TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The way Sangani sees it, most corporate leadership wants to build a “data-driven” culture but is stymied by tech hurdles and a lack of knowledge about what data they have, where it lives, whether it’s trustworthy and how to make the best use of it. Alation’s platform organizes data across disparate systems. .”

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

You will see the majority are in the Bay Area, and then New York City, and a bit more around LA and Seattle — and things get really scattered.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Thndr, launched in late 2020 by Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr , is filling the gap by making it easier to open and manage investment accounts, consequently replacing traditionally slow and outdated processes by incumbents. The first investment that 75% of our users have done was with less than $500.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s random enough of an endorsement that it becomes humorous in itself, exactly the kind of vehicle you associate with Ferrell in his less marketing-focused pursuits.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, in first quarter 2015, 55% of all American venture rounds were either seed or Series A, split almost evenly, while 19% of all rounds were Series B (the third round of financing), according to data from CB Insights. Remember the “buy low, sell high” advice they were supposed to teach you in business school?

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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. I did, too.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Each organization’s culture around these questions is different. When it comes to purchasing AI solutions specifically, some organizations have a predisposition to buying from larger incumbents, so be sure to have a crisp value proposition for why they should partner with a startup over a larger incumbent with whom they’re already working.

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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. short haul aviation and shipping).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

In my experience, many founders have a hard time delegating, which can quickly create cultural and operational problems. Enterprise SaaS company Latch makes keyless entry systems; Sunlight Financial helps consumers finance residential solar power installations. ” Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. Fintech (specifically embedded finance or financial SaaS), synthetic bio. This innovative mindset has been instilled in our state of mind and cultural DNA.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

There was kind of a culture of glorifying that a little bit, where everybody’s wearing company swag, and then it becomes a thing that everybody wants. Excuse me, there were a lot of companies visiting for recruiting purposes, and I was like, “Oh, Facebook is here, Microsoft is here.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Mix in the impending SPAC-led debut of eToro, general bullishness in the cryptocurrency space, record highs for some equities markets, and recent rounds from Public.com, M1 Finance and U.K.-based Among the five startups launched in 2020 that raised the most financing, four were based outside the Bay Area. But will it?

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So backing up on how healthcare is financed, let’s say you got a plan with basically no deductible, so you’ve got first dollar coverage. There’s a culture in Silicon Valley that moves fast and breaks things, right? Bill Gurley : Well, industries get more regulated and incumbents write the regulation.

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