TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

trillion over the 10 years ended 2021, and advisers now routinely recommend allocating 10%-25% of portfolios in these asset classes. However, there is a problem in alternative assets: the lack of digital infrastructure. Modernizing the infrastructure for traditional alts. Private investments in alternative assets grew to $13.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Foxglove , a startup building an infrastructure stack for robotics, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Eclipse with participation from Amplify Partners and angel investors including Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. The proceeds bring Foxglove’s total raised to $18.7 ” Foxglove’s cloud suite.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ben Altshuler is a partner at Matrix Partners who focuses on fintech and infrastructure investments. More posts by this contributor. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. Ben Altshuler. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Iddris Sandu founded Spatial Labs in 2021, seeking to create products and shopping experiences using augmented reality.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

We profiled the company in 2021, about seven months after the company first launched to acquire digital brands in the MercadoLibre and Amazon ecosystem. In 2021, the e-commerce roll-up, or aggregator, scene was in full force. At the time, Wonder Brands raised $20 million in venture capital.

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JUNE 8, 2023

percent since 2021, according to Dice. Average salary: US$120,653 Increase since 2021: 15.6% It’s a role that has grown in demand as companies push to implement new tools, technologies, and programs to manage day-to-day operations — with the average salary for a DevOps engineer having grown 14% since 2021, according to Dice.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Insurance infrastructure startup Lula , which has raised $18 million in funding from the likes of NextView Ventures, Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, is hiring 10 across engineering, product and sales. Another infrastructure startup, Unit, is also hiring — with nearly a dozen open roles across the U.S. and Israel.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

ClicOH, a 2021 Y Combinator alum, operates in Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay, and its proprietary technology enables sellers to track shipments in real time via a dashboard with key indicators and traceability. That was one of the big drivers for the company to go after additional funding, he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Thanks to Robinhood’s strong Q4 2020 results , and implied growth in Q1 2021 , the boosted investment made sense. Anyhoo, I asked Mader about no-code trends in 2021, as I have my eyes on the space. Digital transformation is going to accelerate even more rapidly in 2021. Things like this are merely a first step.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

Fintech has fallen a long way from the highs of 2021, and while 2022 was largely about the reset of the funding environment, 2023 is going to be a year of recalibration for fintech companies. The opportunities for fintechs in 2023 lie in the “boring” areas like fraud, compliance, payment operations, taxes and infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun. The firm can then build teams and wider infrastructure around that traction. Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As someone who covers Southeast Asia startups and funding stories, the best word I can think of to describe 2021 is “whoa!” Both countries produced a fair amount of unicorns in 2021. Here are a few sectors that took off in 2021, and are worth keeping an eye on in 2022: Investment apps. million people.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. The service recently surpassed voice to become Safaricom’s top earner after the platform’s revenues hit $745 million for the financial year ending March 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Just a month into 2021, Egyptian fintech startup Cassbana raised a $1 million pre-seed investment led by VC firm Disruptech in a bid to drive expansion within the country. Startups building financial infrastructure got noticed. But the narrative as to how much an early-stage African startup can raise as pre-seed has changed. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Check Point Research reports that global cyberattacks increased by 38% in 2022 compared to 2021, and nearly nine in ten company boards told Gartner in a recent survey that they view cybersecurity as a “business risk” rather than solely a technical or IT issue. billion in 2022, according to Momentum Cyber.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Latin America boasts 26 unicorns as of August, according to Atlantico’s 2021 digital transformation report , a must-read that serves as a backdrop for today’s piece. As Vasconcellos clarified for us via email, the number reflects the fact that eight new unicorns were minted in 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Few organizations use a single cloud infrastructure vendor, and figuring out how to configure security across multiple clouds can be a challenge for companies. Valtix should fit in with other security company acquisitions in recent years, including Duo Security in 2018 and Kenna Security in 2021. Valtix launched in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

billion in 2022 from 2021, it was still up 52% compared to 2020 and made up 18% of all funding globally, proving that investors still have faith in fintech’s future. Spoiler alert: B2B payments and infrastructure remain on fire and most investors expect to see more flat and down rounds this year. What do you feel might be overhyped?

