TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

” It’s tough for any cloud provider to compete with the incumbents in the space — i.e., Google, Amazon and Microsoft. But in Intrator’s eyes, the incumbents aren’t set up to meet the demand of thousands of new AI companies clamoring for GPUs — at least not at CoreWeave’s (ostensibly lower) prices.

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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

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. ” VC money is definitely drying up for some, such as neo-insurers whose unit economics are under scrutiny.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Revolution

MARCH 23, 2022

Startups are a Sustainability Accelerant: Unlike industry incumbents with slower, more outdated frameworks, startups often build with sustainability at the forefront of their business?—?even even (and especially) as the company scales. So, what does the future hold for sustainable startups? That’s to be determined.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We’re really accelerating our process development work to bring down the cost of goods as well as making some fast work of our strain engineering.”. Last November, Bond kicked this off by announcing a partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition to develop a craft meat protein for its product portfolio.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Undock , an Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator-backed startup , is looking to enter the space. The startup recently closed a $1.6

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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. ” Certainly, expenses are a concern for companies with lots of internal tooling. billion valuation in July.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Forto will be using the new funding to accelerate the development of its supply chain management solutions by adding order management and value-added services. The platform gives customers real-time data and on-time delivery, while typically reducing their administrative supply chain costs by 30%.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

During those processes, the team should collaborate on different scenarios and identify the signals to slow, maintain, or accelerate spending. Lee underscored the importance of involving a broader team in hard-financial decisions to build trust. The areas to trim cost depend on each business’s situation. Compensation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. Germany, and Australia. “We “We will use M&A strategically going forward, including in relation to product development.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital payments all over the world, and Latin America is no exception. 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. incumbents. “It market with different dynamics.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. In addition to hardware and software development, the team is also solving traditional installation challenges at a time when government incentives have accelerated interest in the systems.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2023

The trend away from monolithic cultural primacy that began years ago has accelerated with the generation, making culture itself more personal, and more distinct. You can read the report itself here. This is what we got into: The fracturing of culture: Gen-Z is large, and very diverse.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The injection of cash will be used for continued geographical expansion and to accelerate the development of new products. Notably, this will include plans to launch in 10 new markets as Northmill aims to step on the gas. Next stop, Norway.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As credit card and payments firms eye BNPL as a new growth opportunity, incumbents like Klarna and Affirm are seeking ways to make their installment loans available to more consumers. The bigwigs enter the fray. “If they want an option from their banks, we’re helping offer those too.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

And while a new generation of “insurtech” startups have emerged in recent years that are bringing more modern processes into the equation, typically the incumbent major insurance companies — the ones that Tractable targets — have lacked the technology to improve that process.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Indeed, the company says that its partnerships, which include Hudson’s Bay, The Home Depot, H&R Block, Boston Pizza, Goodfood and 7,000 other local and national retailers, have accelerated in the past year, “as retailers search for ways to modernize their loyalty programs and financial service offerings.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Now of course, this is a well-formed market and the category has different players, and so incumbents and clouds and so on, and we’re clearly ahead. And so you have to accelerate the building of those capacities, and that’s very expensive and very hard,” he said. This is like consumer-based adoption of B2B deep tech stuff.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There TC: Was it worth it for you to get a charter as a company? And if so, why?

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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.

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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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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

AUGUST 30, 2021

Incumbents, despite all their resources have launched products which appear as another variant of an ICE product and lack the punch. The crucial differentiators for Ola are the software based features, range, peak speeds, and acceleration (fastest EV scooter now), boot space, and colour options.”

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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. “If

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

May commented: “We are proud to have established Finoa as Europe’s leading gateway for institutional participation and incredibly excited to accelerate our growth even further. ” “Being in the European Union requires a fundamentally different organizational setup, and poses a very high entry to new incumbents and other players overseas.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The European grocery market is currently worth €2 trillion, but access to customers for high-quality, smaller producers is still tricky and blocked by incumbents. It also uses a 100% electric fleet serving big cities and suburbs, and its model is to have zero food waste.

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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. Eyewear has to date been a very traditional industry with large incumbents, but is now ripe for a tech-enabled global transformation.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. Last year, it was part of Y Combinator’s winter batch as the first Algerian startup in the accelerator. After earning a Ph.D. Yassir has seen exponential growth since launching four years ago.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Perhaps the trend of the year, generative machine learning models like ChatGPT, Dall-E & others have invigorated software founders & incumbents alike - both of which are re-imaging SaaS with ML as an essential product component. Covid accelerated distributed work, which is now a norm. 3 of 5 isn’t terrible.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

” Several years ago, the market for cloud optimization software and “ FinOps ,” while nascent, was consolidating as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw the opportunities presented by cloud cost optimization. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

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. We used this type of expert knowledge to power our semantic engines.

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