TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Since it was founded in 2012, Blend has signed up some of the biggest banks in the country — including the likes of Wells Fargo and U.S. Now, it’s setting its sights on the startup and fintech market, hoping to power the lending and banking services of some smaller, but fast-growing digital lenders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

Black and Knock COO Jamie Glenn are no strangers to the proptech game, having both been on the founding team of Trulia, which went public in 2012 and was acquired by Zillow for $3.5 We’re able to lend some money before an owner’s [old] house is even listed on the market.” . The company declined to comment on valuation. billion in 2014.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Claravine , a self-described marketing data platform, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series B round led by Five Elms Capital with participation from Grayhawk Capital, Next Frontier Capital, Peninsula Ventures, Kickstart Fund, and Silverton Partners.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

For one thing, with the possible exception of Google’s founders — who came up with an entirely new share class in 2012 to preserve their power — founders lose their stranglehold on power as they sell their shares, which then convert to a one-vote-per-one-share structure. One reason U.S. I’d be surprised if they disappeared.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

” Seemingly, the recipe for a successful venture-backed company became very cookie-cutter: Raise capital every 18 months; invest heavily in go-to-market; grow revenue at a “standard” rate that triples in year one, triples again in year two, and then doubles thereafter. Source: PitchBook data from 2012-2022.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

According to an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch, Chime co-founder Chris Britt described that the move was one of many that would help the company thrive “regardless of market conditions.” The co-founder added that the startup is “well-capitalized” but the financial market uncertainty was a factor in these changes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Netskope co-founder and CEO Sanjay Beri told TechCrunch that since its founding in 2012, the company’s mission has been to guide companies through their digital transformation by finding what is most valuable to them — sensitive data — and protecting it. What we had before in the market didn’t work for that world,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

KeyPay was founded in 2010 by Phil Bernie, Richard McLean, Paul Duran and Kristian Reynolds, and is active in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and the United Kingdom, which Employment Hero said will help it grow in those markets. Employment Hero’s co-founder and CEO Ben Thompson was a seed investor in KeyPay in 2012.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The IPO window has all but closed for technology companies in the wake of a massive downturn in the market, but an opening still remains for some, in the form of SPACs. If you’ve been following Near or the SPAC market, you might recall that there were rumors of KludeIn talking to Near back in December. billion with the listing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In October 2022, after completing the acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk asked his team to work toward bringing Vine back to market. It’s likely that the team at Twitter could define and ship a perfectly designed app and not even make a dent in TikTok’s market share. Revive or reboot?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The Mountain View-based business, founded in 2012, was last valued at $2.4 billion in the private markets, during a Series F fundraising event in July 2020. It makes sense that edtech companies want to go public while the markets remain hot and remote education continues to be a central way that instruction is delivered.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The company was ranked 9th by Wall Street Journal and was called “Next Big Thing 2012.”. Since September 2021, MongoDB Inc has had a market cap of over $32.79 It made MongoDB the most valuable firm by the market cap as per the data. Several companies began using the MongoDB database for its amazing functions and features.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The cryptocurrency exchange was founded in 2012 and allows users to buy and trade decentralized tokens like bitcoin and ethereum. And given some outsized first day pops from recent tech IPOs, it’s not too surprising to see a company like Coinbase opt for this path to public markets. The company is not alone in going this route.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

CYE was founded in 2012 by Reuven Aronashvili to help companies shore up their security posture. CYE’s chief marketing officer Sharon Argov told TechCrunch that the company will use the $100 million investment to expand its operations, invest in research and development, sales and marketing, and plans to double its 80-person workforce.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

million round back in 2012 that tapped Bessemer, DFJ and others. The no-code space has been active in recent months, as has its sibling niche, the low-code market. Zapier , a well-known no-code automation tool, has purchased Makerpad , a no-code education service and community. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. That’s a no.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Yuanfudao , a homework tutoring-app founded in 2012, has raised $2.2 Asia more broadly has a stronger education market because of consumer spending and a cultural focus on outcomes in education. Thus, the shift to digital learning has poured fuel on an already booming education market. The Beijing-based company is now worth $15.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

.” The company said it plans to use the funding to invest in research and development and to expand its go-to-market efforts. The $49 million Series E puts the total amount raised by HackerOne at close to $160 million since the company’s founding in 2012.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

