TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

But it also could be the worst of times for founders thinking about launching an AI startup, especially one that can grow and be defensible against incumbents in a fast-changing environment. CB Insights compiled data from 2021 and 2022 to understand where VC investment money has been going when it comes to generative AI startups.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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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.” combined and more than doubled the amount raised by female-led VC firms so far in 2023. It plans to invest $1.5 Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

VC firms poured $2.3 billion into identity vendors in 2021, up from $1.3 Companies such as Socure , Transmit Security and Trulioo have raised hundreds of millions of dollars between them within the last few years, while others, like Auth0, have been snapped up by incumbents like Okta. Image Credits: Oort.

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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, Then there were those companies that existed well before the pandemic. an investment that it says has paid off.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

billion valuation, which is 85% below its June 2021 raise…As prices and valuations stabilize, we will see deals ramp back up.”. On the bright side, the fact that VCs are more discriminating about where they put their dollars could actually lead to more M&A activity, according to Ruark. Klarna recently raised $800 million at a $6.7

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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. According to a 2021 survey from code security platform GitGuardian, three code commits out of 1,000 expose at least one secret. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

While reporting delays could change this total, VC dollars have more than doubled since the pandemic began. It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion last year, compared to $4.7

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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. One of the things you do in VC asset allocation is lean in to the winners,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Neobanks that are still growing; the OKR software market’s surprising depth ; the ability of M1 to accrete deposits in a market with so many incumbents and well-funded startups. One more VC Visa-Plaid take. So, here are his $0.02: My big take-away on the Plaid/Visa deal falling apart is about how fast everything in 2021 is moving.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Digital banks, neobanks, challenger banks or whatever you may call them, are among the biggest recipients of VC investments in fintech. Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. In November 2021, Fintech Farm launched in its first market, Azerbaijan.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Startups/VC. But first up is Natasha’s dive into Mos , which founder Amira Yahyaoui says is gunnin’ to become “the incumbent bank in the U.S.” billion in revenue for Q4 2021, but “that was the good news,” reports Ron Miller and Alex Wilhelm. Today’s startup news has a few Tiger rounds, a toilet paper headline and more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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. When we are profitable, we will be able to take on all of these massive incumbents.”. Here’s why.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Startups and VC While most established automotive players call the shots from sprawling, corporate palaces, Scout bases much of its operations — at least for now — out of a WeWork near Washington, D.C., Basically, it’s Uber’s attempt to follow the Instacart model, which is working well for the incumbent grocery delivery company,” she reports.

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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. But t he used cars market isn’t only enormous in Egypt; it is in almost every country with a large population globally. Some include U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Listed psychedelics companies were highly overvalued in 2021, and the correction in the markets has brought valuations for private companies back to more standard early-stage levels. In the meantime, pharma and big biotech VC firms are more interested in exploring the non-hallucinogenic psychedelic pathways.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Insurtech companies have been among the biggest victims of the public market selloff, especially those that went public in 2021. Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

” April, which Borodach co-founded in 2021 with Daniel Marcous, previously the CTO of Waze, is an attempt to cut through the complexities of the U.S. ” Countless vendors offer online tax prep services, including incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block. The tides might be turning.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Same as VC funds are deeply acquainted with Silicon Valley, tech investors cannot ignore this hub of innovation that has produced global market leading companies and serial entrepreneurs. The cliche VC answer: strong team, big market. I think 2021 will be amazing. What are you looking for in your next investment, in general?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

When robotic process automation company UiPath filed to go public in March 2021, the startup had just closed a $750 million round that helped it clinch a $35 billion valuation. Although its initial IPO price range was slightly below that figure, post-debut, it bounced back to a $43 billion valuation at $90 per share.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Clipboard Health , an app-based marketplace that matches nurses with open shifts at nearby healthcare facilities, today announced that it raised $80 million over two unannounced rounds, a $50 million Series B round in 2021 and a $30 million Series C round this year, at a $1.3 billion into digital health startups in 2021, up 75% from $21.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Fuel Capital General Partner Leah Solivan joined us at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 to explain how to avoid early mistakes in building your startup. How to kick the 10 worst startup habits with Fuel Capital’s Leah Solivan.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

On March 25, PitchBook released its 2021 Annual Fintech Report , which found that the fintech industry raised $121.6 billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value. Ramp says its revenue grew “early 10x” in 2021 compared to 2020 while its cardholder base grew 7x and its user base grew 15x.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

We can’t hand the support to the tech ecosystem to an incumbent bank! Another VC told me the decision to put Barclays in the front-running for the contact was “like President Bush declaring ‘Mission Accomplished’ after the Gulf War, when the war was far from over. We need to shout this into oblivion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Developer tools are not worth infinite money : Startups that built for developers had an amazing 2021. Startups and VC. Let’s see if the startup can tackle the public incumbent, itself a former startup. Amazon has also “suspended the shipment of retail products to customers based in Russia and Belarus,” TechCrunch writes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” The latest revision of the seed round put it at $3.375M, whereas that round in late 2021 was valued at $2.5M. Both will join as advisors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Founded out of the Czech Republic in 2021, Talkbase launched out of stealth just a couple of weeks back , backed by $2 million in pre-seed funding from a mixture of Czech and U.S. funds, including J&T Ventures, Credo Ventures, Mxv Capital, and Plug & Play Tech Center. Talkbase: Ambassador program. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

According to a 2021 survey conducted by the Survey Center on American Life, an increasing number of people can’t identify a single person as a “close friend.” ” In 1990, only 3% of Americans said that they had no close friends, while in 2021, that percentage rose to 12%. Statistics back up my anecdotal evidence.

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incumbents VC education communities 75

TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. We don’t really know why, or exactly how many people were impacted but it’s not great news for a company that was valued at $500 million in January of 2021 and especially not good news for the affected employees.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

“Like a pressure cooker, COVID blew the lid off what was a simmering mental health crisis for over a decade,” VC Tim Schlidt told TechCrunch. The positive effect is that public markets have had a downstream effect of making private valuations much more reasonable than in 2021. Has M&A appetite evolved in recent months?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Besides traditional VC, crowdfunding, venture banks and venture debt funds are all viable options. Successful startups will inevitably draw the attention of powerful incumbents in their industry,” he writes for TechCrunch+. Image Credits: Olemedia (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a sign that national security tech is a safe bet even during troubled economic times, defense- and security-focused VC firm Razor’s Edge Ventures today announced the closing of its third startup investment fund at just under $340 million. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

One day, I’m hearing personal accounts of VCs pulling term sheets at the last minute, with some citing that their own investors had backed out of providing funds, leaving founders scrambling to save a round — and face. One day, I’m having a fintech-focused VC tell me they haven’t invested in any startups since last October.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Will Apple’s spectacular iPhone 12 sales figures boost the smartphone industry in 2021? Even though “Apple’s success this quarter was kind of a perfect storm,” writes Hardware Editor Brian Heater , “it’s safe to project a rebound for the industry at large in 2021.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

market in June 2021 , and later went on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place. It’s clear that Neeva has its work cut out if it’s to differentiate in a market that includes long-established billion-dollar incumbents, and other agile startups, with much the same goals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

In 2021, the New York-based company raised a little less than half a million dollars to scale its technology around allowing customers to ask multiple questions. In getting rid of third-party cookies, Apple essentially made it much more difficult for brands to attract conversions and make this kind of post-flywheel work.”.

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