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 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. “Together is spearheading AI’s ‘Linux moment’ by providing an open ecosystem across compute and best in class foundation models,” Lux Capital’s Brandon Reeves told TechCrunch via email.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A growing market will have plenty of room for upstart companies to attack incumbents; sometimes startups create their own market, but that’s a bit rarer. All this is to say that TAM matters for startups, how they pitch investors and how investors make investment decisions.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elevator pitch. Are you raising an appropriate amount of capital relative to your progress, relative to your team size and relative to your needs? Founder: “$250k / month.” Cash In Cash in.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” The round, led by Tiger Global with participation from Sequoia, Lux Capital, Emerson Collective, Plural VC and more, came together in less than 24 hours, Yahyaoui noted.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

We led a $4 million investment along with Thrive Capital, GLG and Sound Ventures. Incumbents launch products, VCs throw cash at other competitors, team members quit, the economy dips — whatever. Truly, in many ways, my concern was the inverse of normal business pitches.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

CEO and founder Nitin Jayakrishnan says that the new capital will be put toward expanding Pando’s global sales, marketing and delivery capabilities. This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

John Danner , managing partner, Dunce Capital (an edtech and future of work fund with portfolio companies Lambda School and Outschool). Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

San Francisco-based Global Founders Capital (GFC) led the round. Participating VCs include Picus Capital, LoftyInc Capital, Rallycap Ventures, Kepple Africa, Berrywood Capital, ZedCrest and Suya Ventures. Its pitch to customers is that while banks take weeks or months to give cards, Sudo Africa takes days.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Serendipitously, while studying at Brown, he realized he wasn’t alone in his desire to help this population when he, Evan Jackson and Alex Rothberg wound up in the same class pitching the same idea — separately — to their teacher. The startup operates as a SaaS business and its customers are the organizations providing care.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Snowflake and other incumbents figure significantly, but Firebolt has been entering the picture when those new use cases, and new cracks, come up. “We are extremely excited to partner with the world class team at Firebolt to further support their incredible growth,” said Abhi Arun, managing partner at Alkeon Capital, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Showing that there’s real investor enthusiasm for identity management platforms, Saviynt , which enables companies to secure apps, data and infrastructure in a single platform, today announced that it raised $205 million in debt from AB Private Credit Investors’ Tech Capital Solutions group.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

I had a few VC friends who immediately saw the parallel but others were scratching their heads saying, “How is a physical storage company – even if you pitch it as “cloud” – really a tech company?” What tech has our capital raised gone into? ” Let’s start with some basics.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

More than 10 startups raised capital to make plant-based protein for a country with increasing meat demand. The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. How to kick the 10 worst startup habits with Fuel Capital’s Leah Solivan. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. TechCrunch is more than just a site with words.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Secondly, the majority of its existing backers joined one new investor — NEA spinout NewView Capital (NVC) — in pumping more capital into Human Interest. Given there was a recession and a lot of uncertainty, it was a much easier pitch, considering we could offer a more affordable product,” Schneble said. ” .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The round is led by Target Global and existing investors Northzone, Cherry Ventures, and Silicon Valley-based debt provider TriplePoint Capital. Cristina Stenbeck from Kinnevik also joins the round in a personal capacity. They include Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Dusseldorf, and Cologne, with more planned. Founder-market-fit?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The sands of market power are shifting and incumbents are poorly-positioned to adapt to evolving customer needs, so there’s a massive opportunity for us to capitalize.” . The trader provides a balance sheet for working capital to purchase energy on behalf of David’s customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

billion pool of capital to work by backing early-stage web3 companies. with Vanessa Larco (NEA), Kanyi Maqubela (Kindred Ventures), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners), Bryan Offutt (Index Ventures) and Ulili Onovakpuri (Kapor Capital). Hear from Dixon about how a16z crypto is putting its massive $7.6 with Dylan Field (Figma).

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

A few notes before we dive into the news: First, our Austin City Spotlight and pitch-off is coming together, so startups, this link is for you. They raised huge sums of capital and put forth a number of high-profile, richly valued IPOs. Let’s see if the startup can tackle the public incumbent, itself a former startup.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

” pitch went over quite well. It’s hard to challenge such a dominant set of incumbents (which may well be termed a cartel at this point), and Fleetzero can’t make any claims to doing so as a fresh new startup, but their approach neatly avoids the most direct competition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

market, pitched as “authentic, real-time AI search.” It’s clear that Neeva has its work cut out if it’s to differentiate in a market that includes long-established billion-dollar incumbents, and other agile startups, with much the same goals. “In our upcoming upgrades, Neeva can.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. Are you open to cold pitches? As such, entrepreneurs need to raise capital accordingly. How can founders reach you?

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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 20, 2022

His pitch made perfect sense: create a biodegradable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam using a material provided in abundance by nature. We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Instead, the challenge was how to rebuild the concept of a bank in a country where banking is widely hated, all while the incumbents heavily entrenched with the state worked to block every move.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

You know, I would say Europe is sort of a dark horse in a sort of a strange way, in that the EU seems absolutely determined to ban everything, to sort of put a blanket ban on capitalism and within that, ban AI and ban energy. Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. And so it’s kind of, everybody ends up happy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

Then the next, I open my inbox to see pitches for nine-figure funding rounds (hello, SpotOn ) and the birth of new unicorns (looking at you, Unit ). I find it kind of fascinating when fintechs buy incumbents, and I expect we’ll only continue to see more of it. Here we are today.

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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. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Bloom’s offering allows Sudanese to save in U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 23, 2013

I hear this refrain more and more in pitches. It’s the company that pursues an incumbent with faster, better or cheaper solution and in particular a solution that cannibalizes the incumbent’s business model typically because of a lower cost structure. But being the last mover isn’t always advantageous. When Last Mover Works.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Raising capital for a new fund is always hard. In this exciting moment, when younger founders will likely receive more attention, capital and control than ever, it’s crucial to avoid certain pitfalls. The new capital came less than a year after Brex raised $150 million at a $2.9 Let’s break down the pros and cons.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Leading the round is MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital, which are both existing investors in Railsbank. Also participating is Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. Railsbank raises $10M Series A for its open banking and compliance platform.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. And would might happen if the company didn’t spend all this capital? Market fragmentation.

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