AWS licensed their technology , rebranded it Redshift, and launched in 2012. If you looked at Redshift in 2012, there was a lot of things that favored it. Snowflake's projected 8 2022 research and development costs are 20% of revenue, and their sales and marketing costs are 48%! The cloud market will grow to $1T/year in revenue.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Leaning on several PitchBook reports , TechCrunch+ has compiled the following graph of American venture-backed startup exits from 2012 through the first quarter of 2023: It’s beyond time we started worrying about unicorn exits by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The market for space observation is one of the few commercialized segments of the nascent industry and could be worth upwards of $8 billion by the end of the decade, according to some estimates. Peter Platzer co-founded Spire Global back in 2012 with a vision to provide satellite-powered data from any location on earth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Since its 2012 inception, Acorns has raised just over $500 million from investors, such as private equity firm TPG, BlackRock, Greycroft, Owl Rock (a division of Blue Owl), Senator Investment Group, Torch Capital, Industry Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Headline and Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Sean Lane co-founded Olive in 2012, and signed on Chris Olsen from Drive Capital as the company’s first investors. As CEO Sean Lane explains on this special TechCrunch Live event, the company pivoted 27 times before finding its current product market fit. Now, nearly ten years later, Olive raised $856.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The round brings its total funding raised to $646 million since it was founded in 2012. We will certainly come to market here in the not-too-distant future.”. Existing investors Commerce Ventures , Scale Venture Partners and Sorenson Ventures also participated. CEO Ayers confirmed that Socure is considering going public. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

The transaction’s effects will be felt for some time in the public market, but also among the startups and capital that comprise the private market. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

He was formerly a software developer at Google and Microsoft, and now oversees HackerEarth's sales, marketing and general operations. Whatever idea you have for a platform that solves an “unaddressed market need,” it’s almost a given there’s a team somewhere working on something similar.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

AfterShip launched in 2012 to help online sellers track packages across different carriers, but since then it has built a suite of data analytics tools covering almost every step of the shopping experience, from email marketing to customer retention. Image Credits: AfterShip.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In a statement, Mike Alexandrovski, founder of Borzo, said: “With the new round closed we continue to move toward our goal of becoming one of the top courier delivery companies in every market we operate in. Founded in 2012, Borzo says it now has a customer base of 2 million users, 2.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. The accelerator has backed more than 270 startups since its inception in 2012, co-founder and partner of SparkLabs Eugene Kim told TechCrunch. . Not all teams end up pitching at demo day.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

DraftKings is entering a market that is both crowded and sparse — with plenty of NFT marketplace options for today’s niche group of collectors, though offerings are still light when considering the billions that have flowed through the space in the first several months of the year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Xpressbees, an Indian logistics firm that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, said on Monday it has raised $110 million in a new financing round as online shopping booms in the world’s second largest internet market. Xpressbees started its journey within FirstCry, an e-commerce for baby products, in 2012.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Optimove , specializing in customer relationship management marketing, wants to help brands “delight” their customers and keep them coming back. Now you can define the message and the marketer will have all of the data and be able to get feedback and analysis of what the customer segment looks like.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

However, it wasn’t until two years later that Njeru joined fulltime as he had a six-year engagement with Deloitte South Africa from 2012 as a consultant actuary. Therefore, the new financing will scale up operations in its existing 13 markets across Africa, where it has insured over 4.3 The pair both act as co-CEOs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

An overheated market for tech talent and the fickle nature of employees that are constantly job-hopping, he argues, make it harder to build a company for the long term. market, choosing New York and L.A. “We were really good at sales, we were okay at marketing, [and] we were service oriented: we really delivered to our customers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Meta bought venture-backed Instagram a month before Facebook’s May 2012 IPO; food delivery company GrubHub merged with Seamless in 2013 when they were both still operating off venture funding. The venture funding bull market of the last decade has created a barbell of startups. Why is this happening now, during a downturn?

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Its on-demand booking app is currently available in Singapore and Hong Kong, with plans to enter more markets after Demo Day. Back in 2012, people were saying that food ordering is not going to work online, people just order on the phone or in person,” Cohen said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

They get accessibility to all the services starting from the courier company, warehousing and fulfillment, to marketing services,” he said. Rashed first ventured into entrepreneurship in 2012, after a career in banking, when he founded Ingez an errands company that gave him first-hand experience in running an e-commerce business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Let’s explore both companies’ pricing intervals through our usual lens of revenue multiples, market comps and general SaaS sass. per share back in the 2012-2013 time frame. In the case of DigitalOcean, we have more work to do as its approach to growth is a bit different. DigitalOcean’s IPO price range.

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