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.

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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

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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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. They named the firm Vesey Ventures after the street where American Express has its headquarters in New York.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

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. For his part, Valar Ventures’ Andrew McCormack said that financial services companies can “leverage whatever technologies they want to provide better customer experiences.”. “At

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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 market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added.

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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

MAY 3, 2022

After all, AI is costly — Gartner predicted in 2021 that a third of tech providers would invest $1 million or more in AI by 2023 — and debugging an algorithm gone wrong threatens to inflate the development budget. million in total venture capital. “The user only has to add a few lines of code.”

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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 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

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. Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. Some include U.K.’s Sylndr is yet to launch to the public.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

That platform, called Flink , attracted the attention of Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Accel, which just led a $12 million Series A for the company. The banks and incumbents take advantage of that and make people feel like they’re not smart enough to manage their money.

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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

APRIL 9, 2021

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

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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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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Venture capitalists helped power this trend by enabling the creation of hundreds of unicorns and counting. In fact, the third quarter of 2021 alone saw the birth of 42 new fintech unicorns, according to CB Insights.

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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 Ramp says its revenue grew “early 10x” in 2021 compared to 2020 while its cardholder base grew 7x and its user base grew 15x. million Series B in February of 2021. I wrote about the startup’s $32.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In a detailed overview of venture debt options, Andy Weyer, managing director of technology at Runway Growth Capital, shares three use cases depicting how debt capital can benefit borrowers hoping to retain leverage for future rounds or access working capital. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for?

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

And, in a series of results that could indicate a hot market for startup growth, they had a smashingly good first quarter of 2021. He’s neutral-to-positive, saying that his firm does not “think all the companies in the market will work but still thinks ‘insurtechs’ will take market share from incumbents over the next decade.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And in January, fulfillment is up 20% compared to November of 2021. Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. . Looking ahead, CEO Gomez projects that it will fulfill close to 6 million items in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs. ” Pando makes a best effort to automate processes around the supply chain.

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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 TTV Capital led Welcome Tech’s latest capital infusion, which brings the company’s total raised to date to $70 million since its 2010 inception. The raise follows the L.A.-based

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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. million in Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

As these technologies proliferate in everyday life, we’ll witness the advent of the Internet of Payments …Together, sooner than you might think, the newcomers will unseat the incumbents. Impressively, in the third quarter of 2021, Creditas says it notched US$46.8 The meteor is about to hit. And we’ll all be better off for it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, New York–based venture capital Kora Capital, and London-based Clay Point led the round. It marked PayPay Ventures’ first check into a MENA startup, and is also indicative of the exploding fintech scene in the region.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Wynn started the company in January 2021 with his co-founder Praveen Chekuri after working together at Instacart. Startups like Ascend aiming to disrupt the insurance industry are also attracting venture capital, with recent examples including Vouch and Marshmallow , which raised close to $100 million, while Insurify raised $100 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

I’ve come to realize, in reporting on startups and venture capital pretty much exclusively for the past 5 years — and for many more before that in one capacity or another — that nothing is black and white, things aren’t always what they seem and they can change in the blink of an eye. Recall that Visa almost bought Plaid for $5.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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

MARCH 3, 2023

Basically, it’s Uber’s attempt to follow the Instacart model, which is working well for the incumbent grocery delivery company,” she reports. Autonomous trucking company Embark Trucks, which went public in 2021, is now laying off about 230 workers as it explores liquidating its self-driving truck assets , Kirsten reports.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Unit Go is currently in beta and will be available to the public in the fall of 2021. . The company plans to use its new capital to grow its headcount of 26 and fast-track its Unit Go offering. It also wants to expand its platform into additional financial products, software development kits (SDKs) and integrations. “As

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Then in March of 2021, Nelo launched its first product via an Android app. They are amassing valuable repayment history on their platform that incumbents like Affirm and Afterpay and even local credit bureaus do not have on consumers in the region,” she said. In the middle of the year, the company launched credit installment loans.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

While it invested mostly on its product in 2021, it plans to put some of its new capital toward its go to market strategy while continuing to be “heads down focused on product.” The startup has increased its customer count by nearly “3x” over the past year and signed several of the country’s top 100 lenders.

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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. per share.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. I think 2021 will be amazing. Ben Wiener, Jumpspeed Ventures. TAU Ventures is the first and only university-affiliated VC in Israel.

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