TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

By leading the shift to more telehealth services, Fuzzy hopes to encourage pet parents to consider the health of their pet on a more regular basis to aid in their longevity. 8 VCs agree: Behavioral support and remote visits make digital health a strong bet for 2021. Bond Vet stitches up $170 million from Warburg Pincus.

capital 98

capital incumbents education health 98

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. And for employees, Gusto’s goal is to help put the individual in the driver’s seat of their financial health and their career. Gusto saw an opportunity to upend the way payroll was done.

incumbents 87

incumbents peer-to-peer health opportunity 87

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

“Like a pressure cooker, COVID blew the lid off what was a simmering mental health crisis for over a decade,” VC Tim Schlidt told TechCrunch. According to the World Health Organization, the global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25% in the first year of the pandemic.

health 94

health startup incumbents ventures 94

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There TC: Was it worth it for you to get a charter as a company? And if so, why?

incumbents 123

incumbents sustainability health capital 123

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

But Leda Health co-founders Madison Campbell and Liesel Vaidya think of themselves as advocates for sexual assault survivors. . Among the feminists leveraging Ethereum for subversive use cases, Leda Health’s do-it-yourself evidence-collecting kit for sexual assault survivors is among the most ambitious projects.

entrepreneurs 77

entrepreneurs health disruption incumbents 77

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

A recent survey by TechCrunch+ indicates that investors and founders are, instead of simply looking for attractive opportunities, increasingly putting their minds to building the foundations for an industry that can employ the power of psychedelics to change lives. It is therefore our goal to focus on the regulated paths (e.g.,

startup 99

startup digital therapeutics health development 99

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Then there’s incumbents like Automation Anywhere and UiPath, which occupy the enormous robotic process automation market. But differences of tech and opinion aside, Ushur has managed to build an objectively strong customer base, with brands like Aflac, Aetna, CVS Health and United Healthcare on the contractual hook for its services.

incumbents 92

incumbents support SaaS pitching 92

TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Through the use of these micro-transactions called invoices, we’re able to incorporate that data and be able to predict the financial health of a company in almost real time.”. They may use nine months of historical data to try to predict future behavior,” Lee told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Today, psychedelic therapeutics are being used to treat a variety of mental health issues. Today’s investment showcases, if anything, how important Axie’s precedent is to the development of the broader ecosystem – and how willing VCs and crypto incumbents are to bend over backward to make sure it succeeds.”.

transportation 88

transportation venture capital incumbents hospitality 88

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Traditional banks have not been able to keep pace.

peer-to-peer 40

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 40

TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

These platforms have become popular with neobanks or upstarts in different segments trying to embed financial services into their offerings because large, incumbent banks have been relatively slow to bring their services up to speed with the pace of change in the world of tech and banking.

startup 93

startup incumbents financing finance 93

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Guess we’ll see about that.

real estate 106

real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

It only seemed logical to us that the same opportunity should exist in healthcare. Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.” Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist.

health 43

health VC hospitality disruption 43

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. A lot of startups are getting into patterns of raising large funding rounds in rapid succession to ride their respective waves of growth, and to capitalize on the huge opportunity right now to tap deep-pocketed investors looking for smart places to put their LPs’ money.

incumbents 99

incumbents financing finance health 99

TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation.

incumbents 102

incumbents financing finance strategy 102

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The plan will be to continue to support and grow its wider business building e-commerce tools for all kinds of larger companies, but in particular Spryker plans to use this tranche of funding to double down specifically on the B2B opportunity, building more agile e-commerce storefronts and in some cases also developing marketplaces around that.

mix-use 76

mix-use incumbents B2B marketing strategy 76

TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Clipboard Health , an app-based marketplace that matches nurses with open shifts at nearby healthcare facilities, today announced that it raised $80 million over two unannounced rounds, a $50 million Series B round in 2021 and a $30 million Series C round this year, at a $1.3 ” Clipboard Health’s staffing dashboard.

health 97

health hospitality incumbents opportunity 97

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

He teamed up with John Dada two years later to build Curacel, a fraud detection system for health companies at the time. Quick thoughts : In 2019, Curacel started with claims automation and fraud detection in health insurance with hospitals as its target market. Remedial Health. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M Website: [link].

startup 91

startup hospitality health financing 91

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.

incumbents 94

incumbents development culture support 94

Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? In addition, founders have raised capital to transform many of the fundamental industries: transportation, hospitality, lending, health insurance, and banking. But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars?

