TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. Traditional brick-and-mortar strategy doesn’t transfer over to e-commerce, but the old way with spreadsheets and human-driven operations don’t scale.

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capital startup enablement incumbents 89

TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

It requires the technical and financial know-how to develop and implement a new backbone in a highly regulated industry,” said Strange, who joined Vesta’s board as part of the financing. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

peer-to-peer 97

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 97

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. ” Image Credits: ManageXR dashboard / ManageXR.

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incumbents hospitality collaboration enablement 87

Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

The emergence of SaaS business models has further set the stage for companies like Gusto to transform SMB operations. In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. With its software up and running, Gusto needed to figure out its go-to-market strategy.

incumbents 87

incumbents peer-to-peer health opportunity 87

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. “Our engineers are excited about this move,” said Pellisé. And as more regions decriminalize the use of plant-based substances, investors are taking notice.

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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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real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Before the 2010s, most studios developed their own internal engines to build their games. Now, almost all games are built using the third party engines shown below, excluding some of the largest AAA budget games that still develop on their own (e.g. EA’s Frostbite, Infinity Ward Engine, etc).

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incumbents creativity development enablement 145

Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 20, 2015

Then in the mid-00s with the advent of SaaS, the market shifted to per seat per year pricing. And simultaneously, freemium marketing strategies blossomed. Today, we’re seeing a new segment of the SaaS ecosystem move to free - the SaaS Enabled Marketplace (SEM). FSEMs can be incredibly disruptive businesses.

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enablement SaaS incumbents startup 40

Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 16, 2022

Infrastructure usage can vary widely depending on seasonality (retail traffic spikes in Q4), developer activity (migration from one architecture to the next), new product launches, amongst other factors. Often, the effort probably isn’t worth it, unless the company’s stated strategy is to differentiate on price structure.

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incumbents SaaS strategy startup 102

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2023

Develop multiple products from Day One. This is called a suite strategy: Zoho published a history of the 2-4 product launches per year, which illustrates the idea. In a recent podcast, Parker Conrad champions the suite strategy, also called a compound company. Today, new startups have to compete with a cloud-native incumbency.

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strategy SaaS incumbents startup 110

A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. Founders almost never have a real strategy. 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. Otherwise, this is a failure of organizational development.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. As a SaaS business, Pismo mostly makes money by charging transaction fees.

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incumbents financing finance technology 96

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 Cross River Bank is not just any bank.

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startup financing finance incumbents 110

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. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? are at risk.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 10, 2016

The next big shift in SaaS is an evolution from software as a service as a displacer to a disruptor. Displacement technologies compete with incumbents on the same buying parameters. Most SaaS products today are displacers. SaaS products initially were viewed as a cheaper, often inferior product to their client/server peers.

SaaS 40

SaaS peer-to-peer incumbents disruption 40

Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 5, 2013

Freemium businesses disrupt incumbents by dramatically reducing the costs of customer acquisition. By granting free access to a great product, a freemium business develops a community of evangelists within an organization that foster demand for a product. Imagine a successful bottoms-up freemium SaaS business.

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incumbents SaaS disruption communities 40

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. Money will also go toward developing new business verticals and partnerships. Presently, Mendel has 70 employees and it expects to end 2022 with 200.

incumbents 90

incumbents financing finance frameworks 90

Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2016

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. Second, these dollars finance hundreds if not thousands of engineers are working on developing new products at a torrid rate.

startup 40

startup incumbents strategy SaaS 40

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. Carbon cap and trade for developing world could spur massive investments — if it works. What’s the right NDR target for SaaS startups?

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