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.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

One of the most memorable parts of the session is when modified shared with us that the most common pricing mistake in a land and expand motion is to cede too much value in the free/lesser product, scuttling any expansion opportunity. Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. Competition.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Our platform not only reduces the friction with payments by enabling customers to pay how they want to pay, but also helps carriers sell more insurance.”. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

“So we came to enable businesses to deliver personalized digital content via a personal landing page that can be built easily within the Mobiz platform and deliver on the SMS channel.” ’ small and medium business market because “its product is easy to use and suited for the big market opportunity in the U.S.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Businesses that operate fleets need to enable their drivers to pay for vehicle-related expenses when they’re on the road, such as maintenance, roadside assistance and gas. It’s the perfect recipe for a startup to come in and disrupt it with a much better experience,” Mohnot told TechCrunch via e-mail.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Market Opportunity. We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. By definition the market is already large and therefore crowded or it’s nascent and the opportunity is not totally clear. But what about markets?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. The market remains volatile and we saw layoffs as an opportunity to use data and technology to streamline our approach and improve our customer experience. See you next week!

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. Blockchain is at its most powerfully disruptive when it supplies the missing link. can repair the attention-driven digital economy. What’s your web3 strategy?

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Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

“Businesses that disrupt/create huge markets with a non-replicable product offering a must-have service , which gets better the more people use it.” This is what enables this type of exponential charts: The larger the user base, the faster the growth 3. What’s yours? ”?—?below below is my answer to his question.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US. Buyers now expect stores to offer an opportunity to connect with a brand in a way that is relational rather than purely transactional. “A

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. In this post, we will walk through what drove Monzo’s early success, how it has come to dominate the UK market, and the company’s opportunity to change the landscape of global financial services with its beloved brand.

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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. The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the other side is a proprietary data tool called The Machine that gathers over 15 million data points from places like Shopify, direct customer feedback, Amazon, retail point of sale and search engine trends, to unearth category opportunities for the company to pursue. The Naked Market founders Alex Kost and Harrison Fugman.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Traditional banks have not been able to keep pace.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad. That spells opportunity for companies that are enabling that adoption. The growth of e-commerce and other services on digital platforms has further spurred that trend.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

” Interestingly, though, it seems that it’s all still relatively small compared to the overall amount of transactions, which underscores to just how much has to happen before the concept of account-to-account (and the companies enabling it) can hope for any kind of mainstream acceptance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all.

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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. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation). The incumbent system involves three key “stacks.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. This year, we’re curating 200 companies for you to check out and meet for the first time in the Expo Hall, with the top 20 gracing the Disrupt stage to launch their wares.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Socially connected individuals and platforms that enable faster roll-outs of successful products. Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. How does the incumbent respond? How do existing incumbents compete with that?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It laid bare its weaknesses, and conversely, uncovered potential opportunities. COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry. What sectors will recover in 2021 and where are the new and unlikely opportunities to invest? The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 Experts say Africa is poised to be disrupted by web3 in a similar fashion that has seen Southeast Asia become one of the best markets for web3.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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? With AI, you massively open up the opportunity for creation. Startups vs. incumbents David: I want to shift gears just a little bit and move towards the business and market structure side of things.

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