Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” In 2018, the product was piloted as Wave in Senegal but it was still within the Sendwave ecosystem. ” Going up against incumbents. . ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents. L-R: Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years.

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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. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. Monzo has also been able to move faster than incumbents because of its forward-looking approach to building banking infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

According to an HBS case study , “in December 2018 the interest rate in Brazil for corporate loans was 52.3%, for consumer loans it was 120.0% Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. and for credit card indebtedness it was 272.42%.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

“This caught our attention — we spent months talking to and building for enterprise users at warehouses, factories, freight yards and ports and eventually, in 2018, decided to start Pando to solve for global logistics through a software-as-a-service platform offering.” The result of those major disruptions?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The round was led by Lakestar, with past investors Accel (which led its $8 million Series A in 2018 ) and Cherry Ventures also participating. However, it does point to an opportunity for incumbents to disrupt their disruptors. Christian Reber has also invested in this round. ” release, he added.

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