Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Can costs be reduced, customer support improved, NPS increased, new, previously unprofitable sales opportunities be unlocked? With that overview, it’s probably most helpful to think about three kinds of opportunities: Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns. As technology continues to improve, the answer is an unequivocal “yes.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2020

Meanwhile, it’s incumbent on you as the CEO to create an environment that encourages action-oriented behavior. A startup’s CEO is only as strong as his or her supporting cast. This means granting autonomy to your leaders, rewarding them for taking risks, and recognizing their efforts when their bold moves are successful.

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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. ” Moreover, by focusing on Microsoft, this minimizes any risks associated with trying to support too many software ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Ma was previously a senior engineer at Morgan Stanley before co-founding Supportive, a help desk software-as-a-service startup, and joining Confluent as an engineering lead. Menezes says he thinks about the competitive landscape in three ways: build-it-yourself, legacy incumbents and low-code startups. Image Credits: Superblocks.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Comun observed that no incumbent bank offers a full Spanish language banking experience. Comun gained investor support of $4.5M economy that is excluded from services and support that could help their financial growth and mobility. Seed capital to serve the 44 million Latinos with Spanish as a primary language in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

About 80% of businesses who started using Zeller switched from Australia’s four biggest banks, citing their desire for lower fees and better customer support. In a press statement, Spark Capital investor James Kuklinski said, “From our first meeting with Ben, we knew we wanted to be a part of Zeller.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s an evolution from Mos as an edtech business built to help students navigate their way through applying and attending college into a fintech that can support the same user base through all of life’s similarly complicated demands. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents. Whereas the incumbents mostly focus on USSD (although there are provisions to use applications), Wave is solely app-based. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

“We are humbled by the overwhelming support from our investors, rural bank partners, and loyal users. Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy.

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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?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 13, 2024

You can’t charge enough to support your sales team, much less the other fixed costs of the business. AI music generation, website creation, support, and more…not to mention the vertical categories of AI lawyers, AI nurses, etc. AI will provide 24/7 support for your widget. AI will help sell your widget.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

This includes long-established incumbents such as Unity, developed by tech powerhouse Unity Software, which is currently in the process of merging with IronSource. ” Support and services. Concept illustration depicting technical support. “W4 intends to do this very same thing for the game industry.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

“We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan. “Now it is not a matter of ‘if’ but of ‘when’ since incumbent vendors have more to lose over that transition,” he added. At the end of the day, it is all about the people,” he said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This framework, which is frequently leveraged by our GTM team, is a qualification methodology that supports the sales process and can help companies answer internal sales questions such as which customers to go after and how to actually win a deal.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay is also seeing the larger incumbents focus here, as well as marketing dollars, which he considers validation that the market is shifting to the digitalization of pet care. The problems are more exacerbated the more pets that are added to the system, which has not grown in a way to support that,” Mawhinney added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

We look forward to supporting new exciting protocols and projects, empowering innovative corporate use cases, and adding additional (decentralized) financial products and services to our platform.”. Finoa is bridging this gap by providing seamless, safe, and regulated access to the world of digital assets.”

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

Build a team to support your iteration and scaling. If necessary, raise capital to support scaling the team, iterating the solution and expanding to solve new problems for the same customer, or new problems for new customers. B2B companies face a similar battle against multibillion-dollar incumbents and unicorn startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

The company’s mission to reduce home-based fossil fuel dependency has attracted additional support from Incite Ventures, MCJ Collective, Garage Capital, Climate Capital, and Spacecadet. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Plus, it’s understood that Tech Nation is intending to carry on “as is”, even without the government subsidy, supported by fundraising from sponsors, subscriptions and partners. In a statement he told me: “We’ve supported over 4,000 tech companies from around the U.K. s tech startup ecosystem. One source told City A.M.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Can both users support their end of the payment based off of their default split? ” Ivella isn’t just competing with the theory of joint accounts pushed by incumbent banks, but also venture-backed startups seeking a multiplayer fintech world. If so, move the money and then send back an approval.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Others want to innovate in every dimension and re-invent every discipline from pricing to marketing to support to customer success. Kustomer’s platform is a fundamental re-architecture of customer support software. There are spaces where pricing innovation is welcome, especially when there is a large, expensive incumbent.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

There’s evidence to support this. And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. Like all founders, I wore many hats including sales, recruiting, and customer support,” Sambhi told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Yuma’s platform provides ChatGPT-like AI systems that integrate with help desk software, suggesting drafts of replies to customer tickets that are both “relevant and customized to the support agents” (in theory). “ But they all have one thing in common: they all hate customer support.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

. “We started with the idea of the power of data and using a wider range of resources [than incumbents], and using that in our pricing led us to be able to offer better rates to more people,” Oliver said, but that hasn’t led to Marshmallow seeing sharper competition from older incumbents.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The company intends to use the funds to lease vehicles, hire drivers — a mix of salaried employees and gig economy workers — improve customer and operational support, and research and develop product enhancements to support the contract, a spokesperson for Z?m m told TechCrunch. Along with its fleet, Z?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

It supports card payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Alipay, bank transfers, SEPA direct debits and it also lets you issue payouts. payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Fidelity said its purchase of Shoobx is a sign of its commitment to the private market “and will help to satisfy an increasing demand Fidelity sees from private companies to support them as they scale and grow.”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Dear Sophie: Supporting Ukrainians with H-1Bs and beyond. How can we support them? Dear Sophie: Supporting Ukrainians with H-1Bs and beyond. 6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch. He is trying to get his parents out of Ukraine. United with Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. Akeyless has customers across the retail, fintech, insurance and gaming sectors, among others, including Wix and Outbrain. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 Kennan Davison, an engineer who previously worked at Hulu and Pinterest, founded the startup in April. billion earlier this year after a $227 million raise. .

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Dream It

MAY 13, 2020

Venture investors are hunkering down and supporting their existing portfolio because they want to make sure what they’ve already invested in is going to survive. However, if you’re already an incumbent at a large health system with a compelling Covid-19 use case, then you’re in a really good spot.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

“ We look forward to supporting the team in developing next generation digital-first financial services in the Nordics and beyond.” “The investment builds on our strategy of backing best-in-class businesses and management teams,” Lise Kaae, the CEO of Heartland, said in a statement when the first tranche was announced.

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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. It would also be more risky for GPs to support portfolio companies, as more engagement would lend itself to more liability.

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