TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. “The greatest challenge is definitely customer education,” said Ahmed, explaining that early on some users were confused by the product’s simplicity.

incumbents

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

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. The technology industry is often thought of as being the domain of the young and the new.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

With a large population, Pakistan is geographically smaller, well-connected with fewer provinces, has lower regulatory barriers and doesn’t have strong incumbents,” Khurshid, who is originally from Pakistan, said via email. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”.

venture capital

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

And Ireland is renowned for great education, whether that be in the south through Trinity and UCD [in Dublin], or whether that be the north through Queen’s [University Belfast]. So, there’s been a great education system, great engineering infrastructure. Is there a sector or two that you find particularly exciting?

VC

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“With education and innovation, we look forward to bringing best-in-class ‘consumerized’ tools to the finance department.” The challenge, though, will be maintaining momentum in the face of stiff competition like Brex , Bill.com-owned Divvy , Airbase and incumbents such as Concur and Expensify.

economic environments

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Meanwhile, pet food incumbents are also putting a paw print in the healthier food space: Freshpet launched its Spring & Sprout vegetarian dog food in September and Hill’s Pet Nutrition announced a partnership with Bond Pet Foods last month to create meat proteins via fermentation for pet food applications.

incumbents

TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology. Many are not qualified for the jobs they are applying for.

incumbents

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

” “[Our customers are] trying to sell and educate surgeons about which products to use in which settings. It is a very white-glove sort of hands-on sale, and they’re really good at educating and training surgeons on the latest technologies for their procedures.

education

Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. Kate went on to explain the importance of laying a strong foundation by educating ourselves and listening to the perspectives of others in order to understand their needs. “We

peer-to-peer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

I wear multiple hats – scholar, educator, policy wonk, and connector/champion. Similarly, as an educator I’ve been blessed to connect with the very best entrepreneurship educators (stay tuned!). As ecosystem builders, we are new entrants coping with well-entrenched incumbents who are well-motivated to hold their turf.

education

Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? Email and dating’s decline are less obvious.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The data indicated education, big data, marketplaces and SaaS were the leading categories. The first post sketched the idea and the second filled in the details of one theory on how startups will disrupt their incumbents, and particularly the dominant systems of record.

SaaS

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Given the sudden extinction of snow days and yeast shortages brought on by student bakers in the early days of the pandemic, it’s easy to see how remote education extends beyond traditional school hours. Jomayra Herrera, principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education).

education

TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Jomayra Herrera , principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education). Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education (a leading edtech seed fund in Europe with portfolio companies like Aula, Unibuddy and BibliU). ” Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021.

VC

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Products and services that require anything requiring on-site visits and integration as well as a long sales cycle involving face-to-face meetings and customer education are negatively impacted during this time. The army plays an important role in the socialization, education, skills development, social network and fabric of Israeli society.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

What I would like to tell you is AI is gonna, you know, be completely transformative for education. And, you know, I was, like, very, very proud of myself because I was like, “Wow, this is just gonna be such a great educational resource for him.” I believe that it will. And so I think that’s the risk.

energy

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 22, 2020

The “incumbent provider” of English proficiency tests, Test Of English As A Foreign Language (aka TOEFL), has had all of the companies and universities who accept it locked up for many years. But in some markets, incumbency matters more than better. It is two sides of the same coin. It costs less ($49 vs $205).

incumbents

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I love businesses that aim to massively reduce the costs of products or services in a way that makes a product or service vastly more accessibility and in which incumbents would have a hard time competing. I work with two companies that aim to change education but both are indirectly aiming to do so.

investing

TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Breeze is reimagining these products to make them more affordable — a policy for several thousand dollars costs, on average, around $20 a month — and to provide consumer education so that purchasing this type of insurance is less intimidating, he added. “We

incumbents

Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

If you have to describe first how your product is different and then educate your buyer on why the pricing is different, you may be hindering your champion, especially if the buyer doesn’t need innovation in pricing. There are spaces where pricing innovation is welcome, especially when there is a large, expensive incumbent.

