TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Can both users support their end of the payment based off of their default split? The team soon saw issues: “One of the largest modals of failure of the previous iteration was that payments and payment networks only interact with one user account.” If so, move the money and then send back an approval.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If the items are further afield, Tile taps into its broader finding network consisting of everyone who has the app installed on their phone and other access points. Through this network, Tile is able to automatically and anonymously communicate the lost item’s location back to its owner through their own Tile app.

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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. It would also be more risky for GPs to support portfolio companies, as more engagement would lend itself to more liability.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

If you can map every oasis in a desert, you’ve created a transportation network. Dear Sophie: Supporting Ukrainians with H-1Bs and beyond. How can we support them? Dear Sophie: Supporting Ukrainians with H-1Bs and beyond. Gogoro’s public debut could supercharge EV battery swapping across the globe.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

They can accrue huge value by reducing friction and aggregating supply and demand — particularly because they have the ability to build network effects and economies of scale. In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g.,

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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. We are actively working to ensure that individuals regardless of gender, background, race, and place have equitable support to reach their full potential and succeed in entrepreneurship.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

These platforms have become popular with neobanks or upstarts in different segments trying to embed financial services into their offerings because large, incumbent banks have been relatively slow to bring their services up to speed with the pace of change in the world of tech and banking.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

The feds will be looking into price fixing (and in fact just passed a law ), but supporting a sustainable American alternative is kind of a no-brainer as well. .” And when they say almost all, they mean it: We’re talking 95% of some critical trade lines. Of course, they’ll need to make some friends in southeast Asia as well.

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incumbents energy sustainability pitching 94

TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

.”— Eddie Yoon’ Superconsumers In virtually every market, there is a subset of customers whose pain is the most pronounced, who will be your most important supporters on the zero-to-one journey. These early adopters play a critical role, helping you sharpen your value proposition and spread the word. How to find them?

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startup strategy SaaS incumbents 89

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The plan will be to continue to support and grow its wider business building e-commerce tools for all kinds of larger companies, but in particular Spryker plans to use this tranche of funding to double down specifically on the B2B opportunity, building more agile e-commerce storefronts and in some cases also developing marketplaces around that. .”

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mix-use incumbents B2B marketing strategy 76

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Execs from the two startups say the combined company will have processed over $5 billion in payments and built a network of over 500,000 connected businesses by creating B2B DeFi payment networks in both the U.S. and Mexico. Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8%

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There’s a growing market for private cellular networks, or dedicated cell networks configured to support a company’s specific requirements within a confined area (think a warehouse or wind farm). But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents.

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networking startup incumbents energy 88

TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. Early-stage technology investment firm Picus launched a Venture Partner Network and tapped Gerry Giacomán Colyer, co-founder and CEO of Mexican corporate spend management startup Clara, as its first partner.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

At its core, AeroCloud promises all stakeholders access to data via the cloud, with features that support common airport use-cases such as automated gate allocation for flights and optimizing spare gate capacity to increase revenue. Founded out of Chester, U.K., million, and with another $12.6 AeroCloud’s Series A round was led by U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Swyft is a marketplace, connecting a network of shipping carriers with vendors. But the company also provides software to those carriers to make them more efficient, and turns them into a vast network that allows them to pick up more inventory without adding to their infrastructure.

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Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Both approaches complement each other, especially for innovative tech companies which typically disrupt an existing market by undercutting the incumbents on the one hand ( and hence shrinking the market), while creating a new use case attracting a larger number of new users on the other hand. What costs will be needed to support them?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But it feels like we have written far less about fintechs that exist solely to help the incumbents better compete with fintechs. We help the incumbents close the gap relative to those players.”. We’ve written a lot about fintechs that aim to help other fintechs and traditional banks launch products and services. .

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

That capability never existed before, and as a result the delta of the new experience vs. the incumbent experience (dialing restaurants one by one) is extremely high. A highly concentrated supplier base will be reluctant to allow a new intermediary in their market, and as a result will likely fight rather than support your arrival.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. Monzo also cracked world-class customer support via in-app chat. expectations. Traditional banks have not been able to keep pace.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To boot, it likely would have failed – alongside a large graveyard of past engine failures – had it not been for the serendipitous luck that came with the launch of the iPhone and the fact that Unity was perfectly suited to support it as a build target. We will also see the emergence of immersive/spatial 3D creation applications.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. Tang was talking about how the age of building infrastructure for e-commerce in China was largely over; it was now time to create brands that could take advantage of the advanced distribution network that had been laid out.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2013

You're in a different network of peers and they're getting some invites that you don't. It would have garnered a lot of crowd support, and that would have made me feel "right". Of course, you get invites that they don't either, but that's not exactly bothersome to you. But what would it have accomplished?

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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. The startup also hasn’t detailed its proprietary networking protocol, a protocol that it has previously claimed is more performant than existing solutions.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2017

To summarize, publisher still contribute their data to global advertising networks to improve performance for everyone. Startups and incumbents alike focus on a few core areas of competitive differentiation. But they have doubled down on extracting unique value for themselves from their first party data.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Traditional banks have not been able to keep pace.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The proceeds, which bring Oort’s total capital raised to $15 million, will be put toward supporting its go-to-market strategy, CEO Matt Caulfield tells TechCrunch. Gone are the days of pervasive endpoint and network security,” Caulfield told TechCrunch in an email interview. million in a Series A round co-led by.406

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Instead of picking a stage, say seed rounds and A rounds, and investing in a variety of companies as they pass through that stage, we take companies that we like and support them through each of those rounds. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! The networks seem to be emphatic about monetization for the present.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win. “A challenge we had, and saw reflected in the processes of our clients, was that building and scaling hardware felt incredibly laborious in comparison to software.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The transition to remote work forced companies to reevaluate the way they identify users and control access to assets on their networks. billion valuation in an IPO two years ago, while startups like ConductorOne — which brings automation to identity and access management — are nipping at incumbents’ heels.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

And save from mPharma, which has a network of Mutti pharmacies and recently raised $35 million to build out its telehealth and e-commerce offerings, funding has been few and far between for B2B distribution healthtech startups. However, a direct path to multi-national telemedicine scale through these chains is not clear, the report contended.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

However, community-led growth is also an increasingly popular approach to driving new and repeat business organically — this is where a product’s users serve as advocates and a support network for other would-be customers. ” A “program” could mean a one-off event, a series of content (e.g.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Community-led growth (CLG) has emerged as a popular mechanism for driving business, as companies strive to foster an ecosystem of fervent users that draws in new customers organically, serves as a support network for millions and bangs a company’s drum completely off its own volition.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Spend management decacorn Brex announced this week it would be integrating Deel into its new Brex Empower platform “to support international payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance.” Anita Ramaswamy gives us details on the cash sweep program here. . Ali Heron, Petal CTO. In the latest development on this theme, a U.K. and across Europe.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

A sustainable platform or marketplace is one where the value of being in the network clearly outshines the transactional costs charged for being in the network. This way, suppliers will feel obliged to stay on the platform, and consumers will not see prices that are overly burdened by the network provider.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The infusion brings the company’s total raised to $69 million, which CEO Gordon Downes says will be put toward expanding Nyshex’s service to support all types of ocean freight contracts. Downes makes the case that the ocean shipping industry lacks the basic digital infrastructure that exists in other markets.

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