TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps. One of them was Singapore-based Endowus , which raised two rounds in rapid succession: a Series A in June 2021 followed just seven months later by $25.6 million in follow-on funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In other words, it wants to invest in early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies “where opportunities for early partnerships with financial incumbents exist.” Huang also acknowledges that in 2021, the trio stepped back from investing “because it was getting way too frothy.” Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

billion at the time of its last raise in 2021. I caught up with Colin Walsh, the company’s chief executive and founder, to get an update. CEO and founder Colin Walsh. In 2021, Varo’s gross revenue was $74 million. It has raised nearly $1 billion since its 2015 inception and was valued at $2.5 And if so, why?

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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. These kinds of numbers have been hard to come by in a conservative investment environment, but the company is growing fast and investors saw an opportunity to grab a market leader, says Pinecone CEO and founder Edo Liberty. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

“Access to good quality credit at the point and time of need is the single most important obstacle for Brazilians to achieve financial wellness, increase consumption and create wealth,” said Sandro Reiss, Open Co’s co-founder. It is a vicious cycle; delinquencies are high and interest rates even higher.

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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. Founder and CEO Nash Ahmed wouldn’t go into too much detail about the technology that allows Undock to accomplish this.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Comun observed that no incumbent bank offers a full Spanish language banking experience. The bank was founded in 2021 by Abiel Gutierrez and Andres Santos who both faced financial exclusion when they migrated to the U.S. said Andres Santos, Co-Founder & CEO of Comun. Comun gained investor support of $4.5M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Its digitally-native approach can save pet parents up to $750 a year on healthcare expenses, Zubin Bhettay, co-founder and CEO of Fuzzy, told TechCrunch. He expects 2021 revenue growth to be five times over 2020, while Fuzzy memberships, which start for free and then a monthly subscription of $24.99 Fuzzy live chat via its app.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The company says it plans to extend its Series B funding with a second tranche to be closed ahead of the company launching products powered by its own insurance licence, scheduled for the first half of 2021. “We sell more policies to first-time insurance buyers in Germany than incumbents like Allianz, Axa, Zurich, etc,” he says.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,

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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. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo.

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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 8, 2022

The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine. 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.

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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. In 2021, they received just $1.6 Women founders are disadvantaged,” the director said.

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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. Moving forward, the founder is eager to tap into the tech talent in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

billion raised across 447 deals in 2021. While of course I still believe fintech is in its early innings, I do also think that people went a little too crazy, too fast in 2021 and a lot of companies that probably shouldn’t have gotten funded did. Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. That compares to $25.3

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The go-go days of 2021 & the pandemonium of 2022 ebb, leaving a year of sobriety at low tide: longer diligence processes, fewer rounds, lower entry & exit valuations. This foundation leads to more halcyon days when the promise of technology is realized & the market rewards both customers & founders.

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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

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

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

based company’s $35 million Series B in April 2021, which was co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s From March 2021 to March 2022, the company says it saw a 2,200% increase in wallet growth. I think that’s a big moat around any of the incumbents,” he said. “In The raise follows the L.A.-based

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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. This represents a 350% YoY growth compared to 2021, wherein the number of deposits and loans disbursed amounted to $50 million (IDR 781 billion).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Founder Sachin Nayyar, who returned to Saviynt as CEO this week alongside newly-appointed president Paul Zolfaghari, said that the loan will be put toward expanding Saviynt’s platform, acquiring customers and growing the company’s partner ecosystem. billion in venture dollars went into the identity management sector in 2021, up 2.5x

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in : 2021. Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Founded in : 2021. Founders : Ahmed Ismail, a second-time founder who has worked for Goldman Sachs and Barclays, is the CEO. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. In 2021, NorthOne replatformed the company with a new banking partner, The Bancorp Bank, N.A, Co-founders Eytan Bensoussan (CEO) and Justin Adler (COO). an investment that it says has paid off.

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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

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 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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

2021, however, has been a different story: new pricing rules being put into place will likely see a number of providers tip into the red for the year. Regardless of whether Marshmallow is the first or one of the first, given the dearth of diversity in the U.K. “They are big companies and stuck in their ways.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Misfits Market is acquiring Imperfect Foods in an all-stock deal, Misfits Market founder and CEO Abhi Ramesh told TechCrunch. Both online grocery platforms, Misfits Market raised nearly $530 million since being founded in 2018, most recently a $200 million Series C round in 2021 that put its valuation at over $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The latest capital infusion comes less than a year from a $60 million Series C round that happened in June 2021. The company closed out 2021 with 106% year-over-year revenue growth, 113% growth in customers served and a 100% boost in employees globally. digital shopping companies in 2021, up from $23 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company’s co-founder and CEO, Tyson Kunovsky, told TechCrunch that his company’s goal is akin to what Hashicorp and others have done, taking a piece of work that the large cloud platforms are doing poorly and improving the experience. But perhaps another cloud infra provider might noodle into its space in time.

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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. Finding a bigger wave to ride. 2, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. According to the founders, Sylndr also plans on providing seven-day money back guarantee, warranty and availing flexible financing options to users. “The

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Since its founding, it’s attracted interest from investors including Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Amplo, Pareto Holdings, Quiet Capital and Shutterstock co-founder and CEO Jon Oringer. year-over-year alone in 2021, and that transactions facilitated by open banking could hit $116 billion globally by 2026. currently.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Joby Aviation (@jobyaviation) August 11, 2021. Joby’s merger with blank-check firm Reinvent, headed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, was announced in February. We have been working for over a decade to get our technology ready for market and are excited to take this moment to celebrate our achievements so far. The Future of Flight.

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