TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. Telemedicine startups are positioning themselves for a post-pandemic world. billion valuation is “reflective of our ambition.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” ” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. ” will be “What are your unit economics?”

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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. It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s now raised $103 million since its launch in 2016. Additionally, Maersk, the largest ocean carrier in the world, has “significantly” — says the startup — added to its existing investment. The round was led by Inven Capital, a growth fund out of the Czech Republic.

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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. Image Credits: Wave.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. ” Teampay’s platform provides workflows for employees to submit and approve spending.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Eyewear has to date been a very traditional industry with large incumbents, but is now ripe for a tech-enabled global transformation. Based out of Sweden and launched in 2016, NA-KD expanded to more than 100 markets and reached net sales of over USD 200 million in just five years.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

a critical juncture of your venture’s life cycle, as a majority of startups have only one chance to make a strong first impression. Devising an effective go-to-market strategy requires thinking beyond traditional approaches towards growth, which are often not optimal for category-defining startups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company, founded in 2016, provides 24/7 live chat and telehealth, ship-to-home prescriptions, vet-curated items in its e-commerce marketplace and educational content and programs. There are a number of startups tapping into this major trend of pets to capture that household spend in the areas of healthcare, insurance and food.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

When Pedro Conrade started Brazilian digital bank Neon in 2016, he was a 23-year-old business school student who was frustrated with the service and costs associated with traditional banking in his country. “I I had a catastrophic relationship with incumbent banks.”. It was super expensive, and the service was terrible. ’” .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

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. Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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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. Property data, statistics and other kinds of government data can also support new businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Tech is rushing in to fill that gap, and today a Berlin-based startup called Taxfix , which has built a popular mobile assistant to address the former of these, is announcing a big round of funding to fuel its growth. This is a major round for the startup: Taxfix has raised around $330 million since being founded in 2016.

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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

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. In Africa, one startup is carving a niche for itself. Hopley launched Root in 2016 to cater to this need.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Novo , the startup building a new kind of banking service from the ground up for small and medium businesses, has closed a significant round of funding to take the next step in growing its platform. But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. The startup to date has raised just over $135 million.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 3, 2016

But I do believe that they are the harbingers of a very active software acquisition market we’ll see in 2016 and 2017. Large software incumbents must bolster their product portfolios so their sales teams have new products to sell. Meanwhile, many of these businesses have substantial cash on their balance sheets.

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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. This leaves us with questions: What seals the fate of private insurtech startups these days? Which avenues enjoy new tailwinds?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

Subverting those incumbents is going to require a meaningfully better product or substantially more effective customer acquisition channel. Seed round volumes in 2016 have halved compared to 2015, but increased in median size by 40%. The overlapping logos in the Martech landscape visualize the lack of oxygen in some of these segments.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 28, 2016

Through the end of July in 2016, $70B worth of SaaS companies sold. In 2016, these PE firms aren’t following that playbook. The 2016 software buying spree hasn’t benefitted private startups or unicorns yet, and that reflects the different strategies of the buyers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

By 2016, without capital, I had bootstrapped the company to eight digits in revenue. It doesn’t need to be a zero-sum game where more people of color will push out the incumbents. Now, when you have a commodity like capital that is a closely held resource to a favored few, that’s called elitism and cronyism.

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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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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

This was strategic for two reasons: 1) incumbents were focused on non-perishable items, so competition was limited and 2) fruits and vegetables are lower order value, high frequency goods, which means users had a reason to use Pinduoduo regularly. To maximize this effect, Pinduoduo launched in the fruits and vegetables category.

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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 23, 2023

Based in the United States and Israel, the fund has so far backed five startups, including Coast , Cyrus , Grain , Equi and Proper. 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.

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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. Genki Forest, a Chinese direct-to-consumer (D2C) bottled beverage startup, is one such contender. China is also home to one of the world’s largest e-commerce and tech ecosystems.

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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. “We’ve been working on this speaker technology since 2016. And every year, it falls flat. Image Credits: Mayht.

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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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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. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. “We Image Credits: Pismo.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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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. “And

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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. Of the Haystack companies which are in major startup hubs outside the Bay Area (which makes up 20% of the total portfolio), 13% are in NYC, 4% in LA, and nearly 2% each in Seattle and Boston.

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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. Reports say African startups raised record-smashing $4.3B African tech took center stage in 2021. to $5B in 2021.

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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. But that’s really just the starting point and that’s when I put out a Tweet three years ago and started meeting with digital healthcare [00:05:00] startups. A very, very smart guy, a very thoughtful guy.

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