Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

incumbents 127

incumbents accelerator venture capital financing 127

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

In September, he co-invested in a Seattle startup called Far Homes that was founded by Redfin alums and is focused on “buying and selling real estate in foreign markets,” as reported by GeekWire. Pet insurance startups chase the market as pet ownership booms among Gen Z and Millennials. Image Credits: Kuzma / Getty Images. Weekly News.

real estate 97

real estate incumbents mix-use financing 97

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. ” Support and services.

incumbents 100

incumbents communities support development 100

TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Lower is also something that is kind of rare these days in the startup world: profitable. The two companies have a few things in common besides being profitable: they were both bootstrapped for years before taking institutional capital and both have headquarters outside of Silicon Valley. “We

financing 94

financing finance incumbents investing 94

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. ” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. 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.

real estate 40

real estate startup incumbents sustainability 40

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.

SaaS 40

SaaS incumbents venture capital ventures 40

WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

There has been a lot of discussion recently of where the choke points are in the cone, and I believe we’re headed into a period in which the Series B venture round will be more of a choke point than it has been in the past, especially for American startups. The graphic follows those startups until April 2014. Certainly not.

ventures 28

ventures incumbents venture capital financing 28

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 7, 2015

This change has three important ramifications for SaaS startups. In 2014, Gartner predicted Chief Marketing Officers would control more budget than Chief Information Officers by 2017 , and the initial data shows the trend to be accurate. I expect to see many more startups chasing CMO dollars.

SaaS 40

SaaS incumbents B2B marketing education 40

TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g. Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column.

startup 110

startup financing finance incumbents 110

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 29, 2015

This time last year, I analyzed the state of the startup acquisition market. Second, that the total number of acquisitions in 2014 would achieve a 5 year high. Startups haven’t seen any increase in the median value an acquirer pays over the five year period. Two key trends surfaced.

incumbents 40

incumbents startup enablement technology 40

Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

To celebrate their IPO, here’s the story of how Ginkgo Bioworks ended up in YC, and what their journey was like as YC’s first biotech startup. In 2014, YC had been funding startups for 9 years, but we’d mostly funded software companies. Here’s what we wrote: “Biotech.

incumbents 103

incumbents sustainability founder financing 103

OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Casper is a directto-consumer sleep brand that broke onto the scene in 2014 with a re-designed, high quality mattress that shipped directly to consumers’ doors. Whether that means integrating Google Pay or working with startups to develop technologies we don’t have the capacity to work on ourselves.”.

sustainability 51

sustainability incumbents technology strategy 51

Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 26, 2015

In 2014, 90% of the tech M&A transactions consummated by companies, and excluding private equity firms, in the US with disclosed deal values were cash deals. The best return on capital then is acquisition or stock buy backs which hit a record high earlier this year. In 2014, companies spent $22.4B

incumbents 40

incumbents startup capital founder 40

TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. Genki Forest, a Chinese direct-to-consumer (D2C) bottled beverage startup, is one such contender. China is also home to one of the world’s largest e-commerce and tech ecosystems.

incumbents 129

incumbents networking entrepreneurs opportunity 129

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. Privacy.com, a virtual payment card startup, raises $10.2M That allows us to bring costs down but also to be more nimble to the needs of startups.”. in Series A.

incumbents 97

incumbents strategy ventures development 97

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.

incumbents 87

incumbents financing finance technology 87

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

healthcare system does not operate as a free marketplace with the type of open-competition that we often associate with capitalism. 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.

health 59

health hospitality networking mix-use 59

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 Exchange explores startups, markets and money. China issue.

venture capital 91

venture capital incumbents leadership SaaS 91

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The New York Shipping Exchange (Nyshex) , a platform that connects shippers with ocean carriers, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Collate Capital with participation from Blumberg Capital, Goldman Sachs, and NewRoad Capital.

incumbents 82

incumbents disruption capital support 82

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. Revolution tends to look at fintech startups from a consumer angle.

development 103

development real estate incumbents ventures 103

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.

SaaS 56

SaaS innovation startup incumbents 56