung, ALLVP Partner Antonia Rojas and LaHaus founders Jeronimo Uribe and Tomas Uribe, among others. And in January, fulfillment is up 20% compared to November of 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. Demonstrating that there’s investor appetite for upstarts in the market, Expeto this week closed a $13 million Series B round led by Sorenson Capital with participation from 5G Open Innovation Lab, Samsung Next and Mistral Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Tile , the maker of Bluetooth-powered lost item finder beacons and, more recently, a staunch Apple critic , announced today it has raised $40 million in non-dilutive debt financing from Capital IP. During the first half of 2021, Tile says revenues increased by over 50%, but didn’t provide hard numbers.

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