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. The big story in 2020 was that everyone needed telehealth services for themselves, and we saw that transfer to pets and then exacerbated by the industry,” he added. Pets are big business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. Nerdio runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription as an Azure-based application.).

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

enablement

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. Indeed, rape kits donated by another private manufacturer were reportedly used in April 2020 in Monterey County, California, under a temporary process developed for the pandemic. “I Detractors like North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein call them “ dirty scammers. ”

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. When they joined, Monzo was generating $69M in revenues (in April 2020).

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

In 2020, digital bank Varo became the first-ever all-digital nationally chartered U.S. 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. A chartered bank is often associated with a commercial bank.”. See you next week!

real estate

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. We have many more Disrupt recaps to come in the next few days, so stay tuned. Successful startups will inevitably draw the attention of powerful incumbents in their industry,” he writes for TechCrunch+. In today’s Web 2.0,

financing

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Reber knows a thing or two about software disrupting legacy productivity software — he is the co-founder and CEO of presentation software startup Pitch and the former CEO and founder of Microsoft-acquired Wunderlist — and notably he is joining Rows’ Advisory Board along with the investment. ” release, he added.

disruption

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

If you read Reid Hoffman’s important book, “ Blitzscaling ” you’ll realize that in some markets that are large, global and being disruptive sometimes being first to global scale can be more important than short-term unit economics. Having ridden some of the future models I can tell you they are nothing short of stunning.

transportation

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts. Since the startup’s Series A in 2020, revenue has grown 8x while the number of customers has increased 5x, Jayakrishnan said. billion in 2019.

investment

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Meanwhile, the snack food market was valued at $427 billion in 2020, and is expected to grow 3% annually through 2026. Fugman said a multibillion market like that “gets us excited to have this kind of landscape for disruption.”

capital

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Startups like Ascend aiming to disrupt the insurance industry are also attracting venture capital, with recent examples including Vouch and Marshmallow , which raised close to $100 million, while Insurify raised $100 million. billion in 2020, and expected to top $1 trillion by 2028. Ascend app.

financing

TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Since March 2020, the number of people working at U.S. Besides incumbent staffing agencies, Deng acknowledges that there are several startups with business models similar to Clipboard’s, like NurseDash, CareRev and Nomad Health, which focuses on travel nurses. billion in 2020, according to CB Insights. invested $37.9

health

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

2020 saw over 4% of the state burning. This is a huge business, typified by incumbent behemoths like Lloyd’s of London, who in theory mitigate the risk insurance companies face when they get the formula wrong. “As a homeowner, if my home burns down I’ll get its value back. That can be a truly life changing thing.”

incumbents

Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation). The incumbent system involves three key “stacks.”

incumbents

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

In 2020, Wave officially spun off from Sendwave, a remittance platform that WorldRemit acquired for about $500 million in cash and stock. The company is disrupting the mobile money industry dominated by banks and telcos with its app-based solution, cheaper fees and QR-based tech.

incumbents

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ghildiyal sees Devtron competing against formidable incumbent vendors like GitLab and Harness in a DevOps market that was worth an estimated $4 billion in 2020, according to Global Market Insights.

capital

TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

But Amy Spurling, the CEO of Compt, makes the case that incumbent solutions are overly reliant on vendor marketplaces or benefits cards, which limit the ways in which employees can use their perks. It’s true that corporate perks are ripe for disruption (pardon the well-worn term).

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