StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

Therefore, entrepreneurs should start with developing a deep understanding of the customer’s problem and launch only when they are sure they can deliver the customer a solution to their problem. Instead of investing money in traditional marketing methods, they instead invested in their customer experience and success teams.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. He soon began to invest in everything from ramen and hotpots to bottled beverages.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. Another company competing in the increasingly saturated segment is Sima.ai , which is developing a system-on-chip platform for AI applications — particularly computer vision applications.

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startup accelerator incumbents disruption 95

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

This could also be the signature investment for CRV’s Max Gazor, who joined the firm a bit after 2010 and has quietly been making great enterprise picks. Benchmark investing in a $100M-sized round & Thrive and Coatue quickly following on different terms) — it is more likely to be an accurate, strong signal of company momentum.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

We have witnessed the likes of WeWork, Convene, and Airbnb reimagine working and living, all while catalyzing momentum for further investments across the real estate technology landscape. Modern consumers have increasingly begun to accept, and often prefer, reducing both human and invested capital with technology and third-party services.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI, in conversation with a16z’s David George. [00:36] 4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? 00:36] Will AI replace designers? [4:03]

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Today, Tomo announced a $7 million seed funding round that included participation from a slew of investors including KB Investment Inc. KBIC) — a subsidiary of South Korean consumer bank, Kookmin Bank — along with Barclays, Knollwood Investment Advisory, BAM Ventures, Passport Capital, Ulu Ventures and Strong Ventures. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Taking the love of the Asian food they grew up with, they wanted to develop one of those brands for the U.S. “We 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.”.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Quilt has developed a highly efficient electric heat pump system that is controlled through a first-of-its-kind integrated software platform. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. We’re developing heat pumps that are better than any HVAC system of any kind.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation. billion ($1.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Israeli startup provides software-based internet routing solutions to service providers to run them as virtualized services over “ white box ” generic architecture, and today it is announcing $262 million in equity funding to continue expanding its technology, its geographical footprint, and its business development.

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networking peer-to-peer incumbents innovation 77

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips. And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Austin-based Maev , developing human-grade raw dog food, is poised to take a share of the raw food category, announcing today it raised $9 million in a round of funding led by Springdale Ventures. She worked at a startup as a product development manager, but ultimately left that behind to find a different calling.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. This approach has selected entrepreneurs to evaluate one another on key due diligence criteria (team, product market fit, etc) to determine overall investability.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. You know, incumbents versus startups. There’s just a lot of work.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. “We will use M&A strategically going forward, including in relation to product development.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Spradling through the Antler accelerator, a Singapore- and New York-based early-stage investment and advisory services program that connects entrepreneurs and tech operators to launch new businesses. International Development Finance Corp. Miami-based Marco Financial is launching a revenue-based lending service for Latin American SMEs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It also plans to use its new capital to “invest heavily” in product development, including expansion into broader B2B payments, as well as toward marketing and awareness. Money will also go toward developing new business verticals and partnerships. Presently, Mendel has 70 employees and it expects to end 2022 with 200.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The startup’s competition includes incumbents like Informatica, IBM, SAP and Oracle, as well as newer rivals such as Collibra , Castor , Stemma , Data.World and Ataccama , all of whom offer tools for classifying and curating data at enterprise scale. The all-equity tranche values Alation at over $1.7 billion and growing toward $11.6

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incumbents collaboration enablement ventures 86

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. billion by 2025. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics. According to Marc Schröder, managing partner at MGV, “seed-stage investing is the best place for venture capital to deploy when global uncertainty sprouts up.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Hoag notes that Teampay is low-code and doesn’t require custom development. billion was invested into corporate spend management companies in 2021. billion was invested between January and May alone. Image Credits: Teampay. billion valuation. According to Dealroom, over $2.8 This year, $1.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. Indeed, customers include large financial institutions, fintechs, retailers and software companies, among others.

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startup incumbents financing finance 84

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

At the time, the company had to develop its own rudimentary device management platform to deliver its content in the healthcare environments, Wilson told TechCrunch. Its competitors include incumbent mobile device management companies, which build similar tools for mobile phones and laptops, and some device manufacturers.

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incumbents hospitality collaboration enablement 87

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

We have long been pushy on such an indirect distribution, having invested in four embedded insurance startups in property and casualty, bancassurance, life, and SME insurance. Since astoryaVC’s inception, we have been investing in tech-based startups and have done a lot of B2B / enterprise software deals in the insurance space.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. See Expeto , which is developing a platform that allows corporate customers to extend their private networks via virtually any type of cellular connectivity.

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networking startup incumbents energy 88

TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. It will also be working to develop a BNPL product for businesses and instant fund disbursement products. Indian fintech Slice tops $1.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

By providing these products as a unified strategic solution, the goal is to enable hardware manufacturers the ability to get to production volume without investing in the specialized facilities or headcount historically needed to manage electronic components. ” Cofactr co-founders Matthew Haber (l) and Phil Gulley (r).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology. It is also investing the funding in more international expansion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The plan will be to continue to support and grow its wider business building e-commerce tools for all kinds of larger companies, but in particular Spryker plans to use this tranche of funding to double down specifically on the B2B opportunity, building more agile e-commerce storefronts and in some cases also developing marketplaces around that.

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mix-use incumbents B2B marketing strategy 76

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

In the latest development, OneStream , a startup that provides a toolkit of services to enterprises to help them run financial operations (for example, reporting, planning, tax and more), has raised $200 million in primary equity. The funding values OneStream at $6 billion.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Gerard Grech, chief executive of Tech Nation, said the body’s work represented a “£15 return on every £1 invested by the government.”. Today, Tech Nation’s work represents a £15 return on every £1 invested by the UK Government. We can’t hand the support to the tech ecosystem to an incumbent bank!

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

What we needed was analytics, information and procedural insights — AcuityMD was a game changer,” says Ben Joseph, VP of Commercial and Corporate Development, Anika. While we’ve been able to capture meaningful market share in a short period of time, we wanted to find a tool to help us further unlock the full commercial potential.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

In addition to driving down prices, team purchase helps solve the “trust deficit” of retail in China’s developing cities, where more than 80% 5 ) of retail is unorganized and consumers rely heavily on social recommendations to initiate transactions. To maximize this effect, Pinduoduo launched in the fruits and vegetables category.

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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. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2019.

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