TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different. Interestingly enough, at the time of writing (Nov 14) MIR4, a crypto-enabled MMORPG on Steam, is running at 88,000 concurrent users. Anton Backman, principal, and Kenrick Drijkoningen, general partner, Play Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Founded in September 2020, the New York-based company – which was previously named Unlock – said it uses data science to “ identify, underwrite and close transactions 10x faster than incumbents.” ” It describes itself as a “managed marketplace.” commercial real estate value.

real estate

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans. Fuzzy live chat via its app.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Today’s news comes out from the Middle East and Africa where Eksab , an Egyptian platform that says it’s making football more exciting and interactive for every fan in both regions through gaming and online community building, has raised $ 3million in seed funding. and Europe.

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

auto giant General Motors is betting on Soelect, which is building “fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles,” TechCrunch reports. 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.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Last year, TechCrunch published an op-ed from Nigel Morris around mental health stigma in the tech community when the initial program was announced. and Mexico.

real estate

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Traditional banks have not been able to keep pace.

peer-to-peer

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. While we’ve grown a lot in APAC and EMEA, the U.S. is the second-largest eCommerce market in the world and there is an extensive, untapped opportunity for growth there. We welcome them.

innovation

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Some members of the “urgent care” community are intelligently rebranding their services as “convenient care.” These tools might enable online booking, provide the ability for more frequent customer-provider communication, facilitate surveys and feedback, automate follow-up correspondence, and anticipate customer needs.

health

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?”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Problems & Ideas: Financing as a service for building electrification Contractor enablement Finding ways (at scale) to add trust as well as ensure accountability Improving the quote lifecycle to reduce time spent (and truck rolls), automate system design, and improve installed system performance. Alternative energy storage systems (e.g.

energy

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Because people don't love the incumbent right now. Dharmesh: The thing that mobile added for us, which is like, oh, well the thing that you used to do on your desktop, now you can do it from anywhere, and enabled a bunch of different use cases. Remoteculture, online community for those building remote cultures, easy, right?

frameworks

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. If you look at Hulu and said, “the networks will never enable a strong competitor to broadcast TV you’d need to put your head in the sand. We have no clue where the community will help take Twitter next.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2022

DAOs bind the loose community of open-source software contributors through tokens. ” CBDCs are programmable money: central bank digital coins enable a government to focus stimulus as granularly or as broadly as they like. Open-source software powers every server and most software. Paper money is so Newtonian.”

incumbents

Revolution

MARCH 23, 2022

For us, our focus on reducing consumerism and enabling a circular economy has drawn passionate candidates who care about our mission and want to do more than earn a paycheck.” and companies play a significant role in ensuring people from all geographies, communities, and income brackets have the resources to participate in the green economy.

sustainability

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. Community meets product. As TechCrunch wrote last year, in many ways, the chief community officer is the new chief marketing officer.

communities

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. The number of open source models both from community groups and large labs grows by the day , practically. billion in Q1 2023, with an additional $10.68

incumbents

TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Daily.dev: “Most upvoted” Image Credits : TechCrunch / screenshot Over time, users accumulate a “ reputation ” score based on their upvotes from the broader Daily.dev community. Kramer reckons that most of the incumbents are either too general or too focused on specific problems.

mix-use

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In one development of that theme, today, Taptap Send — one of the startups building tools to manage these money transfers — is announcing $65 million in growth funding as it continues its mission to enable remittances specifically to the most overlooked countries.

incumbents

Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. 4) A New Pricing Model Enables Better Options in a Volatile Market.

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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. A big part of this is building a community of people that value sleep and want to share that with us,” says Casper SVP of Experience Eleanor Morgan.

sustainability

TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

If the people who form the backbone of your community do not feel good about your project or their participation, you’re in big trouble. Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents?

frameworks

Continuations

AUGUST 31, 2024

Incumbents in power, whether companies, governments, or religions, don’t like change. All of this is to enable as much decentralized avoidance of chaos, starting with maintaining a high level of trust in the source and quality of content. We can approach freedom of speech as a fundamental human right.

networking

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 9, 2013

For example Belkin’s wifi-enabled plugtop “actually makes your house worse” Even the software of the market leader, Apple, is be terrible: “iTunes should die” , “iOS6 Maps is Awful” and as Bijan wrote, every one of the core iOS apps has been replaced with third party software.

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