Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Below are some edited highlights from this year’s speakers, where they share their thoughts, experiences, and strategies around generative AI. Marc Andreessen spoke with fellow a16z General Partner Martin Casado about how entrepreneurs and startups might think about generative AI, largely from a product perspective.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

A recent survey by TechCrunch+ indicates that investors and founders are, instead of simply looking for attractive opportunities, increasingly putting their minds to building the foundations for an industry that can employ the power of psychedelics to change lives.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. There is a massive opportunity to provide products and services that will make life better for today’s seniors and future generations of older adults to come.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. At the time, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Segun Adeyemi , said that he was taking a break and would “likely start another company” later.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Cresicor , a consumer packaged goods trade management platform startup, raised $5.6 We also provide analytics for their strategy and where they should be spending it — which store, on which supply. Cresicor’s opportunity to go beyond trade is significant.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

There are so many startups pledging to reinvent the mortgage process that it’s hard to keep up. The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow. No doubt it has plenty of competition.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. They’ll tell you all about their strategy, the order of operations of who and how they pitched, the magic slides, the timing of the raise itself, etc. Well, if you add it to your startup, it does a few things. This isn’t surprising. That adds risk.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The startup launched its banking services in 2017, aimed at making younger consumers comfortable doing all their banking online. Today, the startup competes with Chime, Current, N26, Level, Step and Moven, among many others. At the same time, we are continuing to execute our robust near-term product strategy to support future growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. Germany, and Australia. “We “We will use M&A strategically going forward, including in relation to product development.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

startups founded by Black people — Oliver and Alexander — to reach that figure. (To When we covered the company’s most recent funding round before this — a $30 million raise in November 2020 — the startup was valued at $310 million. — a strategy that has been in the works for a while.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. region- or product-specific) content.

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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. In the U.S., For example, Razor’s Edge recently invested in Corsha , a Washington, D.C.-based

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I was speaking recently to the team at NuOrder , an LA-based company we’re an investor in about “realism in startups” — an impromptu talk I have given to any of our portfolio companies who ask. I spend hours thinking about the products, competitors, market opportunities, recruiting and financing of these businesses. Early stage.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Recurring revenue as an asset class is a relatively new concept, and made more popular by startups such as Pipe , which has built a marketplace connecting investors to companies with businesses that have predictable, recurring revenues. To date, the startup has raised a total of $25.5 million Series A funding round for Crowdz.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. Just last week, this Brazilian credit card and banking fintech raised a $750 million round led by Berkshire Hathaway at a $30 billion valuation, becoming one of the most valuable startups in the world. Nubank is on its way to realizing that objective.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money valuation. Along with that news, it’s launching a crypto trading platform and B2B payments for its small and medium business customers. Why Will Ferrell? ”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Column Tax’s software differs from that of incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block in that it is mobile-only and will be embedded into a customer’s existing bank account, allowing for year-round integration that the company says will cut down users’ time spent on tax prep.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. and Mexico. Weekly News.

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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. billion ($1.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Amadeus has 16,000 employees and earned more than $2 billion in revenue last year, but early-stage startups can learn from its digital transition, Ron writes. With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The sands of market power are shifting and incumbents are poorly-positioned to adapt to evolving customer needs, so there’s a massive opportunity for us to capitalize.” . As the startup noted, Hartree is the gateway that David needs to transact with energy markets. million in pre-seed financing back in March 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Also participating was New York-based FirstMark Capital and Frst , as well as angel investors including Paul Melchiorre, former CEO of business planning giant Anaplan, and David Clarke, the ex-CTO of Workday, another business planning incumbent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Zeller , a payment and financial services startup founded by former Square executives, quietly raised a $25 million AUD (about $19.4 The startup previously raised a $6.3 Zeller was founded last year by Ben Pfisterer, Square’s former Asia Pacific and Australia head, and Dominic Yap, its strategy and growth lead.

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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. A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. Consolidation everywhere.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

But where there is a gap, there is an opportunity. Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Gusto saw an opportunity to upend the way payroll was done. SMBs had historically been hard to reach.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Businesses today feel, more than ever, the imperative to have flexible e-commerce strategies in place, able to connect with would-be customers wherever they might be. They include Commerce Layer in Italy; another startup out of Germany called Commercetools ; and Shogun in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Novo , the startup building a new kind of banking service from the ground up for small and medium businesses, has closed a significant round of funding to take the next step in growing its platform. But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. The startup to date has raised just over $135 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

This is a common refrain in the industry, which is why we are seeing an increasing number of startups pop up in the space. Part of that includes “aggressive” hiring plans — particularly across engineering and product development — and an emphasis on its go-to-market strategy.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

There is a clear opportunity to upend the status quo, but its intricacies have made freight one of the toughest sectors in which to build an online marketplace. 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., We invested anyway.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

” — go-to-market strategy slide. “Our competition is structurally unable to address this niche.” Slide 10 sets up Slide 11 by reminding investors that the integration-first workflow is both a go-to-market strategy and a defendable moat of sorts. .” — product slide. Demo slide. Target audience slide.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Startups often overlook market research, specifically the market-in approach, but it is a crucial component of a successful, sustainable growth strategy. In-depth market research and analysis is necessary for startups to identify opportunities, develop strategies to take advantage of those opportunities, and then execute.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Intellihot has recognized the enormous opportunity at hand to integrate hardware and software into a smart, environmentally sustainable solution to improve how commercial facilities use hot water,” said John Larkin, head of Impact Investments and co-manager of the Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Steven Blank wrote yesterday about a novel way of depicting a startup’s competitive landscape in a pitch deck, called a petal diagram. First, the competition slide communicates the startup’s worldview of their ecosystem, relays the key axes of differentiation in the market and summarizes the startup’s advantages.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

As such, Campbell said her startup plans to launch these kits in fall 2021, partnering with several universities for a beta rollout. Leda Health outsources most of the tricky Ethereum software support to the blockchain startup Deqode. Critics cast the startup’s entrepreneurial approach as greedy opportunism. ” .

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