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.”

incumbents

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Part of Mendel’s strategy is to attract customers with high payment volume and low credit risk, while at the same time charging a SaaS fee for the usage of their platform. The B2B payment market in Mexico is a massive opportunity, the company believes, especially considering how few payments are made by cards.

incumbents

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

incumbents

TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

On competition between these platforms, Adeseun said a few of these chain pharmacy incumbents, such as MedPlus and HealthPlus, are taking on a digital strategy by adding telemedicine capabilities, thus responding to the innovation that startups introduced.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

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. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

capital

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Part of our mission at Draper Esprit is to democratize venture capital, as Simon would say; and [being listed on the main market] increases that opportunity. You have large incumbents with very outdated systems, but a very loyal and a very high degree of trust customer base. Yeah, that’s our strategy.

VC

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. Traditional offline vendors are increasingly rethinking their digital commerce strategy, more so given what we are living through, and that further acts as a market accelerant.

mix-use

TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

And this gives Affirm an opportunity to generate more revenue as it makes money in part on interest fees. 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. Fundings and M&A. Seen on TechCrunch.

incumbents

TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Today’s investment showcases, if anything, how important Axie’s precedent is to the development of the broader ecosystem – and how willing VCs and crypto incumbents are to bend over backward to make sure it succeeds.”. “We’re big believers of Bitcoin, so we’re just going to continue to buy whenever there’s an opportunity to.”

transportation

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. That’s where Plumter sees an opportunity and is pitching to help African importers process payments to China/APAC within 48 hours. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M Remedial Health. Website: [link]. Founded in: 2021.

startup

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

There is a unique window of opportunity today for a new 3D Creation Engine (aka game engine) to revolutionize the way we create games, film, virtual worlds, and simulations. Therefore, as a GTM strategy and as a way to prove out the engine, we are likely to see the developer build the first game (or series of games) on top of the platform.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times? How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?

startup

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

They imagine it to look something like this: They think that there are some deals that are automatic yeses and some that are just bad, but there’s a whole lot that are kind of in the middle—deals that can be nudged over to one side or the other based on things like clever fundraising strategy or the presence of bias. Is that a good strategy?

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

In just liking to make fun of things, or liking to try and be funny and criticize things, it seemed like a good sort of opportunity to do that. But it was more that this opportunity came up that was not something that was in my purview, which was working at Patreon. Jarvis Johnson [00:02:14] – Because I was like, wow.

peer-to-peer

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

And so I think this is an opportunity for the defenders to not only keep up, but also build better systems for the present-day threat landscape, also. And then the way those modern data centers are built by the leading-edge companies now is they’re sort of built on day one with an integrated strategy for energy and for cooling.

energy

TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Today a startup that is building tools to help incumbent address this challenge is announcing a round of funding on the back of a lot of demand for its services. “T hey are seeing the impact of the alternatives,” he said, with the migration away from the incumbents happening gradually. That’s a common thing.”

incumbents

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

There’s still a haze of uncertainty surrounding blockchain games, so we reached out to several active investors in the space to get a clearer picture of where opportunities exist today and what they see on the horizon. Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different.

opportunity

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I spend hours thinking about the products, competitors, market opportunities, recruiting and financing of these businesses. I love businesses that aim to massively reduce the costs of products or services in a way that makes a product or service vastly more accessibility and in which incumbents would have a hard time competing.

investment

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There TC: Was it worth it for you to get a charter as a company? And if so, why?

incumbents

TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Armstrong, who serves as Tomo’s chief revenue officer, previously led business strategy, product strategy and core operations for Zillow’s $1 billion buyer services business. . And it’s because the incumbents have no reason to fundamentally change.”. No doubt it has plenty of competition.

real estate

TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Today, one of the companies helping those larger banks with that task is announcing a big round of funding to double down on that opportunity. We want to double down on our go-to-market strategy, and to grow market share,” Jouk Pleiter, the founder and CEO of Backbase, said in an interview.

incumbents

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

The firm says its intent is to go beyond term sheets to issuing bespoke “Strategy Sheets,” which outline how Vesey Ventures aims to leverage its network “to act as a company’s first business development team.” And that’s ultimately the insight that we built a thesis on,” said Fitzgerald. “In Want more fintech news in your inbox?

ventures

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. For NorthOne, that only means opportunity. “A The startup’s go-to-market strategy surprisingly relies less on the internet than one might expect. Image Credits: NorthOne.

capital

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.

incumbents

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 It’s one of our main user acquisition strategies where we want to double every Africans airtime and data,” Zhang said.

education

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

— a strategy that has been in the works for a while. That leaves a big opportunity for companies like Marshmallow and other newer players like Lemonade, Hippo and Jerry (not an insurance startup per se but also dabbling in the space), and a big opening for investors to back new ideas in an industry estimated to be worth $5 trillion.

incumbents

TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

” The company’s strategy is currently focused on that white label offering, which today generates about 80% of its revenue, Johnston told TechCrunch. . “Or, we can white label it out with organizations like Citi, Meta and the city of Detroit. Our big thing now is signing these channel agreements that we are going to expand very rapidly.”

finance

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Traditional brick-and-mortar strategy doesn’t transfer over to e-commerce, but the old way with spreadsheets and human-driven operations don’t scale. In addition to the opportunity to work with Saiprasad, Hariharan said the driver for going after new funding — especially when its seed fund is still firmly in the bank — was seeing the $4.5

capital

Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

But when your team is the larger organization, you can’t use this strategy. Are there specific paths/opportunities in AI that you believe startups are actually better qualified to take advantage of than incumbents? My teams always had a recognizable identity and subculture. KS: Isn’t this the trillion-dollar question?

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

As video and 3D animations, for example, have been exciting newer verticals, lacking incumbents, these verticals, along with others, are where we also expect to see a number of new companies forming. For example, Jasper started with copy creation and now enables marketing teams to collaborate and gather insights. Where Are We Now?

creativity

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Guess we’ll see about that.

real estate

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times.

investment

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. A lot of startups are getting into patterns of raising large funding rounds in rapid succession to ride their respective waves of growth, and to capitalize on the huge opportunity right now to tap deep-pocketed investors looking for smart places to put their LPs’ money.

incumbents

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.

startup

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But a new startup, DynamoFL , hopes to take on the incumbents with a federated learning platform that focuses on performance, ostensibly without sacrificing privacy. Tech giants, including Nvidia (via Clara ), offer federated learning as a service. The startup has four employees currently, with plans to hire 10 by the end of the year.)

incumbents

Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2012

It would be foolish for any investor to write off consumer investing as a category because of the massive opportunity consumer internet companies offer. Instead, investors are faced with a choice between two strategies. It’s too early to tell which strategy is better. But consumer investment will continue.

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