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. Early success: Foundations built on product and community. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. expectations. Banks still rely on physical branches and don’t give.

peer-to-peer 102

peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 102

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Community-led growth (CLG) has emerged as a popular mechanism for driving business, as companies strive to foster an ecosystem of fervent users that draws in new customers organically, serves as a support network for millions and bangs a company’s drum completely off its own volition. Eagle Eye app. I mage Credits: Crowd.dev.

communities 82

communities development mix-use incumbents 82

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 82

communities mix-use incumbents disruption 82

Dream It

JULY 24, 2020

Build credibility with peers The security community is a tight-knight one. Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. These metrics will indicate high value to any CISO and make your product stand out amidst the many products they see every day. CISOs frequently talk to other CISOs.

peer-to-peer 195

peer-to-peer pitching incumbents opportunity 195

Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. It is about building and recreating communities. Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it

hospitality 100

hospitality real estate peer-to-peer mix-use 100

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. 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.,”

incumbents 99

incumbents startup communities consulting 99

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking.

incumbents 101

incumbents peer-to-peer opportunity disruption 101

Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

As part of the Insights from the Field campaign, I wanted to hear from other ecosystem builders in the field about their approaches to DEI, and hopefully identify specific techniques that they’ve incorporated in their communities. Building Entrepreneurship Ecosystems in Communities of Color. It’s not an afterthought.

peer-to-peer 105

peer-to-peer entrepreneurial ecosystem entrepreneurship board 105

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different. In our view it’s key to embrace a crypto native approach of building and experimenting with the product while also involving your community in the process. Anton Backman, principal, and Kenrick Drijkoningen, general partner, Play Ventures.

opportunity 97

opportunity incumbents advice strategy 97

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Goodles is going after the two oldest incumbents in the space, Kraft and Annie’s, to provide a healthy alternative that tackles both better taste and nutrition. When Zeszut was putting the company together, she reached out about getting involved. The Naked Market flashes some new capital to create better-for-you food brands.

incumbents 87

incumbents communities disruption innovation 87

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

This negative narrative has immense implications for the venture community. Three key areas of proposed intervention by the SEC offer examples of why the venture community should be paying attention. This is an inflection point. In short, the SEC’s actions could slow one of our greatest engines of innovation.

startup 102

startup frameworks real estate innovation 102

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.”

real estate 97

real estate finance financing incumbents 97

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 91

incumbents communities enablement strategy 91

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. Bhettay is also seeing the larger incumbents focus here, as well as marketing dollars, which he considers validation that the market is shifting to the digitalization of pet care. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

capital 98

capital incumbents education health 98

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

According to one recent survey (from MLOps Community), 84.3% The market for MLOps services could reach $4 billion by 2025, by one estimation , and includes startups like Databricks, DataRobot, Algorithmia and incumbents like Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. Finding these issues is often a major pain point for data scientists.

development 89

development incumbents communities collaboration 89

American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Comun observed that no incumbent bank offers a full Spanish language banking experience. Comun offers a full banking experience available first in Spanish, bringing the Latino community together around the financial services they need. Comun gained investor support of $4.5M

capital 75

capital entrepreneurship incumbents innovation 75

TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Companies in this segment work with community pharmacies and lower-end providers such as drug shops to help stock products. And according to a new report from Salient Advisory, a global healthcare consulting firm, this is the segment where the most impressive growth has occurred for Africa’s healthcare in the last 12 months.

investing 114

investing investment health startup 114

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.”. The company has amassed a community of 4,000 members that help Immi with rapid taste testing. “We billion of value in the U.S.

incumbents 98

incumbents collaboration capital culture 98

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

earned new investment as it strives to topple incumbents like Coinbase. Buy your pass today, and then join the web3, DeFi and NFT communities to keep up with the ever-evolving and always exciting cryptoverse. The company has continued to diversify its offerings and scour for new markets. Competitors have also been taking notice.

