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. 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.

venture capital 204

venture capital capital ventures incumbents 204

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2020

Meanwhile, it’s incumbent on you as the CEO to create an environment that encourages action-oriented behavior. When conducting interviews, be sure to ask for specific examples of each candidate’s ability to act decisively; look for a quick, strategic mind that can develop and implement innovative solutions.

leadership 265

leadership collaboration incumbents entrepreneurship 265

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Incumbents launch products, VCs throw cash at other competitors, team members quit, the economy dips — whatever. When a founder is “mission driven” you get the sense that he or she will do whatever it takes to make an impact in the market they serve and will keep persevering whatever the startup trends of the month.

incumbents 270

incumbents entrepreneurs education pitching 270

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.

incumbents 106

incumbents consulting SaaS disruption 106

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. .” So other partners at the firm might sling mud at your ideas as you go for approval on an investment.

funders 362

funders culture incumbents technology 362

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

incumbents 126

incumbents disruption networking collaboration 126

Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. We used this type of expert knowledge to power our semantic engines. LESSON: Watch an expert solve a problem before you build a machine to attempt it. Other people had struggled on this journey.

innovation 152

innovation hospitality incumbents technology 152

TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. The tech revolution hasn’t yet affected the bottled beverage industry quite as much as it has others.

incumbents 129

incumbents networking entrepreneurs opportunity 129

StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

B2B companies face a similar battle against multibillion-dollar incumbents and unicorn startups. They know that this knowledge will become their edge, their primary competitive advantage, against incumbent and nascent competitors. Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter! Successful entrepreneurs think and learn for themselves.

peer-to-peer 110

peer-to-peer incumbents innovation entrepreneurs 110

Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

Venture investors pay close attention to the innovation that emerges when startups unbundle the offerings of industry incumbents. Historically, where you work and where you live has been a package deal, but the remote work phenomenon of Covid is changing that and allowing companies to compete for talent on different terms.

startup 130

startup incumbents accelerator venture capital 130

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You know, incumbents versus startups. But in the last cycle, and maybe just from a B2B lens here, in SaaS and cloud, there were a bunch of things that made it really difficult for the incumbents to actually innovate. But it’s a real problem for the incumbent, because they can’t compromise their brand. David: Yeah.

incumbents 143

incumbents networking technology creativity 143

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Last November, Bond kicked this off by announcing a partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition to develop a craft meat protein for its product portfolio.

incumbents 99

incumbents collaboration VC ventures 99

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? Startups vs. incumbents David: I want to shift gears just a little bit and move towards the business and market structure side of things. 00:36] Will AI replace designers? [4:03]

incumbents 104

incumbents creativity development technology 104

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

” It’s tough for any cloud provider to compete with the incumbents in the space — i.e., Google, Amazon and Microsoft. But in Intrator’s eyes, the incumbents aren’t set up to meet the demand of thousands of new AI companies clamoring for GPUs — at least not at CoreWeave’s (ostensibly lower) prices.

investment 97

investment investing incumbents accelerator 97

American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses. This new capital will allow us to scale existing products, ship new products, expand into new geographies, and deepen our partnerships with platforms that support the global small business economy, explained Poddar.

financing 98

financing finance incumbents construction 98

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

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. The technology industry is often thought of as being the domain of the young and the new.

incumbents 101

incumbents peer-to-peer opportunity strategy 101

TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

At the same time, the incumbent banks are stuck with their mainframes, IBM contracts, and software written in COBOL,” he wrote via email.” For his part, Valar Ventures’ Andrew McCormack said that financial services companies can “leverage whatever technologies they want to provide better customer experiences.”. “At

incumbents 97

incumbents networking financing finance 97

TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

When Shamir was building Simple, he could see how challenging it was for incumbents to provide the tools developers need to embed financial services, and this is why we have confidence in his ability to win.”. “Sila is building an easy way for people to program money and taking a regulatory eye to things,” Sieg said.

development 103

development real estate incumbents ventures 103

TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS.

incumbents 99

incumbents construction health support 99

TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

With a large population, Pakistan is geographically smaller, well-connected with fewer provinces, has lower regulatory barriers and doesn’t have strong incumbents,” Khurshid, who is originally from Pakistan, said via email. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”.

