TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany). Next stop, Norway.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million.

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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

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. Peter Levine, who is leading today’s investment for Andreessen Horowitz and will be joining the Pinecone board, sees the vector database as a key piece of the AI stack.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And this has investors, especially foreign ones, excited and looking to get on board. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents. Neobanking, based on mobile technology too, falls somewhere in the middle of the two).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As part of the investment Larry Appel, former CEO of The Fresh Market, and Benjamin McKean, CEO of Hungryroot, will join the company’s advisory board. In fact, of the $348 billion in annual sales generated by the top 25 food and beverage incumbents in the U.S.,

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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. The typical customer is a young family.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. Develop program-specific advisory boards from under-represented backgrounds. Board commitments to DEI. It’s not an afterthought. It is the whole thought. Team communication.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The competition is the incumbent video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, but calls on these platforms have a set agenda, and are timeboxed – they’re rigid and repetitive. You choose an avatar, then meet up with their colleagues or friends inside a browser-based game.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The startup has a number of Microsoft veterans on its board of directors, including Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft’s former head of global channnel partners, and it’s regularly featured in the tech giant’s marketing materials.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

With hundreds of billions of dry powder, plenty of healthy cash flows generated by SaaS publics, & the leverage of the inevitable shareholder lawsuit if a board rebuffs the 30% premium of a tender offer, private equity becomes the dominant M&A option in dollar terms for 2023. The ML stack folds into the classic data stack.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. She is currently serving a governor-appointed position on the Information Technology Advisory Board for the State of Nevada. We used this type of expert knowledge to power our semantic engines. Other people had struggled on this journey.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” If the first move on the chess board was free, it leads me to believe that for most, the second and even third moves will be costly.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

ManageXR announced today it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Rally Ventures , with venture partner and previous lead angel investor Jay Borenstein joining the company’s board of directors. . Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. They have high-priced property and zero innovation. Little old us. Sound familiar? The Early Years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. Markets at TransUnion, is taking a seat on Spring Labs’ board. As part of the funding, Steve Chaouki, president of U.S. Blockchain and taking the politics out of tech.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The buses previously used were old and owned by the incumbent and have been moved out of the city. Last year, the SF District Board of Education adopted a resolution to modernize its transportation in a way that would create more efficiencies, help the district meet sustainability goals and increase transparency across the system.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The funding is being led by Teachers’ Venture Growth, the rebranded venture fund the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (a prolific investor for years in tech), with previous backers Index Ventures, Valar Ventures, Creandum and Redalpine also participating. Index led its Series C in 2020 ; Valar led a round in 2018 ).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. The company also said that president Tim Mayopoulos will step down from his role in the first quarter and remain as a board member.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Incumbents can’t react. The reason that incumbents can’t react is that their revenue and defensibility are continued by serving the high-end of the market for which it would take too much time & money for any competitors to effectively challenge. board had had Reed Hasting’s clarity and boldness.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Meanwhile, pet food incumbents are also putting a paw print in the healthier food space: Freshpet launched its Spring & Sprout vegetarian dog food in September and Hill’s Pet Nutrition announced a partnership with Bond Pet Foods last month to create meat proteins via fermentation for pet food applications.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But first up is Natasha’s dive into Mos , which founder Amira Yahyaoui says is gunnin’ to become “the incumbent bank in the U.S.” Today’s startup news has a few Tiger rounds, a toilet paper headline and more. The startup, which just raised $40 million, appears to link neobanking to the college student demographic and their peculiar needs.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Traditional banks have not been able to keep pace.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Menlo Ventures partner Tyler Sosin, who is joining Polly’s board of directors as part of the financing, believes the startup is “taking on a sector held back by sclerotic incumbents with dated, disconnected and dragging solutions” and “driving transformation and winning customers at an impressive rate.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Setting up a management board for success with Dave Easton. Viewed from the outside, board selection and corporate governance can seem like a bit of a black box — particularly at a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. With a company that had shut down and an innovator ready to take them on board nearly every employee joined. The first instinct is fear, then dread, then panic. with the cloud of a lawsuit hanging over you.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

It requires the technical and financial know-how to develop and implement a new backbone in a highly regulated industry,” said Strange, who joined Vesta’s board as part of the financing. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Sheel Mohnot of Better Tomorrow Ventures, who took a seat on Coast’s board as part of the financing, says his firm was impressed by both the size of the opportunity and the team at Coast that’s tackling it. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce Incumbents are over 20 years old and built on aging infrastructure created before the smartphone and social media,” he added. 4 trends that will define e-commerce in 2022.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

This includes long-established incumbents such as Unity, developed by tech powerhouse Unity Software, which is currently in the process of merging with IronSource. ” On top of that, having one of Red Hat’s original founders on board as an investor can only be construed as a major coup for a startup that is just eight months old.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. As part of this financing round, Vladimir Mnogoletniy, co-founder of Genesis, the parent company of African online classifieds platform Jiji, will join Fintech Farm’s board. He is also a partner at co-lead investor Flyer One.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. Sheel Tyle , the founder and general partner at Amplo, will join NALA’s board, the company said in a statement. O ther players in the space facilitating transfer from the U.K. Whether that’ll happen remains to be seen.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. Along with the financing, the company also announced the creation of an advisory board that includes the current or former CFOs from nine tech companies, including Palantir, Dropbox, and Shopify. Screenshot of Mosaic’s planning function.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. Kulkarni is joining Novo’s board with this round. “We are competing against big banks. They are the only ones we are concerned with because they own 99% of the market,” said Michel Rangel, CEO of Novo, in an interview earlier this month.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Still, that partnership is a mark of how the hardware companies that are building connected appliances, and services around them, are knitting together more closely with incumbents to take their next scaling steps. Fiedler is joining the board with this round.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. On the supply side of the US freight market, there are 1.6

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