TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Micromobility company Lime says it has moved beyond the financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching a milestone that seemed unthinkable earlier this year. In short, the company is now largely profitable. Then, the pandemic hit and the companies had to take shelter. ” Now things are better, Lime says.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Startups and VC It’s a tough time to be a richly priced company that didn’t go public when the getting was good. Not only are there fewer later-stage players with the resources and appetite to support such companies (e.g., Not only are there fewer later-stage players with the resources and appetite to support such companies (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

It brings the company’s total raised to $90 million, which CEO Ryan Glasgow says is being put toward expanding Sprig’s service line, support sales and marketing efforts, and dedicating resources to integrations and partnerships. Glasgow founded Sprig in 2019. Image Credits: Sprig.

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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

APRIL 6, 2023

Today the company announced a $50 million investment, a large sum in today’s tightening VC landscape. The new money brings the total raised to nearly $150 million, per the company. I think our stand-up metric here is that our net revenue retention is over 160%.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

But the decline in demand harmed both companies. This morning, let’s unpack their latest numbers to see if what the two companies are dangling in front of investors is worth desiring. Along the way we’ll talk BS metrics and how firing a lot of people can cut your cost base. We can see that in their full-year numbers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Ashwin Ramasamy is the co-founder of PipeCandy , an online merchant graph company that discovers and analyzes business and consumer perception metrics about DTC brands and e-commerce companies. Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

The company is pursuing a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE. ” The company’s financial results paint the picture of a rapidly growing company that has a history of profitability. For now let’s focus on Squarespace’s own metrics. million and net income of $58.2

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

However, for IT leaders who play a critical role in helping their businesses move towards net-zero targets, it can be difficult to know where to begin. The company has already made significant strides towards this goal, from reducing waste and minimising its carbon emissions to lowering its water usage and promoting social responsibility.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

The company, launched by a former co-founder of the IAC-owned Tinder , plans to list its share on the Nasdaq stock exchange, using the ticker symbol “BMBL.” But before we do, the company’s board makeup, namely that it is over 70% women is already drawing plaudits. Net income of $68.6 Net income of -$116.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Before we get into our time off, we need to pause, digest the company’s S-1 filing, and come to some early conclusions. Considering GitLab’s more recent results, a narrowing operating loss in the last two quarters is good news for the company. The company’s IPO has therefore been long expected. Sound good?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

In the first quarter of 2021, American consumer cryptocurrency trading giant Coinbase grew sharply, generating strong profits at the same time. 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. million, up from 2.8

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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

APRIL 18, 2023

Frequent readers know I enjoy using similes, so I won’t disappoint: SaaS companies are like leaky rowboats. Sid Jain, a senior analyst with ChartMogul, researched 2,100 companies and found that “ more than half of SaaS businesses had lower retention in 2022 when compared to 2021.” ” Thanks for reading TC+!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Sitting here waiting for GitLab to actually start trading, I’m still digesting the company’s IPO price. When we first caught up with GitLab’s IPO filing, TechCrunch did a little math magic and decided that it wasn’t unlikely that the company would manage to secure a $10 billion valuation in its debut.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

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. Per Suarez-Battan, Mural has continued the torrid pace of growth that made it a breakout company in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Monte Carlo , a startup that sells data observability (data obs) software to other companies, announced this morning that it has closed a $135 million Series D at a valuation of $1.6 Recall that when Monte Carlo raised a $60 million Series C in August 2021 , we reported that it had “doubled its ARR in each of the last four quarters.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company’s co-founder and CEO, Tyson Kunovsky, told TechCrunch that his company’s goal is akin to what Hashicorp and others have done, taking a piece of work that the large cloud platforms are doing poorly and improving the experience. Kunovsky has big aspirations for the company. That’s no small task.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The sales management technology company closed on $20 million in Series A funding to continue developing its tools that automatically monitor a company’s most important key performance indicators, get insights into performance to evaluate what is working and what isn’t and how to proactively coach the team to improve productivity and revenue.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With Samsara closing out 2021 and Reddit set to ensure fireworks, we might be content. 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. Does the company have churn under control? (In

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Salary Hero was founded in late 2021 by former Bain & Co. Additionally, financial uncertainty and a lack of a financial safety net creates a lingering feeling of insecurity, and is the main cause of mental stress among workers.” How to improve retention, growth marketing’s golden metric.

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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 17, 2020

The company only graduated from Y Combinator in January , and now, less than a year later is closing on more than $70 million in total financing. Doubling down on its previous investment in the company is Menlo Ventures , which along with the growth-stage investment firm IVP co-led the new financing for the company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The new unicorn has been on a rapid-fire fundraising clip since TechCrunch first spoke to the company just over a year ago, when it raised a $4.4 The company stayed busy, raising another $6.7 What does investment look like for the company? March 2021: <$10 million ARR, 6x growth in 2020 [ Source ].

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CIO

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute. The company has approximately 800 staff in total across the business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Now that companies can raise $5 million per year through crowdfunding, platforms like WeFunder, StartEngine, SeedInvest and Republic, which Lavingia is using, have a better chance to shake up the modern fundraise. million in net revenue, up 87% from the year prior, generating $1.08 million in net profit, up 286% from the year prior.

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CIO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mathur, who held tech chief roles at Staples and Biogen before coming to ConocoPhillips in 2021, is referring to Carlo De Bernardi, a principal engineer at ConocoPhillips responsible for scaling the company’s adoption of 3D printing. Carlo had an inkling that 3D printing could really change the game.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

When GGV Capital reached out and said that it had built an index of API-first companies, I was curious. Why more SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing. There’s not a great number of public API-first companies, which means that useful data on the cohort is somewhat scarce. What’s GGV built?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Nearly a third of these were pre-seed and seed, with 182 deals closing just in in Q4 2021. I see it as a net positive that I don’t think there’s enough capital that we could put towards this to really find the underlying true issues here. You want to make sure that things you’re investing in are a net positive.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The startup’s customers boast an average service-related net promoter score of 8, Moya told TechCrunch, with conversion rates starting at 15% and peaking at 250% during Chile’s e-commerce promotion event CyberDay. Ocular launched in Chile, where Moya had previously co-founded another company, Wingsoft , which Ocular spun out of.

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2022

According to research from Deloitte , only 32% of contact centers had migrated to the cloud as of 2021, yet 75% of survey participants planned to complete the journey by mid-2023. You can access far more than the standard surface-level metrics, such as average handle times or wait times. Yet 40% of companies think they offer enough.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

It’s a neat company, helping others track the eligibility of individual brokers in the market. All that must sound pretty pedestrian; a quickly-growing software company raising two rounds? Sabharwal also told The Exchange that his company has closed another $1 million in ARR since the term sheet. 2021, there you have it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

It’s been a long and bumpy road for Sono Motors, a journey that involved a couple of crowdfunding campaigns, a near insolvency and a debut on the Nasdaq exchange as a publicly traded company. The company did not provide guidance on how many Sions would be delivered next year. The Sion solar-powered EV took center stage.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently. When evaluating ‘AI for drug discovery companies,’ I view AI as a tool,” Shaq Vayda, principal at Lux Capital, told TechCrunch.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In this example it needs the –allow-net flag to work. Not many companies have adopted it yet in production, and it doesn’t seem like it’s getting a lot of traction in terms of Google Trends, job offerings or other metrics. However it is definitely not a dead horse yet: In March 2021 the Deno company was funded while raising 4.9

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