TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

His pitch made perfect sense: create a biodegradable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam using a material provided in abundance by nature. We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” Both will join as advisors.

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ecology sustainability innovation pitching 99

TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. We believe the latter, in particular, will really disrupt the market. And every year, it falls flat.

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startup disruption innovation energy 89

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Leading the round is MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital, which are both existing investors in Railsbank. Also participating is Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry.

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incumbents disruption pitching VC 115

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. You know, most of our economy is dominated by, you know, incumbent institutions that, you know, have no intention, I don’t think, of changing or evolving unless they’re forced to. They generally don’t seek to disrupt, or seek to create, or seek to invent.

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energy education technology capital 97

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. The capital markets have boosted these types of startups, helping them raise huge amounts of capital at attractive prices, and disrupt massive markets. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B raised by Uber and $2.4B

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real estate startup incumbents sustainability 40

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

Then when I graduated, a year before he did, actually, he was on a different track than I was, and I spent about nine months in a little venture firm as a EIR, and we tinkered with it. We’d meet once or twice a week, and work on the idea, and pitch it to law firms. What was your pitch even like? Now it costs you nothing!

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