TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Uber and Lyft lost a lot of money in 2020. But the decline in demand harmed both companies. But the decline in demand harmed both companies. billion in 2020. billion in 2020. This morning, let’s unpack their latest numbers to see if what the two companies are dangling in front of investors is worth desiring.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The company’s public debut has been hotly anticipated thanks to recent activity amongst bitcoin and other blockchain-based assets, the company’s controversial political positions , and its spiking valuation on private exchanges. Coinbase’s financials show a company that grew rapidly from 2019 to 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Airbnb filed to go public today , bringing the well-known unicorn one step closer to being a public company. The financial results show a company on the rebound, but smaller than it was. What follows is a dive into the company’s high-level numbers. million in the same period of 2020. That’s a shocking decline.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We can expect that every company is going to react this way in times of uncertainty. Where winning companies deviate from the norm is that they look for opportunities to attract and retain customers by making experience and service a signature competitive advantage. There’s much to be done. Only 26% of U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Late Friday, Oscar Health filed to go public , adding another company to today’s burgeoning IPO market. Both Oscar and the high-profile SPAC for Clover Medical will prove to be a test for the venture capital industry’s faith in their ability to disrupt traditional healthcare companies. billion (+61% from $1.04

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Mural also raised a $23 million Series A at the start of 2020. Given its product focus, it’s not hard to see why the startup had a good COVID cycle; the world’s companies moved to remote work en masse, leaving offices empty and physical whiteboards un-scribbled. Visual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M Series B.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

For Coinbase, the disclosure of its preliminary Q1 2021 results comes a week ahead of its direct listing, an event that will see the company begin to trade publicly. In its release, Coinbase disclosed the following metrics, which TechCrunch has compared to metrics from its S-1 filing : Monthly transacting users (MTUs) of 6.1

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Battery Ventures

MAY 27, 2020

By last October, once-highflying marketplaces like Bird (scooter rentals) had raised money at roughly flat valuations compared to their previous fundraising rounds; iconic ride-sharing company Lyft saw its shares slide as its market cap slipped significantly below its March 2019 IPO valuation. Then came the coronavirus.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Kaltura , a software company focused on providing video technology to other concerns, has filed to go public. TechCrunch previously covered the company as part of our ongoing $100 million ARR series focusing on private companies that have reached material scale. In the Q1 2020 period Kaltura recorded $25.9

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The new capital will help AgentSync move faster, with co-founder and CEO Niranjan Sabharwal saying that it is pulling into 2020 hires earmarked for next year. TechCrunch asked what the company is calling this round, which was raised via a SAFE note instead of as a priced equity investment. million ARR data point from mid-Q2 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In the wake of last year’s debuts by neoinsurance companies Lemonade and Root, it’s not surprising to see others test the public markets. Both Lemonade and Root have yet to announce Q4 2020 results, so we’ll look at their Q3 details instead. Results via the company , comparisons are Q3 2019: Root Q3 2020 revenue: $50.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The startup was part of the summer 2020 class at accelerator Y Combinator. Conti (who founded the company with Lionel Vital and Joseph Gilley) is a former Uber software engineer and researcher himself. Bandit ML aims to optimize and automate the process of presenting the right offer to the right customer. It also raised a $1.32

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Posting audited financials can prove detrimental for a private African company for several reasons ranging from bad marketing and PR if huge losses are incurred to regulatory clampdown if the company performs well. million VC-backed company, Carbon was founded by Chijioke Dozie and Ngozi Dozie in 2012. billion (~$241.35

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Pangea , a marketplace startup that wants to connect college freelancers and companies in need of digital help, is seeing its growth rate accelerate as it races toward the impending Y Combinator demo day. Provided that they are willing to chat growth metrics, we’re willing to listen. Via the company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

. — standardizes it, and makes it queryable using GraphQL (a technology that is itself seeing more use and positive opinion, per the State of Javascript 2020 report ). The startup is early, so we don’t have traditional traction metrics to cite — revenue growth, net dollar retention, that sort of thing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The pandemic has been the most animating force for startups and venture capital in 2020, discounting the slow movement of global business into the digital realm. It crashed some companies as assuredly as it gave others a boost. But COVID did more than that, as we all know. For every Peloton there is probably a Toast , in other words.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

But there are more offerings coming, including Justworks: The HR software company filed late last week , so we’re going to tear into its S-1 to see just what the company has built. The former startup also closed a $50 million round as 2020 kicked off, bringing its total known capital raised to just over $140 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

