Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. We started with the easiest problem that technology could attempt to solve. LESSON: Technology solves silicon-intensive problems and humans solve judgment-intensive ones. We love placing technology in service of tough problems.

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innovation hospitality incumbents technology 152

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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incumbents consulting SaaS disruption 106

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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incumbents networking technology creativity 143

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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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 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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incumbents disruption networking collaboration 126

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.

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incumbents peer-to-peer disruption opportunity 101

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

But it pivoted within the last several years to general-purpose computing as well as generative AI technologies, like text-generating AI models. ” It’s tough for any cloud provider to compete with the incumbents in the space — i.e., Google, Amazon and Microsoft. . For perspective, AWS made $80.1 billion and $26.28

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investment investing incumbents accelerator 97

American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. Parafins relationship with client DoorDash showcases how Parafins technology works.

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finance financing incumbents construction 98

TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The company was founded in 2018 by Shamir Karkal, Angela Angelovska, Isaac Hines and Alex Lipton to simplify digital payments and storage in a regulatory compliant way and build on blockchain technology. It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year.

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development real estate incumbents ventures 103

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Founder and CEO Nash Ahmed wouldn’t go into too much detail about the technology that allows Undock to accomplish this.

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incumbents accelerator leadership education 98

StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

B2B companies face a similar battle against multibillion-dollar incumbents and unicorn startups. Principally, because once a product or service is in market, keeping that product or service aligned with a customer’s needs while trying to efficiently and effectively scale the team, technology, operations and marketing is all-consuming.

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peer-to-peer incumbents innovation entrepreneurs 110

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. 00:36] Will AI replace designers? [4:03] David: To start, fiery question.

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incumbents creativity development technology 104

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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collaboration incumbents networking disruption 95

TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

For his part, Valar Ventures’ Andrew McCormack said that financial services companies can “leverage whatever technologies they want to provide better customer experiences.”. “At At the same time, the incumbent banks are stuck with their mainframes, IBM contracts, and software written in COBOL,” he wrote via email.”

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incumbents networking finance financing 97

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Add to the mix that many foreign countries’ economies shift away from or toward natural resources, so we see massive direct and indirect investment into technology. They’ll have to back up the truck for their best companies, take acquisitions off the table, and go right after the incumbents head-on.

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opportunity incumbents VC incubation 76

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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Our perspective heading into our dig into the CVC market was that the pace of technological advancement is increasing, leading to shorter cycles between what we might call product and business-model innovation. What’s the modern CVC for? Given that, it makes general sense that more corporations are building venture arms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

This requires more sophisticated technology. ” “Being in the European Union requires a fundamentally different organizational setup, and poses a very high entry to new incumbents and other players overseas. Institutions need to keep their crypto assets somewhere.

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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

funds with an angle on technology. I think where we are very different is where we get confused with the more technology transfer shops. You have large incumbents with very outdated systems, but a very loyal and a very high degree of trust customer base. It’s a] lucrative customer base that needs to adopt technology.

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VC venture capital incumbents capital 102

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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incumbents finance financing strategy 102

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a result, we’ve seen both the rise of open-source networks leading to startups (a la Gitlab and Hashicorp, among others), as well as Docusign- and Slack-inspired freemium models designed to grow within groups at companies.

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incumbents venture capital accelerator finance 127

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. Shmueli was formerly the VP of back-end infrastructure at Mellanox Technologies and the VP of engineering at Habana Labs.

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accelerator networking incumbents support 95

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Factoring is one of the corners in the financing market that hasn’t been tackled, and by using technology, Marco is building and creating value for the whole society. This is where venture capital firms should be putting their dollars — in companies where technology and talent unleash a lot of value.”.

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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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networking peer-to-peer incumbents innovation 77

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

. “Sima.ai’s platform addresses any computer vision application using any model, any framework, any sensor, any resolution … [We as a company have] seized the opportunity to disrupt the burgeoning edge computing space in pursuit of displacing decades old technology and legacy incumbents.”

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startup accelerator incumbents disruption 95

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

“Device management is not a new concept to these corporations, and they understand how crucial this type of infrastructure is to ensure technology can be used in a scalable and secure way.” ” Image Credits: ManageXR dashboard / ManageXR.

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incumbents hospitality collaboration enablement 87

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

On the developer side, customers can integrate Kontent with other apps and technologies through APIs and “flexible content models,” enabling control over the structure of content and how it’s delivered to websites and apps. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture.

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capital incumbents frameworks development 79

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. Indeed, customers include large financial institutions, fintechs, retailers and software companies, among others.

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startup incumbents finance financing 84

AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

It was also participated by AlphaTrio Sustainable Technology Fund, Skystar Capital, Sovereign’s Capital, Ozora, and Gobi Partners. 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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peer-to-peer incumbents accelerator economic growth 75

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

“In Latin America, larger enterprises are underserved by incumbents, and Mendel is democratizing access to best-in-class software and payments,” he wrote via email.

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incumbents finance financing frameworks 90

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The challenge for companies like ours is how to make that technology useful and accessible.” Besides incumbents like Adobe, there are startups such as Reduct.Video , which uses AI, natural language processing and other tech to automatically create editable transcripts.

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media incumbents creativity energy 94

TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology.

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incumbents education innovation VC 74

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. .

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incumbents development venture capital capital 86

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

We launched Tactoset in 2019, a key regenerative technology for Anika in a $100 million+ addressable market. It is a very white-glove sort of hands-on sale, and they’re really good at educating and training surgeons on the latest technologies for their procedures. The latter led AcuityMD’s $7 million seed round. . “We

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education incumbents innovation entrepreneurship 58