TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

I met Cruz Foam co-founder John Felts during the memorable Accelerator at Sea hosted by the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” ” In the Accelerator over the Sea.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. are at risk.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. This year, we’re curating 200 companies for you to check out and meet for the first time in the Expo Hall, with the top 20 gracing the Disrupt stage to launch their wares.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

You know, most of our economy is dominated by, you know, incumbent institutions that, you know, have no intention, I don’t think, of changing or evolving unless they’re forced to. And so I don’t think there’s some magic bullet to hugely accelerate things. Economic growth is a great starting point.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry. What do you want to see from the Biden administration to accelerate innovation in the transportation sector? This may not accelerate “innovation,” but it will accelerate progress. Sebastian Peck , managing director, InMotion Ventures.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. These are areas where digital tools have had an impact on other industries.

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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. Banking is a ubiquitous but hard to crack industry.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans. “As

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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. We’ve seen some amazing consumer products disrupt consumer banking, lending and insurance in recent years,” Curtius said in a written statement. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 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. . The beauty of Melonn is the potential to both accelerate a business and integrate into platforms that its clients are already using.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Experts say Africa is poised to be disrupted by web3 in a similar fashion that has seen Southeast Asia become one of the best markets for web3. Many web2 incumbents or even web3 are having a $100-200 user acquisition costs so we can lower that by order of magnitude by directly incentivizing the end-user.”. million in seed funding.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

These near-instant feedback loops challenge incumbents to continue to earn the attention of their user bases with better products than rivals’ applications. I suspect consumer pre-money valuations will surge, founders will redouble their efforts to build strategically important services and innovation will accelerate.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

What kinds of moves are the incumbents making and how they change the market? How might a startup disrupt this market? Sometimes investors will have deep experience in a sector or know the team very well both of which can accelerate the process significantly. Then, I try to dig deeper into the nuances of the market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. Most of those are product buys to drive or accelerate revenue growth with the secondary benefit of getting new talent, Ruark said. Today the U.S. As a result, they may have to sell.”.

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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. trillion in deposits.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

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. In case you have been hiding under a rock and haven’t heard, TechCrunch Disrupt is coming to San Francisco October 18–20! Hope you’re doing the same! See you next week!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Innovator’s Dilemma – In his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,&# Clay Christensen talks about why industry leaders almost always fail to act when “disruptive change&# enters their business. Incumbents can’t react. If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Unit Economics Accelerating One topic I heard a lot in investor circles last year and in the press a lot was that there weren’t good unit economics and therefore the scooter market was never going to perform well. In the meantime we think we can build a globally complex, economically viable business that will be hard to disrupt.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2019

AI Agencies use machine learning to disrupt a market dominated by agencies. Finding scant market demand from the incumbents whose owners prefer status quo, these startups start their own agency. They accelerate workflows, and eventually automates some fraction of them. There is a new twist in SaaS with a parallel dynamic.

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