TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Marco’s factoring product enables new companies to get started without having to put up the significant amount of collateral that banks are asking.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Some of the funds will also go into product development, hiring talent in engineering and product teams and executing partnerships with football clubs. . More recently, Eksab started churning out content for users to get news and updates about their favorite players and teams, using that information to better inform their fantasy decisions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Flatfile recently released a software development kit that will allow developers to build on top of Flatfile’s components to access import, match, merge and export functions. “[The] platform enables companies to leverage their data sooner. . “[The] platform enables companies to leverage their data sooner.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The company bills itself as a “live conversation” platform that helps sales reps connect with prospects while automating some of the more tedious parts of the sales development process. “ Orum enables teams to make hundreds of calls in just minutes, while helping automate lead data and improve it over time.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Cross-border remittances — when people living and working abroad send money back home to friends and family — continues to be a huge part of how those living in developing countries, off the global financial grid, can be helped. on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

This isn’t an issue in developed markets, as healthcare systems change with the times to adequately provide healthcare when necessary. A growing population and lifestyle changes, especially around urbanization and food habits, are significant factors that contribute to this sharp rise.

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health startup consulting incumbents 95

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In its own words, Mountain View-based Vareto is developing a new platform for FP&A (financial planning & analysis) teams with the goal of “building the future of financial planning.”. So Singh ended up assembling a 10-person “shadow finance and ops team” to get “the right information at the right time.”. Talk about validation.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

And finally, we will invest in our employees by launching additional professional development programs.” ”) and takes steps to mitigate bias in its systems — including its sentiment analysis systems — as well as the data used to develop these algorithms. ” Automating customer interactions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Powered by GPT-3 fine-tuned on “contextual information,” including database schema, Baselit lets users perform database queries in plain English — without having to know any code. But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Vouch hopes to leverage Level’s expertise in developing underwriting technologies to underwrite and support complex insurance products. ” 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?”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It was a startling development in the world of crypto, and while I don’t cover the space directly, I couldn’t help but be fascinated by the goings-on — and not in a good way. So if you’ve g ot a news tip or inside information about a topic we have covered (or haven’t yet but should). Pymnts has more here.

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real estate incumbents mix-use financing 97

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

As interest in webhooks continues to soar due to their importance in helping web applications communicate with each other in real-time, Convoy’s play, which allows developers globally simply plug its webhooks infrastructure and focus on building their APIs and products, is meritorious. . Website : [link]. Founded in : 2019.

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startup hospitality health financing 91

Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Social shopping may seem like a new concept, but the reality is that in the physical world, shopping is meant to be “interactive and fun” and purchases are regularly informed by friends and family. Pinduoduo’s team purchase is often compared to Groupon in the US because they both enable a form of group buying.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In this area I’ve developed another philosophy that guides my investment decisions and forms a lot of the premise that I debate in our internal partners’ meetings when I’m advocating that we invest in a company. .&# They might be large markets, sure. But what about markets?

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Today’s digital e-commerce successes aren’t merely developing strategies to expand beyond borders as quickly as possible – they are a new generation of firms that are “born online” and later build out physical spaces as they grow.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 20, 2015

Today, we’re seeing a new segment of the SaaS ecosystem move to free - the SaaS Enabled Marketplace (SEM). SaaS Enabled Marketplaces, like Contently, charge for both software (content management tools) and access to a market place (of content producers). This go-to-market strategy benefits FSEMs in three important ways.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

OpenTable enables the consumer to search reservation availability across hundreds and hundreds of restaurants in a matter of seconds. That capability never existed before, and as a result the delta of the new experience vs. the incumbent experience (dialing restaurants one by one) is extremely high. “Wow”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Unicorn Flexport is revolutionizing the world of logistics , serving as a freight forwarder with software that enables customers to manage their shipments. But it can certainly help provide additional valuable information to customers, importers and exporters,” Chen said, adding, “We try to empower incumbents to compete with Flexport.

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incumbents transportation capital enablement 70

TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We Fast slows its roll. But wait, there’s more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

The firm says its intent is to go beyond term sheets to issuing bespoke “Strategy Sheets,” which outline how Vesey Ventures aims to leverage its network “to act as a company’s first business development team.” Got a news tip or inside information about a topic we covered? have raised only $74 million this year.” Sign up here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

A company with this architecture will map out the customer journey sufficiently well to develop proxy metrics , leading indicators of customer behavior. A data scientist might develop a churn prediction algorithm. These two feedback loops accelerate, spinning the data flywheel pushing more information into the data warehouse.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In non-geek speak this means that there is so much information out there now it’s hard to separate the good stuff from the rest. I’ve talked before about the power of Twitter for information discovery. Recommendation Slicing. The Internet has a problem. It’s one you know well.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Statsig is taking the A/B testing applications that drive Facebook’s growth and putting similar functionalities into the hands of any product team so that they, too, can make faster, data-informed decisions on building products customers want. The truth about SDK integrations and their impact on developers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

QuickVid, which Habib, a self-taught developer who previously worked at Meta on Facebook Live and video infrastructure, built in a matter of weeks, launched on December 27. Copilot was co-developed by OpenAI and GitHub, which Microsoft owns.) Going after video. It’s easy to use. See: [link].

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2023

Develop multiple products from Day One. Rippling sells about 13 products for information technology teams, finance teams, & human resources teams like mobile device management, payroll, & talent management. A compound company must excel at new product development & launch. Constellation Software.

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strategy SaaS incumbents startup 114

Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

the discovery by German engineers of “psychoacoustic” principles according to which most of the information in recorded music is in fact inaudible to the human listener and can be thrown away?—?coupled incumbents simply did not have the right teams to adapt to the changing environment. There is also a DNA issue at stake?—?incumbents

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. Stripe’s launch in 2009 made it possible for startups to easily collect payments online via developer-friendly APIs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The cloud-native market has seen the introduction of a range of open source DevOps tools — tools that combine software development and IT operations — built to address very specific use cases. To Ghildiyal’s point, there’s evidence to suggest that there’s a gap between DevOps adoption and success.

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capital incumbents enablement disruption 73

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. Information Collection — Does your doctor make it easy to provide information about your visit?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. JoyTunes, led by Yuval Kaminka has developed a music-learning platform that has skyrocketed in 2020. Led by CEO Pavel Gurevich the company is seeing excellent traction.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 10, 2016

Displacement technologies compete with incumbents on the same buying parameters. A CRM is the canonical source of sales information; the ERP system is the canonical source of a company’s financial information. On the other hand, workflow applications enable workers to do work.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Launched in 2020, Solana gained worldwide renown for being one of the fastest blockchains with a rapidly growing developer ecosystem. This is a panel that will be not only informative but also lots of fun. Why is it important to consider accessibly when developing your products and services as a startup? Speeding Up Crypto.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

What are the advances that you anticipate seeing that are going to sort of change the way people interact with these, [and] enable new kinds of products being built? I think there will be a lot of value placed on the idea that you know the source of your information, you know which human said it, or which publication originally printed it.

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