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and by substantial amounts of invested capital in formal amenities required by incumbent brands that are frequently cost centers rather than profit centers (lobby restaurant, room service, etc.). Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it it characterizes the space in which we live, the environment in which we work, and the places where we socialize. MORE
Mort appreciates that TrustLayer is tackling the problem not by becoming the insurance broker, but by working with the incumbents as a software solution. TrustLayer , which provides insurance brokers with risk management services via a SaaS platform, has raised $6.6 million in a seed round. MORE
The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. MORE
Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. The following is an excerpt from 500’s CVC report. How has corporate venture capital changed? In the decade since the Great Recession, we have seen digital upstarts – taking advantage of disruptive technologies from AI to IoT – reshape the economy and the corporate pecking order. MORE
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. 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. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. MORE
Meanwhile, it’s incumbent on you as the CEO to create an environment that encourages action-oriented behavior. Contributed by Chen Amit , co-founder and CEO of Tipalti. Entrepreneurship is one of the most challenging vocations on earth. Even during the best of times, it requires long hours, endless devotion, and a willingness to take big risks and make gut-wrenching decisions. Today, as we navigate an unprecedented global health crisis , an entrepreneur’s role becomes even more demanding. MORE
Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. Sennder , a large digital road freight forwarder based out of Germany, has raised $160 million in Series D financing. MORE
The “incumbent provider” of English proficiency tests, Test Of English As A Foreign Language (aka TOEFL), has had all of the companies and universities who accept it locked up for many years. But in some markets, incumbency matters more than better. I wrote about our portfolio company Duolingo’s English Proficiency Test back in August of last year. MORE
The thesis of the book is that incumbents in markets – especially large and well entrenched markets – seldom survive fundamental technology changes in their industries. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market. It is often the situation that the incumbent offers a product that is vastly superior in the market in terms of performance or functionality. MORE
Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, who helped build the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, is taking on a new challenge — and it’s a doozy. Socher wants to fix consumer search and today he announced you.com , a new search engine to take on the mighty Google. MORE
And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9% ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents. This morning Clutter.io announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. Congratulations. Sincerely. Conventional wisdom says I shouldn’t tell you this because I invested in their main competitor, MakeSpace. MORE
The architecture enables SaaS companies to reimagine the largest categories of software and rebuild them to challenge the incumbents. About a year ago, I wrote a post on the hub and spoke data model. MORE
While the Visa-Plaid deal was merely a single transaction, its scuttling doesn’t bode well for other fintech startups and unicorns that might have eyed an exit to a wealthy incumbent. MORE
Their deep understanding of the core market dynamics is what will make them succeed” Schultz also argues that existing supermarket infrastructure can’t deliver on express grocery shopping and that large incumbents don’t have the skillset or agility to build on-demand grocery. MORE
As all investors know from the case of Uber, you cannot size a market based on an incumbent. When investors ask about exit strategy, it’s often a way to gauge whether a founder understands the dynamic of the market, the well-capitalized incumbents who might be a threat, and a founder’s ability to reason on the spot. Getting investors excited about your product is a critical part of raising capital. MORE
Quarterly data from Gust, the online platform for the global angel investment industry, reveals that while incumbent leaders show no sign of slowing down, new industries and areas Read more >. In Q3 the global startup ecosystem continued to thrive, with 25% growth over the same quarter last year and up 18% from last quarter, as the innovation economy expands around the world. MORE
The competition is the incumbent video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, but calls on these platforms have a set agenda, and are timeboxed – they’re rigid and repetitive. MORE
The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. Incumbents in these industries are very large and entrenched, but they are legacy players, making them slow to adopt new technology. Roger Lee. MORE
In just about all cases, to successfully disrupt a large incumbent, your best case scenario is that they completely ignore you and what you're doing. You want the incumbent to act "rationally", because an emotionally fired-up incumbent will come try to crush you simply out of spite and ego. The fact that what you have doesn't meet the needs of the existing customer-base is what makes it easier for the incumbent to ignore you. Working on a startup? MORE
The banks and incumbents take advantage of that and make people feel like they’re not smart enough to manage their money. Here in the U.S., we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market. MORE
I think with most delivery apps and at incumbent carriers the courier is kind of incidental, and seen as replaceable; we try to focus on how we can make them better, and we’re still working on it,” he says. I don’t see how the incumbent U.K. Gophr , a U.K.-based MORE
That’s a good showing for fintech, both startup and incumbent alike. After a turbulent week for the stock market and halts to the trading of certain speculative securities including GameStop (GME) and AMC, consumer investing app Robinhood has raised new capital. MORE
And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. Startups begin to siphon off important but underserved segments of SaaS incumbent's customer bases. Here are my 5 predictions for 2020. The direct listing becomes the standard way for startups to go public in 2020. The idea has been proven by Slack and Spotify, and many others will follow. Most startups at IPO have plenty of cash and don't need to raise more in the public markets. MORE
For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index. Jake Jolis. Contributor. Share on Twitter. MORE
