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. Net losses were $97.1

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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

JULY 28, 2022

With rising interest rates, there’s a new sheriff in town for all companies. And in this new environment in which interest rates are climbing, access to capital is diminished and investors are “fleeing from the riskiest companies,” meaning nascent companies are in an even more precarious position. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models. Today we know of HubSpot — the maker of marketing, sales and service software products — as a preeminent public company with a market cap above $17 billion. The company struggled with poor churn and anemic expansion revenue.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

” So far the company has done more than 10,000 inspections for roughly 250 vessels around the world. Some of its more reputable customers include Columbia Shipmanagement (one of the world’s largest privately owned shipping companies), Marlow Navigation, USC Barnkrug, CTM and The Asian Spirit Steamship Company.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2023

IT services company Atos has found a buyer for its legacy managed infrastructure services business as it prepares for an IBM-style split between faster- and slower-growing activities. Atos had planned to divide into two publicly listed companies, but on August 1 announced it is taking a different route.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 25, 2024

With Microsoft -backed data security firm Rubrik set to enter the public market this week, talk about the rejuvenated IPO market has returned as many wonder who may be next, and when. However, the IPO market has significantly changed since those free money days of 2021. “I The current startup facing the market has some of that.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

The firm claims it will hear anyone’s pitch, no matter where in the world you are or what you are building as long as you are a pre-seed or seed company. Assuming the (very light) due diligence goes to plan and they like your company, you could have the money in your bank account within a week. They insist on a video pitch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In honor of that fact, entries from The Exchange concerning NFT volume viz recent marketplace valuations and how an accelerating pace of change helps startups by exposing more market voids will have to wait. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Affirm, for example, is a BNPL company publicly listed in the United States.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Tim Kopp is the chairman and CEO of Terminus , an ABM platform that powers high-performing go-to-market teams. While all SaaS companies do, and must, home in on acquisition metrics, there’s also massive revenue potential within your current customer base. The greater the NRR, the quicker companies can scale. Process.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

On-demand delivery giant DoorDash announced Tuesday it was acquiring food delivery company Wolt in an all-stock deal valued at €7 billion, or $8.1 However, the company was unprofitable overall with a net loss of $102 million for the quarter. DoorDash aims to add $11 billion to its valuation during public offering.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

High retention indicates strong product-market fit. Companies with best-in-class retention grow at least 1.5x-3x Even at scale, sales and marketing expenses make up the majority of your expenditure. It’s no surprise, given all this, that companies with higher net revenue retention often command higher valuations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Years ago, Will Allred and William Ballance were developing a tech platform, Sorter, to apply personality and communication psychology to marketing campaigns. Just as Sorter was heading to market, the pandemic hit — and marketing budgets froze. “In today’s climate, teams have to do more with less.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Poshmark , the nine-year-old, Redwood City, California-based online marketplace for second-hand clothing, beauty and home decor products, is set to start trading as a public company on the Nasdaq tomorrow after tonight pricing 6.6 The company consistently receives poor marks for its quality control and support service.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Which is why Advanced Ionics is a hydrogen company that has nothing to do with transportation. Amid the crowd of hydrogen companies hoping to elbow their way into these markets, Advanced Ionics hopes its more efficient approach to using electrolysis will give it an unfair advantage in producing hydrogen.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Canoo’s first-quarter earnings shows a company burning through cash, no near-term revenue and a warning that it may not have enough money to stay in business. in after-market trading following the release of its earnings. Canoo’s net loss reached $125.4 with a market valuation of $2.4 million, compared to $15.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today at TechCrunch’s crypto-focused event in Miami , OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer discussed his business and the future market for non-fungible tokens. However, as TechCrunch has reported , the evolving market for crypto-related activities and products is currently in a downturn. What’s ahead for the company?

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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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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

AUGUST 10, 2021

PitchBook data indicates that the company was worth $28 million on a post-money basis following the investment, implying that the company’s backers managed a roughly 5x return on their investment. Sure, some companies are including retail questions in their earnings calls, but what Say has in mind is broader.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2022

AskNicely is the latest company attracting capital for its app targeting shift or frontline worker success as more businesses rightly begin to see how valuable these employees are to their bottom line and how technology can ensure these key employees are empowered to help the company grow. Aaron Ward, CEO, AskNicely.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

A big story in the finance world this morning is that the Nasdaq Composite index lost ground in pre-market trading while bond yields rose. Unlike last night, when New York-based restaurant software company Olo priced its IPO at $25 per share , sharply above its raised IPO target price range. million became 2020 net income of $3.1

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

The company announced Thursday the opening of its production facility, dubbed “Mega Ranch,” in Colorado. Tyler Huggins, co-founder and CEO of Meati Foods, told TechCrunch that the company wasn’t actively seeking additional capital, but had decided to keep the Series C round open due to additional investor interest.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2023

W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Here’s about 1,000 words on something that I’ve been chewing on for a few weeks! — Alex Under pressure Modern software companies grow in two key ways. This is called net retention, net revenue retention (NRR) or net dollar retention (NDR).

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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 Sound good? Let’s have some fun.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The American IPO market is hot for many companies, but surprisingly cool for others. The gap between the two cohorts of private companies looking to list is becoming notable. When Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi first set an IPO price range, The Exchange was curious about why the company felt so inexpensive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Just like last year’s batches, about half of the companies in the W22 batch (where YC’s Standard Deal comes to full effect for the first time) are based outside of the United States. Robert Nyangate is the company’s CTO. ” Founders : Henry Mascot started a company in 2017 to help hospitals digitize records.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This week, sources familiar with internal happenings within the company told TechCrunch the company’s VP of communications, Patrick Lenihan; head of public relations, Tanya Gillogley; and head of marketing, Melanie Hahn, have all submitted their resignations. The company is expected to go public at a $6.9 SO STOP IT.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This morning LeadIQ , a startup working in the sales software market, announced that it has closed a $30 million Series B led by Cathay Innovation. LeadIQ frames its product from the perspective of missed revenue targets at companies, which it claims impact nearly two-thirds of today’s deals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

III that will value the company at $2 billion. The agreement marks the latest lidar company to turn to so-called blank check companies or SPACs in lieu of a traditional IPO process. with a market value of $1.8 with a market value of $1.8 AEye is at the earliest stages of that total addressable market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

billion into the co-working company WeWork in the summer of 2017 when it was still privately held, at a reported valuation of $20 billion. It went on to invest even more in the company and to lose nearly its entire investment. Most famously, SoftBank plowed $4.4 At the time, SoftBank had invested roughly $10.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

ZeroAvia , the company that’s on a mission to move the world to zero-emission, hydrogen-fueled flight, has just received some corporate jet fuel in the form of a new $21.4 The company has established a partnership with British Airways and received a $16.3 million cash infusion. million grant from the U.K.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 8, 2024

You’ve secured some $10 million in funding, identified a product-market fit, and achieved an impressive $3 million in annual revenue with consistent year-over-year growth. Itay Sagie, founder of Sagie Consulting With the market being what it is, a down round is off the table for your investors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Machine learning can provide companies with a competitive advantage by using the data they’re collecting — for example, purchasing patterns — to generate predictions that power revenue-generating products (e.g. Del Balso says it’ll be used to scale Tecton’s engineering and go-to-market teams. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Why more SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing. The holiday shopping season is coming: How are growth marketers preparing?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

But with the pandemic hitting, it did a hard pivot into providing a highly customizable virtual events platform, primarily used by companies for their sales events. No marketing. Therefore, Tame sees a huge opportunity and is going all-in on expanding aggressively to position itself as a market leader.”. Organically.

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