Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2022

Crypto companies access pools of capital web2 companies cannot because the regulation doesn’t exist. Foundations endowed with significant token stakes fuel the ongoing protocol development, balancing the capitalism needed to fuel progress with the benevolence intrinsic to the open-source ethos. There’s one more!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Rebag , which buys, sells and trades luxury items like handbags and accessories, raised a $33 million Series E round following a year of technology development and category expansion. Gorra intends to use the new capital to continue technology development on those tools, to add to Rebag’s workforce of 150 people and expand its marketing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kontent, a platform designed to help companies manage business-related content in the cloud, today announced that it raised $40 million from Expedition Growth Capital as part of a growth capital infusion. Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. “Kontent.ai

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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. With Galileo, which today emerged from stealth with $5.1

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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. Having spent time in Israel and Europe, where fintech was more developed, Shalev says he “spent a lot of time looking at all the different options in this space” in the United States. “We’re

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. In addition to expanding the vet network — Fuzzy is operational in 25 locations — his plans for the new funding include the development and launch of new product offerings, additional educational content and new member growth.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2021

Breeze raised $10 million in Series A funding in a round led by Link Ventures that Nabity boasts is the “largest first round of institutional capital ever invested in a Nebraska-based software startup.” He will also increase Breeze’s headcount in the areas of software development, customer service and marketing. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. It is still early but if we start to show what we can do, we will be helping 330 million people in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

million of Series A investment, led by Integrated Capital, to continue developing its line of healthier food brands. Joining Integrated Capital in the round are Great Oaks Venture Capital, Pacific Tiger Group, Sope Creek Capital and Clearco. Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The round was also joined by SEEDS Capital and Masik Enterprises. The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. The funding will be used to develop Equatorial Space Systems’s Dorado commercial-sounding rocket family.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

New and existing investors, including Tarsadia Capital, Citius, Arago Capital, Foundation Capital and Quiet Capital also participated in the round to bring Jüsto’s total venture capital investment to date to over $250 million. That is up about 2,000 SKUs from last year depending on the city. is poised to be a $187.7

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

Incumbents have seized the moment with Microsoft, Adobe, & others integrating generative AI into their products quickest. In response, startups must develop moats to stake out their market. At the moment, capital & technical expertise create competitive advantage. What are these moats?

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Last November, Bond kicked this off by announcing a partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition to develop a craft meat protein for its product portfolio. We’re really accelerating our process development work to bring down the cost of goods as well as making some fast work of our strain engineering.”. The move is buoyed by a $17.5

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Capital allocation is a core part of any CEO’s job, and it’s particularly critical for growth-stage CEOs. Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D).

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. “I founded Sima.ai

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Some organizations pride themselves on building their own tech stack in certain areas like patient experience, where others tend to look externally first before considering custom development. We’ve seen many companies spend more than 80% of their total capital raised on compute resources alone. Transparency is critical.

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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.”. Physically, the Chinese market also differs greatly from much of the developed West.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Taking the love of the Asian food they grew up with, they wanted to develop one of those brands for the U.S. “We My dad still eats instant ramen each night, and it is such a massive market: 4 billion packets are sold per year, but it is also a product that has been dominated by the same three incumbents for years.”.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year! [Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Price low to minimize adoption friction, grow quickly, and then move up-market after developing broad adoption. Skimming is less common in the software world because few startups develop a product at launch that will be accepted by the most sophisticated customers (and those willing to pay prices that generate the greatest margin).

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

For decades, hotel operations have been characterized by substantial amounts of human capital to drive aspects of the guest experience that are sometimes more frictional than beneficial (check-in, early arrival / late checkout requests, etc.) The real estate trends have also shifted in parallel to accommodate these preferences.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

The company’s mission to reduce home-based fossil fuel dependency has attracted additional support from Incite Ventures, MCJ Collective, Garage Capital, Climate Capital, and Spacecadet. Quilt has developed a highly efficient electric heat pump system that is controlled through a first-of-its-kind integrated software platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The air taxi developer began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday under the ticker symbol “JOBY,” after completing a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners. billion in total capital to take its air taxi operations to commercialization in 2024. from its prior-day closing amount.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Cora , a Brazilian digital lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $116 million in a Series B round led by Greenoaks Capital. million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. Ribbit Capital leads $26.7M The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Thousands if not tens of thousands of pages have been written about the marketer, sales developer, inside account executive and customer success play. This sea of SaaS startups have reshaped the market. The chart above shows them by buyer.

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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. billion ($1.8

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Marco was backed last September by a small seed round from Struck Capital and Antler and over $20 million in a credit facility underwritten by Arcadia Funds. Families with money can access the banks, but you can’t launch a business without capital, and many owners lack that access to banks.”. International Development Finance Corp.

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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. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. million in equity and $19.5 billion by 2025.

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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. We have a huge market with complacent incumbents, a population that adopts technologies early on and a supportive regulatory agenda.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Online pharmacy regulations have been launched in Nigeria and Ghana and are in development in Kenya and Uganda. 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. Women founders are disadvantaged,” the director said.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. Dustin works for Village Capital and says that they have approached cultivating DEI in two ways; in supporting entrepreneurs and internally in their own operations.

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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. . Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton is one of the investors TomoCredit won over. “I And that’s not their fault.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. “We will use M&A strategically going forward, including in relation to product development.”

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