LeadIQ frames its product from the perspective of missed revenue targets at companies, which it claims impact nearly two-thirds of today’s deals. Building new products is expensive, and thus more capital will help the company staff up for the work. The CEO likened marketing as similar to fishing with a net.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Covering public companies can be a bit of a drag. The company announced an impressive set of metrics this morning, including that from July 2020 to July 2021, it grew its annual recurring revenue (ARR) 4x. Crunchbase reckons that the company raised $8.2 Crunchbase reckons that the company raised $8.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Only half of the respondents said they planned to cut costs, “compared to 2020, when 81% of companies reported doing so,” writes Rebecca Szkutak. In simpler times, founders could often satisfy investors just by showing how quickly their company was meeting growth expectations. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Alex Wilhelm keeps a close watch on the public markets in his column The Exchange, but this week, he branched out to look at some of the metrics underpinning soaring cryptocurrency prices and turned his gaze on StockX , the consumer reseller marketplace that just raised $275 million in a Series E that values the company at approximately $2.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The consumer installment lending service joins DoorDash and Airbnb in filing recently, as a number of highly valued, venture-backed private companies look to float while the public markets are more interested in growth than profits. Affirm is a company that TechCrunch has long tracked. This S-1 has been a long time coming.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The startup is not the only company to raise successive rounds this year. After an initial freeze during the early pandemic months , venture capitalists and other investors accelerated the pace at which they deploy late-stage checks to upstart companies. more to help companies protect your personal data. Skyflow raises $17.5M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

For this morning’s column , Alex Wilhelm looked back on the last few months, “a busy season for technology exits” that followed a hot Q4 2020. Once we factor in private equity firms with pockets full of money, it’s evident that late-stage companies have three solid choices for leveling up. Part 2: Millions of dollars and 3.5

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Battery Ventures

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Most technology companies selling products on a subscription basis—instead of through perpetual software licenses, which are hard to rip and replace—realize they need a robust customer-success function to keep users from churning away. SOURCE: BATTERY VENTURES ANALYSIS.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

In the early innings of the pandemic, top companies turned into unicorns seemingly overnight as Zoom school became an actual reality for millions across the world, and a frenzy of check-writing seized investors. The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Yesterday, Jon Shieber and Alex Wilhelm covered 500 Startups’ 27th virtual demo day and selected eight companies as their favorites: Stack. TechCrunch’s favorite companies from 500 Startups’ latest demo day. TechCrunch’s favorite companies from 500 Startups’ latest demo day. billion more into the company in just one week.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. For the unfamiliar, the fintech company has had its fair share of struggles that have cast doubt on its future. I, for one, am very curious as to how the company is staying afloat.

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Agile Engine

APRIL 18, 2024

Introduction Over the past decade, DevOps has had a transformative impact on how companies manage their software engineering efforts. Yet, eight out of 10 companies practicing DevOps are barely in the middle of this transformation. It seems that scaling DevOps is a challenge in itself, so let’s look at how companies can solve it.

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Capgemini

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Facebook Twitter Linkedin In recent years, we have seen an uptick in net zero carbon pledges, suggesting that organizations are transforming to tackle challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. The gap between ambition and action is clearly linked to the lack of short-term commitments among companies.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 17, 2022

Senior leaders have relied on the simple metrics of Return of Investment (ROI) to establish a baseline of effectiveness for their investments. They typically think, “If an investment’s ROI is net positive, it is probably worthwhile. Likewise, inve stors should avoid negative ROIs, which imply a net loss” (Fernando, 2021).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Earlier this week I asked startups to share their Q3 growth metrics and whether they were performing ahead or behind of their yearly goals. Lots of companies responded. Instead of merely giving me a few data points to learn from, The Exchange wound up collecting sheafs of interesting data from upstart companies with big Q3 performance.

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Capgemini

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

ESG aware investors demand more transparency from companies to guide their decisions, 85% of 440 impact investors assessed by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) in 2021 said their impact investment strategies focus on SDG-alignment. This leaves gaps for loopholes and lofty claims with little to no backing. and Whieldon, E.

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Ivanti

MAY 24, 2021

There’s a common perception that IT solutions only cost the company money, making approval for ITSM upgrades extremely difficult to achieve. On the other hand, revenue generation rate, cost reductions, and an increase in net income are what matter most to stakeholders. It’s a wonder more companies aren’t making the investment.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As consumers have raised their expectations of what they want out of digital and physical products and services, companies have had to act on those increased demands or risk losing their business with little chance such business ever returns. The February 2020 McKinsey Quarterly article Are You Asking Enough From Your Design Leaders?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

And hot damn, did the company have a good fourth quarter. TechCrunch has a first look at the company’s headline numbers. But in case you’ve been busy, the key things to understand are that Coinbase was an impressive company in 2019 with more than a half-billion in revenue and a modest net loss. Sound good?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Back in August 2020, The Exchange noted that many neobanks were racking up steep losses. Chime indicated in September 2020 that it generates positive, unadjusted EBITDA. And Starling Bank reached what it describes as profitable territory in October 2020. The company did post rather negative aggregate results for the 2020 period.

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