Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. In this post, we will walk through what drove Monzo’s early success, how it has come to dominate the UK market, and the company’s opportunity to change the landscape of global financial services with its beloved brand.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The startup launched its banking services in 2017, aimed at making younger consumers comfortable doing all their banking online. Last month, Varo Bank celebrated the two-year anniversary of obtaining its national bank charter. The move made Varo the first-ever all-digital nationally chartered U.S. consumer bank. And if so, why?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“We continue to see tremendous opportunity in the cloud management space given how early we are in the cloud adoption journey,” Battery Ventures venture investor Danel Dayan said. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ]. There are also reasons to think that we haven’t seen all of it yet. So what might be next?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. He founded Yassir with Mahdi Yettou in 2017. “ The moment we met the team, we saw the opportunity of entering an enormous market with a service taking the best of models we have seen elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

to “scale given the market opportunity.” ” Several years ago, the market for cloud optimization software and “ FinOps ,” while nascent, was consolidating as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw the opportunities presented by cloud cost optimization. ” “H.I.G.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

But perhaps what is most unique about what Crowdz is doing is that it was built on Ethereum since 2017. “We We quickly found that most incumbents focusing solely on the financing of SaaS receivables lacked reliable data and market traction to sufficiently validate their business models,” Chupryna said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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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. That spells opportunity for companies that are enabling that adoption. The company has raised £175 million ($230 million at today’s conversion rates), from a single investor, the PE firm Apax Partners.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Whatley started the company in 2017 with his brother, Daniel, Stuart Kennedy and Nikki McNeil while a Harvard undergrad. The CPG industry is in the middle of a rapid change where we see all of these emerging, digital native and mission-driven brands rapidly eating share from incumbents,” he added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

As we’ve written about before , several years ago, the market for cloud optimization software, while nascent, was consolidating as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw an opportunity to make a mark. In 2017, Microsoft acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

My journey and how I came to this decision My journey into crypto began in 2017. I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. 2017 versus 2020: Live Use Cases Everything was looking very different from the 2017 bull market. The 2020 Effect?—?Institutional

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

The exuberant acquisition environment should enable some early-stage companies to menace their incumbents and take share, as those behemoths are distracted by M&A. Many of the most of apparent and immediate opportunities in the software market have been filled by now SaaS incumbents.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

There is a clear opportunity to upend the status quo, but its intricacies have made freight one of the toughest sectors in which to build an online marketplace. In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g.,

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Traditional banks have not been able to keep pace.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

” Founders : Henry Mascot started a company in 2017 to help hospitals digitize records. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. He teamed up with John Dada two years later to build Curacel, a fraud detection system for health companies at the time.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

JC Penney closed 139 stores in 2017, despite aggressive efforts to woo Sephora customers and Sears refugees. 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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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Founder and CEO Simon Kalouche says that Nimble’s new model wasn’t the goal when the pick and pack robotic automation firm launched in 2017. “It Our robust due diligence process showed that Nimble has a clear technology lead on the incumbents and has an extraordinary opportunity to be the next generation leader in the industry.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Since launching in 2017, Thomas said 62 percent of all placements made by Juggle have been female. There’s an opportunity for a product to create this experience where professionals can thrive in their flexible working careers. Image Credits: Juggle. But flexible working is critical to achieving gender parity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

” Shamia cofounded Replicant in 2017 alongside Andrew Abraham, Benjamin Gleitzman, and Jack Abraham. Replicant provides agents with call summaries and measures trends like overall customer satisfaction, average handle time, competitor mentions, defective products and upsell opportunities.

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