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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. It allows him the opportunity to do what he does best, finding and motivating entrepreneurs then thinking through market strategy. I run Revolution’s VC investments.

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Debt versus equity: When do non-traditional funding strategies make sense?

TechCrunch

This works for some, but too often founders find themselves diluting their equity to unrecoverable portions rather than considering other financing options that allow them to hold on to their company — options like debt capital. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption.

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Kin lands $33M in fresh financing from investors

American Entrepreneurship

Investor confidence in Kin continues to climb due to its unique business strategy and market focus, which have produced systematic, capital efficient growth. The post Kin lands $33M in fresh financing from investors appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®. (doing its reinsurance business as HSCM Bermuda), and Alpha Edison.

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Backbase raises its first funding, $128M at a $2.6B valuation, for tools that help banks with engagement

TechCrunch

Larger banks and other financial service providers are getting a lot more serious when it comes to competing with upstarts that are disrupting their businesses with fresher approaches and newer technologies. We want to be closer to companies’ larger digital transformation programs.”

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Bud raises $80M more to expand its AI-based open banking platform, used to power lending tools and more

TechCrunch

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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Jambo raises $7.5M from Coinbase, Alameda Research to build “web3 super app” of Africa

TechCrunch

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. It’s one of our main user acquisition strategies where we want to double every Africans airtime and data,” Zhang said. million in seed funding. The last bit is play-to-earn games.

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The Nubank EC-1

TechCrunch

Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. McCarthy, who spent significant time in Brazil growing up and is trilingual in English, Spanish and Portuguese, has been covering the LatAm and Miami ecosystems for TechCrunch with an eye to the disruption underway in these interconnected regions.