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Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B valuation

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And this has investors, especially foreign ones, excited and looking to get on board. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. From Sendwave to Wave. Both were Series C rounds.

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MakeSpace Raises an Additional $17.5 million and Unveils Strategy to Make Public Storage the Next Blockbuster Video

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million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. Public Storage does about $2.4

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How Mayht, a small startup, is taking on the world of speaker goliaths

TechCrunch

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. “We’ve been working on this speaker technology since 2016. “I think the team makes Mayht special.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. It only seemed logical to us that the same opportunity should exist in healthcare.

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