“We sell more policies to first-time insurance buyers in Germany than incumbents like Allianz, Axa, Zurich, etc,” he says. Getsafe , the digital-first insurance startup that initially launched with an app for home contents insurance, has closed $30 million in Series B funding. MORE
Then a large incumbent announced a new module that filled the same function as her product. #GiveFirst is a Techstars mantra. Simply put, it means giving—advice, resources, assistance, etc.—with with no expectation of getting anything specific back. When a network of people, such as a global community of entrepreneurs, live in a #GiveFirst way, each is helpful whenever they can be. This builds a powerful network of caring people, all flourishing because they are all giving to each other. MORE
But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Over the past decade, many startups have tried (and many have failed) to rethink the way we schedule our meetings and calls. MORE
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. Instead, they would prefer to back their winners to take on the incumbents head-on — hence, we have larger funds and longer hold periods to get liquidity. It’s an unusual time in the markets. MORE
It will be interesting to see how newer entrants in the SaaS banking-platform space disrupt what are, effectively, becoming incumbents in their own right: Mambu is now approaching 10 years old (it was founded in 2011). MORE
“Forto has proven to be essential in a sector which is under increasing pressure amidst a global pandemic and is dominated by fragmented, non-digital incumbents,” added Michiel Kotting, partner at Northzone. MORE
Today, global energy corporation Equinor and startup Crux OCM are working together to test Crux OCM’s software, which functions as an “autopilot” for oil and gas control room operators. It’s early days yet, but if the Crux OCM solution works and scales, it will lead to efficiencies, cost savings, and new revenue opportunities for Equinor. MORE
As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany). MORE
That should be good news for payments processors incumbent and startup, as well as other ecommerce businesses, again large, small, and even platform-focused. Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. MORE
However, if you’re already an incumbent at a large health system with a compelling Covid-19 use case, then you’re in a really good spot. Earlier this month, Adam Dakin , Managing Director of Dreamit Healthtech, joined Phase2 Health to share his insight on how the pandemic is changing healthcare. MORE
Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. To keep an organization safe, a CISO depends on as many as 50 to 100 different products. This presents a huge opportunity for startups. However, this means that a CISO sees a LOT of pitches in their role. MORE
The European grocery market is currently worth €2 trillion, but access to customers for high-quality, smaller producers is still tricky and blocked by incumbents. MORE
In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. MORE
incumbents Related Topics TechStars
MARCH 14, 2019
Today, global energy corporation Equinor and startup Crux OCM are working together to test Crux OCM’s software, which functions as an “autopilot” for oil and gas control room operators. It’s early days yet, but if the Crux OCM solution works and scales, it will lead to efficiencies, cost savings, and new revenue opportunities for Equinor.
OurCrowd
JULY 22, 2020
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500
OCTOBER 25, 2019
Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. The following is an excerpt from 500’s CVC report. How has corporate venture capital changed? In the decade since the Great Recession, we have seen digital upstarts – taking advantage of disruptive technologies from AI to IoT – reshape the economy and the corporate pecking order.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
APRIL 22, 2020
The “incumbent provider” of English proficiency tests, Test Of English As A Foreign Language (aka TOEFL), has had all of the companies and universities who accept it locked up for many years. But in some markets, incumbency matters more than better. I wrote about our portfolio company Duolingo’s English Proficiency Test back in August of last year.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index. Jake Jolis. Contributor. Share on Twitter.
Dream It
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
As all investors know from the case of Uber, you cannot size a market based on an incumbent. When investors ask about exit strategy, it’s often a way to gauge whether a founder understands the dynamic of the market, the well-capitalized incumbents who might be a threat, and a founder’s ability to reason on the spot. Getting investors excited about your product is a critical part of raising capital.
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
It will be interesting to see how newer entrants in the SaaS banking-platform space disrupt what are, effectively, becoming incumbents in their own right: Mambu is now approaching 10 years old (it was founded in 2011).
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, who helped build the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, is taking on a new challenge — and it’s a doozy. Socher wants to fix consumer search and today he announced you.com , a new search engine to take on the mighty Google.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 13, 2021
Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. Sennder , a large digital road freight forwarder based out of Germany, has raised $160 million in Series D financing.
Dream It
JULY 24, 2020
Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. To keep an organization safe, a CISO depends on as many as 50 to 100 different products. This presents a huge opportunity for startups. However, this means that a CISO sees a LOT of pitches in their role.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 22, 2021
The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. Incumbents in these industries are very large and entrenched, but they are legacy players, making them slow to adopt new technology. Roger Lee.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany).
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JUNE 16, 2020
Meanwhile, it’s incumbent on you as the CEO to create an environment that encourages action-oriented behavior. Contributed by Chen Amit , co-founder and CEO of Tipalti. Entrepreneurship is one of the most challenging vocations on earth. Even during the best of times, it requires long hours, endless devotion, and a willingness to take big risks and make gut-wrenching decisions. Today, as we navigate an unprecedented global health crisis , an entrepreneur’s role becomes even more demanding.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Over the past decade, many startups have tried (and many have failed) to rethink the way we schedule our meetings and calls.
