TechCrunch
JUNE 23, 2022
For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. But in verticals ranging from freight brokerage to B2B marketplaces, these enablers have repeatedly emerged after an initial disruption.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company. Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. .
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Dream It
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
As all investors know from the case of Uber, you cannot size a market based on an incumbent. Uber’s market was not just the size of black car services; the company’s market would span taxis, public transport, and black car services, and it would expand the market by bringing in more customers with the product’s ease of use and simplicity.
TechCrunch
MAY 3, 2023
The platform provides various tools and apps for accomplishing different tasks across freight procurement, trade and transport management, freight audit and payment and document management, as well as dispatch planning and analytics. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. Tayebi felt that providing on-demand services — which solves essential needs and, more importantly, builds trust to then provide payment services — was the catalyst to enable financial inclusion in the region.
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.
Y Combinator
JANUARY 21, 2021
We have seen this play out across several business-to-consumer verticals over the past decade: Airbnb in hospitality, Instacart in grocery, DoorDash in food delivery, and Lyft in transportation. Domestic shippers like Unilever spend nearly $800 billion annually transporting raw materials and consumer goods by truck 1.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
92 
Let's personalize your content