Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. It’s entirely possible the trend lifts these companies in due time, as well.

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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. ” There’s truth to what Jayakrishnan’s expressing about pent-up demand.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This time, the ICC is suing UpCodes for false advertising and unfair competition, claiming that the startup’s copies of building codes are “incomplete and riddled with errors.” ” He added, “It’s a model of how open government data can drive new innovations and successful startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The startup provides dashboards from where users can build AI-powered workflows for tasks like claims processing, customer support and appointment scheduling, letting organizations automate both business processes and front-office, customer-facing tasks (if the sales pitch is to be believed). After all, Jiffy.ai

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

If you think embedded insurance is the only hot thing in insurtech these days, we’ve got a surprise in store for you: While it’s true that startups that help sell insurance together with other products and services are enjoying tailwinds, there are plenty of other opportunities in the space, several investors told TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Interestingly, the startup also got some industry validation in the way of investors. TrustLayer says that companies that use its platform can automate the verification of insurance, licenses and compliance documents of business partners such as vendors, subcontractors, suppliers, borrowers, tenants, ridesharing and franchisees. (By

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

All over the world startups are piling into the space marked “virtual interaction and collaboration”. What if a startup created a sort of ‘Club Penguin for adults’? Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. It has now raised $2.6m

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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 understand the arguments for why incumbents may benefit in a disproportionate way.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Legal and corporate due diligence , which involves a detailed investigation on the startup, the founders, contracts, corporate structure, product, compliance, contracts, offering, and more. What is due diligence?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips. And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the many ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. Welcome to my new weekly fintech-focused column. It’s an incredible time to be a financial technology journalist.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

As such, Campbell said her startup plans to launch these kits in fall 2021, partnering with several universities for a beta rollout. We’ve also documented potential investors engaging with social media posts calling for us to be jailed.” . On the other hand, every year tens of thousands of rape kits aren’t tested by police. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Europe is perhaps an obvious first step for Neeva’s inaugural expansion plans, owing to the slew of antitrust complaints currently faced by the mighty incumbent Google, with legislators targeting everything from e-commerce (Google Shopping) and Android to its dominance of the online ad market. France and Germany. ” Privacy push.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

After a quick review, April crunches the numbers and generates filing documents. . ” Countless vendors offer online tax prep services, including incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block. It doesn’t hurt that funding for fintech startups was on the rise prior to the current economic headwinds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

This is a common refrain in the industry, which is why we are seeing an increasing number of startups pop up in the space. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

And of course incumbent payroll providers like Square offer their own solutions. Contractors can add a bank account, W-9 and any necessary e-signed documents themselves. The future of work is happening now, but actually supporting it requires a paradigm shift in how companies efficiently engage with independent contractors at scale.”

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 24, 2022

The startup believes that with the ongoing digital transformation and software adoption trends in Southeast Asia, its employee management platform would ultimately become an important piece of software infrastructure for the region. funding first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two factors often come down to how Q&A will be shared and/or if we are the incumbent. As you get ready for the next phase in the RFP Process, make sure you have documented the following: Comprehension: The RFP is clearly understood by you and your team. With leading a pitch end to end, the most important phase is often the Q&A.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. We’ll first look at MongoDB as an example of how a company can break through the barriers for database startups competing with incumbents. When life gives you Mongos, make MongoDB. Image Credits : Nasdaq, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. 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? Why Deflationary Business Win.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

M&A can be a great outcome for all parties, especially for startup founders and their team. In markets where incumbents are playing catch-up, there is a window when a few companies will get bought. A timeline for startup M&A processes: Key steps and factors to consider by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

When Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi joined the YC W17 batch with an idea for a VR startup, they quickly encountered a problem. Cards are particularly a must have for young companies because large vendors don’t often accept ACH and other forms of alternative payment from early startups.

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Unvalidated Learnings

DECEMBER 15, 2015

While it’s safe to assume that every service will move towards such a seamless mobile experience, the pace at which the change is occurring, and whether it will be led by a new startup vs. an incumbent, depends on a few characteristics, which vary from sector to sector. hence why so many on-demand startups are gross margin negative.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Coda is simple in that its focus is on the document, one of the oldest content formats/tools on the internet, and indeed in the history of software. Its ambition lies in the fact that there are massive incumbents in this space, like Google and Microsoft.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 25, 2017

The more interesting of the two for startups is the company level. In order to be successful, startups have to be good at many things. The startup often inherits this exceptional characteristic from one or more of the founders. Determining how to compete is a critical part of developing a startup idea. Use startup judo.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Dataloop , one of the many startups vying for a foothold in the nascent market, today announced that it raised $33 million in a Series B round led by Nokia Growth Partners (NGP) Capital and Alpha Wave Global. Beyond the startup realm, tech giants, including Google, Amazon, Snowflake and Microsoft, offer their own data annotation services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Besides seeking to snag market share from incumbents such as Concur, Brex is also taking on startups such as Navan (formerly called TripActions) — which actually started its business focused on travel expense management before broadening its offering — and also Ramp, which itself expanded into travel last year.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2013

Incumbents and startups alike are duking it out. The startups, Dropbox and Evernote, reinvented the file system as a synchronized, cross platform file system abstracting the hardware and the data. The incumbents, Microsoft and Apple, leverage their own advantages heavily. And things are really starting to get interesting.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 20, 2015

This threshold can be based on number of people using the product (Expensify), number of documents signed in a month (HelloSign), or additional product features needed by users (Yammer). Incumbents often can’t compete with free without cannibalizing their current business.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What I do believe is that we need to move quickly to create a ‘ safe harbor ‘ for AI startups to experiment without fear of legal repercussions so long as they meet certain conditions. Responsibility : Documented Trust and Safety protocols to allow for escalation around violations of your Terms of Service.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

As a quick review, most startups begin life as corporations with a single class of equity securities, referred to as Common Stock , issued to founders, employees, and outside service providers. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By platform shift, I mean, why has the value accrued to the incumbents and why hasn’t there been a new set of AI-native companies that have come up and displaced them? For the first part of this talk, I’m going to argue that the capabilities have all been there, but the economics just haven’t for startups.

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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

MAY 15, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the myriad ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. I caught up with Terry about the move and he told me this is not his first time running a startup. More on that here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

As Frederic writes, Amazon trained the system — which currently supports Java, JavaScript and Python — on billions of lines of publicly available open source code and its own codebase, as well as publicly available documentation and code on public forums. Startups and VC. In drug-related news, a startup called Wondermed raised $4.6

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

For the real enemy was never “Anne” nor “Tom,” but an incumbent banking industry that had grown not just too big to fail but too big to listen and respond to a generation of digital-savvy customers who wanted a more modern banking experience. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that I also had something to give.

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