Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Most businesses are competing with the same strategies as their competition. I believe competition is a major driving force, especially since venture capital is conspicuously copious. The chart above shows them by buyer.

SaaS 75

SaaS incumbents financing finance 75

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA.

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investing investment venture capital peer-to-peer 116

TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

With their new capital, the duo hopes to advance on their mission “to enable a seamless, transparent experience for financial institutions and their customers through an intelligent, opinionated and intuitive workflow platform.” ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

peer-to-peer 97

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 97

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. For well over a decade, the company was a major player in the Android category and a driving force behind a number of innovations that have since become standard. Four strategies for getting attention from investors.

board 91

board pitching venture capital mix-use 91

TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

I talked with Dean Henry, EVP of global commercial services for Amex, and Colleen Taylor, president of merchant services, US at Amex, and they gave me some insight into the strategy behind the buy. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services.

incumbents 117

incumbents energy board investing 117

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive.

startup 91

startup hospitality health financing 91

TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

We believe personalization represents the future of retirement savings and will drive the next wave of innovative retirement solutions.” It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g. With this new strategy, Klarna is essentially saying that it’s open for business.

startup 110

startup financing finance incumbents 110

TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. Yes, innovations are happening, but core speaker technology rarely moves in a way that could be described as truly innovative.

startup 89

startup disruption innovation energy 89

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Their goal was to take that 10 years of experience investing through the venture capital arm of one of the world’s largest credit card companies, and apply it firsthand to new early-stage investments — but with a twist. And that’s ultimately the insight that we built a thesis on,” said Fitzgerald. Sign up here.

ventures 76

ventures incumbents startup VC 76

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

A great amount of talent is cultivated in the military, which has spawned innovative cyber, AI and machine-learning companies. Same as VC funds are deeply acquainted with Silicon Valley, tech investors cannot ignore this hub of innovation that has produced global market leading companies and serial entrepreneurs. are at risk.

startup 141

startup mix-use SaaS advice 141

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

We cover a lot of venture capital news here at TechCrunch. Lately, we’ve had to touch on rolling funds, solo GPs and a faster-than-ever investing cadence that has rewritten the rules of venture investing. But there’s another venture capital trend worth discussing: venture capital firms going public.

VC 102

VC venture capital incumbents capital 102

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

JANUARY 11, 2022

Anton Backman, principal, and Kenrick Drijkoningen, general partner, Play Ventures. 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. Is the uncertainty making you reconsider your strategy?

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opportunity incumbents advice strategy 97

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

When you look at all the different areas of any enterprise company in LatAm, the CFO function is clearly the one that has had the least innovation,” said Karpovsky. Part of Mendel’s strategy is to attract customers with high payment volume and low credit risk, while at the same time charging a SaaS fee for the usage of their platform.

incumbents 90

incumbents financing finance frameworks 90

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. My colleague Rebecca Szkutak profiles Foley’s latest venture for TC+, called Ernesta. Consider how a recession might play out.

startup 83

startup VC incumbents frameworks 83