TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Angel and individual investors also put money in the round, including: Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton, ex-Venmo COO Michael Vaughan and James Kim, former head of finance at Tinder. . People have different personal finance behavior than in the past, which makes it harder for traditional lenders to evaluate them.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

Lee headed finance for the company from $15m in ARR to more than $1b. UBP presented an opportunity to reinvent the account executive (AE) compensation model. In addition, Lee shared his view on usage-based pricing and defending a startup’s great asset, talent, from poaching during the next recovery. That’s important today.

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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. The financing brings NorthOne’s fundraising total to $90.3 Ultimately, the company’s goal is to give its business the “control, clarity and confidence” they need to better manage their finances.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

No matter how cutting edge or sophisticated, from a technology perspective, your product might be, you’ll still need to present compelling metrics to get a deal signed. so that you can present your product as a solution to that problem. Leverage your investors/advisors to help uncover that inside baseball for you.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

General Atlantic doubled down on Klar , leading its latest financing in addition to its $70 million Series B last July. One advantage for Klar, according to Möller , is that its “cost to serve a user” is about 1/20 of what the incumbents pay. I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents. he told TechCrunch.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Popularized by Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert, the invention wasn’t all that complicated: issue bonds with very high interest rates and correspondingly high risk, and use that capital to finance the wholesale acquisition of mismanaged, inefficient, and sclerotic companies. billion, against almost $2.8

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Data privacy regulations like GDPR, the CCPA and HIPAA present a challenge to training AI systems on sensitive data, like financial transactions , patient health records and user device logs. Tech giants, including Nvidia (via Clara ), offer federated learning as a service.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 Presently, Skio has five employees but is planning to use its new capital toward product development and to “hire aggressively for world-class software engineers.”. “We’re

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s a good showing for fintech, both startup and incumbent alike. No one knows what comes next, how the trades play out or if the present-day retail investing surge in stock trading will persist. Finally, E*Trade’s own app is ranked 18th. What does seem clear, however, is that today is going to be very silly.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

to select African countries include unicorn Chipper Cash , Lemonade Finance, Zazuu and Sendwave. Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. This new financing round includes lead investor Amplo , Accel and Bessemer Partners, including local investors like DFS Lab.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Kettle’s longer-term plan is to expand to more disaster types, and more states, in the coming years, but for now, fires in California present a particularly acute set of problems. This presents an opportunity to provide a different spin on how to provide this service. 2020 saw over 4% of the state burning.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

That presented an opportunity to Lunar to take on the risk: Bring people to the platform to trade, and get them to cash out with Lunar itself, making money off the exchange or service fees associated with the transactions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

“They are the strongest company in the segment and well financed in this growing market,” said Forrester analyst Craig Le Clair. Here’s a full transcript of their presentation and the audience Q&A session. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map. “If

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

With Snipd’s latest launch, which is available on Android and iOS this week, the company is channeling its inner TikTok by presenting users with a highlights reel, of sorts, automatically pulling out what it believes to be the most memorable moments from numerous podcasts. Snipd: “TikTok”-inspired feed of podcast highlights.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

Market Size Validation : The first thing is to verify market size and whether it foots with the data the company presented. What kinds of moves are the incumbents making and how they change the market? Financing plan : What are the major buckets of expenditures? Then, I try to dig deeper into the nuances of the market.

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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. Fintech (specifically embedded finance or financial SaaS), synthetic bio. What other types of products/services are you wary or concerned about?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two factors often come down to how Q&A will be shared and/or if we are the incumbent. Planning: You have the resources to craft an effective project planning for RFP (and eventually scope it with account / finance). Don’t make it too hard and don’t design a presentation using their branding. But it doesn’t have to be.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

For the real enemy was never “Anne” nor “Tom,” but an incumbent banking industry that had grown not just too big to fail but too big to listen and respond to a generation of digital-savvy customers who wanted a more modern banking experience.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This reality is already present in most service provider industries, so it should be no suprise when it arrives full throttle in healthcare. Today, 77% of consumers say they use online reviews as the first step in finding a new physician. CVS Care Clinic Price Schedule: Benchmark Healthcare Investments.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In their Demo Day presentation, Jason Kelly crisply articulated the bold vision that has been behind Ginkgo from their origins at MIT to the present day. If that sounds cool to you, you can find us in the Jurassic Park t-shirts” Here’s their Demo Day presentation: Yes, they really did wear Jurassic Park t-shirts to Demo Day.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

For instance, incumbent streaming databases solve many problems far beyond what Dozer offers, which is all about serving real-time data updates and APIs in a single product. Gudapuri said that Dozer “takes an opinionated approach,” one that tackles very specific problems and no more.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

But then the opportunity presented itself, and it was at Patreon where I had already been there for almost two years and I have a lot of trust and a lot of support from the people around me in a peer circle of other people in management. I lived that life a little bit, and I felt that I could combine more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Asides from Egypt, Paymob is also present in Kenya, Pakistan, and Palestine. The pandemic presented one of the best opportunities for fintechs all over the world to achieve massive growth. The Egyptian fintech ecosystem also got a major boost when incumbent fintech Fawry became a publicly-traded unicorn for the first time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In other words, it wants to help fintechs be in a stronger position to compete with incumbents, something it believes will benefit consumers. And elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Mexico-based startup closed the $15 million Series A round and $20 million debt financing after participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 cohort. Mendel says its software gives finance teams a way to manage card transactions in real time, set granular spend rules and track spending from a central dashboard. Image Credits: Mendel.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

” Bill Gurley : That’s presenting the argument a very specific way where you’re forcing them to opt into something else instead of just opting out. So backing up on how healthcare is financed, let’s say you got a plan with basically no deductible, so you’ve got first dollar coverage. Why will that happen?

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