2009 incumbents ventures 
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. CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009.
Unvalidated Learnings
JUNE 8, 2017
Not only did the incumbents fail to grasp the potential value, but it would have made no sense for them to go after such a small unprofitable niche, which would have been irrelevant to their top line, and eating away at their bottom line (CDs were 90%+ gross margin products back then). most of the value created would accrue to new entrants.
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abovethecrowd.com
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards. and it goes to 11:00 p.m.,
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. Only 4% of the 160 startups from the class of 2009 completed a 6 th funding round by April 2014.
abovethecrowd.com
DECEMBER 18, 2017
In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Here are a list of the new forces pushing the U.S. healthcare market.
abovethecrowd.com
JUNE 17, 2014
First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. In July of 2009, the UK instituted a new network known as Faster Payment Service with same day settlement to replace their equivalent of ACH. Many blame Dodd-Frank and the consolidation post 2009 for the loss of free checking.
abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 17, 2013
Booking.com was not always the online leader in Europe – in fact they were a disrupter stealing the flag from other large incumbents. By 2009 oDesk surpassed the nearest competitor, and they are now the clear leader (larger than their top competitors combined) in the rapidly emerging “online work” industry. The rest is history.
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