Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

The emergence of SaaS business models has further set the stage for companies like Gusto to transform SMB operations. In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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incumbents peer-to-peer health opportunity 89

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This is where Wynn believes Ascend is competing, though some incumbents are offering premium financing, but not in the digital way Ascend is. Not only did he like how quickly the team was moving to create momentum around themselves in terms of securing early pilots with customers, but also getting well known digital-first companies on board.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Just one week after closing on its acquisition of Metromile (and laying off about 20% of the latter company’s staff), Lemonade announced on August 4 that it has sold Metromile’s enterprise business solutions unit, a SaaS-based claims automation and fraud detection product, to EIS. Well, that was fast! from the previous quarter” to $24.1

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

The idea is that in the future SaaS applications would be built on a single database, instead of each SaaS application writing to its own proprietary database. I thought it would be cloud-prem and customers driving SaaS products to use a single database. SaaS applications also write back to the CDW directly.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. Now with big banks, corporations, and governments on board, Bitcoin and?—?by Through all of this, I found myself journeying deeper into the world of crypto. But newbie or not, I was converted. The 2020 Effect?—?Institutional

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Participating angel investors include Nilam Ganenthiran, president at Instacart; Gokul Rajaram, DoorDash executive and board member of Pinterest and Coinbase; as well as customers, including Soul Foods, a global franchisee of Yum! SaaS-enabled marketplace. It charges a monthly SaaS fee per rooftop to a restaurant group.

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SaaS incumbents enablement support 79

Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the wake of what is now considered the second-highest enterprise SaaS acquisition in history, below are some quick takeaways that are on my mind: 1/ The Efficiency Of Silicon Slopes – By now it should be no surprise that Utah’s tech ecosystem is on fire.

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incumbents VC venture capital SaaS 105

TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Latch, a proptech meets SaaS play, conducts two consecutive weeks of layoffs. Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS. Adam Neumann’s blockchain-based redemption story now sponsored by a16z. Google: Hold my Shiba Inu.

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venture capital SaaS incumbents ventures 73

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2023

Common design language across products simplifies on-boarding. In the first two decades of cloud, Parker argues startups built superior point solutions to compete against the distribution might of on-prem incumbents. Today, new startups have to compete with a cloud-native incumbency.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We Love to see more women in executive roles in fintech!

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startup financing finance incumbents 110

Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces) and verticals. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation).

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incumbents financing finance enablement 123

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. Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

As part of the investment, Clara Sieg, partner at Revolution Ventures, is joining the company’s board. When Shamir was building Simple, he could see how challenging it was for incumbents to provide the tools developers need to embed financial services, and this is why we have confidence in his ability to win.”.

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development real estate incumbents ventures 103

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Can you do this online before your visit, or are you handed a clip-board full of forms where you enter information you have already provided on previous visits? Can you cancel or reschedule online? Information Collection — Does your doctor make it easy to provide information about your visit? Do they respond?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

How should they think about competition, strategic investment versus top-tier VC firms and how to build their board? SaaS subscriptions may be short-serving your customers. Software as a service (SaaS) has perhaps become a bit too interchangeable with subscription models. SaaS subscriptions may be short-serving your customers.

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startup construction VC health 78

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. And she would later join HubSpot board. that people love. Sam: Can I say my opinion, Dharmesh? Sam: LinkedIn sucks.

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