TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. Sennder’s new investment will mean it can expand in European markets. In June 2020 it merged with French competitor Everoad, and acquired Uber Freight’s European business last September.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

-based last-mile delivery provider, has raised £4 million in funding, as it looks to invest in its product off the back of 300% revenue growth during the last 12 months. The company had previously raised £1 million in two rounds, including £500,000 from publicly-listed Auctus Alternative Investments. I don’t see how the incumbent U.K.

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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. Nigerian fintech startup OneFi acquires payment company Amplify.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

million since its 2015 inception. The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We Generation closes $1B growth fund targeting sustainable startups. With this latest extension, Human Interest has now raised a total of $136.7 ” .

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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. To sustain these growth rates and reach the levels of market liquidity they have, startups like Uber and AirBnB require massive amounts of cash.

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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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