TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. These will typically be at incumbent banks, but they do not offer the same ranges of services to customers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Mobiz , a South African startup integrating hyper-personalization into mobile marketing, has raised a pre-Series A round of $ 4 million from HAVAÍC, Futuregrowth, Launch Africa, Allan Gray E-Squared Ventures, CapaciTech and Endeavor’s Harvest Fund. The investment comes as the startup is ramping up efforts to expand into the U.S.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

ED ZIMMERMAN : The funnel for venture funding isn’t cylindrical — it’s shape follows a more Darwinian conical path, as many seed stage companies march into the cone’s wide entrance and far fewer make it to the cone’s narrow end. The graphic follows those startups until April 2014.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under an open source license back in 2014, though its initial development pre-dates that by several years. But Linietsky was keen to highlight one core difference between W4 and these incumbents: it’s expertise.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

In 2014, that figure fell to 1186 and in 2015, we count 481. This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. But if we assume the 2014 cohort is accurate, then the data suggests an 18% drop in software company formation.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. As expected, many developers didn’t love the news that some of their work would be concentrated in the hands of a tech incumbent. Satya strikes again. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Snyder co-founded Lower in 2014 with the goal of making the homebuying process simpler for consumers. We believe by providing consumers a great mobile experience, Lower will gain share from incumbent banks, in the same way that companies like Monzo have in banking or Venmo in payments or Trade Republic and Robinhood in stock trading.” .

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. ” will be “What are your unit economics?” Crunchbase tallies $10.1B

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

When Privacy.com was founded in 2014, the company’s focus was to let anyone generate virtual and disposable payment card numbers for free. Index Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, Rainfall Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures and Walkabout Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings Lithic’s total raised to date to $61 million.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In 2014, YC had been funding startups for 9 years, but we’d mostly funded software companies. As they expanded into new areas, they spun off multiple companies as joint-ventures. Ginkgo Bioworks is the first biotech company YC funded, and today they are going public. They hired many of the brightest scientific minds in the field.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 29, 2015

Second, that the total number of acquisitions in 2014 would achieve a 5 year high. Many technology incumbents possess substantial cash balances , which enable them to make substantial acquisitions. But M&A velocity has slowed in 2015 compared to 2014 - at least through the first quarter. Two key trends surfaced.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In fact, it’s twice as costly to operate a startup in 2014 as it was in 2009. In parallel, startups and incumbents vying for talent in the increasingly competitive job market have bid up the median wage of a San Francisco technology worker 15% each year, from about $90k to well over to $180k in 2014.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Founded in 2013 (or 2014 depending on the source), the Chicago-based company has raised over $82 million in funding over its lifetime from investors such as FinTech Collective and Oak HC/FT , according to Crunchbase. It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But China and the United States are far from the only technology markets with developed startup and incumbent cohorts, strong venture capital activity, and capital markets able to translate early-stage ideas into public companies. The Angular Ventures report includes data from Israel, an active deep tech market. China issue.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year. Investors, founders report hot market for API startups.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Coninsurance plans require the patient to pay a percentage (usually 10-30%) of the healthcare costs up to the deductible limit.

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

The percentage of early-stage venture capital dollars invested into Bay Area startups dropped 15% over the last 10 years, from 39% to 24%. Venture investors pay close attention to the innovation that emerges when startups unbundle the offerings of industry incumbents. And we have since we started our efforts in 2014.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2015

In the Innovator’s Dilemma for SaaS Startups , I outlined the path of many software companies, which disrupt incumbents by first serving the small-to-medium business and then move up-market by transitioning to serve larger enterprises with outbound sales teams. Additionally, this flywheel model is incredibly capital efficient.

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