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

JANUARY 12, 2021

It was clear that the venture community — and the few entrepreneurs that they anointed to be part of their chosen — were a closely knit elite who wanted nothing to do with outsiders. If they invest in someone that has a ton of social credibility in Silicon Valley, then even if they fail, nobody will question them.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

beU delivery is YC’s first set of investments in Africa’s food delivery space alongside Heyfood, another startup in this batch. Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And, in the case of Unity, the damaged trust from their recent pricing change execution has left the community seeking alternatives. Community modding enabled out of the box A next gen engine should be designed to enable a first-class modding environment out of the box that developers can choose to extend to end user creators.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

30:00 – Investing in yourself. I went to Georgia Tech for my undergrad in Computer Science, and I just found such a supportive community there that it was able to help support my natural interest, but also help me through the hard times. 00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

At Disrupt, co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan will speak to the milestone, the challenges in between and if exclusivity can disrupt community. We’ll discuss her strategic vision for Call of Duty as a game and as a community, as well as her thoughts on the shifting landscape of gaming and esports. Acing Venture.

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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 4, 2021

we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market. For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population have the ability to invest in the capital markets just didn’t seem right. Here in the U.S., Image: Flink.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Interestingly, at least one investor noted that growth wasn’t a key consideration: “We tell our companies to really think about the missing pieces, particularly in gaming infrastructure,” said Banafsheh Fathieh, head of investments, Americas at Prosus Ventures. It was not an entirely unexpected move from Steam.

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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. million investment combines a seed round and convertible note and will be poured into efforts to launch direct to consumers, inventory, branding and marketing.

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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. According to one recent survey (from MLOps Community), 84.3%

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development incumbents communities collaboration 89

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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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Joining TTV in doubling down on their investment in the company were Owl Ventures, SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, Mubadala Capital and Next Play Capital. To date, Welcome has opened over 500,000 “fee-free” and bilingual banking accounts for the Hispanic community, according to Hemmat. the company says. the company says.

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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. When it comes to ‘bets,’ a reminder that we don’t invest due to the sector/category/idea; solely the founder.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GM invests in fast-charging battery startup : And for something a bit different, U.S. 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.” We’ve seen similar plusses and minuses in the crypto world , for example.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

However, we thought our initial focus on recruiting was a wedge – an important but small part of the enterprise communication market that we were going after. We way underestimated Textio’s stickiness within HR and how deeply HR execs would invest in Textio. Today, you’d look at Textio and say it’s an HR Tech company.

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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. 6/ “Gitting Liquid” Back in 2012, right around when I first moved here and was figuring out what VC was, I knew many of the larger firms were figuring out a way to invest in GitHub.

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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. Retail investment behemoth Robinhood laid off 23% of its staff — just 3 months after letting go of 9% of its workforce. Another day, another Q2 funding report.

real estate 106

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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 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.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Natasha spent a good chunk of last week at the All Raise VC summit, an annual off-the-record event that brings together some of the best and brightest in the investment community. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS. This week, we’re trying something new.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Some members of the “urgent care” community are intelligently rebranding their services as “convenient care.” CVS Care Clinic Price Schedule: Benchmark Healthcare Investments. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. healthcare market.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

Metrics matter most in Series B, or as the venture community likes to say: “There’s nothing like numbers to screw up a good story,” and render a promising startup unfinanceable. The trend is further reinforced as American venture capitalists continue to chase yield by investing in less value-inflated markets, which includes non-U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere. ” In other news.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to Biden’s big infrastructure bill. Loverro went on to say that a common refrain that he hears with regards to anything crypto is “Why can’t [incumbent] just add that as a feature?” . Then there is the buy side, which includes both consumers and institutions.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? I don't know if you recall this Sam, that there was something that was said about VCs or investment or something. You can invest in things. We're also going to talk about your ideas.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 11, 2021

I like to think of investing in new things a bit like a football running play. I’ve always thought the opening would be at the intersection of gaming, online communities, and social networks. So the existing incumbents are the defensive line. And they are not taking on any of the incumbents directly. And so is Axie.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a minimum delightful product in fintech, doing the spreadsheet math on unit economics early on, and how to compete in a category already filled with incumbents. Lastly, we were targeting this fairly tight knit community, right?

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incumbents founder leadership advice 93

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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

earned new investment as it strives to topple incumbents like Coinbase. And while Binance sits comfortably atop the market for crypto exchanges, rising competitors like FTX are looking to find new opportunities to increase their market share, pursuing bold M&A strategies and scaling venture investments.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a sign that national security tech is a safe bet even during troubled economic times, defense- and security-focused VC firm Razor’s Edge Ventures today announced the closing of its third startup investment fund at just under $340 million. For example, Razor’s Edge recently invested in Corsha , a Washington, D.C.-based

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That’s a 9x return on investment for the region, which could’ve used the proceeds to improve infrastructure, services, and other things across the city. Another mayor or governor should swoop in, cut a new deal, and start selling the benefits of a potential 5-10x investment could have on their community.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

voting rights tied to its original investment, “contingent on the final settlement of certain legal proceedings (which has not yet occurred).” 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.

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