Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase.

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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. Holst joined LMS365 last year from secure messaging company Wire , where he previously served as chief revenue officer.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The company claims that besides having founders that have years of experience at a company with a reach like Zillow’s, they also aim to be different from other competitors in the space in that they are strictly focused on the buyer. And it’s because the incumbents have no reason to fundamentally change.”. billion in 2015. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Getsafe has raised a total of $53 million to date since being founded in May 2015. Co-founder and CEO Christian Wiens tells me Getsafe currently has 150,000 active customers and that 90 percent of Getsafe users buy insurance for the first time. Swiss Re, the reinsurer giant, led the round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

. “The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview. by the gap he saw in the machine learning market for edge devices. . “I founded Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

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. . “Kontent.ai

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. Charles Gorra, founder and CEO of Rebag, declined to talk about valuation, but did say it was “a steep evolution from the last time.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad. The company has raised £175 million ($230 million at today’s conversion rates), from a single investor, the PE firm Apax Partners. ClearBank describes itself as the first clearing bank to have launched in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. ” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We profiled the company back in 2015 when it raised $1.7 Arturo Elizondo, founder and CEO of The EVERY Co. To have a shot at dominating the market, we have to allow consumers to make the transition and have a 1:1 ratio so we can have the biggest shot at giving the incumbents a run for their money.”. million in seed funding.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015. And then, after a few years, I started to wonder — with all these new startups forming while all these huge growth rounds were happening, how would a founder even be able to recruit after raising a couple of million bucks?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Noteworthy, Gophr’s co-founder and CEO, Seb Robert, tells me the 2015-founded company reached monthly net profitability around 3 years ago and was net profitable for the whole of last year. I don’t see how the incumbent U.K. Meanwhile, Robert is not phased by last week’s Uber ruling that saw U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. Peter Hazlehurst, co-founder and CEO of BaaS startup Synctera , shares his thoughts in this TC+ article here. All this leads Eric to ask: “ With JP Morgan suing a startup founder, will 2023 be the year of accountability? How can fintech startups outlast the VC winter?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. He’s the co-founder of Magical , an RPA startup that’s designed to move data across websites and web apps with a few keystrokes. This sparked the idea for Magical.”

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Due diligence on a startup can be divided into the following two components: Industry due diligence , which refers to the big picture and involves understanding the industry, who are the incumbent players in the market, who are the competitors, what competitive advantage the startup has, what their chances of success might be, and similar research.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. Jonathan Stewart joined as a co-founder leading sales and partnerships in 2018. In Africa, one startup is carving a niche for itself. Hopley launched Root in 2016 to cater to this need.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Misfits Market is acquiring Imperfect Foods in an all-stock deal, Misfits Market founder and CEO Abhi Ramesh told TechCrunch. Meanwhile, Imperfect Foods, founded in 2015 to rescue and redistribute goods, brought in a total of $229 million, including a $110 million Series D round last year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

million since its 2015 inception. The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We With this latest extension, Human Interest has now raised a total of $136.7 Human Interest’s growth has been impressive.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

When Pinduoduo launched in 2015, there was little room for a new commerce platform in China. This was strategic for two reasons: 1) incumbents were focused on non-perishable items, so competition was limited and 2) fruits and vegetables are lower order value, high frequency goods, which means users had a reason to use Pinduoduo regularly.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

In 2014, that figure fell to 1186 and in 2015, we count 481. Subverting those incumbents is going to require a meaningfully better product or substantially more effective customer acquisition channel. Seed round volumes in 2016 have halved compared to 2015, but increased in median size by 40%.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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 expectations. In comparison, most incumbents were pushing updates on a quarterly or annual basis.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

I believe this is an important post for both founders and investors in the Bay Area and outside the Bay Area to read carefully. I have lots more to share on this for founders, so hopefully, I can get through it during the summer. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, in first quarter 2015, 55% of all American venture rounds were either seed or Series A, split almost evenly, while 19% of all rounds were Series B (the third round of financing), according to data from CB Insights. Remember the “buy low, sell high” advice they were supposed to teach you in business school?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The company, which launched back in 2015 , has mostly stuck to its original vision, which was always about democratizing access to data warehousing and the analytics capabilities that go hand-in-hand with that. This brings the total funding in the San Francisco and Tel Aviv-based company to $24 million.

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