TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. Back in 2019, our office was broken into,” Vaidya said. We also take Ubers home from meetings or offices ever since 2019, because our lawyers told us not to take the subway. Detractors like North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein call them “ dirty scammers. ”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

” The company added that a corporate credit card has been one of the most requested features from customers since Mercury launched in 2019. This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. “It’s straightforward 1.5%

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

The decline doesn’t seem to be letting up in 2019, with retailers shutting down 23% more stores than they did at the start of last year (2000+ store closings), according to Coresight Research. Casper, an OurCrowd portfolio company and new addition to the class of 2019 $1B “unicorns,” is a prime example of this new generation of “born onlines.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

million of Series A investment, led by Integrated Capital, to continue developing its line of healthier food brands. Fugman said a multibillion market like that “gets us excited to have this kind of landscape for disruption.” Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

In the latest development on this theme, a UK startup called Token.io In 2019, however, it spun out its crypto business , which is called M10 and focuses today on helping banks (state banks, commercial banks) build and run tokens, used to create their own digital currencies and for other purposes.

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incumbents financing finance innovation 81

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The cloud-native market has seen the introduction of a range of open source DevOps tools — tools that combine software development and IT operations — built to address very specific use cases. The platform handles app management, security and more, providing an interface that abstracts away the underlying infrastructure.

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capital incumbents enablement disruption 73

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. are at risk.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

And then there was actually one guy who…actually, his name is, I think, Alec Radford, and he literally was like off in the corner at OpenAI, like, working on this in 2018, 2019. You know, this AI is a use case for developing and deploying that kind of power. So it was kind of this very surprising thing.

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