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

billion valuation in September 2021, when Whatnot raised $150 million. Growing demand led Whatnot to not only raise three rounds of capital in 2021 but see year-over-year sales grow over 20 times in 2021, with a more than tripling of its monthly sales so far in 2022, according to the company. billion, up from the $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. Proceeds will be used to enable stablecoin transactions based on the Taro protocol, made possible by Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade in November 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble. We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble. “The reality is that there was an unprecedented hype cycle in 2021, and what we have seen since the beginning of 2022, objectively, is a ‘reversion to the mean’ in line with long-term trends.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

The raise follows a year of strong growth, according to the company, which saw its revenue increase by “well over 20x” in 2021. The company last raised in June of 2021 – a $100 million Series B led by SoftBank Latin America Fund. It also claims that it is now the first proptech unicorn in Spanish-speaking LatAm.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

At least, that’s the assertion of Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen, the co-founders of infrastructure startup Exafunction. According to Run:AI, 38% of companies had an annual budget for AI infrastructure — including hardware, software and cloud fees — exceeding $1 million as of October 2021. The costs add up.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

billion at the same price per share as the company’s previous financing in November of 2021. “The idea would be that you’d use our tools to plan the infrastructure in the most effective, safest, most efficient way, and then design the transit network that sits on top of that infrastructure,” Ramot told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

annually from 2021 to 2027; the food delivery market in Southeast Asia is expected to reach $49.7 billion in 2021. The startup had seven cloud kitchen locations in the Philippines when it raised its Series A in October 2021; it now operates 25 ghost kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, Yao told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Solid , which rebranded from Wise in 2021, raised a $63 million Series B round of funding to continue providing its fintech-as-a-service offering for companies wanting to launch and scale their own fintech products. We understood what they were looking for — that demand for modern infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While the company is perhaps more focused on customer revenue growth acceleration than some of its competitors, it is not alone in its broader space, which could be described as mobile subscription infrastructure. million in total, including a $40 million Series B in 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

We felt that the underlying infrastructure supporting the shift from investment product to digital advice was a more durable, interesting space to be allocating capital to,” the firm said in a recent newsletter. 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

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Exyn ’s robots are able to autonomously navigate in previously inaccessible environments without a prior map, existing infrastructure (GPS, communications, etc.), million in CY 2021, CY 2020 and CY 2019 respectively, the Indian firm added. .” million in CY 2021, CY 2020 and CY 2019 respectively, the Indian firm added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And right now, the infrastructure to properly scale “does not exist today” in a way that enables companies to make the quantity at the kind of quality that will meet future demand. billion in 2021 and is expected to more than double by 2030.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A 2021 survey from CRM software vendor SugarCRM found that 50% of companies don’t know how to access customer data across their marketing, sales and service systems, while 53% said the administrative burdens of their CRM software causes friction for their sales team. share of the CRM segment in 2021 (by one estimate ).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

It focuses on large merchants and tries to make its product as customizable as possible so that you integrate it as an infrastructure partner in your product. For instance, I could tell you right now that we’ll grow by at least 80% in 2021,” he added. The company’s fundraising story in particular is jaw-dropping.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Marqeta has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly-traded company’s 13-year history. Founded in early 2021 by Randy Fernando and Andrew Dust, New York-based Power Finance announced last September that it had raised $16.1

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

About three-fourths of the teams are focusing on NFTs, infrastructure or decentralized finance (DeFi), while the majority of the teams are building on layer-1 blockchains Ethereum, Polygon and Solana. In July 2021 it raised $235 million from General Atlantic and is using the funds to hire developers. Stage: Seed round.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer , an African tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, has raised a $2.1 However, the problems Kosisochukwu Chike Ononye and Michael ‘Trojan’ Okoh wanted to solve when they first launched the company in August 2021 affected fintechs more than any other segment. What next for Thepeer?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In the first quarter of 2021, corporate cloud services infrastructure investment increased to $41.8 The desire to better manage cloud costs has spawned a cottage industry of vendors selling services that putatively reign in companies’ infrastructure spending. Spending on the cloud shows no signs of slowing down.

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