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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?” ” This year, however, is like any other year in which I’ve tracked these and tried to single out one.

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The Rising Stakes in SaaS

Tomasz Tunguz

In 2012 ChiefMartec landscape counted 350 vendors selling to sales and marketing. Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Today, that figure is 5000.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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Argentinian fintech infrastructure startup Geopagos leaves the boot straps behind with $35M funding round

TechCrunch

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. Indeed, customers include large financial institutions, fintechs, retailers and software companies, among others.

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Former AWS engineer sets out to build a better log search engine

TechCrunch

So then I thought, let me give it a shot and see if I can build something, He spent several months developing what would become ZincSearch. The largest incumbent in this space is Elastic, the makers of ElasticSearch, a public company founded in 2012.

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These Y Combinator-backed startups are trying to build ‘ChatGPT for X’

TechCrunch

By way of background, Socialcam was a mobile photo-sharing app that Autodesk acquired in 2012, while Triplebyte is a recruiting and technical screening platform aimed at enterprise tech companies. But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free.

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Checkout.com’s new president is bullish on US expansion, says she ‘welcomes’ comparisons to Stripe

TechCrunch

payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. Since 2012, we’ve grown to over 1,900 employees in 21 global offices. Close partnership with our merchants to develop solutions together is of the utmost importance to us.