startup

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. The company’s “big focus is continuing the vision of transforming healthcare,” said Sid Viswanathan, president and co-founder of Truepill.

incumbents

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company, founded in 2016, provides 24/7 live chat and telehealth, ship-to-home prescriptions, vet-curated items in its e-commerce marketplace and educational content and programs. The San Francisco-based company previously raised $18 million in a Series B round in March.

capital

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Many web2 incumbents or even web3 are having a $100-200 user acquisition costs so we can lower that by order of magnitude by directly incentivizing the end-user.”. Education is at the core of what we do because I think there is no shortcut in Africa. The last bit is play-to-earn games.

education

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The banks and incumbents take advantage of that and make people feel like they’re not smart enough to manage their money. Flink is out to not only give Mexicans a way to invest, but to help educate them as well. We need to educate on a basic level.”. in terms of investing in the markets,” he told TechCrunch. Image: Flink.

investing

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. COVID, despite all the terrible parts, pushed the education around digital banking — at least in our part of the world,” said CEO Bensoussan. New York-based challenger bank NorthOne is one such example.

capital

TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

I had a catastrophic relationship with incumbent banks.”. I wanted to help underserved people in Brazil and offer them financial education, and a better relationship with banks,” he told TechCrunch in his first interview with a U.S. I used to make $300 in a month to pay $200 a year in banking,” he recalls. “It publication. “We

incumbents

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Advance access to tax refunds serves as an interest-free loan, r educing the need for users to take out expensive loans or accrue credit card debt, Mandelbaum said. The product runs on APIs from payroll connectivity provider Atomic , allowing users to receive their tax refund earnings in their paychecks.

incumbents

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

C - Competition As a fledgling startup, you’ll likely be competing with other startups, incumbent companies that have deep relationships with FIs, and perhaps most critically, internal competition from within the FI. If they’re not, you’re not a priority for the champion and therefore for the broader organization.

frameworks

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.” “We’re pretty radical about why we’re doing what we’re doing,” she said.

incumbents

TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

” So in its first years of existence, Welcome Tech focused on providing educational resources, information and services for immigrant populations, with an initial primary focus on the Hispanic community in the U.S. One way we’ve outpaced others on user acquisition is by taking a bet on education when nobody else would,” he said.

education

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Thndr, launched in late 2020 by Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr , is filling the gap by making it easier to open and manage investment accounts, consequently replacing traditionally slow and outdated processes by incumbents. The first investment that 75% of our users have done was with less than $500.

investment

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Whether developing a drug or not, a company would be attractive to investors if and only if it is addressing a key problem in the market that cannot already be solved by incumbents efficiently. Additionally, a reliable source of information to educate individuals would be required.

startup

TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Darrell, Jordan and Claire got into how she landed on a B2B model for Aunt Flow and the importance of free, accessible period products — which is something she often has to educate prospective investors or customers on. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS.

venture capital

Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This has massively reduced the power of incumbent banks, allowing for rapid innovation in the banking and payments sector. We still need to educate all of us on how to best use that power. This idea is no longer without precedent. In the EU all bank accounts are now required to have an API. But first we need to get it back. .

networking

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Every level of education was forced online by the pandemic this year, at least temporarily. While the children might be back in the classroom already, higher education and corporate education are still booming remotely. But we’ll remember 2020 as the year that venture truly joined the cloud. Edtech looks to the future.

education

Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2015

In the Innovator’s Dilemma for SaaS Startups , I outlined the path of many software companies, which disrupt incumbents by first serving the small-to-medium business and then move up-market by transitioning to serve larger enterprises with outbound sales teams. Engineers don’t buy software the way marketers do.

SaaS

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Zen Educate , an online marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the best available teachers, has raised £19.3 Founded out of London in 2017, Zen Educate is setting out to supplant the traditional approach to recruiting teachers, a system that typically involves third-party agencies and hefty fees. Show me the money.

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