Gust
OCTOBER 30, 2015
Quarterly data from Gust, the online platform for the global angel investment industry, reveals that while incumbent leaders show no sign of slowing down, new industries and areas Read more >. In Q3 the global startup ecosystem continued to thrive, with 25% growth over the same quarter last year and up 18% from last quarter, as the innovation economy expands around the world.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
“Forto has proven to be essential in a sector which is under increasing pressure amidst a global pandemic and is dominated by fragmented, non-digital incumbents,” added Michiel Kotting, partner at Northzone.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 7, 2020
“We sell more policies to first-time insurance buyers in Germany than incumbents like Allianz, Axa, Zurich, etc,” he says. Getsafe , the digital-first insurance startup that initially launched with an app for home contents insurance, has closed $30 million in Series B funding.
TechCrunch
MARCH 2, 2021
The European grocery market is currently worth €2 trillion, but access to customers for high-quality, smaller producers is still tricky and blocked by incumbents.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 29, 2021
That’s a good showing for fintech, both startup and incumbent alike. After a turbulent week for the stock market and halts to the trading of certain speculative securities including GameStop (GME) and AMC, consumer investing app Robinhood has raised new capital.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 12, 2021
While the Visa-Plaid deal was merely a single transaction, its scuttling doesn’t bode well for other fintech startups and unicorns that might have eyed an exit to a wealthy incumbent.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 22, 2015
And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9% ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents. This morning Clutter.io announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. Congratulations. Sincerely. Conventional wisdom says I shouldn’t tell you this because I invested in their main competitor, MakeSpace.
OnStartups
DECEMBER 22, 2015
In just about all cases, to successfully disrupt a large incumbent, your best case scenario is that they completely ignore you and what you're doing. You want the incumbent to act "rationally", because an emotionally fired-up incumbent will come try to crush you simply out of spite and ego. The fact that what you have doesn't meet the needs of the existing customer-base is what makes it easier for the incumbent to ignore you. Working on a startup?
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
I think with most delivery apps and at incumbent carriers the courier is kind of incidental, and seen as replaceable; we try to focus on how we can make them better, and we’re still working on it,” he says. I don’t see how the incumbent U.K. Gophr , a U.K.-based
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 1, 2021
The architecture enables SaaS companies to reimagine the largest categories of software and rebuild them to challenge the incumbents. About a year ago, I wrote a post on the hub and spoke data model.
Dream It
MAY 13, 2020
However, if you’re already an incumbent at a large health system with a compelling Covid-19 use case, then you’re in a really good spot. Earlier this month, Adam Dakin , Managing Director of Dreamit Healthtech, joined Phase2 Health to share his insight on how the pandemic is changing healthcare.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
That should be good news for payments processors incumbent and startup, as well as other ecommerce businesses, again large, small, and even platform-focused. Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Mort appreciates that TrustLayer is tackling the problem not by becoming the insurance broker, but by working with the incumbents as a software solution. TrustLayer , which provides insurance brokers with risk management services via a SaaS platform, has raised $6.6 million in a seed round.
Y Combinator
JANUARY 21, 2021
In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace.
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. 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. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 11, 2020
The competition is the incumbent video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, but calls on these platforms have a set agenda, and are timeboxed – they’re rigid and repetitive.
Tomasz Tunguz
DECEMBER 18, 2019
And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. Startups begin to siphon off important but underserved segments of SaaS incumbent's customer bases. Here are my 5 predictions for 2020. The direct listing becomes the standard way for startups to go public in 2020. The idea has been proven by Slack and Spotify, and many others will follow. Most startups at IPO have plenty of cash and don't need to raise more in the public markets.
TechCrunch
MARCH 2, 2021
Their deep understanding of the core market dynamics is what will make them succeed” Schultz also argues that existing supermarket infrastructure can’t deliver on express grocery shopping and that large incumbents don’t have the skillset or agility to build on-demand grocery.
TechStars
MAY 16, 2019
Then a large incumbent announced a new module that filled the same function as her product. #GiveFirst is a Techstars mantra. Simply put, it means giving—advice, resources, assistance, etc.—with with no expectation of getting anything specific back. When a network of people, such as a global community of entrepreneurs, live in a #GiveFirst way, each is helpful whenever they can be. This builds a powerful network of caring people, all flourishing because they are all giving to each other.
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. Instead, they would prefer to back their winners to take on the incumbents head-on — hence, we have larger funds and longer hold periods to get liquidity. It’s an unusual time in the markets.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
The banks and incumbents take advantage of that and make people feel like they’re not smart enough to manage their money. Here in the U.S., we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market.
Revolution
JUNE 10, 2019
and by substantial amounts of invested capital in formal amenities required by incumbent brands that are frequently cost centers rather than profit centers (lobby restaurant, room service, etc.). Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it it characterizes the space in which we live, the environment in which we work, and the places where we socialize.
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