AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

million to fund its mission to accelerate financial inclusion and strengthen the neo-rural bank ecosystem in Indonesia, especially outside the Greater Jakarta area. Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy.

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peer-to-peer incumbents accelerator economic growth 75

Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Pinduoduo is one of the first companies to successfully create a social shopping experience online, and has accelerated the transition of commerce from offline to online in China. Pinduoduo’s team purchase is often compared to Groupon in the US because they both enable a form of group buying. But the models are actually very different.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions. Places like India, Africa and Latin America could accelerate at the same time because they are mainly starting from zero. There is a massive wave of fintechs emerging in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Marco’s factoring product enables new companies to get started without having to put up the significant amount of collateral that banks are asking.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Its platform looks to scale enterprises’ XR deployments, enabling them to control remotely every aspect of their XR device fleet, including distributing apps and files, customizing the home screen user experience, tracking device health and usage, and more. . Qualcomm launches new AR dev kit, acquires Clay AIR.

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incumbents hospitality collaboration enablement 87

TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

“Most of our customers are tier 1 and 2 service providers and we found that Asian operators are early adopter and open to new technologies that can accelerate growth and lower their cost,” said Susan this week. While it first made its name in the U.S., it’s in the last year expanded deeper into Asia and Europe, too.

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networking peer-to-peer incumbents innovation 77

TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. The pandemic accelerated the use of digital payment solutions globally, but especially in Latin America, noted Núñez Castro.

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startup incumbents financing finance 84

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

. “In today’s economic environment, Teampay’s software-led approach has proven resilient — as we saw in late 2020 to 2021, when the economy rebounds, Teampay benefits disproportionately through accelerated growth … We increased our debt facility for additional flexibility in uncertain times.”

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economic environments incumbents financing finance 86

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

There’s been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations. “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.

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

incumbents 86

incumbents development venture capital capital 86

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

On the developer side, customers can integrate Kontent with other apps and technologies through APIs and “flexible content models,” enabling control over the structure of content and how it’s delivered to websites and apps. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture.

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capital incumbents frameworks development 79

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? Startups vs. incumbents David: I want to shift gears just a little bit and move towards the business and market structure side of things. 00:36] Will AI replace designers? [4:03] Dylan: Figma!

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incumbents creativity development technology 104

American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Quilt’s design enables room-by-room control, creating precise climate zones throughout the home while eliminating the need for traditional furnaces and ductwork. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. Its mission is to move humanity off fossil fuel heating.

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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. Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!” ” the founder added.

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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 ’s platform delivers exceptional customer value,” said Andrew Wynne, a principal at D1 Capital Partners, in a statement.

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financing finance incumbents enablement 69

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. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021. Team size : 22 . Location : Lagos, Nigeria. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M Team size: 2.

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startup hospitality health financing 91

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Venture capitalists helped power this trend by enabling the creation of hundreds of unicorns and counting. Today, incumbent financial institutions, insurance carriers, and other industries that underwrite risk for a living now have to contend with these innovative new players and adapt to change if they want to survive.

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incumbents innovation technology capital 89

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 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. Integration between different edtech apps?

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education venture capital ventures opportunity 134

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

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. Riskified makes e-ommerce easier and safer and enables a thriving e-commerce environment. Led by CEO Pavel Gurevich the company is seeing excellent traction.

startup 142

startup SaaS mix-use advice 142

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Accelerating Startup Marketing Growth. Learn how you can accelerate growth by leveraging powerful analytics tools, ad features and your active professional network. . 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?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

At the Urban Innovation Fund, we are spending a lot of time looking at software tools that enable larger hardware systems to work more efficiently. What do you want to see from the Biden administration to accelerate innovation in the transportation sector? Not that this seems to be dissuading many investors at the moment.

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transportation innovation accelerator construction 119

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company. 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. .

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enablement startup incumbents transportation 97

Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

These two feedback loops accelerate, spinning the data flywheel pushing more information into the data warehouse. The architecture enables SaaS companies to reimagine the largest categories of software and rebuild them to challenge the incumbents. A data scientist might develop a churn prediction algorithm.

SaaS 145

SaaS incumbents board accelerator 145

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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peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 102

TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding. Hover secures $60M for 3D imaging to assess and fix properties.

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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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capital incumbents education health 98

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

UBP enabled the company to manage COGs and gross profit. During those processes, the team should collaborate on different scenarios and identify the signals to slow, maintain, or accelerate spending. Once familiar, they often brought the technology to work, expanding the account. Gross profit equals revenue minus COGS. Compensation.

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startup incumbents accelerator sustainability 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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. Tayebi felt that providing on-demand services — which solves essential needs and, more importantly, builds trust to then provide payment services — was the catalyst to enable financial inclusion in the region.

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incumbents transportation capital accelerator 99

TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”. Existing services are expensive and inefficient, creating opportunities for technology enabled service providers to offer better and cheaper services,” he said. “We

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incumbents capital financing finance 96

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Companies that sell software that enables cost-cutting or additional lead-generation opportunities are seeing accelerating adoption as incumbent mortgage companies realize they need an edge to drive demand,” Zach Aarons, co-founder and general partner of MetaProp, pointed out.

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financing finance real estate startup 90

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

“Superblocks is an accelerant for building internal apps.” Menezes says he thinks about the competitive landscape in three ways: build-it-yourself, legacy incumbents and low-code startups. “This … fundraise enables us to invest in products to meet the immense customer demand we’re seeing. ”

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incumbents development support accelerator 78

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources. “The pandemic dramatically accelerated Ushur’s business.

incumbents 92

incumbents support SaaS ventures 92

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The technique trains a system across multiple devices or servers holding data without ever exchanging it, enabling collaborators to build a common system without sharing data. But a new startup, DynamoFL , hopes to take on the incumbents with a federated learning platform that focuses on performance, ostensibly without sacrificing privacy.

incumbents 74

incumbents frameworks health financing 74

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

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.”. The company said this would enable students to explore opportunities in play-to-earn gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi). The last bit is play-to-earn games.

education 96

education incumbents mix-use media 96

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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investing investment incumbents consulting 52

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Most of those are product buys to drive or accelerate revenue growth with the secondary benefit of getting new talent, Ruark said. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106