TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The latter is home to startups like Axie Infinity and Yield Guild Games, which have raised millions of dollars in venture capital owing to the adoption of crypto and play-to-earn models. million to scale its web3 initiatives, which include Breach, a media outlet that creates bite-sized and informative crypto content for its users.

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education incumbents mix-use media 96

Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

While certain categories such as coworking, alternative accommodations, “ibuying”, brokerage, and construction (among others) have adorned the front pages of leading media outlets, we are still very much in the early innings of innovation in the space. There is something inherently exciting about this growth and the opportunities it implies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Bria’s platform enables businesses to create visuals for social media posts, ads and e-commerce listings using its image-generating AI. Bria isn’t the only venture exploring a revenue-sharing business model for generative AI. .”

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startup incumbents data collection construction 98

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

With high levels of public market volatility — the first we’ve seen in the age of social media and true real-time information — it feels like everyone and their grandmom is expecting a downturn. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. Ayoconnect’s vision is to drive financial inclusion for Indonesian consumers and SMEs working in conjunction with regulators and incumbent banks to facilitate this.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Bjorn Bergstrom has vast experience from consumer scale-ups, venture capital and management consulting. 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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investing investment incumbents consulting 52

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Unlike CMOs who have all sorts of media optimization platforms, content creation tools and social listening software, and CTOs who have countless frameworks, repositories, CI and code-enhancement collaboration tools, CFOs still rely mostly on spreadsheets and ERPs – and in some companies even fax machines.”

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incumbents financing finance frameworks 90

TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

It follows Crowdz’ recent partnership with Meta to power the social media giant’s SME financing program. . We quickly found that most incumbents focusing solely on the financing of SaaS receivables lacked reliable data and market traction to sufficiently validate their business models,” Chupryna said.

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finance financing funders SaaS 98

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

While at the social media giant, Orekhova says she built Facebook’s “first-ever” data science team within FP&A. Regarding established incumbents in this space, we hear from their users that a lot of analyses and forecasts still default to Excel files being emailed back and forth,” she added. “FP&A

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finance financing incumbents collaboration 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Now that Garg is back, he is apparently paranoid about things being leaked to the media and according to one employee, he and the rest of the execs still there “have put everything on lockdown.”. It would not be a stretch to say that the top talent and hundreds from every department have fled in the wake of Zoomgate.”. But that’s not all.

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incumbents SaaS angel investing ventures 136

Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Another example is Stone, a Brazilian fin-tech unicorn started in 2012, which disrupted the incumbents’ sales strategy by creating a hub-and-spoke model that deployed a passionate salesforce of “Stone Warriors” throughout the country. Test different channels, with the ultimate goal of finding one on which to focus?—?a

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startup strategy SaaS incumbents 89

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2013

Instead of running a series of interviews of everyone in the NYC tech community, I'm going to use proxies--media lists, suggestions from others. Self promotion when you've got nothing to back it up rings hollow, but if you're doing great work, it's incumbent upon you to make sure your story gets out there and people know what you're up to.

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peer-to-peer incumbents opportunity media 296

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The company powers branded websites, apps, and social media accounts for restaurants as well as its own mobile and web ordering portals. ChowNow has raised $64 million in venture capital to date, most recently a $21 million Series C round in 2019 led by 3L Capital and Catalyst Investors.

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incumbents sustainability venture capital support 93

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

Then came client-server, which also launched new winners at the expense of older incumbents. The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. TripAdvisor and Yelp rule the day, not Frommers and Zagat.

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incumbents real estate disruption development 96

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. 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. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. How does the incumbent respond? Does your product dramatically reduce costs in an industry with large incumbents and fat margins? How do existing incumbents compete with that?

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incumbents startup networking disruption 386

TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Charles Birnbaum , partner, Bessemer Venture Partners (a generalist fund with portfolio companies including Guild Education and Brightwheel). Jerry Lu , senior associate, Maveron.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Ben Rubin explains why the Web3 era of social media will help everybody get paid. In a detailed overview of venture debt options, Andy Weyer, managing director of technology at Runway Growth Capital, shares three use cases depicting how debt capital can benefit borrowers hoping to retain leverage for future rounds or access working capital.

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finance financing venture capital disruption 74

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

“It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry,” Ryan Lawler writes. “But lately, fintech upstarts are the ones doing the acquiring.”

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

Booking.com is the unquestioned leader in online travel in Europe, and represents a substantial portion of TPG’s astounding $35B market capitalization. Booking.com was not always the online leader in Europe – in fact they were a disrupter stealing the flag from other large incumbents.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Well before Better.com garnered negative media coverage due to the manner in which CEO and co-founder Vishal Garg callously laid off 900 employees, the controversial executive made headlines for being the target of multiple lawsuits by PIMCO, Goldman Sachs and other investors involving entities he controlled.

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financing finance enablement ventures 83

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital. Although some investors worry the sudden boom of meat-substitute startups could turn into a bubble, others believe the market is far from saturated.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Basically, it’s Uber’s attempt to follow the Instacart model, which is working well for the incumbent grocery delivery company,” she reports. Autonomous trucking company Embark Trucks, which went public in 2021, is now laying off about 230 workers as it explores liquidating its self-driving truck assets , Kirsten reports.

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incumbents energy ventures disruption 96

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This meant that Boden, who had struggled to raise traditional venture capital from VCs in London and beyond, could focus on recruiting a new team and building out the infrastructure required to launch an actual bank. She paid a high price, giving away a majority stake in the process.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

In his Harvard Business School case study “Direct to Consumer Brands ,” Professor Sunil Gupta wrote, “Acquiring DTC brands is easy for incumbent conglomerates, but making them profitable is challenging. and they are not celebrated in our media. Beauty tech is a better bet: Meitu and Perfect Corp.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

They are founders that are not only building very interesting companies but have taken a forward approach toward making noise on social media. So how should startups that have incumbents to take on, other startups to best, or both, approach the balance between growth and spend this year? with Michael Biercuk (Q-CTRL).

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network. Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. Why will that happen?

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