TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

They saw me as an American that could bring them business opportunities and that was it, I felt that I was judged more on the merits of the value that I could bring than I would in the U.S. — Spurred by opportunities, I started a successful import and export business in China, and after a few years I had over 30 employees.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

And this gives Affirm an opportunity to generate more revenue as it makes money in part on interest fees. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

If it sounds frustrating as a salesperson, well, that’s what AcuityMD is here to resolve; to find opportunities for your sales process. We launched Tactoset in 2019, a key regenerative technology for Anika in a $100 million+ addressable market. “Instead we got 140 instruments in a surgical tray.

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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].

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in 2019. What opportunities are fading as the space matures? 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. What opportunities are fading as the space matures? billion the prior year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times? What are some overlooked opportunities right now? are at risk.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

In just liking to make fun of things, or liking to try and be funny and criticize things, it seemed like a good sort of opportunity to do that. But it was more that this opportunity came up that was not something that was in my purview, which was working at Patreon. Jarvis Johnson [00:02:14] – Because I was like, wow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

billion in 2019. Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand discuss proptech’s biggest opportunities. What is the biggest opportunity for proptech founders? Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand discuss proptech’s biggest opportunities. billion from $17.8 are all testament to this.

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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. And so I think this is an opportunity for the defenders to not only keep up, but also build better systems for the present-day threat landscape, also.

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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.

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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. In this post, we will walk through what drove Monzo’s early success, how it has come to dominate the UK market, and the company’s opportunity to change the landscape of global financial services with its beloved brand.

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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.

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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 have a unique opportunity to be a bright spot amidst all the doom and gloom.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

to “scale given the market opportunity.” ” 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. ” “H.I.G.

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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

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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

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019. In addition to the opportunity to work with Saiprasad, Hariharan said the driver for going after new funding — especially when its seed fund is still firmly in the bank — was seeing the $4.5 CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

TechCrunch reached out to Dufétel to find out more about her plans as Checkout.com’s new president, including what’s in store for the company this year, her thoughts on the future of payments generally and why she sees so much opportunity in the U.S. We also asked how she felt about the comparisons to Stripe…and her answer may surprise you.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

Are there specific paths/opportunities in AI that you believe startups are actually better qualified to take advantage of than incumbents? Textio relied on both of these strategies for a few years before launching our first truly generative AI capabilities back in 2019. KS: Isn’t this the trillion-dollar question?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

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. “In Critics cast the startup’s entrepreneurial approach as greedy opportunism. Campbell added they are now both subjected to routine online harassment. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

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. “This round speaks to the quality of Token as a business.

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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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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 expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

In 2019, I switched jobs and joined Google (primarily for immigration reasons) as a Software Engineer. ETH killers, BTC killers and all kinds of other projects with lofty promises and ambitious roadmaps to build better blockchains than the incumbents. Take advantage of arbitrage opportunities. Buy and sell options on crypto.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS Bits v atoms It’s important to recognize that while the impact that generative AI can have on “bits” is substantial—since generative AI can “manipulate” those bits very easily—we’re probably too early to see a massive opportunity in “atoms” businesses. As technology continues to improve, the answer is an unequivocal “yes.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a minimum delightful product in fintech, doing the spreadsheet math on unit economics early on, and how to compete in a category already filled with incumbents. And does anyone care? So there’s a bunch of factors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“We continue to see tremendous opportunity in the cloud management space given how early we are in the cloud adoption journey,” Battery Ventures venture investor Danel Dayan said. There are also reasons to think that we haven’t seen all of it yet. So what might be next? Let’s dive in.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In total, the company has raised over $150 million in equity funding since its 2019 inception. One advantage for Klar, according to Möller , is that its “cost to serve a user” is about 1/20 of what the incumbents pay. I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents. It’s also looking for M&A opportunities.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Founded initially back in 2015, Santa Barbara, California-based Bitwarden operates in a space that includes well-known incumbents such as 1Password, which recently hit a $6.8 “Most importantly, we aim to continue to serve all Bitwarden users for the long haul.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Thanks to San Francisco-based Cardless , that opportunity may be less of a stretch than you think. The financing brings the two-year-old company’s total raised since its 2019 inception to $50 million. But what if you’re a sports fan, and using your credit card could lead to a virtual conversation with a player on your favorite team?

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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

MARCH 4, 2021

Remote working — hiring people further afield and letting people work outside of a central physical office — is looking like it will be here to stay, and today one of the startups building tools for that environment is announcing a big fundraise in response to the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The company was founded in 2019 by Harrison Fugman, Alex Kost and Tim Marbach, who created a “fast fail” method to develop new foods that includes an end-to-end infrastructure that can go from idea to market in about three months. Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5 The Naked Market founders Alex Kost and Harrison Fugman.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

’ small and medium business market because “its product is easy to use and suited for the big market opportunity in the U.S.” “How we’ve disrupted our space in South Africa, we see an opportunity over there. from 2019 to 2025, according to a report by Grandview Research. is projected to reach $12.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Virgio says consumers’ fashion preferences are changing rapidly and they are not satisfied with the incumbents’ offerings. “We are confident in Virgio’s tech-first model and believe the startup’s expert founding team is uniquely positioned to capture a large opportunity in India’s fashion industry,” he added.

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