2015, incumbents and innovation - Startup Catalyst Brief

How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

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. This year’s event will feature profound insights from today’s top teachers in the fields of business growth and innovation.

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. China doesn’t need any more good platforms,” Tang told his team in an internal email in 2015, “but it does need good products.” What’s different about Chinese D2C?

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Digital road freight forwarder Sennder raises $160M Series, plans European expansion

TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. Since its founding in 2015 by David Nothacker, Julius Köhler and Nicolaus Schefenacker, the company has grown to 800 employees and seven international offices.

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New capital positions luxury goods reseller Rebag for next round of innovation

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.

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The Fastest Growing Areas of Startup Investment in 2015

Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data. The rest of the list controverts the notion that startups and investors pursue only incremental innovations.

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

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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

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. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. “I founded Sima.ai

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

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

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. Demonstrating that there’s investor appetite for upstarts in the market, Expeto this week closed a $13 million Series B round led by Sorenson Capital with participation from 5G Open Innovation Lab, Samsung Next and Mistral Venture Partners.

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ClearBank, a UK banking rails provider, raises $230M from Apax to expand into Europe and the US

TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

But ClearBank’s existence underscores one of the untold truths amid all of that innovation: many of these new services have been built on top of legacy infrastructure. faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad.

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South Africa’s Root gets $3M, plans to expand low-code insurance platform to Europe

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. Root started off with the premise that many barriers, including compliance and capital, prevented software developers and businesses from building and innovating around insurance.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns.

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So much fintech M&A

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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A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2015, the State of Georgia’s Code Revision Committee sued Public.Resource.org, a non-profit that shares public domain materials, to stop it from publishing the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA), a compilation of all laws in the state. .” Public.Resource.org , which stemmed from another case involving copyright and the law.

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Facebook and Speech: It’s All About Power

Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

I have spoken and written extensively about this going back to a post on labor rights (2014) and my TEDxNY talk (2015), several subsequent blog posts , and my book World After Capital. This has massively reduced the power of incumbent banks, allowing for rapid innovation in the banking and payments sector.

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Catching a Second Wind

OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Macy’s, its better-faring competitor, is moving away from physical storefronts, cutting its square footage by 13% between 2015 and 2018. While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US.

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Egypt’s Paymob closes $18.5M Series A to expand payments services across MENA

TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

While Nigeria and Kenya have been at the forefront of African fintech innovation, activities in Egypt are beginning to shape up nicely. Paymob was founded in 2015 by Alain El Hajj, Islam Shawky, and Mostafa El Menessy. million Series A round. In July 2020, Paymob raised $3.5 million as its first tranche of Series A investment. .

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. We should be looking at China for the real innovations now. Ezra Klein : Let me ask you about why the high deductible plan is necessary for that particular kind of innovation. I like healthcare a lot.

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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

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Digital road freight forwarder Sennder raises $160M Series, plans European expansion

New capital positions luxury goods reseller Rebag for next round of innovation

The Fastest Growing Areas of Startup Investment in 2015

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

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

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

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

ClearBank, a UK banking rails provider, raises $230M from Apax to expand into Europe and the US

South Africa’s Root gets $3M, plans to expand low-code insurance platform to Europe

Investing Outside The Bay Area

So much fintech M&A

A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

Facebook and Speech: It’s All About Power

Catching a Second Wind

Egypt’s Paymob closes $18.5M Series A to expand payments services across MENA

The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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