Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI, in conversation with a16z’s David George. [00:36] 4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? 00:36] Will AI replace designers? [4:03]

incumbents 104

incumbents creativity development technology 104

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

These organizations are using XR to onboard, train, and upskill employees, as well as unlock new workflow, using the metaverse as a new place to communicate, collaborate, and get work done,” Willson said. ” Image Credits: ManageXR dashboard / ManageXR. .” ” Image Credits: ManageXR dashboard / ManageXR.

incumbents 87

incumbents hospitality collaboration enablement 87

TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. “We will use M&A strategically going forward, including in relation to product development.”

incumbents 99

incumbents construction health support 99

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Unlike CMOs who have all sorts of media optimization platforms, content creation tools and social listening software, and CTOs who have countless frameworks, repositories, CI and code-enhancement collaboration tools, CFOs still rely mostly on spreadsheets and ERPs – and in some companies even fax machines.”

incumbents 90

incumbents financing finance frameworks 90

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. Alation also makes recommendations based on how information is being used and orchestrated. .” billion and growing toward $11.6

incumbents 86

incumbents collaboration enablement ventures 86

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Hoag notes that Teampay is low-code and doesn’t require custom development. Teampay will collaborate with Mastercard “deeper” going forward, Hoag says, to “mutually explore opportunities” that “enhance product capabilities at scale.” Image Credits: Teampay. This year, $1.6

economic environments 86

economic environments incumbents financing finance 86

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. See Expeto , which is developing a platform that allows corporate customers to extend their private networks via virtually any type of cellular connectivity.

networking 88

networking startup incumbents energy 88

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

In the latest development, OneStream , a startup that provides a toolkit of services to enterprises to help them run financial operations (for example, reporting, planning, tax and more), has raised $200 million in primary equity. . ” It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools.

financing 69

financing finance incumbents enablement 69

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win. “There is starting to be a real groundswell of startups attacking the hardware engineering space, but we all have to interconnect and work together in the same way that software development tools do.

incumbents 77

incumbents ventures opportunity enablement 77

Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

In addition to driving down prices, team purchase helps solve the “trust deficit” of retail in China’s developing cities, where more than 80% 5 ) of retail is unorganized and consumers rely heavily on social recommendations to initiate transactions. To maximize this effect, Pinduoduo launched in the fruits and vegetables category.

accelerator 140

accelerator networking enablement opportunity 140

Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

But following the rapid development of its ecosystem (desktop and then mobile MP3 players, Torrent and then download and streaming services), MP3s rapidly became a better option than CDs for the majority of the population, rendering the previous paradigm obsolete. most of the value created would accrue to new entrants.

incumbents 40

incumbents disruption frameworks innovation 40

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Before the 2010s, most studios developed their own internal engines to build their games. Now, almost all games are built using the third party engines shown below, excluding some of the largest AAA budget games that still develop on their own (e.g. EA’s Frostbite, Infinity Ward Engine, etc).

incumbents 145

incumbents creativity development enablement 145

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

New student collaboration tools? We have seen 20 creator led learning platforms across “preK to Gray” learning in addition to incumbents like Teachable and very few have an ability to build a moat in my view. It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021?

education 134

education venture capital ventures opportunity 134

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

JoyTunes, led by Yuval Kaminka has developed a music-learning platform that has skyrocketed in 2020. The upside is that companies that will develop a remote and simplified approach can reap gains from this time. In particular, it develops solutions that allow people to interact with drones and other unmanned machine technologies.

startup 142

startup SaaS mix-use advice 142

Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Others may call this dichotomy digital versus physical, the disruptor mindset versus the incumbent mindset, start-up world versus Fortune 500, or tech culture versus industrial culture. Most things they have done, from developing software to partnering, have focused on their needs and not customer desires.

incumbents 233

incumbents culture leadership innovation 233

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

After all, AI is costly — Gartner predicted in 2021 that a third of tech providers would invest $1 million or more in AI by 2023 — and debugging an algorithm gone wrong threatens to inflate the development budget. ” Chatterji has a background in data science, having worked at Google for three years at Google AI.

development 89

development incumbents communities collaboration 89

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The air taxi developer began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday under the ticker symbol “JOBY,” after completing a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners. Joby is developing a five-seat electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, which it unveiled to much anticipation in February.

transportation 98

transportation incumbents development collaboration 98

Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Marketing is particularly well suited for adopting generative AI because it is an iterative, creative, and dynamic practice that relies on the types of media — texts, images, video — that have driven LLM development. For example, Jasper started with copy creation and now enables marketing teams to collaborate and gather insights.

