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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Juni , a Swedish pre-launch startup that’s building a banking app and platform for e-commerce and online marketing entrepreneurs, has raised just over €2.1 Former Spotify marketing exec-turned-VC Sophia Bendz on her love of early-stage investing. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2022

PitchBook notes that shares of UiPath — Automation Anywhere’s main rival, which went public in April 2021 — plummeted 71% this year. Gartner predicts that while the RPA market will reach $2.9 billion by the beginning of 2023, the growth rate will end substantially lower than it was in 2021, when the segment expanded by 30.9%

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Sensat , a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 Ultimately, it’s all about helping companies better plan and manage major infrastructure projects, assess risk, predict outcomes and optimize efficiency before building work even begins. Infrastructure as a service.

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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. Crypto added fuel to this trend and quickly became a mass-market asset category. However, there is a problem in alternative assets: the lack of digital infrastructure. trillion from $4.6

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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. The company will also hire additional employees, develop new distribution channels and invest in go-to-market.

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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

APRIL 27, 2022

In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. per the 2020 report of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). and the U.K., and the U.K., While the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

In a 2021 survey from Coresight Research, nearly two-thirds of U.S. billion — attracting $1 billion in capital at a $39 billion valuation in 2021. billion in 2021. Instacart, citing “market turbulence,” last month slashed its valuation by 40% and slowed hiring. . But there’s signs of a correction.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

From Nigeria, Indicina facilitates lending for individuals and small businesses through AI-powered digital credit infrastructure. “It was a conscious decision to make this cohort more inclusive for women given the gap in funding and support to women founders, particularly in emerging markets,” Carraro said to TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

that creates digital banks in emerging markets, confirmed to TechCrunch today that it has raised $7.4 Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. In November 2021, Fintech Farm launched in its first market, Azerbaijan. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Del Balso says it’ll be used to scale Tecton’s engineering and go-to-market teams. “We “While machine learning makes this possible, it remains far from reality as the enabling infrastructure is prohibitively difficult to build for all but the most advanced companies. . ” Tecton’s monitoring dashboard.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

But t he used cars market isn’t only enormous in Egypt; it is in almost every country with a large population globally. 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. Some include U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

AI that generates images, text and more), is supercharging the AI inferencing chip market. But the competition, while fierce, hasn’t scared away firms like NeuReality , which occupy the AI chip inferencing market but aim to differentiate themselves by offering a suite of software and services to support their hardware.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Because many a unicorn was minted during the 2020-2021 era on the back of quick revenue growth more than anything else. If revenue multiples have come down and growth is losing comparative luster to profits, high-burn unicorns that were once valued more for something else are doubly bound by changing market conditions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun. Higher budgets also enable entry to several markets nearly simultaneously. The survey revealed a roughly even split of target customers across companies, institutions and consumers, as well as a good spread of home markets. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

He called the deal “a remarkable turnaround” for Zelto, a company that has stared down a few near-death experiences, including cash flow and product market fit problems, during its 10-year-old life. government is warning that Royal ransomware is targeting critical infrastructure , Carly reports. Sound the alarm : The U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Typically, pre-seed rounds are raised when the startup is still in the product development phase, yet to make revenue or discover product-market fit. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Banking infrastructure providers are mainly responsible for the proliferation of such solutions. It follows the pre-seed round of the embedded finance platform secured in early 2021 and led by The Continent Venture Partners (TCVP). If you think of a market, like the U.S., If you think of a market, like the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In March 2021, the San Francisco-headquartered and Lagos-based startup raised $170 million in a Series C round from Tiger Global and Avenir at a valuation of $1 billion. The Flutterwave Store, launched in April 2020, was revamped last November to Flutterwave Market. The number of businesses using its platform has also increased.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I’m telling this story because I think it says something about what companies and their cybersecurity organizations need to be doing to power over one of their highest hurdles: hiring great talent in an absurdly tight labor market. Cybersecurity is too important to risk having team members who can’t (no pun intended) hack it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Thanks to Robinhood’s strong Q4 2020 results , and implied growth in Q1 2021 , the boosted investment made sense. Market Notes. Anyhoo, I asked Mader about no-code trends in 2021, as I have my eyes on the space. Sign up here. .

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MARCH 7, 2023

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Rex Salisbury, founding partner of Cambrian Ventures and formerly on the fintech investment team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), believes that early-stage fintech founders, particularly at the pre-seed and seed stages, “are the big winners in the current job market and are pulling in top talent that would have been inaccessible 6 months ago.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

.” A more favorable regulatory and social landscape is helping psychedelic startups gain a foothold, but they still have to walk a tightrope that’s susceptible to the vagaries of market sentiment. But as public market sentiment fluctuates, specialized VCs seem more likely to stick around for the whole trip. Ready for the trip?

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

E-commerce is an $85 billion business in Latin America, and as that market is poised to essentially double in three years , the current consumer demands to receive orders on time and packaged correctly will only increase. That was one of the big drivers for the company to go after additional funding, he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Ahead of Q3 numbers that will update our thinking about the current state of the Latin American startup market, we wanted to dive into the structural forces in the region to better understand the impending numbers. VTEX, dLocal) and in Brazil.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

The Egyptian social e-commerce market will be worth over $14.8 The opportunity in the market can be attributed to the growth in online social sellers in the country, over 1.25 This way, these manufacturers have advertising and marketing on lock while these sellers start their e-commerce businesses and earn extra cash.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

“2020 has seen payments powered by open banking take-off, and in 2021 we expect to see this scale – most prominently in the UK, followed by Europe. The company said that it currently processes around 1 million payment transactions per month in five markets. n, co-founder and CEO of Tink, in a statement. It is live in Sweden, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

“We are taking the best practices along with key learnings to our next market launch.” . The cloud kitchen market in Asia is projected to grow at 14.2% annually from 2021 to 2027; the food delivery market in Southeast Asia is expected to reach $49.7 billion in 2021. billion by 2030 , up from $15.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

It refers to the forces shaping a new class of cloud-first, enterprise-tech behemoths with the potential to reach $1 billion in ARR — and achieve market capitalizations in excess of $50 billion or even $100 billion. Note that market data is current as of April 3, 2021. Image Credits: Battery Ventures via FactSet.

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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. Fintechs dominated the fundraising, accounting for nearly $3 billion, or two thirds of all the investment realized by startups across the continent last year, a report by markets insights firm Briter Bridges shows.

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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. Lenders have to manage three big tailwinds in today’s market: Rising delinquency rates and charge-offs. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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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

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

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. The pitch: The NFT market has exploded and the communities surrounding them have flourished, co-founder Chris Tam said.

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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 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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