TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2023
Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps. Participants also include “four of Asia’s wealthiest families,” the startup said in its press release, whose operating businesses encompass banking and real estate across Southeast Asia and China. million in follow-on funding.
TechCrunch
APRIL 11, 2023
“I set out to answer that problem and defeat the incumbent solution — the clipboard — and that’s the seed that became Infogrid today.” The growing number of competitors coincides with an uptick in VC investments in IoT companies. IoT companies raising funds in 2022 pulled in $15.9
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2015
Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. Today’s asset – real estate – is tomorrow’s albatross.
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. Consequently, they are seen as riskier than investing in real estate or the public markets.
TechCrunch
MAY 8, 2022
In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. The two-year-old VC fund invests in B2B and API-first fintechs across Africa, Latin America and South Asia at pre-seed and seed stages. Dallas-based Backflip raises $8 million seed for local real estate investment financing.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 7, 2022
On the bright side, the fact that VCs are more discriminating about where they put their dollars could actually lead to more M&A activity, according to Ruark. That is one reason why a number of VC firms have told their portfolio companies to focus on performance and cut costs,” he told TechCrunch. Guess we’ll see about that.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. Public Storage does about $2.4 Little old us.
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