TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Yet, the sector is very much alive, and the “correction” of these companies’ valuations presents an opportunity for those who have cash left on their balance sheets, investors told TechCrunch. This may actually be a great moment for insurtechs to nurture their relationship with incumbents to work on synergies and potential trade sales.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

The SaaS applications present insights and queue workflows and help their users achieve their goals as normal, using the data from the CDW. Modern SaaS applications will present materialized views from the CDW. Data arrives from various systems, is transformed, and stored in Snowflake. Nor will this transition be immediate.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this first clip, he explains why he thinks generative AI is a major architectural shift in computing, and why it represents an opportunity for startups to get a leg up on incumbents. What’s the scale of the opportunity that AI presents?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

” Consolidation followed, TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers noted , “as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw the opportunities presented by cloud cost optimization. Meanwhile, cloud cost-optimization tools (represented by Spot, Granulate) allowed for tactical changes to lower costs.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. So if you are then I have to ask myself, “What are the incumbents going to do when you grow?”

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. In China, that distribution network was present across the digital and physical worlds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Targeting future and present high-net-worth individuals, Ikigai is iOS-only for now and consists of a current account and savings account, with adjacent wealth management features, all combined in a single app and card. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

One advantage for Klar, according to Möller , is that its “cost to serve a user” is about 1/20 of what the incumbents pay. I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents. Maybe there was less complacency by the incumbents or there was more competition amongst them….But They just happened to be reserved for a very few.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

No matter how cutting edge or sophisticated, from a technology perspective, your product might be, you’ll still need to present compelling metrics to get a deal signed. so that you can present your product as a solution to that problem. If they’re not, you’re not a priority for the champion and therefore for the broader organization.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? The input contains the topics I’m going to cover in a presentation at the conference. Please suggest a list of ideas for a fun and novel title for this presentation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Presently, the startup has over 650 employees and will also use its new capital to hire another 100 more or so people at its Winnipeg and Calgary campuses. At the same time, the incumbent banks are stuck with their mainframes, IBM contracts, and software written in COBOL,” he wrote via email.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Asides from Egypt, Paymob is also present in Kenya, Pakistan, and Palestine. The pandemic presented one of the best opportunities for fintechs all over the world to achieve massive growth. The Egyptian fintech ecosystem also got a major boost when incumbent fintech Fawry became a publicly-traded unicorn for the first time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

But these disclosures carry significant financial costs for small, private companies — and they carry the extra risk of exposing sensitive financial information to competitors and large corporate incumbents. This will likely have the effect of money funneling to the larger funds that present less perceived risk.

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Dream It

JULY 24, 2020

This presents a huge opportunity for startups. Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. To keep an organization safe, a CISO depends on as many as 50 to 100 different products. However, this means that a CISO sees a LOT of pitches in their role. What projects are in the pipeline?

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. ” He has a point — insofar as incumbents are feeling the pressure, at least. And it’s early days for Together, which wouldn’t say whether it has any customers at present — much less revenue.

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incumbents communities enablement strategy 91

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

UBP presented an opportunity to reinvent the account executive (AE) compensation model. When startups and incumbents ramp growth aggressively once again, management teams, who haven’t ensured their key employees earn attractive salaries and vest in-the-money options, risk talent flight. Gross profit equals revenue minus COGS.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Data privacy regulations like GDPR, the CCPA and HIPAA present a challenge to training AI systems on sensitive data, like financial transactions , patient health records and user device logs. Tech giants, including Nvidia (via Clara ), offer federated learning as a service.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Kettle’s longer-term plan is to expand to more disaster types, and more states, in the coming years, but for now, fires in California present a particularly acute set of problems. This presents an opportunity to provide a different spin on how to provide this service. 2020 saw over 4% of the state burning.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

” Several years ago, the market for cloud optimization software and “ FinOps ,” while nascent, was consolidating as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw the opportunities presented by cloud cost optimization. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. In it, 65% of founders believe the fundraising market in 2020 will present more challenges than 2019. Startups begin to siphon off important but underserved segments of SaaS incumbent's customer bases. I'll guess a 15% increase from here or about $200B.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In 2015, one of the largest healthcare intermediaries in the country presented us these challenges. Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. Ordering is decentralized, based on personal preferences in both products and vendors, and at variable prices without strong ties to clinical outcomes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s a good showing for fintech, both startup and incumbent alike. No one knows what comes next, how the trades play out or if the present-day retail investing surge in stock trading will persist. Finally, E*Trade’s own app is ranked 18th. What does seem clear, however, is that today is going to be very silly.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Ultimately, these engine unbundling approaches are market wedges to find soft spots where a new creation tool can provide 10x improvement over incumbents. Present the model with an image from your childhood and re-enter the world like a time machine. In tech, there is always a constant pendulum swing between unbundling and rebundling.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Segmentation - focus on SMB, Mid-Market, or Enterprise, to play where competition isn’t present. The landscape is so vast - and the logos so minuscule - that it’s useful only as an illustration of competition.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 Presently, Skio has five employees but is planning to use its new capital toward product development and to “hire aggressively for world-class software engineers.”. “We’re

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. Presently, NorthOne has about 75 employees and doesn’t plan to go on a hiring spree with its new capital. Then there were those companies that existed well before the pandemic.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

and by substantial amounts of invested capital in formal amenities required by incumbent brands that are frequently cost centers rather than profit centers (lobby restaurant, room service, etc.). However, the consumer experience provided through these platforms is largely inconsistent.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Presently, Mendel has 70 employees and it expects to end 2022 with 200. In Latin America, larger enterprises are underserved by incumbents, and Mendel is democratizing access to best-in-class software and payments,” he wrote via email. Image Credits: Mendel. Infinity’s Mario Ruiz agrees. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

That presented an opportunity to Lunar to take on the risk: Bring people to the platform to trade, and get them to cash out with Lunar itself, making money off the exchange or service fees associated with the transactions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Jeffrey Yam, executive director at Integrated Capital, met Fugman and Kost in Hong Kong and had already gotten to know them well when they presented Yam with their business plan. Incumbents aren’t investing in R&D, or if they are, they are spending low, single digits there, and this creates an opportunity,” Fugman added. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo. Presently, Pomelo has 100 employees, including people who have previously worked at Mercado Pago, Amazon Payments, Mastercard, Nubank, D-Local, Lime and N26.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

With Snipd’s latest launch, which is available on Android and iOS this week, the company is channeling its inner TikTok by presenting users with a highlights reel, of sorts, automatically pulling out what it believes to be the most memorable moments from numerous podcasts. Snipd: “TikTok”-inspired feed of podcast highlights.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Also participating was New York-based FirstMark Capital and Frst , as well as angel investors including Paul Melchiorre, former CEO of business planning giant Anaplan, and David Clarke, the ex-CTO of Workday, another business planning incumbent.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

In this environment, most CISOs are experiencing “vendor overload,” which means small players that lack a robust network and large marketing budgets can’t participate in the same sales channels as incumbents. Here’s a full transcript of their presentation and the audience Q&A session.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. We cannot overstate the opportunity Convoy presents.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

Maybe only a subset of your customers are excited about generative AI right now, but you believe that generative AI will eventually reshape the customer experience of your product and present a much richer value prop.

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