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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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?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

But where there is a gap, there is an opportunity. Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. The emergence of SaaS business models has further set the stage for companies like Gusto to transform SMB operations. Gusto saw an opportunity to upend the way payroll was done.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

And it’s here where there’s a meaningful opportunity to cut down on repetitive, manual programming work, according to Brad Menezes. Menezes says he thinks about the competitive landscape in three ways: build-it-yourself, legacy incumbents and low-code startups. billion valuation in July. ” Image Credits: Superblocks.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The B2B SaaS startup thus aims to become a command center for the finance and executive teams to see how a business is doing in real time and to be able to make necessary operational changes faster. “If If you see a gap in an opportunity, you can immediately put resources toward that in days, not months,” she said. “At

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Our platform not only reduces the friction with payments by enabling customers to pay how they want to pay, but also helps carriers sell more insurance.”. Brokers are here to stay,” he added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The company claims to be the first supermarket in Mexico with no physical store that enables customers to buy groceries directly from its website, or an app, and Jüsto will deliver the order to the customer’s location of choice. The global pandemic helped a lot in terms of grocery adoption in Latin America,” he added. is poised to be a $187.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A fascinating example of this is SaaS marketplace Juggle. Flexibility enables people to maximize their energy and skills, and that’s a huge benefit for employers once they realize it.”. There’s an opportunity for a product to create this experience where professionals can thrive in their flexible working careers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Replicant provides agents with call summaries and measures trends like overall customer satisfaction, average handle time, competitor mentions, defective products and upsell opportunities. Customers can draw on a library of prebuilt components to design conversation flows using a visual editor. “Automation is now part of the.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces) and verticals. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation).

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One obvious solution to this list of issues and opportunities is to leverage technology to better serve the needs of the customer. These tools might enable online booking, provide the ability for more frequent customer-provider communication, facilitate surveys and feedback, automate follow-up correspondence, and anticipate customer needs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Those apps are increasingly adding an ‘investment button’ that enables consumers to purchase US Equities. “DriveWealth’s vision is to enable every person with a phone to be an investor and I’m excited to join the team to bring this mission to life. For too long, many people in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. Riskified makes e-ommerce easier and safer and enables a thriving e-commerce environment.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. And if you miss that opportunity, you have no idea when the next opportunity to cash out your chips. Because people don't love the incumbent right now.

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