TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. . ” Going up against incumbents.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the last year we’ve seen billions of dollars invested in AI companies. .” Simultaneously our government could make massive amounts of data available to US startups. Incorporate here, pay taxes, create jobs? Here’s access to troves of medical, financial, legislative data.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 23, 2023

I sent a very specific note that outlined the issues that I thought VCs have with many business models in this industry with the subject line “Travel startups suck” and then positioned the company has not falling prey to any of those reasons why someone wouldn’t want to invest in travel. Is it too hard to unseat entrenched incumbents?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 11, 2021

I like to think of investing in new things a bit like a football running play. So the existing incumbents are the defensive line. And they are not taking on any of the incumbents directly. Imagine you are the running back. You’ve been handed the football and you are looking for a hole to open up and run through.

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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. But the rate of change has accelerated and with it, the balance of internal versus external investment. We believe the new corporate landscape calls for new strategies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Before committing to an investment, it is important to understand what you are buying and what you are getting into. On the angel investing platform, this component is called Broker Review. What is due diligence?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Register Singapore-based eyewear house Neso Brands announced raising $100 million that will be used to partner and invest in consumer eyewear brands around the world. Eyewear has to date been a very traditional industry with large incumbents, but is now ripe for a tech-enabled global transformation.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We have made the decision to invest in entrepreneurs without slides, whose ambition, passion, depth of understanding of an opportunity and compelling vision come through crystal-clear in conversation,” states Sarah Guo from Greylock Partners. As all investors know from the case of Uber, you cannot size a market based on an incumbent.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. More posts by this contributor. 4-year founder vesting is dead.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

“However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. Lambert served as Director at Google’s Area 120, where he led the division’s sustainability investments. We’re developing heat pumps that are better than any HVAC system of any kind.

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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. It is two sides of the same coin. It costs less ($49 vs $205).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market. For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population have the ability to invest in the capital markets just didn’t seem right. Here in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Starling — which competes against incumbent banks, as well as other challengers like Monzo and Revolut — said it will be using the money to continue its growth. That bigger market picture has also meant a surge of many neobanks, and so Starling competes with more than just the incumbents. billion) post-money.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Conventional wisdom says I shouldn’t tell you this because I invested in their main competitor, MakeSpace. Clutter is LA based and many of my friends invested. And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9% ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. Incumbents feel threatened.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Brian MacCarthy, Booz Allen’s VP of ventures, said that the new fund will invest primarily in early-stage (seed, Series A, and Series B) companies and build on Booz Allen’s existing Tech Scouting program, which connects with entrepreneurs to vet emerging security technologies. . In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Breeze raised $10 million in Series A funding in a round led by Link Ventures that Nabity boasts is the “largest first round of institutional capital ever invested in a Nebraska-based software startup.” Northwestern Mutual Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, M25, Fiat Ventures and Invest Nebraska also participated in the financing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a sign that national security tech is a safe bet even during troubled economic times, defense- and security-focused VC firm Razor’s Edge Ventures today announced the closing of its third startup investment fund at just under $340 million. For example, Razor’s Edge recently invested in Corsha , a Washington, D.C.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

It’s rarer still that companies built on a feature make for VC-investable companies with the potential for VC-scale returns. Startups often fall into the trap of writing off incumbents as too big to act, too clueless to know what customers want and too incompetent to deliver good products.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps. Co-founder and chairman Samuel Rhee told TechCrunch that Endowus is now “multiple times the size of the next player and now competing with large banks and incumbent players.” million in follow-on funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Justin Da Rosa.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Great company has a strong, defensible business model that can win market share from incumbents. 7 (Please note that this isn’t investment advice from me or a16z!) When I started my career in growth investing, there were 3 Great public companies: Meta, Workday, and Tripadvisor. What’s next Here’s the best part.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

There are really three investable opportunities in the category of “known knowns”: Sell software to incumbents Compete with incumbents, with generative AI at the core Buy incumbents and remake them with AI—what a “generative AI” KKR would be doing Think about Rocket Mortgage, with thousands of mortgage brokers and 2022 net revenues of $5.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

But it also could be the worst of times for founders thinking about launching an AI startup, especially one that can grow and be defensible against incumbents in a fast-changing environment. CB Insights compiled data from 2021 and 2022 to understand where VC investment money has been going when it comes to generative AI startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. The company’s “big focus is continuing the vision of transforming healthcare,” said Sid Viswanathan, president and co-founder of Truepill.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. Khurshid said that he expects to close by the end of the second quarter and start investing in the third quarter.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. VC is a Singapore-based early-stage VC fund investing in technologies of the future and founders that create emergent industries with a global impact.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Discount airlines, cell phones (not smartphones) and integrated circuits are good examples of the “faster, cheaper, simpler” variety, because they simply displaced familiar incumbents. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu has been seeing 100% growth year-on-year, but notably, Mambu covered 50 markets when it last raised money, €30 million in 2019 , so you can argue it has some investing and expanding to do on that front. Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools. That could lead to consolidation, too.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million Series A investment in June from a group of investors that includes Archer-Daniels-Midland Company’s venture arm ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Genoa Ventures, Lever VC, Thia Ventures, iSelect Fund, Stage 1 Fund, Lifely VC and Satori Capital. The move is buoyed by a $17.5

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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 >.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. The fresh investment will be used to fund IMVU’s product development and comes fresh off a restructuring at the company. A NetEase spokesperson declined to comment on the investment in IMVU.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

With corporate venture fund creation rebounding to near record levels and the value of deals that CVCs participated in soaring, we wanted to look more deeply into why companies are building their own investing arms. We wanted to learn more: How do active CVC investors view what their investment type is for? But that’s just data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Leading the round is M2 Asset Management, the Swedish investment company controlled by Rutger Arnhult, and asset management firm Coeli. For me, this is an investment in a tech company with long-term owners, who are just at the beginning of their journey. Next stop, Norway. I see great growth potential in the bank.”. Anyfin bags €4.8M

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7 It expanded into investing in April with a private wealth management product, and plans a mortgage offering for later this year as part of its effort to be a “one-stop shop for all financial services for Canadians and retailers.” .

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