2020 accelerator founder incumbents 
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
4-year founder vesting is dead. In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. Among them, millennials decamped from their rentals in crowded cities to accelerate their first home purchases to the benefit of proptech companies and challenger mortgage players alike.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 16, 2021
It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry. million in a deal that was designed to accelerate its acquisition of a national bank charter. So what’s going on here?
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TechCrunch
JULY 13, 2022
“Booz Allen Ventures allows us to actively bridge the gap between opportunity and capability and accelerate the services-to-solutions transformation.” But even founders willing to ingratiate themselves with the defense industry are sometimes reluctant to accepting funding from corporate arms.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Sales in this area topped $100 billion in 2020 , driven by the 48 million dogs and cats that were adopted over the past three years. Its digitally-native approach can save pet parents up to $750 a year on healthcare expenses, Zubin Bhettay, co-founder and CEO of Fuzzy, told TechCrunch. Pets are big business. Image Credits: Fuzzy.
TechCrunch
MARCH 2, 2021
Crisp , an Amsterdam-based, online-only supermarket focused on fresh produce, has raised €30 million in a Series B financing led by leading Target Global and joined by Keen Venture Partners and the co-founders of Adyen and Takeaway.com. Crisp has now raised a total of €42.5 million to date.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
I caught up with Colin Walsh, the company’s chief executive and founder, to get an update. For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2021
We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. Charles Gorra, founder and CEO of Rebag, declined to talk about valuation, but did say it was “a steep evolution from the last time.”
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