Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

There are 4 questions a startup should ask themselves about building a startup that uses generative AI. There are 4 questions startups should ask themselves about building with generative AI. Market : how to compete with incumbents? I had a blast putting this deck together. GS estimates a 1.5-2.9%

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

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. Ayoconnect’s vision is to drive financial inclusion for Indonesian consumers and SMEs working in conjunction with regulators and incumbent banks to facilitate this.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. ” There’s truth to what Jayakrishnan’s expressing about pent-up demand.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

That’s the vibe one gets from Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch, which features no fewer than four startups that claim to be building a “ChatGPT for X.” The first ChatGPT-inflected startup that caught our eye was Yuma , whose customer demographic is primarily — but not exclusively — Shopify merchants.

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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. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For nearly all fintech startups, lending has long been the end game. Several startups including Slice, Jupiter, Uni and KreditBee have long used the PPI licenses to issue cards and then equip them with credit lines. A notice from India’s central bank this week has thrown a wrench into the ecosystem, scrutinizing just who all can lend.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

In addition, Lee shared his view on usage-based pricing and defending a startup’s great asset, talent, from poaching during the next recovery. UBP enabled the company to manage COGs and gross profit. During the Office Hours, we talked about startups repricing their equity with new 409a valuations. Usage-Based Pricing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Fashion startup Virgio, co-founded by Amar Nagaram, former chief executive of Myntra, has raised $37 million in a new financing round as the young firm looks to build “a global fashion brand” from the South Asian market. The startup’s approach has prompted some to draw comparisons between its model with that of the behemoth Shein.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Register Equatorial Space Systems, a Singapore-based rocket propulsion and space launch startup, has raised US$1.5 The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. million in seed funding led by Elev8.VC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Getsafe , the digital-first insurance startup that initially launched with an app for home contents insurance, has closed $30 million in Series B funding. “We sell more policies to first-time insurance buyers in Germany than incumbents like Allianz, Axa, Zurich, etc,” he says. Swiss Re, the reinsurer giant, led the round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

With customers like ClickUp, Square, AstraZeneca and Spotify, the startup is gearing up for its next growth phase, closing a $50 million Series B round that brings Flatfile’s total to $94.7 “[The] platform enables companies to leverage their data sooner.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

As incumbent banks embraced startups, investors leaned into novel ways to reduce friction and improve accuracy, increasing annual mortgage origination by nearly 40% compared to the last decade. Having clearly defined success metrics should enable automation platforms to demonstrate value within six to 12 months of launch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

According to one source, generative AI startups raised $1.7 There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. As for Re, he’s co-founded various startups, including SambaNova , which builds hardware and integrated systems for AI. billion in Q1 2023, with an additional $10.68

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Five success factors for behavioral health startups. As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. Back in 2014, Chris Dixon wrote a bit about this phenomenon in his post on “ Full stack startups.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Instead of financial engineering and the improved management techniques that PE promotes , we’ll start seeing AI cut costs and make existing companies vastly more profitable…while also enabling new business models to emerge. Verification, validation, obscure corner cases, automation of tedious tasks—all of these can be done by AI.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Healthtech startups across Africa, such as Ivory Coast- and French-based Susu are stepping up to fill this need. And in a bid to continue providing affordable and accessible healthcare for its customers in Ivory Coast, Senegal and Cameroon, the Ivorian startup is being backed with $1 million in pre-seed funding.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When it comes to purchasing AI solutions specifically, some organizations have a predisposition to buying from larger incumbents, so be sure to have a crisp value proposition for why they should partner with a startup over a larger incumbent with whom they’re already working.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Neso Brands is a Singapore-based global eyewear company founded in 2022 to enable the most promising direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands across the world to become brands of the future. Eyewear has to date been a very traditional industry with large incumbents, but is now ripe for a tech-enabled global transformation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup. Coast co-founders Daniel Simon and Andrew Woolf.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Spot AI enables simple access to insight from video. Spot AI builds an artificially intelligent camera system that stores video, analyzes it, and enables collaboration across a team. Despite the UI challenges of incumbent solutions, their scale is a testament to the amount of customer demand. Plus, it’s plug and play.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Israeli startup provides software-based internet routing solutions to service providers to run them as virtualized services over “ white box ” generic architecture, and today it is announcing $262 million in equity funding to continue expanding its technology, its geographical footprint, and its business development.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The new investment will enable the company to expand its meat protein portfolio and scale up production at a new 15,000-square-foot facility in Boulder while also tripling the size of its team, Kelleman told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Cresicor , a consumer packaged goods trade management platform startup, raised $5.6 The CPG industry is in the middle of a rapid change where we see all of these emerging, digital native and mission-driven brands rapidly eating share from incumbents,” he added. Cresicor’s opportunity to go beyond trade is significant.

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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. This concept is powerful because it helps older adults share their life experience and build relationships with other families. Older adults have so much to offer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

.” Prior to co-founding Superblocks, Menezes was a lead product manager at Yelp and senior director of product management at Datadog, as well as an angel investor in enterprise startups at Sequoia. Menezes says he thinks about the competitive landscape in three ways: build-it-yourself, legacy incumbents and low-code startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Over the years, infrastructure has enabled fintech companies and non-financial services companies alike to seamlessly integrate financial products into their platforms. Infrastructure providers can help connect fintech companies with incumbent banks so that they can both reap the benefits of the interest rate environment.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

a critical juncture of your venture’s life cycle, as a majority of startups have only one chance to make a strong first impression. Devising an effective go-to-market strategy requires thinking beyond traditional approaches towards growth, which are often not optimal for category-defining startups.

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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.

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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.

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