creativity 121

creativity data analysis incumbents media 121

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

Second, UBP reduced friction for individual developers to tinker with the APIs. During those processes, the team should collaborate on different scenarios and identify the signals to slow, maintain, or accelerate spending. First, Twilio sought to align its success with customers’ success. His first task: a layoff.

startup 80

startup incumbents accelerator sustainability 80

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In its own words, Mountain View-based Vareto is developing a new platform for FP&A (financial planning & analysis) teams with the goal of “building the future of financial planning.”. It’s a collaborative exercise with executives across the business who own the various inputs.”. Talk about validation.

financing 98

financing finance incumbents collaboration 98

TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

With this latest investment, Crowdz and Citi plan to collaborate based on that goal of giving SMEs “rapid and efficient access to the working capital needed to keep their businesses running.” We are focused on how we can help the SMEs improve their cash flow so they can thrive. That’s really a main driver for us.”.

financing 98

financing finance funders SaaS 98

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The technique trains a system across multiple devices or servers holding data without ever exchanging it, enabling collaborators to build a common system without sharing data. But a new startup, DynamoFL , hopes to take on the incumbents with a federated learning platform that focuses on performance, ostensibly without sacrificing privacy.

incumbents 74

incumbents frameworks health financing 74

Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 6, 2024

Atlassian’s flagship product, JIRA software, was intended for developers to create, track, and resolve bugs while providing visibility to the entire team. It was, at its heart, a collaboration tool that monetized per user. Consider when Atlassian launched JIRA Service Desk.

incumbents 97

incumbents support investing investment 97

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But the ICC, the nonprofit organization that develops the model code used or adopted for building regulations by all 50 states, claims UpCodes impacts its ability to make revenue and continue authoring new code. And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.”

startup 104

startup incumbents collaboration innovation 104

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

“Product development is a complex interactive process involving multiple disciplines and a variety of tools.” “Collaboration in hardware product development is a nightmare — existing tools are siloed, discipline-specific and don’t play well together.” ” — team slide.

pitching 89

pitching strategy development incumbents 89

Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 18, 2017

This isn’t the middleware of the early 2000s, which was focused on helping developers build software. The incumbents acquire successful point solutions and combine them with an existing platform, to capture more revenue and reinforce their competitive advantage. And HR/recruiting.

SaaS 40

SaaS incumbents creativity collaboration 40

TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

“It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry,” Ryan Lawler writes. “But lately, fintech upstarts are the ones doing the acquiring.” And it’s all done on one platform.

incumbents 93

incumbents collaboration support technology 93

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Stephen Nundy, the partner at Lakestar who led its investment, describes the army of users taking up no-code tools as “citizen developers.” However, it does point to an opportunity for incumbents to disrupt their disruptors. COVID-19 is driving demand for low-code apps.

disruption 82

disruption incumbents board media 82

Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce each are building broad platforms that serve hundreds of thousands of developers and are generating tens billions of dollars in aggregate revenue and growing at incredible rates. Second, these dollars finance hundreds if not thousands of engineers are working on developing new products at a torrid rate.

startup 40

startup incumbents strategy SaaS 40

TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Founded out of Tel Aviv, Daily.dev wants to help like-minded software developers connect, share knowledge and discuss all that’s happening across their ecosystems. There’s no escaping the fact that there are plenty of developer-focused communities out their on the web, from Discord and Hacker News, to GitHub and Stack Overflow.

mix-use 93

mix-use communities incumbents collaboration 93

TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Drug discovery is a large and growing field, encompassing both ambitious startups and billion-dollar Big Pharma incumbents. The CombiGEM experiments — hundreds of thousands of them — produce a large amount of data as well, and they’re sharing and collaborating on that front with several medical centers throughout Asia.

incumbents 99

incumbents collaboration startup development 99

TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. ” He has a point — insofar as incumbents are feeling the pressure, at least. According to one source, generative AI startups raised $1.7 billion in Q1 2023, with an additional $10.68

incumbents 91

incumbents communities enablement strategy 91

TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. When I landed at LinkedIn, I noticed that my colleagues were also doing much of the same, whether in recruiting, customer support, or corporate development. This sparked the idea for Magical.”

incumbents 84

incumbents support enablement collaboration 84

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For example, Talkbase packs task-management and collaboration tools similar to Trello or Asana, allowing managers to assign tasks, and teams to work together on programs to meet deadlines. Talkbase: Task management Image Credits: Talkbase.

communities 82

communities mix-use incumbents disruption 82