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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capital incumbents education health 98

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture.

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capital incumbents frameworks development 79

Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Here are 6 tactical guidelines drawn from my work with 15+ global tech upstarts in D2C, B2B marketplaces, SaaS for SMBs, logistics, cybersecurity, and digital health over the last decade: 1. Winning big often means starting small. These tremendously insightful and influential consumers will pay more, explore more and advocate more.”—

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startup strategy SaaS incumbents 89

Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

The emergence of SaaS business models has further set the stage for companies like Gusto to transform SMB operations. In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

incumbents 87

incumbents peer-to-peer health opportunity 87

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. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In recent months, Replicant added support for new languages and conversational capabilities that Shamia calls “powers,” like holding on the line, repeating information “conversationally” and matching a customer’s response against a database. “Automation is now part of the.

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incumbents development culture support 94

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A fascinating example of this is SaaS marketplace Juggle. Professionals sign up for the service, and recruitment tools allow them to schedule and keep track of job applications, and coaching and support are available. Juggle also provides ‘smart matching’ and the necessary paperwork to allow for these flexible roles.

SaaS 84

SaaS leadership incumbents energy 84

TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

I realized [that] I have so much support at the front of the house to drive revenue to the door, but I have no technology to support the back of the house,” he said. SaaS-enabled marketplace. It charges a monthly SaaS fee per rooftop to a restaurant group. ResQ product mock-up. Image Credits: ResQ.

SaaS 79

SaaS incumbents enablement support 79

Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

The idea is that in the future SaaS applications would be built on a single database, instead of each SaaS application writing to its own proprietary database. I thought it would be cloud-prem and customers driving SaaS products to use a single database. SaaS applications also write back to the CDW directly.

SaaS 145

SaaS incumbents board accelerator 145

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Cloud native engines maximize customization Today’s engines are monolithic desktop applications originally designed before modern cloud architecture and the SaaS age. A cloud native engine will enable creation of 3D experiences using any device from anywhere via a browser.

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incumbents creativity development enablement 145

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Call center service provider incumbents like Dialpad offer sentiment analysis features, as well, as do companies including Cogito , Saygent and SugarCRM. ” Loris, which has 15 employees, aims to triple its workforce this year. ” Loris, which has 15 employees, aims to triple its workforce this year.

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incumbents capital enablement strategy 81

TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

In a statement, Luke Sarsfield, co-head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said: “Employers are looking to provide their employees tailored solutions and customizable advice that can better support individual saving and investing needs to help improve retirement savings outcomes. Fast slows its roll.

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startup financing finance incumbents 110

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. And our main product is transport management software for shippers enables multi-enterprise collaboration.

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incumbents transportation collaboration consulting 80

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It wins through better distribution, logistics, inventory management, warehousing, customer support, merchandising, cross-selling and ultimately on price & scale. Most customers won’t drive more than a few miles to a self storage unit making the incumbents essentially local retail businesses. The value prop is pretty clear.

real estate 364

real estate startup disruption incumbents 364

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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financing finance enablement venture capital 83

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Overall, local investors cited the country’s focus on global markets from day one, general support from the Israeli government and deep relationships with Silicon Valley and other global tech centers as additional factors that are powering it forward today. Fintech (specifically embedded finance or financial SaaS), synthetic bio.

startup 141

startup mix-use SaaS advice 141

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. Over time, Stripe has expanded to support more business models (e.g., ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces) and verticals.

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incumbents financing finance enablement 124

Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 10, 2016

The next big shift in SaaS is an evolution from software as a service as a displacer to a disruptor. Displacement technologies compete with incumbents on the same buying parameters. Most SaaS products today are displacers. SaaS products initially were viewed as a cheaper, often inferior product to their client/server peers.

SaaS 40

SaaS peer-to-peer incumbents disruption 40

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

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. We believe all these things are currently in place with regards to “customer first” healthcare.

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health hospitality networking mix-use 59

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? But I think there’s something to that, where you provide, you know, the sort of infrastructure and support, and then let the users or creators do what they do best.

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incumbents networking technology creativity 143