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investing investment hospitality transportation 40

TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

This is unlike incumbent technology, which Deng said “misses minutes” during the transmission of the images. Incumbents are also relying on wearables or health bands, which have to be charged and can be cumbersome to use in a senior care or home health environment.

technology 107

technology real estate development incumbents 107

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This is where Wynn believes Ascend is competing, though some incumbents are offering premium financing, but not in the digital way Ascend is. By moving digital payments over to insurance, Ascend and others will lead the market, which is so big that there will be many opportunities for companies to be successful.

financing 83

financing finance incumbents disruption 83

Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2023

Another example of AI favoring incumbents : Epic, a large health records company worth about $10-12b with about 30% market share in the US, has implemented some OpenAI features. From Coursera and Grammarly to Mercedes-Benz and Shell, we now have more than 2,500 Azure OpenAI service customers, up 10x quarter-over-quarter.

incumbents 80

incumbents health opportunity startup 80

Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

The success of Pinduoduo in China suggests there is a huge opportunity for social commerce platforms to emerge in other regions. There is a huge opportunity for companies to build social into their commerce platforms to take share from transactional platforms and expand e-commerce’s overall share of spend.

accelerator 134

accelerator networking enablement opportunity 134

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. practice of employer sponsored health care coverage. healthcare system rarely thinks of the patient as a customer.

health 59

health hospitality networking mix-use 59

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. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation). The incumbent system involves three key “stacks.”

incumbents 124

incumbents financing finance enablement 124

TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

While Africa’s health systems are still reeling from the effects of the COVID pandemic, the adoption of digital health services has been revved in some countries. The report says 36% of all-time funding reported by the health supply chain startups it profiled was raised in the last 12 months.

investing 114

investing investment health startup 114

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Open Co was created earlier this year by the merger of Geru, an eight-year-old o nline lender, and Rebel, a four-year-old startup using AI and bank account data to underwrite risk and assess clients’ financial health. Its aim is to “finance consumption for Brazilians in a healthy way.” Our mission is to break this vicious cycle.”.

incumbents 80

incumbents startup financing finance 80

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Data privacy regulations like GDPR, the CCPA and HIPAA present a challenge to training AI systems on sensitive data, like financial transactions , patient health records and user device logs. Tech giants, including Nvidia (via Clara ), offer federated learning as a service.

incumbents 74

incumbents frameworks health financing 74

TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

In many cases, they are dealing with a foreign and complex financial system, may struggle with finding adequate housing and health care and just generally feeling lost. s SB Opportunity Fund. There is no requirement for health insurance, all immigration statuses are accepted and the offering includes bilingual customer service.

education 78

education communities incumbents health 78

TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

’s floundering National Health Service (NHS) is not in the best of shapes by just about any estimation, the victim of chronic underfunding and understaffing that has led to excruciatingly long waiting times and health care professionals striking en masse. But in the midst of chaos, opportunity often lingers. ServiceNow).

hospitality 79

hospitality health incumbents capital 79

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times? What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

startup 141

startup mix-use SaaS advice 141

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Hear from its creator Anatoly Yakovenko about the opportunities and challenges ahead as Solana seeks to take web3 to mobile devices in a push for mass adoption. So how should startups that have incumbents to take on, other startups to best, or both, approach the balance between growth and spend this year? with Peter A.

disruption 81

disruption pitching VC ventures 81

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand discuss proptech’s biggest opportunities. What is the biggest opportunity for proptech founders? Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand discuss proptech’s biggest opportunities. Image Credits: Jeff Newton / Hippo.

startup 78

startup construction VC health 78

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. since before the dawn of the modern venture capital industry.”

startup ecosystem 98

startup ecosystem incumbents startup entrepreneurship 98

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 6, 2024

We should always do this—having incumbents encourage and welcome healthy competition of ideas, as long as everyone supports the winner in the end. Because we have so much money in politics and it’s very expensive to run a campaign, potential candidates are hesitant to mount an ill-fated primary challenge to an incumbent.

support 262

support incumbents creativity health 262