TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“My dad still eats instant ramen each night, and it is such a massive market: 4 billion packets are sold per year, but it is also a product that has been dominated by the same three incumbents for years.”. Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years. billion of value in the U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy. He was also Exeucitive Director – Head of the Banking Service, Licensing, and Treasury Operation Department at the Bank Indonesia from 2019 to 2022.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

They started Marco in 2019 and now have offices in New York, Dallas and across Latin America. Spradling through the Antler accelerator, a Singapore- and New York-based early-stage investment and advisory services program that connects entrepreneurs and tech operators to launch new businesses.

support

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Besides incumbents like Adobe, there are startups such as Reduct.Video , which uses AI, natural language processing and other tech to automatically create editable transcripts. .” Descript isn’t the only company competing in the audiovisual content editing space.

media

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Though they officially started the company in 2019, Busaba and Spies didn’t launch their first product, the raw dog food, until 2020. It was during that time that she became a dog walker and realized what was needed in the dog food space. Maev founder and CEO Katie Spies. Image Credits: Maev .

incumbents

TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation. billion ($1.8

incumbents

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. Akeyless has customers across the retail, fintech, insurance and gaming sectors, among others, including Wix and Outbrain.

incumbents

TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Including the company’s debut round of $110 million led by Pitango when it first came out of stealth mode in 2019, DriveNets has now raised just over $580 million. “We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. ” NeuReality was co-founded in 2019 by Tzvika Shmueli, Yossi Kasus and Tanach, who previously served as a director of engineering at Marvell and Intel.

accelerator

TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In other words, it wants to help fintechs be in a stronger position to compete with incumbents, something it believes will benefit consumers.

incumbents

TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology. It paid $1.3

incumbents

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

We launched Tactoset in 2019, a key regenerative technology for Anika in a $100 million+ addressable market. “Instead, what ends up happening is the only path that a small company has to get their products to market is to go and get acquired by a big incumbent enterprise.

education

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. As of December 31, 2019. 20-F filings, 1USD:7CNY conversion rate. As of April 30, 2020.

accelerator

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

There are still very few female-led VC-backed companies today, compared to male-led ones, but there are a lot more now; over 3,450 as of 2019, according to the same study. It doesn’t need to be a zero-sum game where more people of color will push out the incumbents.

entrepreneurship

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in : 2019. Quick thoughts : In 2019, Curacel started with claims automation and fraud detection in health insurance with hospitals as its target market. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Founded in : 2019. Website : [link].

startup

TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

“Comparing aggregate 2020 figures to 2019 results, it appears that last year was a somewhat robust year for African startups, albeit one with fewer large rounds,” he found. For four years running, the S&P 500 and incumbent financial services companies have been outperformed by companies like Afterpay, Square and Bill.com.

VC

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in 2019. We have seen 20 creator led learning platforms across “preK to Gray” learning in addition to incumbents like Teachable and very few have an ability to build a moat in my view. Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion last year, compared to $4.7 billion the prior year.

education

Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Jarvis Johnson [00:35:15] – And so, you turn into Kanye if you’re like, you turn into 2019 Kanye if you don’t really care what people think and you’re just going off your own ego. It’s a delicate balance, but I try to look at everything in like a beautiful soup.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. And in 2019, Geektime ranked TAU Ventures among the top five best VCs in Israel. What other types of products/services are you wary or concerned about?

startup

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. And then it, basically, you know, was this revolution building on work that had been done at Google. So it was kind of this very surprising thing.

energy

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

billion in 2019. The insurance market is enormous, but the sector has suffered from notoriously poor customer experience, and major incumbents have been slow to adapt. Image Credits: TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images. billion from $17.8 are all testament to this. It’s not difficult to see why.

startup

TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance.

incumbents

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. Monzo has also been able to move faster than incumbents because of its forward-looking approach to building banking infrastructure.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

And while a new generation of “insurtech” startups have emerged in recent years that are bringing more modern processes into the equation, typically the incumbent major insurance companies — the ones that Tractable targets — have lacked the technology to improve that process.

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany). Next stop, Norway. Making sense of Klarna.

incumbents

Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

In today’s Octane blog, we bring EO members and non-members alike behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC), profiling Leonard Brody, one of the event’s carefully selected speakers who is known as “a leader of the new world order.” Along with new competition comes new opportunity.

disruption

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And even though investment activity decreased this year, it still remains well above where it was in 2019 and 2020. Infrastructure providers can help connect fintech companies with incumbent banks so that they can both reap the benefits of the interest rate environment.

incumbents

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To give you an idea of just how bad it is, reports indicated that in 2019, credit card interest rates neared a staggering 300% in Brazil. “It’s a huge market that is still controlled by incumbents charging extremely high interest rates, which makes it difficult for people to pay back their loans.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The company was founded in April 2019 by Bijan Moallemi, Brian Campbell and Joe Garafalo, who worked together at Palantir in the company’s finance team for more than 15 years collectively. Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. Screenshot of Mosaic’s planning function.

finance

TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million since its 2019 inception. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7 The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

.” It appears that LG is not an investor, and it’s not clear when these new devices will be rolled out: The deal between the two was announced back in 2019.

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

.” Several years ago, the market for cloud optimization software and “ FinOps ,” while nascent, was consolidating as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw the opportunities presented by cloud cost optimization. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

investing

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. Accel actually invested in Galileo before it sold to SoFi in October of 2019. ).

incumbents

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

” “When you own the platform, you shouldn’t be able to identify a category that you want to enter, disadvantage the incumbents in that category, and then advantage yourself — like they did in our case,” he adds. Tile’s last round of funding was $45 million in growth equity in 2019.

mix-use

TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 We quickly found that most incumbents focusing solely on the financing of SaaS receivables lacked reliable data and market traction to sufficiently validate their business models,” Chupryna said. million Series A funding round for Crowdz. million. . “A

finance

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019. Incumbents are over 20 years old and built on aging infrastructure created before the smartphone and social media,” he added. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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