TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As Paul Uhrig, Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer of Bassett Healthcare Network and Executive Director of Bassett Innovation Center told us, “if we can get the ultimate user excited and to be champions about this, that I found to be very much the winning strategy.” The level of investment scales based on product development approach.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

PV Boccasam is a partner at Cota Capital. 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. Venture capitalists helped power this trend by enabling the creation of hundreds of unicorns and counting. PV Boccasam.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

It was also participated by AlphaTrio Sustainable Technology Fund, Skystar Capital, Sovereign’s Capital, Ozora, and Gobi Partners. 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

AUGUST 17, 2022

and United Emirates; and existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Pitango, D1 Capital, Atreides Management, and Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services are also participating. “We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Marco was backed last September by a small seed round from Struck Capital and Antler and over $20 million in a credit facility underwritten by Arcadia Funds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. 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.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. million in debt) Series B led by Fin Venture Capital with participation from Mastercard, Proof Ventures, Trestle and Espresso Capital, bringing Teampay’s total raised to $65 million. million in equity, $11.75

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

And today, Yu and Yang’s new company, San Francisco-based Vesta , is announcing it has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from new investor Zigg Capital. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“With the capital, we will continue to focus on engagement and adoption, collaboration, governance, lineage, and on APIs and SDKs to enable us to be open and extensible,” Sangani said via email. The all-equity tranche values Alation at over $1.7 The all-equity tranche values Alation at over $1.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

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. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai As over-100-employee Sima.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. million in debt — led by NGP Capital with participation from Team8 Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners. million in equity and $19.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. Venture capital firms Invenfin , Base Capital, Savannah Fund, P1 Ventures, Luno and FireID took part in the round, including some high-impact angel investors.

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incumbents innovation development venture capital 86

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“As many businesses are coming out of the pandemic with a new affinity for hybrid and remote work, modern technologies that can best enable the secure and efficient delivery and management of digital workspaces are in high demand.” . “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. We’ve launched five products in recent months and have a strong pipeline planned as we continue to innovate to better serve our merchants. How many employees do you have?

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The direct listing enables them to go public without raising capital. And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. The ecosystem continues to innovate but the second killer app (currency being the first), hasn't yet been found. The M&A market continues to surge. True but hard to judge.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“ Orum enables teams to make hundreds of calls in just minutes, while helping automate lead data and improve it over time.” ” Orum solves a real problem. Customers like QTS and Workato believe this to be the case, it seems — as well as Orum’s investors.

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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 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?”. He told me: “The question I have is who will capitalize on this bear market to scoop up valuable technology or talent. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Notably, sales startups raised the least amount of capital. If we compare these trends to the total aggregate market capitalization of public SaaS companies by buyer, we observe a few interesting patterns. In addition, there were quite a few analytics companies raising capital this year. Series B medians were $19.0M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance. Bloom’s offering allows Sudanese to save in U.S. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Months after acquiring gamified finance mobile app startup Long Game, Truist Financial Corporation has introduced the Truist Foundry, an innovation division that it says “will function as a startup within the bank.” Quona Capital sinking $332M into startups focused on financial inclusion. Image Credits: Kuzma / Getty Images.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US. CB4 , for example, has developed machine learning software that enables retail chains to solve operational issues that hamper sales.

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Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Both approaches complement each other, especially for innovative tech companies which typically disrupt an existing market by undercutting the incumbents on the one hand ( and hence shrinking the market), while creating a new use case attracting a larger number of new users on the other hand. How profitable can it be?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Innovation. Most customers won’t drive more than a few miles to a self storage unit making the incumbents essentially local retail businesses. It is the classic “innovator’s dilemma” and we know how that ends. How valuable are these legacy businesses? And they have. The value prop is pretty clear.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. Demonstrating that there’s investor appetite for upstarts in the market, Expeto this week closed a $13 million Series B round led by Sorenson Capital with participation from 5G Open Innovation Lab, Samsung Next and Mistral Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

billion that SoftBank had agreed to invest back in November of last year because he “wanted the capital to build our dream,” knowing “the world was about to get ugly.” . “I Those apps are increasingly adding an ‘investment button’ that enables consumers to purchase US Equities. I believe in you.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

We believe personalization represents the future of retirement savings and will drive the next wave of innovative retirement solutions.” It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g. Other backers include Index Ventures, Susa Ventures and Global Founders Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

By providing these products as a unified strategic solution, the goal is to enable hardware manufacturers the ability to get to production volume without investing in the specialized facilities or headcount historically needed to manage electronic components. Image Credits: Cofactr (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The models of these B2B companies mirror their retail e-commerce counterparts such as Wasoko and TradeDepot, as they use tech-enabled solutions to digitize medicine distribution to underserved pharmacies, drug shops, clinics, and hospitals. As such, their growth has been rapid, Salient says.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. To date, it’s raised $48 million in venture capital. There’s Hailo , Mythic and Flex Logix , to name a few upstarts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Digital transformation is the name of the game these days, and companies that are enabling businesses to take a leap into the future, by helping them tackle their most complex operations, are reaping the rewards. OneStream ’s platform delivers exceptional customer value,” said Andrew Wynne, a principal at D1 Capital Partners, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

But ClearBank’s existence underscores one of the untold truths amid all of that innovation: many of these new services have been built on top of legacy infrastructure. faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Their goal was to take that 10 years of experience investing through the venture capital arm of one of the world’s largest credit card companies, and apply it firsthand to new early-stage investments — but with a twist. And that’s ultimately the insight that we built a thesis on,” said Fitzgerald. Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The funding is being co-led by Cota Capital and TempoCap, with participation also from Element Ventures, MissionOG and PostFinance as well as past investors Octopus Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures and SBI Investments. In the latest development on this theme, a UK startup called Token.io

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incumbents financing finance innovation 81

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

The investors: Boaz Dinte , managing general partner, Qumra Capital. Adi Levanon Chazan , partner, Flint Capital. Noam Kaiser , partner, Intel Capital. Boaz Dinte, Qumra Capital. A great amount of talent is cultivated in the military, which has spawned innovative cyber, AI and machine-learning companies.

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