2020 incumbents VC 
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
APRIL 22, 2020
The “incumbent provider” of English proficiency tests, Test Of English As A Foreign Language (aka TOEFL), has had all of the companies and universities who accept it locked up for many years. But in some markets, incumbency matters more than better. It is two sides of the same coin. It costs less ($49 vs $205).
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
” Despite the VC flurries of 2020 creating an ecosystem of seemingly endless equity, it’s important for entrepreneurs and founders to understand that there is no one-size-fits-all model for raising capital. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 18, 2019
While the Bird Zero has shown massive improvements, as you can imagine the company has built an entire vehicles team and designed an entire roadmap of scooters that will hit the roads in 2019 / 2020. You can’t simply drop a bunch of electric scooters in a market and hope to compete with the data and software advantages of the incumbents.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies. A record year with 151 new unicorns.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 16, 2021
It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry. But lately, fintech upstarts are the ones doing the acquiring. But lately, fintech upstarts are the ones doing the acquiring.
TechCrunch
JULY 25, 2021
Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. The tech revolution hasn’t yet affected the bottled beverage industry quite as much as it has others.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 5, 2020
Thousands of startup founders will resume the trek around Silicon Valley VC offices, once the vaccines arrive. But we’ll remember 2020 as the year that venture truly joined the cloud. Find out how we’re working toward living and working in space at TC Sessions: Space 2020. Image Credits: Brighteye Ventures. TechCrunch.
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