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.” Beyond the mission, the startup’s new goal could attract some solid revenue.

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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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past decade, many startups have tried (and many have failed) to rethink the way we schedule our meetings and calls. 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 startup recently closed a $1.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”. billion in capital commitments.

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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. Telemedicine startups are positioning themselves for a post-pandemic world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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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. One of the best strategies for tech companies that want to serve the older adult market is to focus your value proposition on empowering older adults.

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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. There are a number of startups tapping into this major trend of pets to capture that household spend in the areas of healthcare, insurance and food.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Last year, Teampay launched a Mastercard-branded corporate card, Catalyst, with spend management features, signaling the startup’s intentions to venture further into the heated corporate card space. Just in January, European startup Moss , which offers corporate credit cards for small- and medium-sized companies, raised $86 million.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

Entrepreneurs often rush to build and test their ideas using the lean startup methodology. of the country , roughly 100 million people, have around the same level of education. B2B companies face a similar battle against multibillion-dollar incumbents and unicorn startups. Harvard reports that 95% of new products fail.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. Incumbents launch products, VCs throw cash at other competitors, team members quit, the economy dips — whatever.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I was speaking recently to the team at NuOrder , an LA-based company we’re an investor in about “realism in startups” — an impromptu talk I have given to any of our portfolio companies who ask. I prefer to compete more with other startups than with giants. Mission driven, commercially focused.

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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.

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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

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

m, a startup that wants to upgrade student transportation, a five-year $150 million contract to modernize its transport service throughout the district. m’s five-year $53 million contract with Oakland Unified School District, which began in 2020, the SFUSD contract is the largest the startup has ever won. Aside from Z?m’s

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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). The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder.

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. “We’re a lean startup, and we do everything in house.” “We don’t have that pressure,” said Orchingwa.

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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? Space travel startups look to conquer the final frontier. Email startups raised 22% less.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

She worked at a startup as a product development manager, but ultimately left that behind to find a different calling. Today, it is great that more dog owners are educated on some of the problems with standard kibble and are skeptical about what they are feeding their dogs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The Hottest Startup Sectors In 2016 - published on January 3rd, this post reviewed the patterns of investment in startups, and in particular, the sectors where investors were increasing their investment the fastest. The data indicated education, big data, marketplaces and SaaS were the leading categories.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. .” Startup Lessons'

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder? 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. It’s not an afterthought.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 7, 2015

When a potential customer enters the consideration phase of the buyer journey, the marketing team transitions the lead to his sales account executive, who educates the customer from the consideration stage through purchase. This change has three important ramifications for SaaS startups.

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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. Founded by Eytan Bensoussan and Justin Adler in 2016, the startup was born to serve small business owners such as barbers, mechanics and local restaurant owners. For NorthOne, that only means opportunity. “A

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Welcome Tech , a startup aiming to build “an operating system” for immigrant families in the U.S., ” 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. the company says.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. Wall Street needs to relax, as startups show remote work is here to stay (EC). 3 new $100M ARR club members and a call for the next generation of growth-stage startups (EC). Subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. Finally, there’s Equity , TechCrunch’s long-running, Webby-award-winning podcast focused on venture capital and the latest startup news, hosted by Natasha , Mary Ann and Alex.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Many a startup has attempted to “solve socializing” with apps, algorithms and social nudges, or a combination of those three things. Venue managers are educated on 222’s moderation and guidelines and it’s incumbent on them to instruct staff, Kazemian said.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. While I think that has taken place in the past, I think LivingSocial is doing a great job educating merchants on the nature of these deals, what they can do differently, and what to expect.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 29, 2014

This is the framework I’ve seen work well for freemium startups. At its core, freemium is a novel marketing tactic that entices new users and ultimately potential customers to try a product and educate themselves about its benefits on their own. Second, freemium startups leverage usage data to improve their product.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 Education is at the core of what we do because I think there is no shortcut in Africa. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

TechCrunch has cited Draper Esprit partners in our explorations of the European venture capital scene in the past, especially in our regular digs through the startup hub’s numbers. No one realized that venture capital was an escalator, and unless you could pass the baton to the next person, [startups] have to do it themselves.

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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. Reports say African startups raised record-smashing $4.3B African tech took center stage in 2021. to $5B in 2021.

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