TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The startup will continue to look for ways to expand its partner network of hardware and software companies across the globe, Luke Wilson, founder and CEO of ManageXR told TechCrunch. Its competitors include incumbent mobile device management companies, which build similar tools for mobile phones and laptops, and some device manufacturers.

incumbents 87

incumbents hospitality collaboration enablement 87

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

To understand why Draper Esprit not only decided to stay public but doubled down on its structure by moving to the main boards in London and Dublin, we got on the horn with the firm’s co-founder, Stuart Chapman. So, by stepping up, we enable ourselves to go into more generous funds as well as tech funds [that] have a minimum bar.

VC 102

VC venture capital incumbents capital 102

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. If they win, we win,” said Sebastián Núñez Castro, CEO and co-founder of Geopagos.

startup 84

startup incumbents financing finance 84

AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

It was very fulfilling to see how digitalization has helped our rural bank partners to thrive during the pandemic recovery period and enabled our loyal users to access attractive deposit and loan products digitally. Moreover, Komunal also recorded positive EBITDA since October 2022 while experiencing growth and profitability at the same time.

peer-to-peer 75

peer-to-peer incumbents accelerator economic growth 75

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

. “The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview. As over-100-employee Sima.ai

startup 95

startup accelerator incumbents disruption 95

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

What are the advances that you anticipate seeing that are going to sort of change the way people interact with these, [and] enable new kinds of products being built? You know, incumbents versus startups. There’s a take out there now on AI, which is, this time it’s different, and the incumbents are the real winners, right?

incumbents 143

incumbents networking technology creativity 143

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After finding it, the three co-founders together built a service for managing passwords, API keys and digital certificates, which evolved into a fully fledged business — Akeyless — over the course of the next several years. If Akeyless’s co-founders have concerns, they didn’t show it.

incumbents 86

incumbents development capital venture capital 86

TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The funding, we should point out, is a also a measure of the faith investors have in repeat, successful founders. “We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan. web conferencing startup Kobrinsky founded for $121 million.

networking 77

networking peer-to-peer incumbents innovation 77

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI, in conversation with a16z’s David George. [00:36] 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? Will AI take all the design jobs?

incumbents 104

incumbents creativity development technology 104

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

. “With the capital, we will continue to focus on engagement and adoption, collaboration, governance, lineage, and on APIs and SDKs to enable us to be open and extensible,” Sangani said via email. ” According to IDC, the data integration and intelligence software market is valued at more than $7.9

incumbents 86

incumbents collaboration enablement ventures 86

Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Pinduoduo’s team purchase is often compared to Groupon in the US because they both enable a form of group buying. The take away for startups is that the team purchase model is significant because it enables behaviors associated with offline commerce (e.g., But the models are actually very different.

accelerator 140

accelerator networking enablement opportunity 140

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

By providing these products as a unified strategic solution, the goal is to enable hardware manufacturers the ability to get to production volume without investing in the specialized facilities or headcount historically needed to manage electronic components. ” Cofactr co-founders Matthew Haber (l) and Phil Gulley (r).

incumbents 77

incumbents ventures opportunity enablement 77

TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

“The rule is very confusing and strange,” said a fintech founder on condition of anonymity to avoid upsetting RBI officials. ” the founder added. Amazon Pay, Paytm Postpaid and Ola Money are cautious, too, because many believe that they might be impacted as well.

startup 97

startup incumbents disruption accelerator 97

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

This has led to hyper-growth in the headless CMS category,” Oliver Thomas, a co-founder and partner at Expedition, told TechCrunch via email. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. “Kontent.ai has been a first mover and innovator in the space.”

capital 79

capital incumbents frameworks development 79

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Founders : Ahmed Ismail, a second-time founder who has worked for Goldman Sachs and Barclays, is the CEO. Location : Khartoum, Sudan. Website : [link].

startup 91

startup hospitality health finance 91

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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

accelerator 95

accelerator networking incumbents support 95

American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Quilt’s design enables room-by-room control, creating precise climate zones throughout the home while eliminating the need for traditional furnaces and ductwork. Heat pumps are now widely recognized as the solution to decarbonizing home heating,” said Quilt co-founder and CEO Paul Lambert. For more information, visit www.quilt.com.

capital 52

capital ventures investment investing 52

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A cloud native engine will enable creation of 3D experiences using any device from anywhere via a browser. Community modding enabled out of the box A next gen engine should be designed to enable a first-class modding environment out of the box that developers can choose to extend to end user creators.

