Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

In today’s Octane blog, we bring EO members and non-members alike behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC), profiling Leonard Brody, one of the event’s carefully selected speakers who is known as “a leader of the new world order.” Along with new competition comes new opportunity.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And even though investment activity decreased this year, it still remains well above where it was in 2019 and 2020. Infrastructure providers have a unique opportunity to be a bright spot amidst all the doom and gloom.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in 2019. What opportunities are fading as the space matures? We have seen 20 creator led learning platforms across “preK to Gray” learning in addition to incumbents like Teachable and very few have an ability to build a moat in my view. What opportunities are fading as the space matures? billion the prior year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai has created a software-centric, purpose-built … platform that exclusively targets this large market opportunity.

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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. There are also reasons to think that we haven’t seen all of it yet. So what might be next? Let’s dive in.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In total, the company has raised over $150 million in equity funding since its 2019 inception. One advantage for Klar, according to Möller , is that its “cost to serve a user” is about 1/20 of what the incumbents pay. I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents. It’s also looking for M&A opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. They see a lot of opportunities to leverage our technology,” he said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To give you an idea of just how bad it is, reports indicated that in 2019, credit card interest rates neared a staggering 300% in Brazil. “It’s a huge market that is still controlled by incumbents charging extremely high interest rates, which makes it difficult for people to pay back their loans.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million since its 2019 inception. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7 The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Founded initially back in 2015, Santa Barbara, California-based Bitwarden operates in a space that includes well-known incumbents such as 1Password, which recently hit a $6.8 “Most importantly, we aim to continue to serve all Bitwarden users for the long haul.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Thanks to San Francisco-based Cardless , that opportunity may be less of a stretch than you think. The financing brings the two-year-old company’s total raised since its 2019 inception to $50 million. But what if you’re a sports fan, and using your credit card could lead to a virtual conversation with a player on your favorite team?

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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

MAY 11, 2022

In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 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. million Series A funding round for Crowdz. million. . “A

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Remote working — hiring people further afield and letting people work outside of a central physical office — is looking like it will be here to stay, and today one of the startups building tools for that environment is announcing a big fundraise in response to the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation. billion ($1.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The company was founded in 2019 by Harrison Fugman, Alex Kost and Tim Marbach, who created a “fast fail” method to develop new foods that includes an end-to-end infrastructure that can go from idea to market in about three months. Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5 The Naked Market founders Alex Kost and Harrison Fugman.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019. In addition to the opportunity to work with Saiprasad, Hariharan said the driver for going after new funding — especially when its seed fund is still firmly in the bank — was seeing the $4.5 CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Including the company’s debut round of $110 million led by Pitango when it first came out of stealth mode in 2019, DriveNets has now raised just over $580 million. “We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

They saw me as an American that could bring them business opportunities and that was it, I felt that I was judged more on the merits of the value that I could bring than I would in the U.S. — Spurred by opportunities, I started a successful import and export business in China, and after a few years I had over 30 employees.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

The success of Pinduoduo in China suggests there is a huge opportunity for social commerce platforms to emerge in other regions. There is a huge opportunity for companies to build social into their commerce platforms to take share from transactional platforms and expand e-commerce’s overall share of spend. As of December 31, 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

’ small and medium business market because “its product is easy to use and suited for the big market opportunity in the U.S.” “How we’ve disrupted our space in South Africa, we see an opportunity over there. from 2019 to 2025, according to a report by Grandview Research. is projected to reach $12.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

TechCrunch reached out to Dufétel to find out more about her plans as Checkout.com’s new president, including what’s in store for the company this year, her thoughts on the future of payments generally and why she sees so much opportunity in the U.S. We also asked how she felt about the comparisons to Stripe…and her answer may surprise you.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times? What are some overlooked opportunities right now? are at risk.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Virgio says consumers’ fashion preferences are changing rapidly and they are not satisfied with the incumbents’ offerings. “We are confident in Virgio’s tech-first model and believe the startup’s expert founding team is uniquely positioned to capture a large opportunity in India’s fashion industry,” he added.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

Are there specific paths/opportunities in AI that you believe startups are actually better qualified to take advantage of than incumbents? Textio relied on both of these strategies for a few years before launching our first truly generative AI capabilities back in 2019. KS: Isn’t this the trillion-dollar question?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” 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?”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

He founded the company in 2019 under the premise that while many industries have undergone digital transformation initiatives, the mortgage industry is still largely reliant on “the same expensive and cumbersome processes and tasks that have been in use for decades.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The seed round is coming almost three years after NALA secured a seven-figure pre-seed round led by Accel in 2019. The business opportunity for remittance is lucrative despite digital lenders vying for less than 20% of the international money market dominated by traditional offline players. Whether that’ll happen remains to be seen.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

If it sounds frustrating as a salesperson, well, that’s what AcuityMD is here to resolve; to find opportunities for your sales process. We launched Tactoset in 2019, a key regenerative technology for Anika in a $100 million+ addressable market. “Instead we got 140 instruments in a surgical tray.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. As such, banking-as-a-service platforms see an opportunity to provide more personalized services and flexibility at less cost.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Founded by Yuri Frayman, Leon Kuperman and Laurent Gil in 2019, Cast AI — powered by AI, as the name implies — analyzes a company’s cloud usage to attempt to find the optimal cost-performance ratio. In 2017, Microsoft acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

million since its 2019 inception. I believe Nelo has built the team, product, data moat and go to market playbook that is best positioned to capitalize on this incredible market opportunity,” she said. With the latest Series A financing, Nelo has raised a total of $25.6 To be clear, Nelo is not the only player in the Mexican market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

At that time, CEO Ricardo Weder told TechCrunch that the company, which was founded in 2019, weathered the first year of the global pandemic well, seeing 2020 revenue increase 16-fold. The global pandemic helped a lot in terms of grocery adoption in Latin America,” he added. Meanwhile, the online grocery industry in the U.S. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Snowflake and other incumbents figure significantly, but Firebolt has been entering the picture when those new use cases, and new cracks, come up. The opportunity that Firebolt is targeting is a ripe one in the world of enterprise. “We rarely see people not liking Snowflake.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

million in seed funding to make its mission a reality, with backers including OSS Capital; Lux Capital; Sisu Game Ventures; and — somewhat notably — Bob Young , the cofounder and former CEO of Red Hat, an enterprise-focused open-source company that IBM went on to acquire for $34 billion in 2019. Godot editor demo.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Back in 2019, our office was broken into,” Vaidya said. We also take Ubers home from meetings or offices ever since 2019, because our lawyers told us not to take the subway. “In Critics cast the startup’s entrepreneurial approach as greedy opportunism. Campbell added they are now both subjected to routine online harassment. .

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