TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Paystone , a payments and integrated software company, secured another strategic investment this year, this time $23.8 Refer a friend, get a reward. million in a mix of debt and equity. million ($30 million CAD) from Crédit Mutuel Equity, the private equity arm of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale. Write a review, get a reward.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

But as a point of reference, when it closed its Series B (as Shedul; the company rebranded in February 2020), it was valued at $105 million. We wanted to consolidate the supply side of the software, gather data about the businesses, how they use what they use.” investment practice.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The startup plans to use the funding to expand into new markets, to hire more people and to continue adding more maintenance/repair services and partnerships into its wider home-warranty-by-subscription proposition. Indeed, Super these days seems to refer to itself as an “insuretech” ).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. And, it plans to invest in more innovation around its rental services.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal. Ruiz-Múzquiz refers to this as “the handoff mindset.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. As a point of reference, when Peak was acquired for $1.8 billion ) and Dream ( valued at $1 billion in a funding round last year).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”. Klarna is also, perhaps, even more mythical than a unicorn: a fintech that has been profitable nearly from the get-go. market, choosing New York and L.A.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They do include e-commerce experiences, but also companies building interactive tools for customers to look at, mix, and match various light fixtures from a lighting consultancy; more standard publishing services; and for helping tailor materials for emergency medical training services.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

That’s where Singapore-based Jenfi comes in, providing revenue-based financing of up to $500,000 with flexible repayment plans that co-founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Liu refers to as “growth capital as a product.” . Participants included Korea Investment Partners and Golden Equator Capital, 8VC, ICU Ventures and Taurus Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Sana Labs — which provides an AI-based platform to help people manage information at work, and subsequently to use that data as a resource for e-learning within the organization — has closed a round of $34 million after seeing ARR grow seven-fold in the last year. Menlo Ventures, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When we last checked in with Alt back in March, it had just raised $31 million for its alternative asset platform — a platform, thus far, used primarily by those looking to research, trade and securely store high-value sports cards. cards in the mix with rare Kobe and autographed Kaepernick cards. cut on each sale).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). Lot of people I’ve known for many years certainly aren’t returning emails the way they used to. then a passing reference to Jimmy Hoffa. A lot of confused, raised brows, “Wait, aren’t unions bad?”

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Video marketing provides high return on investment (ROI) for businesses. Here are the steps you need to take in order to add this type of content to your business marketing mix: 1) Define your audience. Viewers may even go so far as to add your business URL into internet search engines for future reference.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Since launching the venture firm Backstage Capital in 2015, Arlan Hamilton has invested millions in more than 195 companies led by underrepresented founders, from a duo taking on auto insurance to a team rethinking how we virtually learn. I did both,” Hamilton adds over Twitter DM.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Thankfully, though, a group of ex-Google/Firebase employees is now resurrecting the Inbox experience — with a bit of the Slack user experience mixed in, too. “One is the idea that you should work with your email in groups,” he said, referring to Inbox’s ability to bundle emails by topic.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

PitchBook noted that when the first tranche of this investment closed last month in December, “rival Gorillas” was also a part of it. More generally delivery companies have a track record of investing in each other, perhaps the first moves ahead of what might be yet more consolidation.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Companies like Airbnb, Intercom and Buffer have released the pitch decks they used to raise their first rounds of funding, and if you look at their structure, you can essentially find the same set of slides. This is the set of slides you’ll find in those references. I’ve seen it used to refer to a sales deck.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The reason why these three were chosen is because none of them require any substantial investment up front. Most companies leverage these organic channels anyway, so adding reciprocity to the mix takes minimal effort. As long as they’re not used excessively, there’s nothing sketchy about reciprocal links.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

chances are you’re selecting products off shelves that have made it there using Hivery’s core product,” he told TechCrunch. In retail, “assortment optimization” refers to the process of selecting the right mix of products to stock on store shelves. Global investment in retail technology dipped 11% to $23.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Its software is used across some 130 countries, although the majority of the consumers engaging in the events themselves are based out of North America and Europe, Simpson said. investments at Alibaba. Then creators could customize the journey end to end, and keep the experience all in one place, and invest in their own growth.”

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

For example, Cliffs Variety, an independent home goods store in San Francisco’s Castro district, uses a Facebook page to alert neighborhood residents about store openings, pickup times, and product availability. Successful retailers have taken community building a step further by leveraging tools like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

” That might sound silly coming from a media outlet focused on technology — and the people investing and building it. But technology for technology’s sake can lead us down some tricky paths. Investment activity in aviation — specifically air taxis — continues to ramp up as illustrated by Boeing. Deal of the week.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Congratulations! You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The company has raised $100 million in a Series C round of funding, money that it will be using to continue building out the range of BNPL-type services that it provides to organizations buying goods to run their businesses, both in Europe and further afield after passing 100,000 customers earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In 2021, one-third of all unicorns created were fintech companies: investor FOMO, increased use of digital payments, BNPL, and other financial services created a gravitational field that attracted more than one out of every five dollars VCs invested last year. Munish Varma, managing partner, SoftBank Investment Advisers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polo: We consider that the draft for the startup ecosystem law that was approved on December 10 actually represents a revolution — for the attraction of investment and the attraction of talent. And for us, for the high commissioner, this is a confirmation that Spain is becoming one of the best countries in Europe for startups.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For most, Facebook is used to catch up with old friends, share a relevant post, or just peek into others’ lives that you don’t see on a daily basis. The next big step for most social marketers is to dabble in mixed media to ensure that your posting cadence isn’t filled with just static images or quotes. Invest in local marketing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

“Working on trustworthy AI for almost five years, I’ve constantly felt a mix of excitement and anxiety,” he told TechCrunch in an email interview. ” Surman was referring to the rash of AI models in recent months that, while impressive in their capabilities, have worrisome real-world implications. “Mozilla.ai

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Red Rocket

APRIL 15, 2021

If you are investing material dollars in marketing campaigns, more often than not, you have considered engaging, or have engaged, an advertising agency to assist you with those efforts. I used to want to run everything internally, to save the costs vs. an agency (which can often be 15-20% higher including their fees).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”. Klarna is also, perhaps, even more mythical than a unicorn: a fintech that has been profitable nearly from the get-go. market, choosing New York and L.A.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The mix of debt and equity is typical for a company building, effectively, a leasing business: it is the same approach Grover took when it raised $71 million for its Series B a year ago. Sometimes those resources were used goods being passed on or sold cheaply to others: it opened the door to a different way of thinking for a lot of people.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

CEO Muddu Sudhakar said the new cash will be put toward market expansion and supporting Aisera’s go-to-market strategy, in addition to investing in the company’s product development, R&D, sales and marketing initiatives. It’s no panacea — findings are mixed on whether customers prefer even basic chatbots to human agents.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In an interview, Stringer referred to the first time he heard stereo audio was “the most impressive product demo ever,” and that his company is looking to build on that wonder by building “triphonic” audio hardware that can transform the home-listening experience with spatial audio.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The product, a single cell protein it’s branding Solein, is essentially an edible bacteria; a single cell microbe grown using gas fermentation. As Vainikka argues: “Land use and energy use are the two main problems of human kind — and the rest follows from these two.). “Like fermentation technologies are.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

We’re far better, but I want to make sure that we get traction quickly so that we develop good metrics for the next investment round” Joe stared through the window as the first heavy drops landed on the glass. That’s what the VC guy, Albert, told me was the benchmark for saas companies like us.”

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