TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. Charles Gorra, founder and CEO of Rebag, declined to talk about valuation, but did say it was “a steep evolution from the last time.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Starling — which competes against incumbent banks, as well as other challengers like Monzo and Revolut — said it will be using the money to continue its growth. Digital banking has reached a tipping point,” said Anne Boden, founder and CEO of Starling Bank, in a statement. billion) post-money.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Colle, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, and Max Levchin’s SciFi VC — as well as more than a dozen angels including founders of Plaid, Flexport, Marqeta, Bread, Albert, Addi, Lithic, and other fintech and logistics startups — also put money in the round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

This time it’s $35 million with new investors, including Citi Ventures and MUFG Innovation Partners, bringing the company’s total raised so far to $95 million. Co-founder and chairman Samuel Rhee told TechCrunch that Endowus is now “multiple times the size of the next player and now competing with large banks and incumbent players.”

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

For starters – the co-founder of Clutter.io, Ari Mir, is a friend and 6 years ago I backed the first startup he co-founded with Ophir Tanz , GumGum. years it was hard to get other investors to see this unsexy market as ripe for innovation. And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9%

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Dream It

MAY 13, 2020

Enterprise Sales | Are health systems engaging with innovation right now? Paul Martino, General Partner at Bullpen Capital, gave founders good advice on this during a recent discussion with Dreamit. It’s not a good position to be in for founders entering into a recession. In short, health systems are very distracted right now.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

We want to double down on our go-to-market strategy, and to grow market share,” Jouk Pleiter, the founder and CEO of Backbase, said in an interview. ” There are a number of other companies that have identified these same problems faced by incumbents in the financial services industry.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Costanoa Ventures led Seed Round with participation from South Park Commons and FJ Labs Innovation and entrepreneurship is about filling a gap or solving a pain point. Comun observed that no incumbent bank offers a full Spanish language banking experience. said Andres Santos, Co-Founder & CEO of Comun.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, a fear of long sales cycles, heavy compliance requirements, and opaque organizational structures preclude many early stage founders from pursuing this go-to-market channel. If you are working at an incumbent financial institution and interested in the bleeding edge of technology, we’d love to include you in our network.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Whenever I talk about minimal viable products with product-driven startup founders, I often find myself in a frustrating conversation. In the world of lean startups, founders have to stay hyper-focused on figuring out how to fail as fast as possible. Will an incumbent copy us and destroy us? If they tend to acquire them, great.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“There’s a big wave of innovation in managing cloud costs,” Team8 co-founder and managing partner Liran Grinberg told TechCrunch as part of our latest cloud investor survey. Indeed, the tailwinds we are referring to aren’t limited to the current macroeconomic climate. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ].

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. And the scale of the SEC’s proposed reforms should alarm entrepreneurs, investors and employees in the innovation economy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. 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.

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

Post-Pandemic Geography: Predictions for Living, Working, & Traveling Post-Covid in America’s Startup Cities Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Announces that Airbnb Co-founder and CEO, Brian Chesky, will join Steve Case for the Tech Talent Tour Mainstage Discussion (Thursday, June 24th, 2021 at 12:00 PM ET).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. David Nothacker, CEO and co-founder of Sennder, said: “We are now an established industry player on equal terms with other more traditional sector pioneers, but have maintained our founding spirit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. 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. But fintech is resilient.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Maple is based in San Francisco, but focuses on investing in founders with Canadian roots. In an interview with TechCrunch, Neo co-founder and CEO Andrew Chau shared that he and co-founders Jeff Adamson, Chris Simair and Kris Read started Neo to challenge the Big Five banks that own some 90% of the country’s market share.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy. Willson Cuaca, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of East Ventures, said that as an early supporter of Komunal, they have witnessed the company’s growth and many achievements.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The funding, we should point out, is a also a measure of the faith investors have in repeat, successful founders. 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.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He said that there were several major issues that led him and his co-founders to build a new search tool. He added that in addition to trust, he wants it to be built on kindness and facts, three worthy but difficult goals to achieve. For starters, he says that there is too much information and nobody can possibly process it all.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

On competition between these platforms, Adeseun said a few of these chain pharmacy incumbents, such as MedPlus and HealthPlus, are taking on a digital strategy by adding telemedicine capabilities, thus responding to the innovation that startups introduced. Women founders are disadvantaged,” the director said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. We are here to ‘arm the rebels’ and help those innovators build applications to give all end users a much better financial experience.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Beryl Li , co-founder, Yield Guild Games. Rajul Garg , founder and managing partner, Leo Capital. Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different. We typically act as a sparring partner for founders in strategy-related matters. It was not an entirely unexpected move from Steam.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In another example of how startups in the region are working to boost inclusion as much as innovation, Open Co , a São Paulo-based consumer credit company, announced today that it has raised $115 million in a round led by SoftBank Latin America Fund. Existing backers Raiz Investimentos, IFC and LTS also put money in the round. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Heat pumps are now widely recognized as the solution to decarbonizing home heating,” said Quilt co-founder and CEO Paul Lambert. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. The Quilt team is led by two additional co-founders: CTO Matthew Knoll and COO Bill Kee.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Acquisitions contribute to the health of the startup ecosystem, as entrepreneurs who realize liquidity through the sale of their company regularly go on to found innovative new companies and often invest in other startups as angel investors or venture capitalists. Accordingly, 58% of startups expect to be acquired.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

At the growth stages in particular, founders need to be mindful of their unit economics and margins. We often hear these founders ask: how can I capture the value created by genAI? Some of this will be more art than science, since founders are still figuring out what value genAI delivers to customers and how much it costs.

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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. If they win, we win,” said Sebastián Núñez Castro, CEO and co-founder of Geopagos.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups are innovation machines. Others want to innovate in every dimension and re-invent every discipline from pricing to marketing to support to customer success. Others want to innovate in every dimension and re-invent every discipline from pricing to marketing to support to customer success. We wanted to be innovative.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

But ClearBank’s existence underscores one of the untold truths amid all of that innovation: many of these new services have been built on top of legacy infrastructure. faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In other words, it wants to invest in early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies “where opportunities for early partnerships with financial incumbents exist.” And that’s ultimately the insight that we built a thesis on,” said Fitzgerald. It aims to help startups there partner, expand and commercialize in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.” Amira Yahyaoui, the founder of Mos.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Bain Capital Ventures led the seed round alongside South Park Commons, Core Innovation Capital, and Operator Partners. Some prominent angel investors also participated in the round, including Opendoor founder Eric Wu and former Wealthfront CEO Adam Nash. Column Tax co-founders Gavin Nachbar and Michael Bock.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The food is high on the list of comfort foods, but has been advertised specifically to children for decades, despite the fact that 59% of adults eat at least one noodle dish each week , Gooder Foods co-founder and CEO Jennifer Zeszut told TechCrunch. There is product and branding innovation here, too,” she added.

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