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

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. Root started off with the premise that many barriers, including compliance and capital, prevented software developers and businesses from building and innovating around insurance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Founded in 2016, San Francisco-based Zero Financial has raised $147 million in debt and equity , according to Crunchbase. The challenger bank was created to target millennials dissatisfied with the incumbent banking options. Those offerings include deposits, personal loans, credit cards and auto loans.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. Ayoconnect says it is the only open finance player in Indonesia to be licensed by the central bank.

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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. The pace of innovation and funding outside of the U.S. How do you feel about insurtech companies innovating beyond technology?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Founded in 2016 and backed by investors including Y Combinator, UpCodes offers two main products, a database of state building codes that is available on a freemium basis, and UpCodes AI, which scans 3D building models for potential code violations. .” Codes only get more complex over time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

As a nation we know the benefits of encouraging entrepreneurship across backgrounds: Entrepreneurs create jobs, spark innovation and allow us to maintain our position as the most competitive nation on the planet. By 2016, without capital, I had bootstrapped the company to eight digits in revenue.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Quick thoughts : Innovation in Africa’s B2B e-commerce and retail space has been around the digitization of processes and BNPL services, but not much around cash overdependence and fraud. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Founded in: 2016.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. 2014 might have been the last year it was economically feasible to start such a business due to the soaring cost of acquiring customers and the strength of incumbents,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

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. Yes, innovations are happening, but core speaker technology rarely moves in a way that could be described as truly innovative.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2018

The pace of innovation within software. The increasing competition amongst incumbents. Consequently, I expect substantially more acquisitions of the scale and at these multiples through 2018. The corporate tax holiday. The growing sizes of the software market. The desire for continuing growth. EV/NTM revenues. SAP/SuccessFactors.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. 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.

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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. We should be looking at China for the real innovations now. Ezra Klein : Let me ask you about why the high deductible plan is necessary for that particular kind of innovation. A very, very smart guy, a very thoughtful guy.

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