#SeoTips This second fund is significant because Gupta expanded it beyond a corporate fund with one main LP – Prudential Financial – into one supported by a number of financial and insurance LPs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Siddhi Capital grabs $135M for Fund II to invest in consumer packaged goods startups #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Siddhi Capital's second fund of $135 million is double the size of the venture capital firm's first fund and will go into CPG and food tech startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow....
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
General Catalyst leads $40M round for Local Kitchens, a different kind of restaurant kitchen startup #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Don't call this company a "ghost kitchen." Since its Series A in 2021, Local Kitchens grew 5x and achieved unit-level profitability. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Christine Ha...
Monday, June 17, 2024
Plant-based ‘meat’ startup Tender has already nabbed a fast-food chain contract, and another $11M #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Its technology involves spinning plant protein fibers, including soy proteins, similar to the way cotton candy is made, to create structured cuts of meat. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiu...
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Fintech Torpago has a unique way to compete with Brex and Ramp: turning banks into customers #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Torpago's Powered By product is geared for regional and community banks, with under $20 billion in assets, to launch their own branded cards and spend management programs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. vi...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
How a couple of former Pinterest search experts caught Biz Stone’s attention #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Lance Riedel and Nigel Daley both spent decades in search discovery, but it was while working at Pinterest that they began trying to understand how to use search engines to do personalized searches for online shopping. © 2024 TechCrunch. A...
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan supports some AI regulation but warns against AI monopolies #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Like most Silicon Valley VCs, what Garry Tan sees is opportunities for new, huge, lucrative businesses. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Christine Hall, Khareem Sudlow ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Immigrant banking platform Majority secures $20M following 3x revenue growth #Ecommerce
#SeoTips For a $5.99 per month, immigrants have a bank account and debit card with fee-free international money transfers and discounted international calling. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow...
Monday, May 20, 2024
Fintech lender Solo Funds is being sued again by the government over its lending practices #Ecommerce
#SeoTips SoLo Funds CEO Travis Holoway: “Regulators seem driven by press releases when they should be motivated by true consumer protection and empowering equitable solutions.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via ht...
Monday, May 13, 2024
A reckoning is coming for emerging venture funds, and that, VCs say, is a good thing #Ecommerce
#SeoTips We took the pulse of emerging fund managers about what it's been like for them during these post-ZERP, venture-capital-winter years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Christine Ha...
Friday, May 3, 2024
They thought they were joining an accelerator — instead they lost their startups #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Lacey Hunter thought all was well as she put her startup through the three-month Newchip accelerator. Then the organization filed for bankruptcy in May 2023. Things went from bad to worse later that year when she discovered warrants of her...
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Paystand acquires Teampay to be DeFi version of ‘Venmo for B2B payments’ #Ecommerce
#SeoTips “Teampay represents this new class of fintech companies that came up,” said Paystand CEO Jeremy Almond. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Christine Hall, Khareem Sudlow ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Yoshi Mobility has come a long way since gassing up cars on the side of the road #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Today, Yoshi Mobility settled into three business lines: preventative maintenance, virtual vehicle inspections and electric vehicle charging. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Chr...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Google Cloud Next 2024: Everything announced so far #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Don’t have time to be in Las Vegas? That’s OK: We’ve summed up the most important parts of this year's Google Cloud Next. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Christine Hall, Khareem...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is one step closer to cracking the traditional egg market #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Onego Bio claims Bioalbumen is “bioidentical” to ovalbumin, which is the major protein in chicken egg white. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Christine Hall, Khareem Sudlow ...
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Griffin Bank has a license to thrill #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! I’m filling in for Mary Ann, who is on a much deserved break. This week, we look at Griffin Bank getting its license ahead of some heavy hitters, and we go inside Stripe’s annual le...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Coverdash gathers insurance’s biggest carriers so SMBs can get coverage in minutes #Ecommerce
#SeoTips A new product for startups resulted in some big business coming Coverdash’s way, including new distribution partners and customer growth. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Christi...
Monday, February 26, 2024
MWC 2024: Everything announced so far #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Christine Hall, Khareem Sudlow ...
Darwin AI gives small LatAm companies AI-powered sales assistant #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Darwin AI’s system that connects with a company’s customer relationship management tool and evaluates possible sales leads and escalates the ones, most likely to buy, to a human salesperson. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pers...
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Zūm Rails takes in first capital to launch new banking-as-a-service, FedNow offerings #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Zūm Rails manages the flow of money by verifying a customer’s identity, linking directly with bank accounts and facilitating payments via the method of the customer’s choosing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....