TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Put simply, Melon is developing tech and fulfillment infrastructure — or the backend — to enable small and medium e-commerce merchants to “easily” sell and grow across multiple channels such as Shopify, Instagram and Amazon, and then deliver almost anywhere in the region.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Rebag , which buys, sells and trades luxury items like handbags and accessories, raised a $33 million Series E round following a year of technology development and category expansion. Gorra intends to use the new capital to continue technology development on those tools, to add to Rebag’s workforce of 150 people and expand its marketing.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

But where there is a gap, there is an opportunity. Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. The emergence of SaaS business models has further set the stage for companies like Gusto to transform SMB operations. Gusto saw an opportunity to upend the way payroll was done.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans. Fuzzy live chat via its app.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I’ve gone through this discovery process for dozens of startup ideas, potential features, and market opportunities.

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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.”. If you see a gap in an opportunity, you can immediately put resources toward that in days, not months,” she said. Talk about validation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

It is developing a platform and Heatic sensors that detect someone’s body heat anonymously to determine occupancy, headcount and activity. This is unlike incumbent technology, which Deng said “misses minutes” during the transmission of the images. million in convertible notes, which is included in the $7.9

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

If it sounds frustrating as a salesperson, well, that’s what AcuityMD is here to resolve; to find opportunities for your sales process. What we needed was analytics, information and procedural insights — AcuityMD was a game changer,” says Ben Joseph, VP of Commercial and Corporate Development, Anika.

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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. “We’re big believers of Bitcoin, so we’re just going to continue to buy whenever there’s an opportunity to.”

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transportation venture capital incumbents hospitality 88

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

In announcing the deal, they said: “DeFi-enabled B2B payment networks that are on chain can unlock transformative working capital efficiencies, and make financial services more fair and open, especially in developing markets like LATAM.”. In particular, he said Paystand has experienced over 700% revenue growth in the last three years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

And finally, we will invest in our employees by launching additional professional development programs.” Replicant provides agents with call summaries and measures trends like overall customer satisfaction, average handle time, competitor mentions, defective products and upsell opportunities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Weder planned on using the Series A funding to expand across Mexico and Latin America — a market he told me represents a $600 billion opportunity — and that’s just what the company did. The global pandemic helped a lot in terms of grocery adoption in Latin America,” he added. Before, it was 1% and now it is 3% and growing aggressively.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It developed payments APIs to automate end-to-end insurance payments and to offer a buy now, pay later financing option for distribution of commissions and carrier payables, something co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Wynn, said was rather unique to commercial insurance. This is the first funding for the company that is live in 20 states.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2016

By developing a brand that resonates with customers, that creates a category, and that sufficiently differentiates a business from its competitors, a startup can create a lasting competitive advantage. Execution is a competitive advantage when the team is uniquely qualified to pursue and opportunity. Because after all he had built it.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

There is a unique window of opportunity today for a new 3D Creation Engine (aka game engine) to revolutionize the way we create games, film, virtual worlds, and simulations. Before the 2010s, most studios developed their own internal engines to build their games. EA’s Frostbite, Infinity Ward Engine, etc).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s the precise opportunity that former Tesla CIO, Jay Vijayan, concluded he was well-positioned to address while still in the employ of the electric vehicle giant. As Vijayan tells it, he knew nothing about cars until joining Tesla in 2011, following a dozen years of working in product development at Oracle, then VMware.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. There isn’t one most important SaaS metric. Being focussed on SaaS metrics is not incompatible with valuing employee fulfillment and customer happiness. Maximize opportunity rather than minimize down-side.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

We have an opportunity to create meaningful change in the financial lives of millions by becoming the investment rail on which wallets and fintechs can innovate. The startup provides a “Fintech Stack as a Service” for developers to manage the chaos of integrating with various service providers. For too long, many people in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? 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.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One obvious solution to this list of issues and opportunities is to leverage technology to better serve the needs of the customer. Stitch Health — Our most recent healthcare investment, Stitch is a Y-Combinator seeded SaaS company that serves as home base for healthcare teams that aim to deliver customer-first healthcare.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Part of Mendel’s strategy is to attract customers with high payment volume and low credit risk, while at the same time charging a SaaS fee for the usage of their platform. The B2B payment market in Mexico is a massive opportunity, the company believes, especially considering how few payments are made by cards.

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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. David: Yeah.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

As vaccines roll out, drug development pipelines return to normal, and next-generation therapies continue to hold investor interest, 2021 is on pace to be another blockbuster year. Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand discuss proptech’s biggest opportunities. What is the biggest opportunity for proptech founders?

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Any business where we see margin is our opportunity. Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce each are building broad platforms that serve hundreds of thousands of developers and are generating tens billions of dollars in aggregate revenue and growing at incredible rates. Anything that’s open source with traction, we will host.

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