TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms. Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms. Founders who don’t properly vet VCs set up both parties for failure. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). But will it?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Alongside a16z founder Marc Andreessen, general partner Chris Dixon has been integral to the firm’s rise as a giant in the crypto VC world — he was an early investor in startups such as Coinbase, Uniswap and Oculus VR. The State of VC in 2022. How To Build Your Early VC Network: Turning Social Capital Into Financial Capital.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. Bill Gurley : Well, industries get more regulated and incumbents write the regulation. Our firm has been fortunate enough to be an investor in numerous “marketplaces”.

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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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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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Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

I do not have much experience with evaluating Venture Growth deals — but as the larger VC platforms have scaled, their funds have matured to the point where they have multiples bites at the apple. One successful VC told me, paraphrased “Take more shots on goal. You want to be in companies that people recognize.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Startups/VC. 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.” The company’s earnings were far from popular with investors, who slashed the value of the company’s stock. Today’s startup news has a few Tiger rounds, a toilet paper headline and more.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

On the bright side, the fact that VCs are more discriminating about where they put their dollars could actually lead to more M&A activity, according to Ruark. That is one reason why a number of VC firms have told their portfolio companies to focus on performance and cut costs,” he told TechCrunch. Guess we’ll see about that.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Europe is perhaps an obvious first step for Neeva’s inaugural expansion plans, owing to the slew of antitrust complaints currently faced by the mighty incumbent Google, with legislators targeting everything from e-commerce (Google Shopping) and Android to its dominance of the online ad market. France and Germany. ” Privacy push.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

And, its board of directors is now over 71 percent ethnically diverse, it says. . One of the things you do in VC asset allocation is lean in to the winners,” he told TechCrunch. I think that’s a big moat around any of the incumbents,” he said. “In We want to build an operating system for immigrants,” Hemmat said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board. Natasha spent a good chunk of last week at the All Raise VC summit, an annual off-the-record event that brings together some of the best and brightest in the investment community. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Because people don't love the incumbent right now. And then what I would do if I were an enterprising VC is I was like, okay, let's pick the categories where this thing will have the biggest impact, like business intelligence, reporting kind of stuff, B2B software is a natural fit. And she would later join HubSpot board.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. How many LPs are asking the top tier funds what they’re doing to enforce and oversee values and culture from a board perspective?

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Colle, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, and Max Levchin’s SciFi VC — as well as more than a dozen angels including founders of Plaid, Flexport, Marqeta, Bread, Albert, Addi, Lithic, and other fintech and logistics startups — also put money in the round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Digital banks, neobanks, challenger banks or whatever you may call them, are among the biggest recipients of VC investments in fintech. Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. TA Ventures, Jiji, u.ventures and AVentures Capital also participated.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

In fact, Galileo founder Clay Wilkes introduced the VC firm to Dan Snyder, Lower’s founder and CEO. We were immediately intrigued because Ohio-based Lower echoes both of these themes,” said Accel partner John Locke, who led the firm’s investment in Lower and is taking a seat on the company’s board as part of the investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value. Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. And that’s been happening pretty clearly… Now, with that said, I think that there’s still a lot of appetite [for fintech] across the board.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

I found that I was always more curious about issues like “why do you charge for your web hosting services this way when newer non-incumbent players do not?&# And that’s how I view VC today. If you’re not engaging your VC this way you’re losing out. But for most issues VC’s and boards are tourists.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

There are plenty of well-deserved articles by Axios and Forbes and tweets of praise for Qualtrics (must read Utah-based VC Bryce Roberts’ storm here ), which you can and should read. Last night, SAP bought the company before it could IPO. Qualtrics focuses on experience data, SAP focuses on operational data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

it counts Tampa International and John Wayne Airport as customers, processing some 150 million passengers each year across the board. million in the bank the company said that it will use the new funding to expedite its expansion plans and continue its push to “displace lethargic incumbents.” Founded out of Chester, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fresh off the launch of a new product designed to measure engineering performance metrics, Lisbon-based Codacy has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by Bright Pixel Capital, the corporate VC of one of Portugal’s biggest employers, the Sonae Group. To date, Codacy has raised $28 million. Pulse aims to help in this process.”

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