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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!)

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2010, Razor’s Edge funds multistage startups with both commercial and government customers but specializes in ventures that “[help] national security community [members] solve difficult technology problems and advance critical missions,” in its own words. maintain “technological superiority.”

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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. .

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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.”.

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

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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.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’ve backed multiple Black founders and entrepreneurs from the LGBTQ community and so I’ve seen a very wide mix of founders pitch, get funded and get passed on. We’ve seen studies on how men and women get asked different questions, but I also think it’s incumbent upon all founders to control the conversation.

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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.

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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. On the supply side of the US freight market, there are 1.6

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. I can’t tell you how incumbents will act and who else will choose to compete fiercely with us. Hashtags were organically created by the Twitter community the way that RT (retweets) were and OH (over heard) was and #FF (follow Friday), etc.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Previously relegated to underground communities and rave culture, drugs like ketamine, MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and psilocybin are now being studied to develop therapies to treat everything from PTSD to cluster headaches. “Today, there are 400+ ketamine clinics in the U.S.,

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last year, TechCrunch published an op-ed from Nigel Morris around mental health stigma in the tech community when the initial program was announced. QED Investors said it has expanded its mental health initiative aimed at tackling addiction among entrepreneurs to its Spanish-language portfolio companies. Guess we’ll see about that.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

This also raises questions around how easy it will be to flourish in a market that includes well-established (and well-funded) incumbents such as Apple, Spotify, Acast, and Pocket Casts. “We look at podcasts as one of the largest knowledge-bases in the world, and are hence focused on the knowledge-seeker community,” Smith said.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Zendesk’s community and referral marketing effort. David Duffield founded and ran PeopleSoft before starting Workday, a SaaS disruptor to an incumbent whose business he understood better than anybody else. Dropbox refer-a-friend. Bill.com relationship with a national bank. Xero courting accountants to acquire businesses.

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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?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For now, though, Tea’s focused on the first incarnation of the product which launched last month to challenge well-established incumbents in the package management space such as GitHub-owned NPM and Homebrew itself. “We have a long list of potential revenue-generating outcomes depending on what the community finds most useful.”

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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.

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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.

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