TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents. Whereas the incumbents mostly focus on USSD (although there are provisions to use applications), Wave is solely app-based. . Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. Both were Series C rounds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

This is a major round for the startup: Taxfix has raised around $330 million since being founded in 2016. That’s a sign of how there is not just incumbent marketshare to take away, but new users popping up all the time. Index led its Series C in 2020 ; Valar led a round in 2018 ). Turbotax, Intuit’s big product in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. Rangel added that its choice to build was partly done out of necessity, since in 2016 there weren’t many banking-as-a-service platforms to provide those APIs. “We are competing against big banks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. If you’re an investor who’d like to participate in future surveys, fill out this form.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. ” Founders : Tobi Ololade, the CEO, was the chief technological officer of TradeBuza, a data and API infrastructure for agriculture finance. Founded in: 2016. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. São Paulo-based Pismo is one of those infrastructure providers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. Founded by Eytan Bensoussan and Justin Adler in 2016, the startup was born to serve small business owners such as barbers, mechanics and local restaurant owners. million since inception.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

They also worked a lot on helping fintechs build partnerships with incumbent financial institutions — experience they plan to use to offer portfolio companies bespoke “Strategy Sheets” alongside term sheets. According to the CB Insights’ latest State of Fintech report , this is the first time that has happened since the end of 2016.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards. So backing up on how healthcare is financed, let’s say you got a plan with basically no deductible, so you’ve got first dollar coverage. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists.

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