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 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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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. At Nest we reimagined the lowly thermostat to make homes smarter, more comfortable, and more efficient – Quilt brings that same innovative vision to heat pumps,” said Rogers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. And the scale of the SEC’s proposed reforms should alarm entrepreneurs, investors and employees in the innovation economy.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While many lament government regulation as an infringement on innovation, I believe increased scrutiny is a net positive for the future of the software industry. anti-competitive practices that stifled innovation, as was the case with AT&T, IBM, Microsoft and today’s tech titans) rather than how their software operated.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The funding actually marked BTV’s first investment in a cohort member of its inaugural accelerator program. . Mort appreciates that TrustLayer is tackling the problem not by becoming the insurance broker, but by working with the incumbents as a software solution. and 11 “top-tier” insurance companies, also invested in TrustLayer.

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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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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

JULY 13, 2022

has been a first mover and innovator in the space.” The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. This has led to hyper-growth in the headless CMS category,” Oliver Thomas, a co-founder and partner at Expedition, told TechCrunch via email. “Kontent.ai

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

You see, insurtech startups often need to take into account the myriad rules and regulations in place when they seek to innovate and embed insurance into products, which might make it difficult to pull it off. We are generally open to startups innovating any part of the value chain as long as the problem and market are big enough.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Bringing the startup’s total raised to $92 million, the funds will be put toward expanding Ushur’s product portfolio, developing new AI innovations and moving into new regions and industry verticals, according to CEO Simha Sadasiva. “The pandemic dramatically accelerated Ushur’s business. After all, Jiffy.ai

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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. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Some 44% of the UK’s decacorns graduate from a TN non-dilutive accelerator growth programme (failure rate is less than 5% thus far).”. We can’t hand the support to the tech ecosystem to an incumbent bank! More than 30% of the UK’s 122 tech unicorns (eg Monzo, DarkTrace) have graduated from a Tech Nation programme (49 in total to date).

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Spradling through the Antler accelerator, a Singapore- and New York-based early-stage investment and advisory services program that connects entrepreneurs and tech operators to launch new businesses. Miami-based Marco Financial is launching a revenue-based lending service for Latin American SMEs. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D.

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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. So why on Earth should Netflix split into two businesses?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

That fall, the startup (short for Tomorrow’s Credit) was accepted into the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars. Unlike incumbent credit card issuers, we aren’t incentivized by slapping fees on borrowers for making late payments — we make money as our cardholders spend — so we grow as you grow,” Kim added. “One

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

There’s been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations. “We’re going to bring innovation to the market that will increase the number of data assets we cover and the people who will leverage and access Alation.” billion and growing toward $11.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation.

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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. You’re saying now that NBFCs can’t give credit lines to merchants and their money should only be routed to bank accounts of customers.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Spryker’s argument is that by being a newer company (founded in 2018) it has a more up-to-date stack that puts it ahead of older startups and more incumbent players like SAP and Oracle. Italy’s Commerce Layer raises $6M led by Benchmark for its headless e-commerce platform.

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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. As a result, Clay Christensen’s innovator’s dilemma surfaces not every decade, like the stories of steel mini-mills or hard drive makers, but every 18 months.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Predictably, they’re mostly focused on the how and why: How do I get into an accelerator? The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. How to get into a startup accelerator. Should you try to get your company into an accelerator?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Quick thoughts : Innovation in Africa’s B2B e-commerce and retail space has been around the digitization of processes and BNPL services, but not much around cash overdependence and fraud. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Website: [link].

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. 2014 might have been the last year it was economically feasible to start such a business due to the soaring cost of acquiring customers and the strength of incumbents,” he said.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

I met Cruz Foam co-founder John Felts during the memorable Accelerator at Sea hosted by the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. I feared when Felts pitched his company back on the boat that technical innovation simply wouldn’t be enough to get their foot in the door in an industry as huge and traditional as packaging.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

We remain sharply focused on delivering innovative planning, reporting and analysis solutions designed to help our customers succeed for today’s fast-paced and increasingly complex business environment,” said Tom Shea, CEO of OneStream Software, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

A great amount of talent is cultivated in the military, which has spawned innovative cyber, AI and machine-learning companies. Same as VC funds are deeply acquainted with Silicon Valley, tech investors cannot ignore this hub of innovation that has produced global market leading companies and serial entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

However, whenever a business tried to connect existing banking systems, fintechs and cryptocurrency innovators, as it built and scale, would always run into technology and compliance issues, Karkal said. Places like India, Africa and Latin America could accelerate at the same time because they are mainly starting from zero.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Recent legislation will also significantly accelerate the existing market trends. Business model innovations: For example, could you provide pre-wiring for free (leveraging incentives) in return for purchasing the appliance on failure? Second, innovation and deployment are not at odds with each other – we need both.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Here’s who we interviewed: Clara Brenner , co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Natalia Quintero and Rachel Haot , Transit Innovation Partnership/Transit Tech Lab. Clara Brenner, co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. But there’s a lot more; they even see tailwinds for eVTOLs.

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of work where we have been acutely interested in two data points: the acceleration of funding to early-stage startups outside of the Bay Area and the acceleration of remote work opportunities in tech. The same thing is happening with startup talent recruitment and retention.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In other words, it wants to help fintechs be in a stronger position to compete with incumbents, something it believes will benefit consumers. And elsewhere.

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