AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development. Founded in 2016, Ayoconnect is Southeast Asia’s largest Open Finance API platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Thndr, launched in late 2020 by Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr , is filling the gap by making it easier to open and manage investment accounts, consequently replacing traditionally slow and outdated processes by incumbents. The first investment that 75% of our users have done was with less than $500.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Neso Brands is a Singapore-based global eyewear company founded in 2022 to enable the most promising direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands across the world to become brands of the future. Eyewear has to date been a very traditional industry with large incumbents, but is now ripe for a tech-enabled global transformation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services. Founded in 2016, with a team of about 250 people, Ayoconnect is currently working toward more financial inclusion for Indonesian consumers and SMEs. Klarna, Affirm show how expensive fintech growth can be.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

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

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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. Hopley launched Root in 2016 to cater to this need. In Africa, one startup is carving a niche for itself. Jonathan Stewart joined as a co-founder leading sales and partnerships in 2018.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Another example is Stone, a Brazilian fin-tech unicorn started in 2012, which disrupted the incumbents’ sales strategy by creating a hub-and-spoke model that deployed a passionate salesforce of “Stone Warriors” throughout the country. Putting it all together Quality beats quantity when it comes to launching.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

As the founder of an infrastructure project that has been around since 2016, I want to remind you that web3 isn’t just a drop-down menu of features to be bolted on to your project. Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents? FOMO is real.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2016, Minna enables customers to manage subscription services via their existing bank’s app. Sjöblom told me that by largely working with incumbent banks, Minna is providing them with a way to fight back against challenger banks. It has now raised $18.8 million (€15.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

billion by 2025, a steep climb from $190 million in 2016. Call center service provider incumbents like Dialpad offer sentiment analysis features, as well, as do companies including Cogito , Saygent and SugarCRM. A 2019 Salesforce report found that 53% of service organizations expected to use chatbots within 18 months.

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