Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Consider whether your startup is differentiating on pricing to compete with an incumbent, or if you’re selling a superior product at a premium, in which case using the same pricing model with higher fees reinforces your brand positioning. Annual prepay generates cash flow to accelerate growth. What should my unit of pricing be?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

billion in 2022. Veritas, a cloud data management vendor, found in a 2022 poll that upwards of 94% organizations incur higher costs than anticipated when using a public cloud service provider and overspend by an average of 43%. billion in 2023, up from $490.3

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to the accelerator, the decision to downsize the S22 batch — significantly smaller than its most recent batches — was a result of the economic downturn and changes to the venture funding environment this year. Where is Y Combinator startup-hunting in 2022? Fintech … and others.

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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. The market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Then there’s incumbents like Automation Anywhere and UiPath, which occupy the enormous robotic process automation market. “The pandemic dramatically accelerated Ushur’s business. After all, Jiffy.ai Meanwhile, SaaS Labs provides AI tools to automate certain sales and support processes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo. Its goal is to hire another 150 employees by the end of 2022, according to Irigoyen, who was an early employee at Google LatAm.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Looking ahead, CEO Gomez projects that it will fulfill close to 6 million items in 2022. Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. . And in January, fulfillment is up 20% compared to November of 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

That’s why he believes now is the time to accelerate CommerceIQ. The new funding will enable CommerceIQ to accelerate its R&D and M&A activities, which Hariharan said will focus on potential opportunities to go deeper and broader into the vertical SaaS and also look at expansion into the Europe and Asia Pacific regions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

There’s been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations. more data by year-end 2022 than in 2020, amounting to multiple petabytes of data in total. An IDC report commissioned by Seagate projected companies would collect 42.2% billion and growing toward $11.6

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Fintech startups are convinced that banks have lobbied the RBI to reach this decision, employing the age-old tactic where incumbents cry foul and rely on the regulator to rescue the day. — Ashneer Grover (@Ashneer_Grover) June 23, 2022. Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. The company has seen truly accelerated growth in the last year, and specifically the last six months, both in terms of customer numbers and in terms of how much its app is getting used. “We are competing against big banks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

How has your approach to the insurtech industry changed since the last time we spoke in Q3 2022 ? Every time a big name enters insurance, there is always a mix of skepticism from incumbents and a reminder that change is needed. That hasn’t changed. And their huge customer base could be a competitive edge.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Intel recently partnered with Penn Medicine to develop a brain tumor–classifying system using federated learning, while a group of major pharma companies, including Novartis and Merck, built a federated learning platform to accelerate drug discovery. Tech giants, including Nvidia (via Clara ), offer federated learning as a service.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Neso Brands said it will help eyewear brands grow by leveraging synergies across the Lenskart Group to accelerate international expansion. Neso Brands is a Singapore-based global eyewear company founded in 2022 to enable the most promising direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands across the world to become brands of the future.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

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. And the Open Banking Implementation Entity in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Though Ramesh declined to disclose the valuation of the deal, he did say that as combined online grocery platforms, it would accelerate Misfits Market toward $1 billion in sales and reach profitability in early 2024, something that would not necessarily be possible as two separate companies. Here’s why.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Most of those are product buys to drive or accelerate revenue growth with the secondary benefit of getting new talent, Ruark said. Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8% As a result, they may have to sell.”. What about the acquisitions that are still taking place?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. But Payourse sees its role as bigger than that; by building tools, it will allow other non-crypto businesses to offer crypto services and ultimately accelerate the use of crypto on the continent. . Founded in : 2022.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The hangover from web3’s raucous 2022 extends into 2023. The fundraising market thaws, but at materially lower prices than the first half of 2022. Flat & down rounds surge to 30% of all mid-stage rounds completed in 2023, up from less than 5% in the first half of 2022. But 2022 was unpredictable in many ways.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For Clarisse Lam , associate at New Alpha Asset Management , this makes sense: “The repricing represents a great opportunity for incumbents to make strategic acquisitions and accelerate their digital transformation. 8 investors weigh in on the state of insurtech in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In response to the growing interest from industry, countless call center automation products have come to market in recent years — both from startups such as Replicant and incumbents including Google , Amazon and Salesforce. “Automation is now part of the. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Recent legislation will also significantly accelerate the existing market trends. Other considerations include market size, incumbent strength, founder fit with an enterprise-like sales cycle, and ability to create significantly better-electrified products faster than the incumbents can modify their existing lines and supply chains.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s a pitch that has landed thousands of members and, most recently, a billion-dollar valuation as of May 2022. The State of VC in 2022. We’re bringing Sila’s Gene Berdichevsky, Index Ventures’ Erin Price-Wright and The Engine’s Katie Rae together to share the real nuts and bolts of early fundraising in 2022. .

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