Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

They’ll have to back up the truck for their best companies, take acquisitions off the table, and go right after the incumbents head-on. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Barclays had applied for the contract through its network of Eagle Labs incubators , some of which have physical locations, but most do not. We can’t hand the support to the tech ecosystem to an incumbent bank! We need to shout this into oblivion. Everyone needs to know how mad this is,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. So if you are then I have to ask myself, “What are the incumbents going to do when you grow?”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. Which areas are either oversaturated or would be too hard to compete in at this point for a new startup?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Originally incubated at Y Combinator , Tovala has attracted other interesting investors in the company, including poultry giant Tyson. Notably, this is the second round of funding for the startup in the space of six months, after it picked up $20 million in a Series B last June. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Mahmoud, who worked at a startup incubator in Canada while he got the idea for Eksab, said he built the platform with inspiration from incumbents such as Dream 11 , DraftKings and FanDuel as well as newer startups infusing web3 into the world of fantasy sports like Sorare.

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