TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

more data by year-end 2022 than in 2020, amounting to multiple petabytes of data in total. “With the capital, we will continue to focus on engagement and adoption, collaboration, governance, lineage, and on APIs and SDKs to enable us to be open and extensible,” Sangani said via email. billion and growing toward $11.6

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incumbents collaboration enablement ventures 86

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. billion in 2020. Akeyless has customers across the retail, fintech, insurance and gaming sectors, among others, including Wix and Outbrain.

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incumbents development venture capital capital 86

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Digital transformation is the name of the game these days, and companies that are enabling businesses to take a leap into the future, by helping them tackle their most complex operations, are reaping the rewards. OneStream said annual recurring revenue grew 85% in 2020, with customers growing by 40% to 650 enterprises.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Founded in : 2020. Founded in: 2020. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021. Team size : 22 . Website : [link].

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startup hospitality health financing 91

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? While reporting delays could change this total, VC dollars have more than doubled since the pandemic began. billion the prior year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept.

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startup SaaS mix-use advice 142

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Launched in 2020, Solana gained worldwide renown for being one of the fastest blockchains with a rapidly growing developer ecosystem. So how should startups that have incumbents to take on, other startups to best, or both, approach the balance between growth and spend this year? Speeding Up Crypto. with Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana).

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disruption pitching VC ventures 81

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Following up on our May of 2020 survey of the sector and about the impact of COVID-19 in particular , TechCrunch spoke with 10 investors about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments. The upshot? The transformation isn’t over.

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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.

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enablement startup incumbents transportation 97

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. When they joined, Monzo was generating $69M in revenues (in April 2020). expectations. to expect.

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peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 102

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And even though investment activity decreased this year, it still remains well above where it was in 2019 and 2020. Over the years, infrastructure has enabled fintech companies and non-financial services companies alike to seamlessly integrate financial products into their platforms.

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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. “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

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incumbents disruption board enablement 90

TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Founded in September 2020, the New York-based company – which was previously named Unlock – said it uses data science to “ identify, underwrite and close transactions 10x faster than incumbents.” ” It describes itself as a “managed marketplace.” commercial real estate value.

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real estate financing finance incumbents 97

TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The fintech then launched its product in October 2020 and today offers a checking account combined with a software layer that aims to help SMBs manage their financials. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. And our main product is transport management software for shippers enables multi-enterprise collaboration.

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incumbents transportation collaboration consulting 80

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”. trillion retail industry at a massive inflection point.

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capital startup enablement incumbents 89

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Thndr, launched in late 2020 by Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr , is filling the gap by making it easier to open and manage investment accounts, consequently replacing traditionally slow and outdated processes by incumbents. A common reason for poor investment penetration in MENA is that opening a brokerage account is expensive.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

million seed financing in the summer of 2020. The pair teamed up in 2020 to come up with a platform that would give FP&A teams the ability to “seamlessly” work across planning and reporting cycles. GV (formerly Google Ventures) led its $20 million Series A this year, and Menlo Ventures led its $4.2

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financing finance incumbents collaboration 98

TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Image Credits: Baselit With Baselit, for example, a marketplace could enable its sellers to ask “Which of my product goes out of stock most frequently?” But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free. In 2020, backers poured $296.4

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

” Image Credits: Bria Adato co-founded Bria when the pandemic hit in 2020, and the company’s other co-founder, Assa Eldar, joined in 2022. Bria’s platform enables businesses to create visuals for social media posts, ads and e-commerce listings using its image-generating AI. During Adato’s Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Finance in 2021, and to Fortune’s 40 under 40 in 2020. payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. And before that, she worked at Neuberger Berman and served as a partner at McKinsey & Company.

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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).

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peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 40

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.”.

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real estate incumbents opportunity founder 82

Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Here are my 5 predictions for 2020. The direct listing becomes the standard way for startups to go public in 2020. The direct listing enables them to go public without raising capital. And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. I'll guess a 15% increase from here or about $200B.

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incumbents SaaS sustainability collaboration 73

TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

I’ve been writing about Human Interest since March 2020, covering each of its funding rounds since then ( here , here and here ), and following its impressive growth. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

In July 2020, Paymob raised $3.5 “ Their market opportunity is also huge; Egypt’s transformation to a cashless society is being enabled by the unique products Paymob has built.” The Egyptian fintech ecosystem also got a major boost when incumbent fintech Fawry became a publicly-traded unicorn for the first time.

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incumbents startup ecosystem financing finance 98

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

A 2020 study from the Harris Poll, commissioned by AI vendor Interactions, estimates that 46% of customer interactions are automated — a percentage the coauthors predict will rise to 59% over the next two to three years. . “We see an 85% call success rate (as measured by expected business outcome) across customers and use cases.”

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incumbents development culture ventures 94

TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We Fast slows its roll. in 4 years.

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startup financing finance incumbents 110

TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

The filing revealed that Better.com swung to a loss of more than $300 million last year , a sharp turnaround from its profitable 2020. . Those apps are increasingly adding an ‘investment button’ that enables consumers to purchase US Equities. This week started with the discovery of an S-4 filed by Aurora Acquisition Corp.,

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financing finance enablement ventures 83

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In addition, a direct customer feedback loop enables The Naked Market to quickly gauge which products are winning with consumers so they can be scaled. Meanwhile, the snack food market was valued at $427 billion in 2020, and is expected to grow 3% annually through 2026.

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capital incumbents venture capital enablement 86

TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

But in 2020, NALA started testing international money transfers after some users expressed interest in moving money from the U.K. Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. Similarly, NALA, in addition to enabling cross-border payments from the U.K. and the U.S.

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peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Existing backers Conversion Capital and Bain Capital Ventures also participated in the round, bringing the company’s total raised since its November 2020 inception to $35 million. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 97

TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Founded in 2020 and launched in 2021, Juni closed off its Series A only in October of last year (it raised $21.5 Most incumbent banks, and now a fair number of neobanks, target small and medium businesses as customers. It didn’t give actual customer numbers.) “We like companies that use tech in smart ways to decrease costs.”

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incumbents capital investing investment 89

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19. The World Bank estimates that some $589 billion will be sent this way 2021, according to research from the World Bank, up 7.3%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

to enable customers to make online payments using their bank accounts. Shoykhet acknowledges that there’s formidable competition in the payments space — not only from incumbents like Venmo, Amazon and PayPal but from buy now, pay later vendors such as Afterpay and Klarna.

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incumbents enablement accelerator financing 100

Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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incumbents peer-to-peer health opportunity 94