TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

However, the segment is yet to record the type of investments that have poured into B2B retail e-commerce in the previous two years. But he contends that since most of these startups haven’t scratched the surface of a vast FMCG space, it’ll take a long while before they invest in B2B medicine distribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. ADT invested in a startup called Zonoff, which was to be acquired by Honeywell for a modest sum. The deal fell through at the last minute and ADT chose not to continue financing the company, which was forced to shut down.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Pete Flint, general partner of NFX, noted that the chances of survival are higher for proptech startups that let consumers fractionally invest in properties and increase access for those seeking a rent-to-own approach. In such a climate, companies that help others navigate tough times seem to be in special demand.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market. For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population have the ability to invest in the capital markets just didn’t seem right. Here in the U.S.,

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. Regulation becomes the friend of the incumbent in highly regulated industries through a process known as regulatory capture. we immediately thought of Wealthfront , the automated investment service started by Benchmark founder Andy Rachleff.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Justin Da Rosa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder , a large digital road freight forwarder based out of Germany, has raised $160 million in Series D financing. Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. Sennder’s new investment will mean it can expand in European markets.

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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.” Northwestern Mutual Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, M25, Fiat Ventures and Invest Nebraska also participated in the financing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Starling — which competes against incumbent banks, as well as other challengers like Monzo and Revolut — said it will be using the money to continue its growth. That bigger market picture has also meant a surge of many neobanks, and so Starling competes with more than just the incumbents. billion) post-money.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. The company is able to show what kind of financing can be obtained based on the amount of data customers provide.

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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! 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

However, where some more differentiation arguably comes into play is that Ikigai also offers “fully managed, globally diversified investment portfolios” under the wealth section of the app. On banking competitors, Ikigai’s founders argue that existing incumbents and challengers both have “significant” failings.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This works for some, but too often founders find themselves diluting their equity to unrecoverable portions rather than considering other financing options that allow them to hold on to their company — options like debt capital. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In conversation with reporter Taylor Hatmaker, Rubin said NFTs show that individuals can benefit from Web3 adoption, while decentralized finance and cryptocurrency trading are more commercialized forms. Successful startups will inevitably draw the attention of powerful incumbents in their industry,” he writes for TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

The Buenos Aires-based startup’s new infrastructure aims to allow fintechs and embedded finance players to launch virtual accounts and issue prepaid and credit cards via “compliant” onboarding processes. Index Ventures’ Mark Fiorentino agrees that the company’s founder-market fit was crucial in his firm’s decision to invest.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Today, Tomo announced a $7 million seed funding round that included participation from a slew of investors including KB Investment Inc. 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. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

In a statement, Luke Sarsfield, co-head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said: “Employers are looking to provide their employees tailored solutions and customizable advice that can better support individual saving and investing needs to help improve retirement savings outcomes. That deal closed last week.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

“Investors are putting a premium on growth in the context of profitability, and we’re growing exceptionally fast because we’re able to profitably serve customers who aren’t being well served by incumbents,” said Sean Harper, CEO of Kin. To learn more, visit www.kin.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. It’s been a week of fintech infrastructure-related investments in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

” Ivella isn’t just competing with the theory of joint accounts pushed by incumbent banks, but also venture-backed startups seeking a multiplayer fintech world. Many standard joint accounts just give every user entire access to other users’ finances, while Zeta wants to give folks a more flexible way to share money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Keyway , a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of a $15 million equity raise. And 20% of transactions fall through because the buyer didn’t have guaranteed financing.” commercial real estate value.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Worse, CFOs are expected to be more strategic than ever about finance, but can struggle to deliver important forecasts and projections given the lack of availability of key data. Mosaic is a “strategic finance platform” that is designed to ingest data from all sorts of systems in the alphabet soup of enterprise IT — ERPs, HRISs, CRMs, etc. —

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Over that 20 year period, annual SaaS investment has increased 20x, peaking in 2014 at $7B. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Its aim is to “finance consumption for Brazilians in a healthy way.” “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. It also aims to allow its customers to access over $616 million in financing in 2022. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu has been seeing 100% growth year-on-year, but notably, Mambu covered 50 markets when it last raised money, €30 million in 2019 , so you can argue it has some investing and expanding to do on that front. Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools. That could lead to consolidation, too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. and 11 “top-tier” insurance companies, also invested in TrustLayer. The funding actually marked BTV’s first investment in a cohort member of its inaugural accelerator program. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

With corporate venture fund creation rebounding to near record levels and the value of deals that CVCs participated in soaring, we wanted to look more deeply into why companies are building their own investing arms. We wanted to learn more: How do active CVC investors view what their investment type is for? But that’s just data.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Ribbit Capital led the financing, which also included participation from DST Global, NFX and Zigg Capital. And it’s because the incumbents have no reason to fundamentally change.”. In fact, the investment represents NFX’s largest initial investment to date. No doubt it has plenty of competition.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. “Enterprises crave control and visibility over the finances, and this not only helps the IT department, but [also] enables all departments to make better aligned business decisions,” he added. It seems that his thesis was correct.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Crisp , an Amsterdam-based, online-only supermarket focused on fresh produce, has raised €30 million in a Series B financing led by leading Target Global and joined by Keen Venture Partners and the co-founders of Adyen and Takeaway.com. Crisp has now raised a total of €42.5 million to date.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. It also plans to invest in sales and go-to-market strategy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. These will typically be at incumbent banks, but they do not offer the same ranges of services to customers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Now we’re very much a data-driven, thesis-driven outbound firm, where we’re reaching out to entrepreneurs soon after they’ve started their companies or gotten seed financing. I think that’s what’s required to build a relationship and the conviction, because financings are happening so fast.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. Khurshid said that he expects to close by the end of the second quarter and start investing in the third quarter.

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