TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. Just last week, this Brazilian credit card and banking fintech raised a $750 million round led by Berkshire Hathaway at a $30 billion valuation, becoming one of the most valuable startups in the world. Nubank is on its way to realizing that objective.

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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? For example, maybe I want to say, “What are the startups to watch working on AI?” I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Steven Blank wrote yesterday about a novel way of depicting a startup’s competitive landscape in a pitch deck, called a petal diagram. First, the competition slide communicates the startup’s worldview of their ecosystem, relays the key axes of differentiation in the market and summarizes the startup’s advantages.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

This year, we’re adding a new feature: Our guests will analyze pitch decks submitted by members of the audience to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Some of of that growth has been fueled by an exodus from the Bay Area, but many early-stage security startups already have deep roots in East Coast cities like Boston and New York.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Now, a startup called Rows that’s built on that ubiquity, with a low-code platform that lets people populate and analyze web apps using just spreadsheet interfaces, is announcing funding and launching a freemium open beta of its expanded service. However, it does point to an opportunity for incumbents to disrupt their disruptors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

The startup creates a durable yet backyard-compostable packing foam out of shrimp shells produced (and discarded) by the seafood industry. His pitch made perfect sense: create a biodegradable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam using a material provided in abundance by nature.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

When I’m meeting a startup for the first time, my goal is to understand as much about the business and team as I can. Is the problem worth solving and if the startup succeeds, how valuable would it be? After a startup has left and I’m “doing diligence,” I want to test some of the assertions made by the company. First meeting.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. ” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 23, 2013

I hear this refrain more and more in pitches. It’s the company that pursues an incumbent with faster, better or cheaper solution and in particular a solution that cannibalizes the incumbent’s business model typically because of a lower cost structure. Takeaways for Startups. The reality is more nuanced.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

And so either with existing, you know, nuclear fission technology, or there’s actually a significant number, you know, now of new nuclear fission startups, as well as fusion startups working on new designs. Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. But we could. And so it’s kind of, everybody ends up happy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Most immediately, Verdon says it allowed several million card holders to continue to operate their cards, “and customers could remain in business with minimal disruption” Railsbank is buying Wirecard Card Solutions, the UK arm of the disgraced fintech. and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

But Amy Spurling, the CEO of Compt, makes the case that incumbent solutions are overly reliant on vendor marketplaces or benefits cards, which limit the ways in which employees can use their perks. She pitches Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Compt as the answer. ” Image Credits: Compt. But, as illustrated by the $12.3 ”

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

We both like doing business with startups and with small business owners and trying to turn small businesses into big businesses. He had started a couple companies and I had worked in a couple of startups and done pretty well, so, we kind of started on the journey on that project we did together at Sloan. What was your pitch even like?

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