TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A growing market will have plenty of room for upstart companies to attack incumbents; sometimes startups create their own market, but that’s a bit rarer. All this is to say that TAM matters for startups, how they pitch investors and how investors make investment decisions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

This Series C is being led by D2 Investments, a new investment fund with LPs from the U.S. and United Emirates; and existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Pitango, D1 Capital, Atreides Management, and Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services are also participating.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Dave Wechsler leads insurtech investing for OMERS Ventures. Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there were lofty claims that everything about the industry was about to change. Founders pitched carriers a tech-forward relationship with the customer, focusing on: Dave Wechsler. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. Those rates are many multiples higher compared to figures in neighboring countries. We’re always iterating on the EC-1 format.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

We led a $4 million investment along with Thrive Capital, GLG and Sound Ventures. Incumbents launch products, VCs throw cash at other competitors, team members quit, the economy dips — whatever. Truly, in many ways, my concern was the inverse of normal business pitches.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere. ” In other news.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multistage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever and Outschool). This year, we’re adding a new feature: Our guests will analyze pitch decks submitted by members of the audience to identify their strengths and weaknesses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But when going to pitch meetings and VC events, I got the same feeling that I would get when you go to a high-end country club or a luxury store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. I was mostly pitching white male VCs. Thirty that I pitched were ethnic minorities and I received five term sheets, or a success rate of 17%.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

It plans to use the money to continue investing in its technology stack, to step up with more business development, and to hire more talent for its team, to meet what it believes are changing tides in the world of data warehousing. billion valuation. “We rarely see people not liking Snowflake.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

In any case, it’s a reasonably compelling sales pitch. But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free. Will Yumi — and its ChatGPT-inspired tech for that matter — get ahead of the pack to nab a slice of it? Only time will tell.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Nichols joined us on TechCrunch Early Stage to discuss his strategies for early-stage investing and how those lessons can translate into a successful launch for budding entrepreneurs. How to get into a startup accelerator.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

in average transaction fees, digital senders like NALA pitch themselves to customers as platforms with the best rates and lowest prices. Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. The investment will allow NALA to hire more talent and foster growth efforts in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. Do you expect late-stage insurtech investment volume and valuations to fall further than what we have already seen this year?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Related: goPuff itself is also looking to expand into Europe and is currently in talks to acquire or invest in the U.K.’s There’s also the likes of Zapp , which is still in stealth and more focused on a potentially higher-margin convenience store offering similar to U.S. unicorn goPuff. Founder-market-fit?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Given there was a recession and a lot of uncertainty, it was a much easier pitch, considering we could offer a more affordable product,” Schneble said. The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We Last year, that number dropped to about 50%.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Berlin-based startup — which rebranded from dashdash at the end of last year — closed a Series B round of $16 million, money that it is using to continue investing in its platform as well as in sales and marketing. Christian Reber has also invested in this round. COVID-19 is driving demand for low-code apps.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 23, 2013

I hear this refrain more and more in pitches. It’s the company that pursues an incumbent with faster, better or cheaper solution and in particular a solution that cannibalizes the incumbent’s business model typically because of a lower cost structure. But being the last mover isn’t always advantageous. When Last Mover Works.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

What kinds of moves are the incumbents making and how they change the market? Pitch-it-myself test : I stop a few partners in the office and give them the pitch to test their reactions. At this point, I’m really interested and I’m trying to understand the investment risks better. How might a startup disrupt this market?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. Combined, those non-traditional VCs account for about 25% of venture dollars invested last year, sapping the strength from the startup bull-market. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B raised by Uber and $2.4B

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

beU delivery is YC’s first set of investments in Africa’s food delivery space alongside Heyfood, another startup in this batch. Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

has closed a $6 million investment round led by RTP Global, along with participation from JamJar Investments. Cuckoo Internet, which is aiming to be an insurgent startup in the broadband provider space in the U.K., It will also launch on price-comparison site uSwitch. RTP Global was an early backer of Yandex, Delivery Hero and Datadog.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

I had a few VC friends who immediately saw the parallel but others were scratching their heads saying, “How is a physical storage company – even if you pitch it as “cloud” – really a tech company?” ” Let’s start with some basics. And they have. Innovation. The value prop is pretty clear.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Europe is perhaps an obvious first step for Neeva’s inaugural expansion plans, owing to the slew of antitrust complaints currently faced by the mighty incumbent Google, with legislators targeting everything from e-commerce (Google Shopping) and Android to its dominance of the online ad market. France and Germany. ” Privacy push.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Serendipitously, while studying at Brown, he realized he wasn’t alone in his desire to help this population when he, Evan Jackson and Alex Rothberg wound up in the same class pitching the same idea — separately — to their teacher. Recalls Rothberg: “We had to apply to the class with an idea.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

He noted that the investment brings Saviynt’s total raised to date to $270 million following a $130 million debt raise in 2021, making Saviynt one of the better-funded startups in the identity management space. ” It probably helps that identity management is having a moment, thanks in part to the lingering effects of the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

One day, we’re reading about investment giants like Tiger Global seeing about $17 billion in losses. Then the next, I open my inbox to see pitches for nine-figure funding rounds (hello, SpotOn ) and the birth of new unicorns (looking at you, Unit ). Here we are today. division.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Its pitch to customers is that while banks take weeks or months to give cards, Sudo Africa takes days. Sudo collects card production and personalization fees cheaper than incumbents’, claims Shittu. But with the introduction of virtual dollar cards in a few digital banks and fintech platforms, this has become less of an issue.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

A few notes before we dive into the news: First, our Austin City Spotlight and pitch-off is coming together, so startups, this link is for you. The company was once largely construed as a Robinhood competitor, but with the Otis deal, Public is making a bid to be a more diverse asset investing platform for consumers. million round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

His pitch made perfect sense: create a biodegradable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam using a material provided in abundance by nature. We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” Both will join as advisors. Chitin King.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. Natasha spent a good chunk of last week at the All Raise VC summit, an annual off-the-record event that brings together some of the best and brightest in the investment community.

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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. And every year, it falls flat. None of them have seen anything like this before — this is truly disruptive innovation.”

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Yes, Chief.

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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? I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you. That doesn’t mean you’re going to invest. 00:36] Will AI replace designers? [4:03] David: To start, fiery question.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

A separate measure, of total value of paid-in investment, revealed 1.67x returns for other hubs versus 1.60x in the main Silicon Valley and Bay Area tech cities. How should they think about competition, strategic investment versus top-tier VC firms and how to build their board? per year on syndicated deals elsewhere versus 17.5%

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

We’d meet once or twice a week, and work on the idea, and pitch it to law firms. What was your pitch even like? What’s fascinating to me about my mornings is those six startups, and they are startups, are all very much part of my life and have completely disrupted the incumbents in those space.

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