TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

It has raised nearly $1 billion since its 2015 inception and was valued at $2.5 For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. Treasury Prime raises $20M to scale its banking-as-a-service biz.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

The success of Pinduoduo in China suggests there is a huge opportunity for social commerce platforms to emerge in other regions. When Pinduoduo launched in 2015, there was little room for a new commerce platform in China. If there is a gap in the US e-commerce market, it is not just an opportunity to grow domestic online retail.

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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.”. He soon began to invest in everything from ramen and hotpots to bottled beverages.

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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. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. expectations. Their profit models.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. Does any fund that invested in Uber fear not being able to raise their next fund because their underlying companies might not perform well around these other criteria?

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. So, about two years ago, as a Bay Area resident, living right off Sand Hill Road, started intentionally investing outside the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Founded initially back in 2015, Santa Barbara, California-based Bitwarden operates in a space that includes well-known incumbents such as 1Password, which recently hit a $6.8 Moreover, people can contribute back to the codebase and expedite development of new features. Password hygiene.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

million as its first tranche of Series A investment. Other investors include Egyptian investment fund A15 and Dutch development bank FMO. “ Their market opportunity is also huge; Egypt’s transformation to a cashless society is being enabled by the unique products Paymob has built.” million Series A round.

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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 growth of e-commerce and other services on digital platforms has further spurred that trend.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One obvious solution to this list of issues and opportunities is to leverage technology to better serve the needs of the customer. 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. Do they conduct surveys? Do they measure waiting time?

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. It only seemed logical to us that the same opportunity should exist in healthcare. Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.”

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