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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

TechCrunch

For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. But in verticals ranging from freight brokerage to B2B marketplaces, these enablers have repeatedly emerged after an initial disruption.

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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. If you are interested in entrepreneurship, innovation and accelerating your growth, then you will want to register for EO24/7 , EO’s annual virtual-learning event. Ultimately, a little bit of fear breeds innovation.

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Komunal secures $8.5m to strengthen Indonesia’s neo-rural bank ecosystem

AsiaTechDaily

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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DriveNets connects with $262M as demand booms for its cloud-based alternative to network routers

TechCrunch

While other solution providers are facing challenging headwinds, DriveNets continues to innovate and execute on its vision to change the future of the networking market.”. “We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan.

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Lowercarbon Capital and Gradient Ventures Invest $9M in Quilt for Advanced Residential Heat Pump System

American Entrepreneurship

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.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. “Sima.ai’s software and hardware platform can be used to enable scaling machine learning to [a range of] embedded edge applications. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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The Feedback Loops in Data that Will Change SaaS Architecture

Tomasz Tunguz

Let’s talk about the innovation and then the implications. 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.

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