incumbents 145

incumbents creativity development enablement 145

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education (a leading edtech seed fund in Europe with portfolio companies like Aula, Unibuddy, and BibliU) . Integration between different edtech apps?

education 134

education venture capital ventures opportunity 134

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders?

startup 141

startup SaaS mix-use advice 141

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

After inking deals with Amazon and Walmart, the Quidsi and Jet.com co-founder aims to launch a “more equitable” city in the desert. At Disrupt, co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan will speak to the milestone, the challenges in between and if exclusivity can disrupt community. with Marc Lore (Wonder Group).

disruption 81

disruption pitching VC ventures 81

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Here’s who we interviewed: Clara Brenner , co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Rachel Holt , co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. David Lawee , founder and general partner, CapitalG. Clara Brenner, co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Dave Clark , partner, Expa.

transportation 119

transportation innovation accelerator construction 119

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Other backers include Global Founders Capital and a number of high-profile angel investors, such as GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung, ALLVP Partner Antonia Rojas and LaHaus founders Jeronimo Uribe and Tomas Uribe, among others. They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company.

enablement 97

enablement startup incumbents transportation 97

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 98

incumbents health enablement venture capital 98

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. In 2015, Monzo founders Tom Blomfield, Jonas Templestein, Gary Dolman, Jason Bates, and Paul Rippon launched a digital finance platform with the slogan “Make Money Work For Everyone.” expectations. Their profit models.

peer-to-peer 102

peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 102

AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. VC is a Singapore-based early-stage VC fund investing in technologies of the future and founders that create emergent industries with a global impact. million in seed funding led by Elev8.VC.

incumbents 98

incumbents VC sustainability technology 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Beryl Li , co-founder, Yield Guild Games. Rajul Garg , founder and managing partner, Leo Capital. Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different. Interestingly enough, at the time of writing (Nov 14) MIR4, a crypto-enabled MMORPG on Steam, is running at 88,000 concurrent users.

opportunity 97

opportunity incumbents advice strategy 97

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. Over the years, infrastructure has enabled fintech companies and non-financial services companies alike to seamlessly integrate financial products into their platforms. Laura Spiekerman. Contributor.

incumbents 92

incumbents opportunity enablement innovation 92

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“The best thing founders can do during a downturn is move quickly and efficiently, and evolve their offering to match the new needs of the market. Zach Aarons , co-founder and general partner, MetaProp. It is embedded in the category, and with the long housing and tech boom, many founders have underestimated this.

financing 90

financing finance real estate startup 90

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

David Rabie, the Chicago startup’s co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch that it plans to use the funding in large part to open a second facility, most likely in Utah, to help with fresh food distribution to the western half of the U.S. .” Tovala , the smart oven and meal kit service, has closed a Series C of $30 million.

incumbents 111

incumbents incubation enablement capital 111

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Its digitally-native approach can save pet parents up to $750 a year on healthcare expenses, Zubin Bhettay, co-founder and CEO of Fuzzy, told TechCrunch. Bhettay is also seeing the larger incumbents focus here, as well as marketing dollars, which he considers validation that the market is shifting to the digitalization of pet care.

capital 98

capital incumbents education health 98

TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Founded in September 2020, the New York-based company – which was previously named Unlock – said it uses data science to “ identify, underwrite and close transactions 10x faster than incumbents.” ” It describes itself as a “managed marketplace.” commercial real estate value.

real estate 97

real estate finance financing incumbents 97

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. That spells opportunity for companies that are enabling that adoption. The growth of e-commerce and other services on digital platforms has further spurred that trend.

incumbents 79

incumbents enablement disruption innovation 79

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, a fear of long sales cycles, heavy compliance requirements, and opaque organizational structures preclude many early stage founders from pursuing this go-to-market channel. If you are working at an incumbent financial institution and interested in the bleeding edge of technology, we’d love to include you in our network.

frameworks 112

frameworks incumbents leadership advice 112

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,

incumbents 80

incumbents transportation collaboration consulting 80

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”. trillion retail industry at a massive inflection point.

capital 89

capital startup enablement incumbents 89

TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The company wasn’t actively in the market, according to CEO and co-founder Igor Senra, but was approached by existing backer Greenoaks and other investors. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”.

incumbents 96

incumbents capital finance financing 96