Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

If you read Reid Hoffman’s important book, “ Blitzscaling ” you’ll realize that in some markets that are large, global and being disruptive sometimes being first to global scale can be more important than short-term unit economics. Last year I pointed out that software would help build competitive moats and we’re already seeing that.

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transportation incumbents disruption financing 250

TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets. At their core, these companies are facilitators, matching consumer demand with existing supply of a product or service.

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real estate incumbents health disruption 144

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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incumbents consulting SaaS disruption 106

Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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incumbents disruption networking collaboration 126

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

David Friend is a serial entrepreneur, six-time founder, and the current co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company, Wasabi Technologies. Discount airlines, cell phones (not smartphones) and integrated circuits are good examples of the “faster, cheaper, simpler” variety, because they simply displaced familiar incumbents. David Friend.

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strategy incumbents VC disruption 95

TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. But t he used cars market isn’t only enormous in Egypt; it is in almost every country with a large population globally. Some include U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When it comes to growing that proportion, however, m obile money — based on simpler technology and with an easier onboarding process — wins out, and it is set to capture more market share faster than traditional banking in the region. Neobanking, based on mobile technology too, falls somewhere in the middle of the two). .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The technology industry is often thought of as being the domain of the young and the new. We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking.

incumbents 101

incumbents peer-to-peer opportunity disruption 101

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. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. Monzo has also been able to move faster than incumbents because of its forward-looking approach to building banking infrastructure.

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peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 102

TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Despite serving as the backbone of global growth, insurance lagged the pace of technology adoption enjoyed by other industries. Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there were lofty claims that everything about the industry was about to change.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” . “The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as the newest member of Sima.ai’s board of directors is a strategic milestone for the company.

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startup accelerator incumbents disruption 95

TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

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. The funds — coming from a single investor, Motive Partners — values Backbase at €2.5 billion ($2.6 billion).

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incumbents leadership disruption strategy 78

TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

A number of fintechs have popped up as of late aiming to disrupt the traditional model of evaluating an individual’s creditworthiness. It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. Spring Labs is one of them.

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collaboration incumbents networking disruption 95

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Successful startups will inevitably draw the attention of powerful incumbents in their industry. Your advantage is that you can add value to your core technology and get it into the hands of customers faster than an existing large corporation usually can. Are you an improver or a disrupter? Vendor lock-in is no longer an option.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Australia’s business banking landscape is dominated by a small group of incumbents, and is ripe for disruption through simpler, more transparent pricing, best-in-class technology and better customer service.”. Square’s bank arm launches as fintech aims ‘to operate more nimbly’

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2016

Which are the ripest areas for startups to disrupt using machine learning? But to get there requires building an enormous customer base with a proprietary data set, that none of the incumbents can replicate or proxy. Novel algorithms are increasingly making their way into the public domain in the form of open-source libraries.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2019

AI Agencies use machine learning to disrupt a market dominated by agencies. Finding scant market demand from the incumbents whose owners prefer status quo, these startups start their own agency. Most technology companies scale revenue independently of people. There is a new twist in SaaS with a parallel dynamic.

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SaaS incumbents startup construction 93

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? ” If you look at every technological shift or platform shift so far, it’s resulted in more things to design. You ship fast, you move fast, you can disrupt yourself.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 2, 2012

In this month’s HBR, Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell published an article targeted to the CEOs of large companies on how to prevent disruption to their businesses. Without OEMs integrating our technology, the company cannot get their product to market. Electric Imp must build an ecosystem of vendors to succeed.

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disruption incumbents real estate startup 40

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“As many businesses are coming out of the pandemic with a new affinity for hybrid and remote work, modern technologies that can best enable the secure and efficient delivery and management of digital workspaces are in high demand.” . “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

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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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

One advantage for Klar, according to Möller , is that its “cost to serve a user” is about 1/20 of what the incumbents pay. I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents. Maybe there was less complacency by the incumbents or there was more competition amongst them….But They just happened to be reserved for a very few.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo. Each market has its own regulation and nuances, and legacy providers offer poor technology at expensive prices,” he said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. Indeed, customers include large financial institutions, fintechs, retailers and software companies, among others.

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startup incumbents financing finance 84

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. Yes, innovations are happening, but core speaker technology rarely moves in a way that could be described as truly innovative.

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startup disruption innovation energy 89

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. The result of those major disruptions? billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Coast’s goal is to use technology to provide fleet business owners and their employees payments products that are intuitive and easy to use. The space is one of those massive unsexy categories with huge incumbents that most people have never heard of but customers — who are forced to use them — universally despise.

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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. The growth of e-commerce and other services on digital platforms has further spurred that trend. ClearBank describes itself as the first clearing bank to have launched in the U.K.

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incumbents enablement disruption innovation 79

American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

“Investors are putting a premium on growth in the context of profitability, and we’re growing exceptionally fast because we’re able to profitably serve customers who aren’t being well served by incumbents,” said Sean Harper, CEO of Kin. Kin makes homeowners insurance more convenient and affordable by eliminating the need for external agents.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

He also was intrigued by the data-driven technology. Fugman said a multibillion market like that “gets us excited to have this kind of landscape for disruption.” Incumbents aren’t investing in R&D, or if they are, they are spending low, single digits there, and this creates an opportunity,” Fugman added.

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capital incumbents venture capital enablement 86

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Startups like Ascend aiming to disrupt the insurance industry are also attracting venture capital, with recent examples including Vouch and Marshmallow , which raised close to $100 million, while Insurify raised $100 million. Ascend app. Insurify, a ‘virtual insurance agent,’ raises $100M Series B.

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finance financing incumbents disruption 83

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company started several years ago with a mission to build alternative payment technologies to improve how cross-border payments were made, and cryptocurrency was indeed part of that premise. If the name “Token” got you wondering how and if this startup is somehow involved in cryptocurrency, you would be both wrong and right.

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incumbents financing finance innovation 81

TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

The bigger hurdle for Super.mx, according to Villarreal, has less to do with technology and more to do with Mexicans getting over what he describes a “deep mistrust” based on bad experiences in the past. We knew the team to unlock the market potential would need to be highly competent and highly disruptive.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. Vaidya said Leda Health’s Ethereum-powered mobile app gives survivors the choice to document their own accounts, using blockchain technology for time-stamping evidence collected in the kit, which puts power back in survivors’ hands. . We’re not in the business of proving consent.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. For years, the real estate technology company has touted itself as using its pricing technology to provide “more accurate offers and lower costs,” said the FTC. Today the U.S.

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real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106

TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Besides incumbent staffing agencies, Deng acknowledges that there are several startups with business models similar to Clipboard’s, like NurseDash, CareRev and Nomad Health, which focuses on travel nurses. And you have patients who are slipping through the cracks, because they can’t get the care they need.”

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