Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 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.

peer-to-peer 40

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 40

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Predictably, they’re mostly focused on the how and why: How do I get into an accelerator? Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture. The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. How to get into a startup accelerator. The StockX EC-1.

board 91

board pitching venture capital mix-use 91

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

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. In FOW, increased recognition that reskilling and upskilling is a business imperative, company culture matters for competitiveness, increased focus on DEI.

education 134

education venture capital ventures opportunity 134

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Sentiment analysis systems — both academic and commercial — have been shown to exhibit bias along race, age , cultural, ethnic, and gender lines. Some algorithms associate Black people with more negative emotions like anger, fear, and sadness. “Automation is now part of the.

incumbents 94

incumbents development culture support 94

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.

energy 95

energy startup construction transportation 95

TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”.

incumbents 129

incumbents networking entrepreneurs opportunity 129

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As Airtable only slowly moved into monetization, the last 4-6 quarters of retention and revenue growth likely convinced investors the product was not only here to stay, but very likely to accelerate revenue growth even more. Revenue acceleration is, too. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

incumbents 127

incumbents accelerator venture capital financing 127

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. There is an incredible, thriving entrepreneurship culture that breeds fascinating companies weekly. Interestingly, valuation trends seem to trail the U.S.

startup 141

startup mix-use SaaS advice 141

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

We dug into the how and why of its new investment and riffed on what going remote-first has done for the company, as well as its ability to attract culture-aligned and more diverse talent. The insurance market is enormous, but the sector has suffered from notoriously poor customer experience, and major incumbents have been slow to adapt.

startup 78

startup construction VC health 78

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

Tyler: But are the roots of this stasis quite general and quite cultural? Because parents coddle their children much more, there are higher rates of mental illness amongst the young, young people, it seems, have less sex, along a lot of cultural variables. Economic growth is a great starting point.

energy 88

energy education technology capital 88

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There’s a culture in Silicon Valley that moves fast and breaks things, right? You have a culture like Uber that sort of bum rushes regulators in ways that allow them to make big gains in territory, but really p**s people off. Bill Gurley : Well, industries get more regulated and incumbents write the regulation.

health 43

health VC hospitality disruption 43