TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

The fourth quarter of 2020 was as busy as you imagined, with super late-stage startups reaching new valuation thresholds at a record pace, and total venture capital funding in the United States recording its second-best result of all time. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

That said, the pace of layoffs is modest compared with the early-2020 economic correction. Layoffs at companies like Toast, Airbnb, TripActions and others were symbolic of how some still-private companies found their markets effectively shuttered overnight. The result is a more mild pace of layoffs. Let’s go.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. This is a company that two years ago had planned to go public at a $7.7 But I’m not sure anyone expected it to be hovering at a share price that gave Better.com a market cap of just $19.14

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

In 2020, the company reported $361 million in revenue (£261 million) — that’s a 57% increase compared to 2019 revenue of $229 million (£166 million). At the same time, the company still reports operating losses. In particular, Q1 2020 was a particularly bad quarter with $76 million (£55 million) in adjusted operating loss.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

With quality growth companies starved for capital, the few investors active in the region were making a killing. Great companies like Nubank, Inter, Gympass, Quinto Andar and several others were in their early innings at the time, but the market dislocation did not last long.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Fyllo has acquired DataOwl , a company offering marketing and loyalty tools for cannabis retailers. Cannabis marketing company Fyllo acquires CannaRegs for $10M. “In 2020, cannabis came of age,” he said. 2020 was a defining year for cannabis: What comes next?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Emily Kramer is well known in the marketing world, both for her professional expertise and her voice. The entrepreneur was Carta’s former VP of marketing and made headlines in 2020 when she filed a lawsuit that accused the company of gender discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination and of violating the California Equal Pay Act.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Wunderkind , a platform that enables brands to target web visitors through emails, texts and other digital advertising formats, today announced that it raised $76 million in a Series C round led by Neuberger Berman, the financial services company. Indeed, the case against behavioral marketing is stacking up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Jesse Moore.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Welcome to 2021, a year that could extend 2020’s startup market disruptions and excesses — or change patterns that previously performed well for early-stage tech companies and their investors. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. How long can seed deal-making stay hot? How long can that pace keep up?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. As you can imagine, it’s a marketplace-style company. It was a venture capital darling, raising hundreds of millions of dollars while private, including a $200 million round in 2019 and another $140 million in 2020. It now trades for around $3 per share.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed earlier this month, venture had already been navigating choppy waters for over a year as it confronted overinflated company valuations and a seemingly nonexistent exit market. SVB collapse spared an already muted venture deal market by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Peer-to-peer car-sharing startup Turo has released its filing to become a publicly traded company in the United States, a process the company began confidentially in August. The company boasts 85,000 active hosts and 160,000 active vehicle listings in over 7,500 cities as of September 30, 2021. million in 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It’s also a good reminder that when it looks like the business market has changed fundamentally, we’re often really just seeing a temporary aberration. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. It’s clear that the 2020-2021 boom in software valuations was more of an anomaly than a new-normal.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

The company has three main offerings —ApptioOne, Apptio Cloudability, and Apptio TargetProcess. IBM is acquiring the company from Vista Equity Partners, which purchased it in 2019 for $1.94 IBM also acquired Instana in November 2020, to target the application performance monitoring market from a hybrid cloud standpoint.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In February 2020, Career Karma published a report on the state of the coding bootcamp market, which revealed a few interesting key findings. Market size . In 2019, a total of 33,959 students attended one of the 105 coding bootcamps studied in this market analysis, representing a 4.38% growth since 2018. 16 bootcamps).

