2014 enablement incumbents 
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MAY 13, 2019
Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. Had it been built differently, it could have been a better company and honestly I’d like to believe maybe even a more valuable one in the long term.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 22, 2021
As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives.
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TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year. Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions. Karkal told TechCrunch that the idea for Sila was born out of frustration while starting another bank.
TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2022
We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014. Meanwhile, $1.1
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. These will typically be at incumbent banks, but they do not offer the same ranges of services to customers.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources. After all, Jiffy.ai
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
CEO Greg Chen founded the company in 2014 came from his 15-year span in the mobile industry, noticing how enterprises in South Africa struggled to target and engage their customers via SMS efficiently. ” Seven years in, the company works with more than 100 brands, such as MultiChoice, Experian, HomeChoice and New Balance. .
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