venture capital 92

venture capital VC capital ventures 92

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

. “Sima.ai’s platform addresses any computer vision application using any model, any framework, any sensor, any resolution … [We as a company have] seized the opportunity to disrupt the burgeoning edge computing space in pursuit of displacing decades old technology and legacy incumbents.”

startup 95

startup accelerator incumbents disruption 95

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

You have large incumbents with very outdated systems, but a very loyal and a very high degree of trust customer base. And then you have the regulators in Europe which are very positive towards innovation and incumbents and challengers. Is there a sector or two that you find particularly exciting?

VC 102

VC venture capital incumbents capital 102

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.

investment 115

investment investing health startup 115

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“My dad still eats instant ramen each night, and it is such a massive market: 4 billion packets are sold per year, but it is also a product that has been dominated by the same three incumbents for years.”. Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years. billion of value in the U.S.

incumbents 98

incumbents collaboration capital culture 98

TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In other words, it wants to help fintechs be in a stronger position to compete with incumbents, something it believes will benefit consumers.

incumbents 96

incumbents financing finance pitching 96

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The challenge, though, will be maintaining momentum in the face of stiff competition like Brex , Bill.com-owned Divvy , Airbase and incumbents such as Concur and Expensify. FinVC partner Peter Ackerson added in a statement via email: “We saw Teampay’s remarkable traction and are excited to have led this Series B round.

economic environments 86

economic environments incumbents financing finance 86

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. (Recently, asset management giant BlackRock announced that it’ll deploy a private network at its new headquarters in partnership with Verizon.)

networking 88

networking startup incumbents energy 88

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Besides incumbents like Adobe, there are startups such as Reduct.Video , which uses AI, natural language processing and other tech to automatically create editable transcripts. . “We think of our main competition as non-editors — people who aren’t making video because the tools are too complex and time consuming.”

media 94

media incumbents creativity energy 94

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

But these disclosures carry significant financial costs for small, private companies — and they carry the extra risk of exposing sensitive financial information to competitors and large corporate incumbents. Moreover, penalties for noncompliance could permanently damage a company’s ability to raise capital.

startup 102

startup frameworks real estate innovation 102

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. Akeyless has customers across the retail, fintech, insurance and gaming sectors, among others, including Wix and Outbrain.

incumbents 86

incumbents development capital venture capital 86

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips.

accelerator 95

accelerator networking incumbents support 95

Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. What does it say about us when we don’t allow certain groups of motivated, innovative, and optimistic people access to the resources they need to start up and scale up?

peer-to-peer 106

peer-to-peer entrepreneurial ecosystem entrepreneurship board 106

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The startup’s competition includes incumbents like Informatica, IBM, SAP and Oracle, as well as newer rivals such as Collibra , Castor , Stemma , Data.World and Ataccama , all of whom offer tools for classifying and curating data at enterprise scale. billion and growing toward $11.6 billion over the next four years.

incumbents 86

incumbents collaboration enablement ventures 86

TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Fintech startups are convinced that banks have lobbied the RBI to reach this decision, employing the age-old tactic where incumbents cry foul and rely on the regulator to rescue the day. Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!” ” the founder added.

startup 97

startup incumbents disruption accelerator 97

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Every time a big name enters insurance, there is always a mix of skepticism from incumbents and a reminder that change is needed. And their huge customer base could be a competitive edge. See how they are doing in the payment space with Apple Pay!

opportunity 108

opportunity venture capital mix-use incumbents 108

Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

This was strategic for two reasons: 1) incumbents were focused on non-perishable items, so competition was limited and 2) fruits and vegetables are lower order value, high frequency goods, which means users had a reason to use Pinduoduo regularly. To maximize this effect, Pinduoduo launched in the fruits and vegetables category.

accelerator 140

accelerator networking enablement opportunity 140

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

It doesn’t need to be a zero-sum game where more people of color will push out the incumbents. For Silicon Valley to maintain its crown as a beacon of innovation, it’s important to make it more diverse so it can understand the United States as well as emerging markets.

entrepreneurship 113

entrepreneurship capital venture capital VC 113