TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“My dad still eats instant ramen each night, and it is such a massive market: 4 billion packets are sold per year, but it is also a product that has been dominated by the same three incumbents for years.”. Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years. billion of value in the U.S.

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

and 11 “top-tier” insurance companies, also invested in TrustLayer. The funding actually marked BTV’s first investment in a cohort member of its inaugural accelerator program. . Mort appreciates that TrustLayer is tackling the problem not by becoming the insurance broker, but by working with the incumbents as a software solution.

data analysis

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. . After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai ” Sima.ai As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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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. Depending on the product tier, the licenses cost $7-$10 per device per month.

incumbents

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. But why focus on delivering training through Microsoft, specifically, and not Zoom or Google’s cloud-based software suite?

incumbents

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. In another win for Alation, the investment from Databricks Ventures is strategic, Sangani says. billion and growing toward $11.6

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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? That doesn’t mean you’re going to invest. One, collaboration, and two, the ease with which you can create. 00:36] Will AI replace designers? [4:03] David: To start, fiery question.

incumbents

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.” Image Credits: Mendel.

incumbents

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

billion was invested into corporate spend management companies in 2021. billion was invested between January and May alone. Teampay will collaborate with Mastercard “deeper” going forward, Hoag says, to “mutually explore opportunities” that “enhance product capabilities at scale.”

economic environments

AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

Register Komunal has announced that it secured new investments amounting to $8.5 Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. The long-term play could be collaborating with cell providers to sell additional services; Expeto already works with Nokia and Ericsson for their radio access networks, the parts of mobile networks that connect devices like smartphones to the cloud.

networking

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Descript , the audio and video editing platform founded in 2017 by former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, has raised $50 million in a Series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which OpenAI and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage companies.

media

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. ” Cofactr co-founders Matthew Haber (l) and Phil Gulley (r).

incumbents

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

D1 Capital Partners led the financing, with participation from Tiger Global and Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB), the company said. Management’s intense focus on customer success has enabled OneStream to capture significant market share from incumbents, while posting strong growth in both revenue and customer acquisition.

finance

Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

This was strategic for two reasons: 1) incumbents were focused on non-perishable items, so competition was limited and 2) fruits and vegetables are lower order value, high frequency goods, which means users had a reason to use Pinduoduo regularly. To maximize this effect, Pinduoduo launched in the fruits and vegetables category.

accelerator

Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

Not only did the incumbents fail to grasp the potential value, but it would have made no sense for them to go after such a small unprofitable niche, which would have been irrelevant to their top line, and eating away at their bottom line (CDs were 90%+ gross margin products back then). most of the value created would accrue to new entrants.

incumbents

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

No longer will content creation be the project bottleneck but team collaboration and review. It would allow creators to easily and instantly collaborate together in real time with a globally distributed team, increasing iteration speed. Creator roles within a studio will move from extreme specialization (e.g.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

New student collaboration tools? Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multi-stage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever, and Outschool). We invested in 14 new companies and are just finishing rounds in 2 more. Integration between different edtech apps?

education

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

startup

TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

However, where some more differentiation arguably comes into play is that Ikigai also offers “fully managed, globally diversified investment portfolios” under the wealth section of the app. On banking competitors, Ikigai’s founders argue that existing incumbents and challengers both have “significant” failings.

incumbents

Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In the last 10 years, investments in big data have become increasingly expensive & focused on very large data volumes. In the past, software engineering teams and data teams haven’t collaborated, but data pipelines & AI endpoints rapidly becoming essential parts of software, they now work together much more closely.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The market, dominated by incumbents like Toast and upcoming players such as MarginEdge and Brazil’s Zak , has its value pegged at over $70 billion globally and is expected to reach $116 billion in the next four years. Orda was built from a near 18 months of a collaborative customer feedback loop. said the CTO in a statement.

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,

incumbents

TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

And it’s because the incumbents have no reason to fundamentally change.”. We were initially competitors and then deep collaborators after the Trulia/Zillow merger,” Flint said. In fact, the investment represents NFX’s largest initial investment to date. No doubt it has plenty of competition.

real estate

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

That includes $835 million of private-investment-in-public-equity, as well as more than $500 million of capital on the balance sheet. I think it’s going to be incumbent upon us to do the same as we make this transition to a public company: tell folks what we’re going to do, and then go out and do them.

transportation

TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

” Ivella isn’t just competing with the theory of joint accounts pushed by incumbent banks, but also venture-backed startups seeking a multiplayer fintech world. million seed round last year , wants to make joint accounts more collaborative and transparent. Zeta, which raised a $1.5

peer-to-peer

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

Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

More often than not, I believe it is largely impossible to predict the shape of an outcome when making an initial venture investment. The insight and data venture investors have to work with increases as a company matures — the earlier the investment, the more unknown the outcome is. Seed is what I know.

incumbents

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.”.

finance

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. With Prezent.ai, users can share and collaborate over decks and storylines — the service’s format is compatible with PowerPoint and Google Slides. Unlike Prezentium, Prezent.ai The “AI” in Prezent.ai

consulting

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It’s a collaborative exercise with executives across the business who own the various inputs.”. Regarding established incumbents in this space, we hear from their users that a lot of analyses and forecasts still default to Excel files being emailed back and forth,” she added. Forecasting can’t be an ivory tower process.

finance

TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

It wants to build a platform that is a gateway to connecting the entire company to discuss finance in a more collaborative fashion. Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. So what is Mosaic trying to do to rebuild the CFO software stack? Screenshot of Mosaic’s planning function.

financing

Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 6, 2024

Nailing pricing and packaging early can help you gauge whether investing in a given product idea is even worthwhile. And if it is worthwhile, effective pricing and packaging can help you capture the value of that product much more efficiently—which means you can show an ROI on your investments.

incumbents

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

“Collaboration in hardware product development is a nightmare — existing tools are siloed, discipline-specific and don’t play well together.” Frustrating, yes, but you have to — without understanding this piece of the puzzle, an investor cannot invest. ” — overview of how hardware products are made.

pitching

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. The hyperactive late-stage market should keep the startup investing game afoot.

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Berlin-based startup — which rebranded from dashdash at the end of last year — closed a Series B round of $16 million, money that it is using to continue investing in its platform as well as in sales and marketing. Christian Reber has also invested in this round. COVID-19 is driving demand for low-code apps.

disruption

Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2016

AWS listed business productivity category on their product page which includes collaboration tool to compete with Box and a hosted email product to compete with Gmail and Outlook. In addition, all of these monoclouds invest aggressively in commercializing research. Amazon released a mobile analytics product. I could go on.

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