Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In a significant cultural shift, the technology organizations inside these FIs have also started to recognize that not all of their tech products need to be built “in-house.” If you are working at an incumbent financial institution and interested in the bleeding edge of technology, we’d love to include you in our network.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

All over the world startups are piling into the space marked “virtual interaction and collaboration”. What if a startup created a sort of ‘Club Penguin for adults’? Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. It has now raised $2.6m

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incumbents collaboration culture board 103

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Y Combinator has funded well over 100 climate tech startups , and together they are worth over $10B. These startups offer commercial solutions to decarbonize society or remove carbon from the atmosphere. There are several ways startups are addressing this already.

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energy startup construction transportation 95

Dream It

MAY 13, 2020

Enterprise Sales | Why are healthtech startups with Covid-19 solutions struggling to sell to enterprise health systems? Reducing Burn | How are healthtech startups managing staffing during the pandemic? Enterprise Sales | Why are healthtech startups with Covid-19 solutions struggling to sell to enterprise health systems?

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. Working With A Chinese Factory, Hardware Entrepreneur Edition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I was speaking recently to the team at NuOrder , an LA-based company we’re an investor in about “realism in startups” — an impromptu talk I have given to any of our portfolio companies who ask. I prefer to compete more with other startups than with giants. I like over communicators who err on the side of transparency and candor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? More than 50%?

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. On top of this, the cost of bringing projects online has fallen, it’s become more fashionable to play the startup game, and so forth. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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opportunity incumbents VC culture 76

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. Can you talk about the impact of the pandemic on market prospects for psychedelic startups?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That’s why Satyen Sangani, a former Oracle VP, co-founded Redwood City–based Alation , a startup that helps crawl a company’s databases in order to build data search catalogs. Alation’s platform organizes data across disparate systems. .” billion and growing toward $11.6 billion over the next four years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money valuation. Along with that news, it’s launching a crypto trading platform and B2B payments for its small and medium business customers. Why Will Ferrell?

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incumbents strategy capital culture 95

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Discount grocery startup Misfits Market raises $200M. Indeed, both companies have similar financial and cultural synergies, Ramesh said, including a focus on eliminating food waste. When we are profitable, we will be able to take on all of these massive incumbents.”. In the U.S.

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incumbents leadership culture VC 75

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. A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. Consolidation everywhere.

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incumbents energy board investing 117

TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Super.mx , an insurtech startup based in Mexico City, has raised $7.2 million seed round, which also saw capital from 500 Startups Mexico, Village Global, Anthemis and Broadhaven Ventures, among others. Unlike most insurtech startups in Latin America, Villarreal emphasizes that Super.mx million in a Series A round led by ALLVP.

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health incumbents culture venture capital 98

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The internal rate of return (IRR) for companies in other startup hub cities has been even better. Which is just one snapshot, but a relevant one given how hard it can be to produce accurate early-stage startup market analysis at this scale. You can increasingly do a startup from anywhere and make it a success. billion from $17.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

While the CEO sets strategy, messages, and builds culture, the CFO needs to know everything that it is going on in an organization. For three Palantir alums, the hope is that CFOs will turn to their new startup called Mosaic. Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome.

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financing finance incumbents consulting 98

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

It become such a quick part of popular culture that Jim Carrey rode a Bird in an opening segment of the Jimmy Kimmel show (hilarious if you haven’t seen it). You can’t simply drop a bunch of electric scooters in a market and hope to compete with the data and software advantages of the incumbents.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. .” Startup Lessons' Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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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.”. Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years. billion of value in the U.S. “We

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incumbents collaboration capital culture 98

Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

As an investor in startups, there is considerable conventional wisdom around the idea of investing only in the Bay Area. This is all happening, of course, to a region that doesn’t have a modern public transportation system. “Get a plane! For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015.

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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. Reports say African startups raised record-smashing $4.3B African tech took center stage in 2021. to $5B in 2021.

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investing investment ventures incumbents 99

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Each story is based on an interview with a founder or investor who addressed some of the most common startup dilemmas. Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture. Chinese startups rush to bring alternative protein to people’s plates. Chinese startups rush to bring alternative protein to people’s plates.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors. PitchBook data shows that edtech startups around the world raised $10.76 In the United States, edtech startups raised $1.78 billion last year, compared to $4.7

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. Finally, there’s Equity , TechCrunch’s long-running, Webby-award-winning podcast focused on venture capital and the latest startup news, hosted by Natasha , Mary Ann and Alex.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Gleitzman was a senior software engineer at Hunch and eBay before cofounding several startups including a “virtual reality therapy platform” called Mona. Sentiment analysis systems — both academic and commercial — have been shown to exhibit bias along race, age , cultural, ethnic, and gender lines.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. It’s entirely possible the trend lifts these companies in due time, as well.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

Cultivating a culture and practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become a core principle for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder? It’s not an afterthought.

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peer-to-peer entrepreneurial ecosystem entrepreneurship board 105

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

And so either with existing, you know, nuclear fission technology, or there’s actually a significant number, you know, now of new nuclear fission startups, as well as fusion startups working on new designs. Tyler: But are the roots of this stasis quite general and quite cultural? But we could. Marc: Yeah.

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energy education technology capital 84

TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

“Comparing aggregate 2020 figures to 2019 results, it appears that last year was a somewhat robust year for African startups, albeit one with fewer large rounds,” he found. The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder. ” The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by the major food and beverage incumbents such as Nestlé, which launched a plant-based dairy line under the Wunda brand last year, while rival Unilever has been doubling down on its vegan offerings.

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incumbents culture sustainability development 73

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Many companies have wrongly taken to monitoring as solutions, which long term deteriorate culture and hinder them from hiring and keeping the best talent possible.” He teamed up with Codacy’s other co-founder, João Caxaria, to launch the startup in 2012. Image Credits: Codacy. Pulse aims to help in this process.”

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

This success reminds me of a famous Paul Graham post, Schlep Blindness , where Graham argues while incredible startup ideas lie around us, this specific work can feel to many to be both tedious and boring. One analyst estimated $15b+ of incumbent market value was wiped out.

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incumbents venture capital health VC 65

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. Of the Haystack companies which are in major startup hubs outside the Bay Area (which makes up 20% of the total portfolio), 13% are in NYC, 4% in LA, and nearly 2% each in Seattle and Boston.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. All startups are screwed up. HT Mike Maples Jr ) Corollary: A startup has to be so excellent at one or two key things, that they can screw up everything else up and not die.

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culture strategy SaaS founder 161

Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In a few days, Thiel and Masters will release a book version of these notes called Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future. Every person curious about or in the world of startups should read it, because it contains so much original thought. I was given a copy at TechCrunch Disrupt. But, competition increases costs.

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