TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad. That spells opportunity for companies that are enabling that adoption. The company has raised £175 million ($230 million at today’s conversion rates), from a single investor, the PE firm Apax Partners.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We profiled the company back in 2015 when it raised $1.7 The new capital will enable the company to scale production, commercialize further products in its pipeline and expand into new food applications for its technology. “We For these technologies to work and enable transition, you have to have the scale to match that.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

When Pinduoduo launched in 2015, there was little room for a new commerce platform in China. Pinduoduo’s team purchase is often compared to Groupon in the US because they both enable a form of group buying. The success of Pinduoduo in China suggests there is a huge opportunity for social commerce platforms to emerge in other regions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. “Before Magical, I founded a company called Careerify , an HR tech startup that was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. We feel that if you do that you can drive much more innovation faster because you kind of enable sub economies to spin up and other people to start building specific solutions into insurance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. The relationship between incumbents and upstarts has long been a complicated one. When we started out in 2015, we were primarily providing back office payment infrastructure for banks and needed an apt team, hence the name TeamApt. billion in working capital loans.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. In comparison, most incumbents were pushing updates on a quarterly or annual basis.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?”

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Macy’s, its better-faring competitor, is moving away from physical storefronts, cutting its square footage by 13% between 2015 and 2018. While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 29, 2015

As of mid-2015, the first trend continues while the second seems to have faltered. 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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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. Here are a list of the new forces pushing the U.S. In fact, they are working to prove that just the opposite is possible — a system where quality care is affordable and available to everyone.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. ” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

“ Their market opportunity is also huge; Egypt’s transformation to a cashless society is being enabled by the unique products Paymob has built.” Paymob was founded in 2015 by Alain El Hajj, Islam Shawky, and Mostafa El Menessy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Noteworthy, Gophr’s co-founder and CEO, Seb Robert, tells me the 2015-founded company reached monthly net profitability around 3 years ago and was net profitable for the whole of last year. I don’t see how the incumbent U.K. Meanwhile, Robert is not phased by last week’s Uber ruling that saw U.K.

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