TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But when going to pitch meetings and VC events, I got the same feeling that I would get when you go to a high-end country club or a luxury store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. I was mostly pitching white male VCs. Thirty that I pitched were ethnic minorities and I received five term sheets, or a success rate of 17%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Numida’s pitch to these businesses is that they can apply for working capital on its platform and receive it within a day. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M pre-seed to build financial OS for B2B companies in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

This year, we’re adding a new feature: Our guests will analyze pitch decks submitted by members of the audience to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Also, we’re adding a new feature to Extra Crunch Live — our guests will offer advice and feedback on pitch decks submitted by Extra Crunch members in the audience!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

His pitch made perfect sense: create a biodegradable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam using a material provided in abundance by nature. We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Founder and investor Melissa Bradley outlines how to nail your virtual pitch meeting. Founder and investor Melissa Bradley outlines how to nail your virtual pitch meeting. Image Credits: Ureeka.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Yes, Chief.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. You know, most of our economy is dominated by, you know, incumbent institutions that, you know, have no intention, I don’t think, of changing or evolving unless they’re forced to. And so it’s kind of, everybody ends up happy. You know, we’ll see if we choose to.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Now, it’s imperative to ensure your virtual pitch is as effective as your IRL one. The insurance market is enormous, but the sector has suffered from notoriously poor customer experience, and major incumbents have been slow to adapt. Image Credits: fourSage (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. are all testament to this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

I had a few VC friends who immediately saw the parallel but others were scratching their heads saying, “How is a physical storage company – even if you pitch it as “cloud” – really a tech company?” ” Let’s start with some basics. The value prop is pretty clear.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today, we’re taking a closer look at the pitch deck it used to raise its pre-seed round. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. . Well, that’s the world Five Flute wants to live in. The company raised a $1.2 Slides in this deck.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. So lets start with these six elements of a pitch response: Values: Your team aligns with the Brand’s value system. Process: Leading a pitch from end to end.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” She turned down multiple term sheets, and didn’t use a pitch deck. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The startup provides dashboards from where users can build AI-powered workflows for tasks like claims processing, customer support and appointment scheduling, letting organizations automate both business processes and front-office, customer-facing tasks (if the sales pitch is to be believed). After all, Jiffy.ai

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

In any case, it’s a reasonably compelling sales pitch. But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free. Will Yumi — and its ChatGPT-inspired tech for that matter — get ahead of the pack to nab a slice of it? Only time will tell.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

What kinds of moves are the incumbents making and how they change the market? Pitch-it-myself test : I stop a few partners in the office and give them the pitch to test their reactions. How might a startup disrupt this market? I do the same with my wife.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Europe is perhaps an obvious first step for Neeva’s inaugural expansion plans, owing to the slew of antitrust complaints currently faced by the mighty incumbent Google, with legislators targeting everything from e-commerce (Google Shopping) and Android to its dominance of the online ad market. France and Germany. ” Privacy push.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS. Which would be good for all of us. And is on-demand pricing on the way out?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. And every year, it falls flat.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elevator pitch. So it’s incumbent on you to know what a smart business plan and use of cash looks like. It goes something like this … VC: “How much money are you raising?” Annoying, I know.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services.

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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.” . ” Zullo said his firm pitched David Energy on leading the round after years of looking for a commercial renewable energy startup.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For Clarisse Lam , associate at New Alpha Asset Management , this makes sense: “The repricing represents a great opportunity for incumbents to make strategic acquisitions and accelerate their digital transformation. ” VC money is definitely drying up for some, such as neo-insurers whose unit economics are under scrutiny. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. Are you open to cold pitches? How can founders reach you? Reach me at martha@brewerlane.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Reber knows a thing or two about software disrupting legacy productivity software — he is the co-founder and CEO of presentation software startup Pitch and the former CEO and founder of Microsoft-acquired Wunderlist — and notably he is joining Rows’ Advisory Board along with the investment.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

I'm going to give you my pitch, Shaan. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. Essentially, it's atheism but with a purpose and a very specific marketing pitch, so to speak, in terms of what the core set of values are. that people love. Sam: Can I say my opinion, Dharmesh? It's like, "Okay, well, what's the thing?"

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Selling a compelling vision is so critical that some investors weigh it more heavily than the pitch deck itself. Strategies for crafting a strong and compelling vision for your startup: Towards the end of your pitch, tell investors that “this is just the beginning” for your startup. It’s not about the slide deck.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 23, 2023

Know what the concerns are going to be ahead of time and weave them into your pitch: “Everyone who builds X runs into problem Y. Is it too hard to unseat entrenched incumbents? Ask specifically what terrible things about startups in this space the VC is trying to avoid. Are the consumers not deep-pocketed enough?

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Dream It

JULY 24, 2020

However, this means that a CISO sees a LOT of pitches in their role. Now you understand what the CISO is looking for and factors they are taking into consideration when they hear your pitch. Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. When pitching to a CISO, preparation is key.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. At TechCrunch Early Stage, Managing Editor Matt Burns hosted Lotti Siniscalco, a partner at Emergence Capital, for a session on pitch deck basics. ” Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Startups often fall into the trap of writing off incumbents as too big to act, too clueless to know what customers want and too incompetent to deliver good products. A nontrivial percentage of the companies that come to me for advice about how to make their pitch decks better have a problem far bigger than a subpar deck.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Other individual investors in the round included former executives of Monzo and Stripe, Cuckoo’s pitch is that it has a simple broadband offering, suppling a single 67 Mb/s fibre deal on a monthly rolling contract with “no hidden fees,” it says. RTP Global was an early backer of Yandex, Delivery Hero and Datadog.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Pitching itself as a digital insurer aimed at millennials, Getsafe’s first product offers flexible home contents insurance, along with other “modules,” such as personal possessions cover (which insures possessions out of home) and accidental damage cover.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A growing market will have plenty of room for upstart companies to attack incumbents; sometimes startups create their own market, but that’s a bit rarer. All this is to say that TAM matters for startups, how they pitch investors and how investors make investment decisions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there were lofty claims that everything about the industry was about to change. Founders pitched carriers a tech-forward relationship with the customer, focusing on: With tech’s embrace, people were about to soon “love their insurance!”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. According to an HBS case study , “in December 2018 the interest rate in Brazil for corporate loans was 52.3%, for consumer loans it was 120.0%

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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. Third, the slide conveys the dynamics within the ecosystem: who is partnered with whom; which incumbents are looking to partner/acquire vs go it alone, etc.

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