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The Uber that Never Was

This is going to be BIG.

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.

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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2015, one of the largest healthcare intermediaries in the country presented us these challenges. Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. Ordering is decentralized, based on personal preferences in both products and vendors, and at variable prices without strong ties to clinical outcomes.

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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. expectations. Their profit models.

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Getsafe, the European digital-first insurance startup, scores $30M Series B

TechCrunch

Getsafe has raised a total of $53 million to date since being founded in May 2015. “We sell more policies to first-time insurance buyers in Germany than incumbents like Allianz, Axa, Zurich, etc,” he says. Swiss Re, the reinsurer giant, led the round.

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Expeto, a startup selling tools to manage private cellular networks, raises $13M

TechCrunch

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. ” Co-founded in 2015 by Terje Strand, Ryley MacKenzie and Brian Baird, with Anderson coming onboard in 2020, Expeto doesn’t sell cell service. “We plan to raise our next round of capital in the second half of 2024.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

An engineer by trade — Rangasaye was the COO at Groq and once headed product planning at Altera, which Intel acquired in 2015 — he says that he was motivated to start Sima.ai “Sima.ai’s software and hardware platform can be used to enable scaling machine learning to [a range of] embedded edge applications.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. ” In 2015, Kentico started to explore the emerging trend of “headless CMSes,” trying to rethink some of the core concepts of content management and sell it as a software-as-a-service solution. .”

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