opportunity 93

opportunity founder incumbents strategy 93

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

TomoCredit is a credit card that operates with a debit card model that is issued by Community Federal Savings Bank, a member of the FDIC. More than 30 million young adults are considered “cash rich” but with limited credit histories, making their only option to use debit cards, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. .

incumbents 101

incumbents finance financing accelerator 101

TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

This includes long-established incumbents such as Unity, developed by tech powerhouse Unity Software, which is currently in the process of merging with IronSource. Put simply, Godot can’t be a community-driven open source project and support consoles at the same time. ” The open source factor. Distributed.

incumbents 100

incumbents communities development support 100

TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Right now this care is antiquated and run by incumbents, many of which still run off paper and Excel. Lifted has also acquired the “Live Better With Dementia” website and launched the Lifted Dementia Hub, an online community with a marketplace of products. Rachael Crook co-founded Lifted with Sam Cohen.

ventures 89

ventures incumbents health communities 89

TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Welcome Tech co-founder, CEO and president Amir Hemmat says his company’s initial approach was different than others in the space in that rather than launch a banking product and then set out to earn the trust of the community it aims to serve, it first “worked hard to earn that trust and understand the community’s needs.”

education 78

education communities incumbents capital 78

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 93

mix-use communities incumbents collaboration 93

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 98

incumbents incubation investment investing 98

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And talking about neobank offerings, Moneco , launched by three founders with finance and payments backgrounds, targets the migrant communities in Europe, starting with the African diaspora.

startup 81

startup incumbents accelerator finance 81

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The banks and incumbents take advantage of that and make people feel like they’re not smart enough to manage their money. Flink has also built a community around the product so that people can share ideas and try to help each other, including a Facebook group made up of more than 35,000 people. . We need to educate on a basic level.”.

investing 91

investing investment education incumbents 91

Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Now that Google is building data centers across various states (and I’d expect Facebook to follow suit), now that Facebook has big offices in Seattle, NYC, Pittsburgh, and so forth, and now that Apple has moved into Austin, communities are fully aware of “the stakes” associated with these new types of neighbors.

incumbents 102

incumbents culture communities networking 102

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

There are dozens, maybe even hundreds, of companies playing in the cross-border remittances field, from incumbents like Western Union through a myriad of tech players, some of which have gone public and some of which remain privately held.

incumbents 94

incumbents communities capital networking 94

Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Pinduoduo, on the other hand, has tried to mimic the offline shopping experience online by building community via their team purchase model, driving engagement via fun and interactive games and rewards, and offering personalized experiences and value via recommendations. Creating Community via Team Purchase.

accelerator 140

accelerator networking enablement opportunity 140

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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.” So it’s naturally building Cameo Pass, “an NFT-based community of Cameo talent and fans along with web3 enthusiasts,’” we report.

incumbents 89

incumbents board enablement startup 89

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 40

peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 40

Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

We also see this in our own communities. As ecosystem builders, we are new entrants coping with well-entrenched incumbents who are well-motivated to hold their turf. And again whether it’s ESHIP or a community, who gets funded is a powerful signal of legitimacy. 1) Find ways to reward bold action. Publicity (like this!)

education 52

education incumbents communities innovation 52

TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

As these technologies proliferate in everyday life, we’ll witness the advent of the Internet of Payments …Together, sooner than you might think, the newcomers will unseat the incumbents. Most importantly, he’s been building a true community of fintech enthusiasts all around the world. The meteor is about to hit.

incumbents 136

incumbents SaaS angel investing ventures 136

Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

Are there specific paths/opportunities in AI that you believe startups are actually better qualified to take advantage of than incumbents? A recent essay covered the ‘AI gold rush’ and as it related to startups operating in this area, very much ‘caution ahead’ in terms of building a sustainable, differentiated business.

founder 110

founder startup coworking culture 110

Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

As expected, many developers didn’t love the news that some of their work would be concentrated in the hands of a tech incumbent.

incumbents 71

incumbents leadership culture networking 71

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 86

innovation incumbents frameworks support 86