2017 incumbents startup 
This is going to be BIG.
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. There’s no reason why a culture needs to fall apart at the seams in a hypergrowth startup.
Andreessen Horowitz
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a minimum delightful product in fintech, doing the spreadsheet math on unit economics early on, and how to compete in a category already filled with incumbents. Immad Akhund: Sure. So we slightly simplified it.
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TechCrunch
JULY 13, 2022
The move signals Booz Allen’s desire to shape startups in areas it considers aligned with its core business, mainly AI and machine learning, defense, and cybersecurity. Defense-focused startups angling for government contracts need all the help they can get. In the U.S.,
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.
TechCrunch
MARCH 8, 2021
Challenger banks continue to see huge infusions of cash from investors bullish on the opportunity for smaller and faster-moving tech-based banking startups to woo customers from their larger rivals. Starling, founded in 2017, has now passed 2 million accounts, with 300,000 business accounts among them. In the latest development, U.K.-based
Haystack
NOVEMBER 25, 2018
It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?”
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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