TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. His first startup was a successful casual, mostly mobile gaming outfit known as ELEX Technology.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The technology industry is often thought of as being the domain of the young and the new. 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. Recognize the size of the opportunity of the older adult market.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes. The connective thread here is the use of technology.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

The technology just wasn’t there. You can actually look at a lot of social networking technology as if it’s almost an alternative to AI. Everyone has their own special technology that they can add to the models. I remember trying to build some AI products in college, and it was just very difficult.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The two co-founders leveraged their tech backgrounds to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity. The technology-driven financing decisions benefit women and minorities who have experienced discrimination in the past when borrowing. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. has created a software-centric, purpose-built … platform that exclusively targets this large market opportunity. “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. They see a lot of opportunities to leverage our technology,” he said. We’re exploring standing up unique information sharing networks.”.

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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? ” If you look at every technological shift or platform shift so far, it’s resulted in more things to design. With AI, you massively open up the opportunity for creation.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The B2B payment market in Mexico is a massive opportunity, the company believes, especially considering how few payments are made by cards. ALLVP’s Federico Antoni said his firm has been looking at the corporate spend and financial services space for years, viewing it as a “huge opportunity” in LatAm.

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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.”

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos. The bootstrapped are coming, the bootstrapped are coming.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

As such, companies that offer that technology to merchants are unsurprisingly growing more competitive with each other. This past week, San Francisco–based Affirm announced it was making its buy now, pay later technology available to U.S. Buy now, pay later has become nearly ubiquitous here in the U.S. Case in point.

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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. funds with an angle on technology. funds with an angle on technology. I think where we are very different is where we get confused with the more technology transfer shops.

VC

TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Israeli startup provides software-based internet routing solutions to service providers to run them as virtualized services over “ white box ” generic architecture, and today it is announcing $262 million in equity funding to continue expanding its technology, its geographical footprint, and its business development.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

“The valuation we received is great recognition of the value our employees and stakeholders have helped to create, as well as the exciting opportunities ahead for OneStream.”. Those using its software include the likes of Fruit of the Loom, McCain (the frozen fries king) and AAA, but also Takeaway.com, the Carlyle Group and many others.

finance

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

They saw me as an American that could bring them business opportunities and that was it, I felt that I was judged more on the merits of the value that I could bring than I would in the U.S. — Spurred by opportunities, I started a successful import and export business in China, and after a few years I had over 30 employees.

entrepreneurship

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

If it sounds frustrating as a salesperson, well, that’s what AcuityMD is here to resolve; to find opportunities for your sales process. We launched Tactoset in 2019, a key regenerative technology for Anika in a $100 million+ addressable market. “What if it was much easier to get new technology and products out to market?

education

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

“Having worked in hardware and software we had the opportunity to experience both ecosystems and knew how easy things could be when technology bridges gaps between ideas and scale,” said Gulley. The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It plans to use the funding to expand its own technology tools, as well as grow internationally. Spryker’s argument is that by being a newer company (founded in 2018) it has a more up-to-date stack that puts it ahead of older startups and more incumbent players like SAP and Oracle.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

“As your technology becomes more dated, you too will have to make similar decisions.” 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.”. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

” Founders : Tobi Ololade, the CEO, was the chief technological officer of TradeBuza, a data and API infrastructure for agriculture finance. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Touch and Pay Technologies. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It might be hard to remember in this age when companies like Facebook are subject to increasing government investigation, but for decades the technology industry generally existed and thrived outside the public eye. If there are no concerns about a technology, then there may also not be a significant opportunity for that technology.

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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. Unity, Unreal, Roblox and Godot – the predominant 3D engines – are all 15+ year old technologies architected for a different era of computing.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

What opportunities are fading as the space matures? We have seen 20 creator led learning platforms across “preK to Gray” learning in addition to incumbents like Teachable and very few have an ability to build a moat in my view. What opportunities are fading as the space matures? How has edtech’s boom impacted your dealmaking?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city?

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” ” Kutcher: “We see huge potential in the adoption of Cruz Foam’s consumer packaging as the industry moves away from petroleum-based products and towards new biomaterial technologies.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

Marc: Yeah, so there’s a great kind of breakdown on adoption of new technology that the science fiction author, Douglas Adams, wrote about years ago. He says any new technology is received differently by three different groups of people. What’s the most surprising way in which it will be different?

energy

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

In many cases, hiring managers expect applicants to be fully trained on all the technologies their organization currently uses. Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand discuss proptech’s biggest opportunities. What is the biggest opportunity for proptech founders? Image Credits: Jeff Newton / Hippo.

startup

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

If it were a human, it would be addicted to technology (which it is) and starting to get an attitude (again, yes). Hear from its creator Anatoly Yakovenko about the opportunities and challenges ahead as Solana seeks to take web3 to mobile devices in a push for mass adoption. Disrupt is turning 12 years old. with Peter A.

disruption

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It laid bare its weaknesses, and conversely, uncovered potential opportunities. What sectors will recover in 2021 and where are the new and unlikely opportunities to invest? What sectors will recover in 2021, and where are the new and unlikely opportunities to invest? Local delivery: Instacart, DoorDash, UberEats, etc.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

It only seemed logical to us that the same opportunity should exist in healthcare. So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.”

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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. Altogether Personetics’ technology interacts with some 120 million users across 30 countries. . Names that it can disclose include Metro Bank, Santander, U.S.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The video-game industry has always been on the bleeding edge, but blockchain gaming is still widely viewed as emerging technology. Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different. In October 2021, Valve banned all blockchain-related games from its Steam platform.

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