TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

While other solution providers are facing challenging headwinds, DriveNets continues to innovate and execute on its vision to change the future of the networking market.”. “We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan.

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networking peer-to-peer incumbents innovation 77

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Innovation continues to drive new developments in lending, payments, crypto and, in particular, infrastructure, showing that the industry still has lots of room for growth. Over the years, infrastructure has enabled fintech companies and non-financial services companies alike to seamlessly integrate financial products into their platforms.

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incumbents opportunity enablement innovation 92

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As Paul Uhrig, Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer of Bassett Healthcare Network and Executive Director of Bassett Innovation Center told us, “if we can get the ultimate user excited and to be champions about this, that I found to be very much the winning strategy.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives.

real estate 144

real estate incumbents health disruption 144

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. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. Its mission is to move humanity off fossil fuel heating.

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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 54

peer-to-peer incumbents accelerator economic growth 54

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 101

incumbents peer-to-peer strategy disruption 101

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For example, a sense of needing to keep up with these technology advancements from leadership can be translated down to a VP of Consumer Finance who needs to grow a consumer banking app while battling fintech upstarts and who may be thinking about using AI products to do so–which your product could help enable.

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frameworks incumbents leadership advice 110

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.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While many lament government regulation as an infringement on innovation, I believe increased scrutiny is a net positive for the future of the software industry. anti-competitive practices that stifled innovation, as was the case with AT&T, IBM, Microsoft and today’s tech titans) rather than how their software operated.

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incumbents innovation technology opportunity 89

AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development.

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incumbents startup financing finance 59

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Marco’s factoring product enables new companies to get started without having to put up the significant amount of collateral that banks are asking.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

. “We sell more policies to first-time insurance buyers in Germany than incumbents like Allianz, Axa, Zurich, etc,” he says. Asked why Getsafe is moving to its own insurance license, Wiens says it will enable the insurtech to innovate with new products faster.

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incumbents startup pitching innovation 103

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“Enterprises crave control and visibility over the finances, and this not only helps the IT department, but [also] enables all departments to make better aligned business decisions,” he added. “With education and innovation, we look forward to bringing best-in-class ‘consumerized’ tools to the finance department.”

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economic environments incumbents financing finance 86

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. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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startup accelerator incumbents disruption 95

TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. We’ve launched five products in recent months and have a strong pipeline planned as we continue to innovate to better serve our merchants. How many employees do you have?

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innovation incumbents frameworks support 86

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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incumbents disruption board enablement 90

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

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incumbents collaboration enablement leadership 86

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

That said, we are seeing more enterprise companies reallocate genAI spend from innovation lines to standard software lines , which indicates that genAI is evolving into a key part of many enterprises.) Packaging as an add-on can: Monetize your innovation directly, which leads to more sustainable margins over the short term. (If

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frameworks SaaS incumbents founder 124

TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

With their new capital, the duo hopes to advance on their mission “to enable a seamless, transparent experience for financial institutions and their customers through an intelligent, opinionated and intuitive workflow platform.” ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 97

Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The direct listing enables them to go public without raising capital. And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. The ecosystem continues to innovate but the second killer app (currency being the first), hasn't yet been found. The M&A market continues to surge. BTC/USD prices are down 30% at least.

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incumbents SaaS sustainability collaboration 63

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. Root started off with the premise that many barriers, including compliance and capital, prevented software developers and businesses from building and innovating around insurance.

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incumbents innovation development venture capital 86

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

has been a first mover and innovator in the space.” On the developer side, customers can integrate Kontent with other apps and technologies through APIs and “flexible content models,” enabling control over the structure of content and how it’s delivered to websites and apps. . “Kontent.ai

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capital incumbents frameworks development 79

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources. After all, Jiffy.ai

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incumbents support SaaS pitching 92

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. Akeyless has customers across the retail, fintech, insurance and gaming sectors, among others, including Wix and Outbrain.

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incumbents development venture capital capital 86

Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

The platform fee establishes a stable relationship and the usage pricing enables the customer to scale up or down as a function of their traffic which might vary throughout the year. Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. Segment is a good example of this. Competition.

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frameworks strategy incumbents startup 108

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“ Orum enables teams to make hundreds of calls in just minutes, while helping automate lead data and improve it over time.” ” Orum solves a real problem. Customers like QTS and Workato believe this to be the case, it seems — as well as Orum’s investors. .

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incumbents enablement development innovation 66

TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Businesses that operate fleets need to enable their drivers to pay for vehicle-related expenses when they’re on the road, such as maintenance, roadside assistance and gas. But Simon argues that the companies that sell such cards were founded decades ago with very little innovation since. Coast co-founders Daniel Simon and Andrew Woolf.

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founder startup incumbents financing 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. Some of the large banks have already been active, and the others need to ask themselves whether they are serious about innovation and digital transformation.

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incumbents energy board investing 117

TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Fintech startups are convinced that banks have lobbied the RBI to reach this decision, employing the age-old tactic where incumbents cry foul and rely on the regulator to rescue the day. You’re saying now that NBFCs can’t give credit lines to merchants and their money should only be routed to bank accounts of customers.”

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startup incumbents disruption accelerator 97

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

We’re fundamentally rethinking what that device in our home needs to be, to enable much better power management and integration of clean energy and electric devices. The system can be controlled with an app, which enables you to set up “rules” for how you want your house to operate. Image Credits: Span.

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incumbents enablement energy innovation 68

Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

The exuberant acquisition environment should enable some early-stage companies to menace their incumbents and take share, as those behemoths are distracted by M&A. Many of the most of apparent and immediate opportunities in the software market have been filled by now SaaS incumbents.

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SaaS incumbents support investing 40

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Months after acquiring gamified finance mobile app startup Long Game, Truist Financial Corporation has introduced the Truist Foundry, an innovation division that it says “will function as a startup within the bank.” Image Credits: Kuzma / Getty Images. Weekly News. Pymnts has more here. Another example of fintech for good.

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real estate incumbents mix-use financing 97

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance. Quick thoughts : Innovation in Africa’s B2B e-commerce and retail space has been around the digitization of processes and BNPL services, but not much around cash overdependence and fraud. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021.

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startup hospitality health financing 91

Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2012

Many of the promising marketing and media innovations of the past six years, daily deals, subscription ecommerce, social gaming and social media, have been struggling. It depends on the incumbents successfully developing new revenue models that can be either syndicated to or replicated by new startups.

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investing investment social gaming incumbents 40

OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US. CB4 , for example, has developed machine learning software that enables retail chains to solve operational issues that hamper sales.

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