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

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. We talk in technology that you are either arming the ‘rebels’ or the ‘empire,’ and in their case, they work with both.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. 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. But it’s not a pure venture capital story.

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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 Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer, and Aula).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. The credit card giant called the move “one of the first significant technology developments to come out of its acquisition of Finicity.”. Stori reports that it expects to reach 1 million active customers this month. Image Credits: Mila Ferrell / Cervin.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

From an investment point of view, managing and deploying capital in the same physical area makes sense, where investors can work with young companies and help them with a variety of things. San Francisco proper was #1, and taken on the whole, the Bay Area, of course, receives more venture capital investment than anywhere else, naturally.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. The rocket will provide low-cost space access for science experiments, technology demonstrators, and academic payloads. The first launches of the Dorado rocket are slated for mid-2024.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But China and the United States are far from the only technology markets with developed startup and incumbent cohorts, strong venture capital activity, and capital markets able to translate early-stage ideas into public companies. China issue. China issue. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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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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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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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

David Friend is a serial entrepreneur, six-time founder, and the current co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company, Wasabi Technologies. Discount airlines, cell phones (not smartphones) and integrated circuits are good examples of the “faster, cheaper, simpler” variety, because they simply displaced familiar incumbents. David Friend.

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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 cites the company’s ability to triple its sourcing capabilities after launching its Clair AI and Clair Trade technology in 2020.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. I believe competition is a major driving force, especially since venture capital is conspicuously copious. The landscape is so vast - and the logos so minuscule - that it’s useful only as an illustration of competition.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The company was founded in 2018 by Shamir Karkal, Angela Angelovska, Isaac Hines and Alex Lipton to simplify digital payments and storage in a regulatory compliant way and build on blockchain technology. It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Normally, when you have a pain caused by technology, you try to fix it with technology. Parametrix is not a carrier itself, but rather partners with incumbent insurance carriers to payout customers. FirstMark Capital and F2 Venture Capital led this new $17.5 Downtime is inevitable. million funding round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. And really, this was where my race became an obstacle.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

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. As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Now of course, this is a well-formed market and the category has different players, and so incumbents and clouds and so on, and we’re clearly ahead. The company is seeing interest from businesses of all sizes, including technology companies like Shopify, Gong and Zapier. I’ve never seen anything like this.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Forward Foods, Starday , a healthy and sustainable food products company, raised $4 million in seed funding to take on “big food” incumbents. Equal Ventures and Slow Ventures co-led the round and were joined by Haystack, Great Oaks Venture Capital, XFactor Ventures, ABV and a group of angel investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It might be hard to remember in this age when companies like Facebook are subject to increasing government investigation, but for decades the technology industry generally existed and thrived outside the public eye. If there are no concerns about a technology, then there may also not be a significant opportunity for that technology.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Factoring is one of the corners in the financing market that hasn’t been tackled, and by using technology, Marco is building and creating value for the whole society. This is where venture capital firms should be putting their dollars — in companies where technology and talent unleash a lot of value.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Besides Tiger, a slew of venture capital firms also participated in the Series A, including Insight Partners, Index Ventures, monashees, SciFi, QED Investors, BoxGroup, Greyhound, Gilgamesh Ventures and Clocktower. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

“As your technology becomes more dated, you too will have to make similar decisions.” venture capital activity,” he writes. According to Marc Schröder, managing partner at MGV, “seed-stage investing is the best place for venture capital to deploy when global uncertainty sprouts up.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Their goal was to take that 10 years of experience investing through the venture capital arm of one of the world’s largest credit card companies, and apply it firsthand to new early-stage investments — but with a twist. And that’s ultimately the insight that we built a thesis on,” said Fitzgerald. “We Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

SaaS is continuing to be reshaped by consumer internet techniques, with top companies of our era competing through word-of-mouth growth versus incumbent sales forces. Mental health startups are raising spirits and venture capital. How to price your SaaS product for a bottoms-up growth strategy. Ask someone who can’t see.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We Or will some retailer just buy its technology?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. Shmueli was formerly the VP of back-end infrastructure at Mellanox Technologies and the VP of engineering at Habana Labs. To date, it’s raised $48 million in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. They see a lot of opportunities to leverage our technology,” he said. We’re exploring standing up unique information sharing networks.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Digging into the Alkami Technology IPO. Alkami Technology joins a list that includes Coinbase’s impending direct listing and Robinhood’s expected IPO. Alkami Technology joins a list that includes Coinbase’s impending direct listing and Robinhood’s expected IPO. Digging into the Alkami Technology IPO. Why Detroit?

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

For his part, Valar Ventures’ Andrew McCormack said that financial services companies can “leverage whatever technologies they want to provide better customer experiences.”. “At At the same time, the incumbent banks are stuck with their mainframes, IBM contracts, and software written in COBOL,” he wrote via email.”

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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. reported this month that $51 billion of venture capital was invested into U.S. London & Partners and Dealroom.co

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Add to the mix that many foreign countries’ economies shift away from or toward natural resources, so we see massive direct and indirect investment into technology. They’ll have to back up the truck for their best companies, take acquisitions off the table, and go right after the incumbents head-on.

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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. Venture capital investments in security startups eclipsed $13 billion this year, according to PitchBook data, up from $11.47 billion in 2020.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. They also believe that today’s technologies, most notably the smartphone, should allow for remarkably simpler one-click paperless transactions that have transaction costs that are a fraction of the status quo. If you look at the graph below, U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies. As a reminder, the Matrix Fintech Index is a market-cap weighted index that tracks a portfolio of 25 leading public fintech companies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. Some include U.K.’s

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