TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In a sign that pure equity financing is getting harder to come by, cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf , which last July raised $150 million at triple its previous valuation ($4.3 This week, Crunchbase further noted that while cyber startups saw more funding in H2 than all of 2020 ($8.9 raised close to $15.9 billion of debt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Ghauche and Douglas Reed started Constrafor, a SaaS construction procurement platform, to provide embedded financing and software for general contractors to manage their subcontractor workflow. Constrafor grabs $106M in equity, credit to finance construction subcontractors The company raised $106.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Schulman added: “Over the past year, we made significant progress in strengthening and reshaping our company to address the challenging macro-economic environment…While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the world moves into economic head-winds and geopolitical uncertainty, European founders must get used to taking tough decisions to ensure the survival of their startups. In this environment a lower valuation is no reflection on you. There’s a stigma. We’ve turned the down round into a worst case scenario.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Aiming to compete with Bilt in the nascent property renter rewards market, Stake , a startup that provides cash back and banking services to renters, today announced that it raised $12 million in a Series A round led by RET Ventures’ new RET Ventures ESG Fund. Stake is bringing the same transformation to real estate.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

automotive, personal loans, and student financing) to verify and approve borrowers quickly within their own applications using Truework’s APIs. And the current economic environment, it seems, is playing more than a bit-part in this trend.

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Startup Blogpost

APRIL 7, 2023

From using the slowdown to innovate to seizing the opportunity to recruit talent cheaper, here are 10 answers to the question, “What are some effective ways a startup can benefit from a recession?” Overall, the success of startups during a recession can, in general, be significantly influenced by innovation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

In this TC+ post, she discusses the current economic environment and shares “actionable tips for closing pre-seed to Series B rounds.”. Giving users better service than they expect could literally save a software startup. Does your startup have a data room? Dear Sophie, Our startup is recruiting engineers.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By going the debt route, Icertis avoids having to answer the tricky question of valuation in an especially challenging economic environment. ” Investors see promise in contract management legal technology for procurement, sales, finance, legal and HR like Icertis’ — perhaps because of the enormous addressable market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Still, Rivian cruised past analysts’ expectations on revenue, bringing in $364 million in Q2 (or about $26 million more than analysts anticipated, per Yahoo Finance). (Altogether, Rivian delivered 5,694 vehicles during the first half of the year.). Today, the young-ish EV maker ended regular trading at $38.95 per share, or up 4%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Meanwhile, the second round of cuts, executed due to a profitability push, impacted 15% of its full-time employees across various departments, leaving about 800 employees at the startup. We couldn’t confirm how many part-time and temporary hires were let go in both layoffs. Alerzo raises $10.5M

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The company handles broker invoicing, collections, and payments and in addition provides access to debt financing. “In our current economic environment, companies can’t afford to ignore back-end risks and slow processes.” To date, the startup has raised a total of $165 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

I think the quick way to think about what we do is we help CFOs to scale their finance and accounting organizations nonlinearly,” Lau said. This results in a mountain of data points, which could be interesting and helpful to the finance experts if they could pull it all together. Today, his company announced a $12 million Series A. “In

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

In a written statement, CEO Adam Hughes said: Due to the current macro-economic environment, we have decided to take some proactive adjustments to ensure Amount’s ability to thrive for years to come. When contacted, the company confirmed that the 18% figure was correct but did not specify the exact number.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

The Michigan-based autonomous ride-hail and shuttle startup raised $111 million in a Series C round that it says will help it get to driver-out operations in 2023. Other deals that got my attention… Aurora Labs raised $63 million through a Series C financing round led by Moore Strategic Ventures. also participated.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Evaluate Finances. The economic environment may be shifting in a way that means employees will need to earn more in order to live comfortably. From giving clear timelines and action steps to finding out the root cause of the ask, there are many tips to help you make the decision that’s right for your business.

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