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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

TrustLayer , which provides insurance brokers with risk management services via a SaaS platform, has raised $6.6 Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. million in a seed round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

million seed financing in the summer of 2020. Their goal was to create a strategic finance platform for the enterprise that had the look and feel of a consumer offering. So Singh ended up assembling a 10-person “shadow finance and ops team” to get “the right information at the right time.”. Talk about validation.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When it comes to purchasing AI solutions specifically, some organizations have a predisposition to buying from larger incumbents, so be sure to have a crisp value proposition for why they should partner with a startup over a larger incumbent with whom they’re already working.

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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. As a SaaS business, Pismo mostly makes money by charging transaction fees.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

billion in an all-stock deal that was a reflection of its continued push into consumer finance. It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g. TechCrunch last reported on Fast in January of 2021, when the startup raised a $102 million Series B financing led by Stripe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products. 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. . And in January, fulfillment is up 20% compared to November of 2021. So, just how does it work?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. They are electronic yet manual processes that make their work very inefficient. More than 3,000 users also utilize its software.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. 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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

With a large population, Pakistan is geographically smaller, well-connected with fewer provinces, has lower regulatory barriers and doesn’t have strong incumbents,” Khurshid, who is originally from Pakistan, said via email. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 18, 2017

As the number of SaaS applications has exploded, the SaaS ecosystem is responding to data fragmentation with middleware. Finance teams are increasingly using more software, everything from purchase order management to sales forecasting to financial planning and analysis to accounts payable optimization. And HR/recruiting.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. Here are just a few we’ve seen just this month: Akeneo, focused on product experience and information management, brought in $135 million in Series D financing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Last quarter, UiPath grew its revenue by 39%, so “the company fits neatly into the high-growth SaaS bucket,” wrote Ron and Alex Wilhelm. “They are the strongest company in the segment and well financed in this growing market,” said Forrester analyst Craig Le Clair. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

And today, Yu and Yang’s new company, San Francisco-based Vesta , is announcing it has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from new investor Zigg Capital. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

He said that old valuation models at banks presumed that software companies’ growth would go to zero over time, and that profits would be rare among SaaS concerns. M1 Finance , a fintech startup that brings together lots of pieces of the fintech playbook into a single service, reached $3 billion in assets under management (AUM) this week.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million.

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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. Seriously, the extent at which this company shares the details of its finances is something to be admired and we wish all startups would follow suit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And as financial services proliferate across Nigeria and the rest of Africa just like the rest of the world, it’s logical that upstarts offering neobank and embedded finance services rely on BaaS platforms such as Anchor — a startup in this batch — to launch quickly.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 27, 2015

Much has been written about the consumerization of IT , the movement fueling many SaaS startup’s growth by targeting individuals in a target customer called B2C2B , rather than selling top down. While sales and marketing top the list, finance, engineering and HR also buy software this way. This is a fundamental shift.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

The emergence of SaaS business models has further set the stage for companies like Gusto to transform SMB operations. In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

When Shamir was building Simple, he could see how challenging it was for incumbents to provide the tools developers need to embed financial services, and this is why we have confidence in his ability to win.”. “Sila is building an easy way for people to program money and taking a regulatory eye to things,” Sieg said.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 16, 2017

Most SaaS companies dream of attaining the $100M ARR mark. I couldn’t validate that this is the largest contract ever signed by a SaaS company, but if it is not the largest, it is most certainly the top 5. trillion worth of classical software market capitalization available to shift to SaaS. SAP lost the bid.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

April users connect their payroll, bank statements, mortgage, prior year’s tax return and other finance apps to the platform and then tell April about significant tax events over the past year (e.g., ” Countless vendors offer online tax prep services, including incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block. moving to another state).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 Brokers are here to stay,” he added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Today’s investment showcases, if anything, how important Axie’s precedent is to the development of the broader ecosystem – and how willing VCs and crypto incumbents are to bend over backward to make sure it succeeds.”. What the Binance bailout of Axie Infinity means for crypto’s future.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2023

Rippling sells about 13 products for information technology teams, finance teams, & human resources teams like mobile device management, payroll, & talent management. In the first two decades of cloud, Parker argues startups built superior point solutions to compete against the distribution might of on-prem incumbents.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

The SaaS wave of the last ten years optimized intra-company operations. Workflows for sales, marketing, product and finance. Blockchain companies are striving to identify where this novel technology will dislocate incumbents, dislodge budgets and create massive businesses. Where will decentralized software applications thrive?

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces) and verticals. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

Phil Edmondson-Jones is a principal at Oxx , the specialist SaaS VC backing Europe and Israel's most promising B2B SaaS businesses at the scale-up stage. The insurance market is enormous, but the sector has suffered from notoriously poor customer experience and major incumbents have been slow to adapt. Phil Edmondson-Jones.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Stitch Health — Our most recent healthcare investment, Stitch is a Y-Combinator seeded SaaS company that serves as home base for healthcare teams that aim to deliver customer-first healthcare. We believe all these things are currently in place with regards to “customer first” healthcare.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Embedded finance infrastructure makes financing decisions based on real-time data. Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Nurasyl Serik and Volodymyr Fedoriv started Remofirst in 2021 to open up that option to more businesses with a SaaS offering they say is more cost-efficient, quicker and comprehensive than what currently exists. Mouro Capital and QED Investors co-led the financing, which included participation from Counterpart Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

But Amy Spurling, the CEO of Compt, makes the case that incumbent solutions are overly reliant on vendor marketplaces or benefits cards, which limit the ways in which employees can use their perks. Spurling was previously the COO and CFO at Jana, a mobile advertising company, where she managed HR and finance teams.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

A year after the FTC blocked Harry’s from getting acquired by Edgewell Personal Care, the direct-to-consumer razor startup raised $155 million in Series E financing to give it a $1.7 million in a new financing event. In other words, it may not appear as SaaS growth, but it could appear as value growth. billion valuation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 5, 2013

Freemium businesses disrupt incumbents by dramatically reducing the costs of customer acquisition. Imagine a successful bottoms-up freemium SaaS business. The paid product features satisfy the needs of accountants and company finance teams, not end users. They speak with the marketing team about the launch.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Embedded finance infrastructure makes financing decisions based on real-time data. Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses.

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