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Insurtech companies have certainly fallen from grace over the last year. This tweet my friend Rick Zullo sent before the recent tech fallout well summarizes the market sentiment around the industry: You can now buy $ROOT, $HIPO, $MILE, $CLOV, $OSCR and $LMND for the combined price of just over $5b. Rick Zullo, Feb 23, 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. Galym Imanbayev joined Lightspeed in 2020 as a partner focused on the healthcare sector. The competition is not your market competitor or incumbent. More often, it is the investor’s set of operating heuristics, many of which are quickly influenced by market conditions. Share on Twitter. Reframe the macro view. Get granular.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Back in 2020, Ashwin Ramasamy, a founder at PipeCandy , asked on TechCrunch if the “e-commerce shift” the world was seeing as COVID-19 shook up the global economy would last. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Certainly, any startup selling into the e-commerce market has more TAM than ever to, well, address.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

The company sold 9,416,384 shares at that price, alongside 14,474,393 from existing shareholders. million on a gross basis for the primary shares that it sold in the transaction, a deal that values the company at around $29.1 The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. UiPath raised $527.3 billion on a nondiluted basis.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. He previously led product at Afterpay (acquired by Square) and started a YC-backed fintech company. billion) all entered the public market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The company provides financial product recommendations to both consumers and SMBs, meaning that it dabbles in the same market that fintech startups play in. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Per its filing, the company intends to “use approximately $29.0 million in 2020. Sound good?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A new report looking at cloud and software companies from Battery Ventures ran the math on how investors are rewarding faster growth from less unprofitable companies — dare we say, profitable companies? Because many a unicorn was minted during the 2020-2021 era on the back of quick revenue growth more than anything else.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

By Tracy Young In go-to-market organizations, segmentation underpins strategic decision-making, influencing how markets are approached, internal organization, product development and resource allocation. How it works Unified market understanding aligns the entire company, facilitating progress.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Jonathan Metrick is the chief growth officer at Sagard & Portage Ventures , where he helps build some of the world's leading fintech companies. We congratulated ourselves for navigating 2020 and welcomed the year when things would finally go back to normal. This is a reality growth marketers live in everyday. Simon Lejeune.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market? Early action equals bigger savings.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Shares of DocuSign are off 25% in pre-market trading today after it reported earnings last night, pushing the value of shares in the e-signature company under pre-COVID levels. Given that the market is valuing DocuSign at a cheaper price than it did in early 2020, you might think that it is struggling. Don’t be.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Tech investments in emerging markets have been in full swing over the past couple of years and their ecosystems have thrived as a result. Some of these markets like Africa, Latin America, and India, have comprehensive reports by publications and firms on trends and investments in their individual regions. Let’s dive in.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Identity and access security issues are increasingly top of mind for companies. Looking to solve some of the challenges around authentication, Keith Graham and Stephen Cox co-founded Strivacity , a startup that allows companies to create secure business-to-business and business-to-consumer sign-in experiences.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When marketers Paul Benigeri and Geoffrey Woo were at their former companies, in food tech and e-commerce infrastructure, respectively, they experienced how manual and repetitive digital marketing workflows were, especially as the number of disparate and unintegrated marketing tools grew.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

billion valuation, ranking itself as the highest-valued electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) company in the industry. It’s not the only air taxi company to reach unicorn status. The field is now dotted with new or soon-to-be publicly traded companies courtesy of mergers and special purpose acquisition companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia started the company in 2016 with an initial focus on startups and small businesses, trying to find product-market fit (as one does), but finding that legal usage among companies of that size was often project-based, infrequent and short-term if the company folds. Lawtrades app design.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Socar , South Korea’s largest car-sharing startup, tumbled in its Seoul stock market debut Monday even after pricing shares below the bottom end of a marketed range. million), giving the car-sharing company a valuation of 966.5 million), giving the car-sharing company a valuation of 966.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The company has raised a total of $16 million since its 2018 inception. . 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. million in equity and $1.6 million in debt. and the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Delivery companies old and new reaped the benefits of the changed landscape. In 2020, a 500% increase in order volume drove Instacart’s revenue to $1.5 According a report from AgFunder, total venture investment for “e-grocery” companies reached $18.5 Between 2020 and 2022, investors poured more than $5.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The startup market is having a moment around the world, but few regions can brag as much as Europe when it comes to venture capital investment. as much as was raised by the region’s technology upstarts in the first half of 2020 and easily crests previous full-year records set in 2020 and 2019. billion in the first half of 2020.

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