Revolution

MARCH 23, 2022

Startups are a Sustainability Accelerant: Unlike industry incumbents with slower, more outdated frameworks, startups often build with sustainability at the forefront of their business?—?even even (and especially) as the company scales. So, what does the future hold for sustainable startups? That’s to be determined.

sustainability 246

sustainability startup energy incumbents 246

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

One, it usually implies that you’re going to start going cash flow negative to accelerate growth. We’ve seen studies on how men and women get asked different questions, but I also think it’s incumbent upon all founders to control the conversation. What are the characteristics of this product? That adds risk.

advice 450

advice pitching venture capital VC 450

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Unit Economics Accelerating One topic I heard a lot in investor circles last year and in the press a lot was that there weren’t good unit economics and therefore the scooter market was never going to perform well. It’s truly staggering to realize that just a year ago we really hadn’t begun nationalizing let along globalizing.

transportation 250

transportation incumbents disruption finance 250

Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. If you are interested in entrepreneurship, innovation and accelerating your growth, then you will want to register for EO24/7 , EO’s annual virtual-learning event. We used this type of expert knowledge to power our semantic engines.

innovation 152

innovation hospitality incumbents technology 152

Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

These two feedback loops accelerate, spinning the data flywheel pushing more information into the data warehouse. The architecture enables SaaS companies to reimagine the largest categories of software and rebuild them to challenge the incumbents. A data scientist might develop a churn prediction algorithm.

SaaS 145

SaaS incumbents board accelerator 145

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Undock , an Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator-backed startup , is looking to enter the space. The startup recently closed a $1.6

incumbents 98

incumbents accelerator leadership education 98

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. million in a deal that was designed to accelerate its acquisition of a national bank charter.

incumbents 106

incumbents accelerator technology startup 106

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. Banking is a ubiquitous but hard to crack industry.

peer-to-peer 102

peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 102

TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

networking 106

networking incumbents education accelerator 106

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Forto will be using the new funding to accelerate the development of its supply chain management solutions by adding order management and value-added services. The platform gives customers real-time data and on-time delivery, while typically reducing their administrative supply chain costs by 30%.

capital 104

capital incumbents transportation sustainability 104

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

startup 95

startup accelerator incumbents disruption 95

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

“Booz Allen Ventures allows us to actively bridge the gap between opportunity and capability and accelerate the services-to-solutions transformation.” It’ll be incumbent on Booz Allen Ventures to show that it’s not looking to snuff out or absorb startups for the benefit of its corporate parent.

ventures 93

ventures incumbents startup venture capital 93

TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

And while a new generation of “insurtech” startups have emerged in recent years that are bringing more modern processes into the equation, typically the incumbent major insurance companies — the ones that Tractable targets — have lacked the technology to improve that process.

incumbents 115

incumbents opportunity technology board 115

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As Airtable only slowly moved into monetization, the last 4-6 quarters of retention and revenue growth likely convinced investors the product was not only here to stay, but very likely to accelerate revenue growth even more. Revenue acceleration is, too. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

incumbents 127

incumbents accelerator venture capital financing 127

American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 13, 2025

Combined, both rounds have awarded over $5 million to support demonstration projects conducted by innovative New Jersey companies, accelerating the commercialization and deployment of clean energy technologies. In 2023, the NJEDA awarded more than $3.6 million to 14 startup companies under Round One of the pilot program.

energy 52

energy support startup innovation 52

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital payments all over the world, and Latin America is no exception. Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo. incumbents. “It market with different dynamics.

incumbents 107

incumbents finance financing ventures 107

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We’re really accelerating our process development work to bring down the cost of goods as well as making some fast work of our strain engineering.”. Last November, Bond kicked this off by announcing a partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition to develop a craft meat protein for its product portfolio.

incumbents 99

incumbents collaboration VC ventures 99

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

” It’s tough for any cloud provider to compete with the incumbents in the space — i.e., Google, Amazon and Microsoft. But in Intrator’s eyes, the incumbents aren’t set up to meet the demand of thousands of new AI companies clamoring for GPUs — at least not at CoreWeave’s (ostensibly lower) prices.

investment 97

investment investing incumbents accelerator 97

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.

incumbents 129

incumbents networking entrepreneurs opportunity 129

American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The recent closing of a $100 million Series C financing at a $750 million valuation positions the company for accelerated growth. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses. This has historically hindered small business growth.

financing 98

financing finance incumbents construction 98

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The injection of cash will be used for continued geographical expansion and to accelerate the development of new products. Notably, this will include plans to launch in 10 new markets as Northmill aims to step on the gas. Next stop, Norway.

incumbents 93

incumbents sustainability board accelerator 93

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.

incumbents 107

incumbents VC accelerator investing 107

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There TC: Was it worth it for you to get a charter as a company? And if so, why?

incumbents 123

incumbents sustainability capital health 123

AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

million to fund its mission to accelerate financial inclusion and strengthen the neo-rural bank ecosystem in Indonesia, especially outside the Greater Jakarta area. Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy.

peer-to-peer 75

peer-to-peer incumbents accelerator economic growth 75

TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Indeed, the company says that its partnerships, which include Hudson’s Bay, The Home Depot, H&R Block, Boston Pizza, Goodfood and 7,000 other local and national retailers, have accelerated in the past year, “as retailers search for ways to modernize their loyalty programs and financial service offerings.”.

incumbents 97

incumbents networking finance financing 97

TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The European grocery market is currently worth €2 trillion, but access to customers for high-quality, smaller producers is still tricky and blocked by incumbents. It also uses a 100% electric fleet serving big cities and suburbs, and its model is to have zero food waste.

incumbents 100

incumbents board accelerator financing 100

TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Places like India, Africa and Latin America could accelerate at the same time because they are mainly starting from zero. When Shamir was building Simple, he could see how challenging it was for incumbents to provide the tools developers need to embed financial services, and this is why we have confidence in his ability to win.”.

development 103

development real estate incumbents ventures 103

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans. “As

capital 98

capital incumbents education health 98

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

During those processes, the team should collaborate on different scenarios and identify the signals to slow, maintain, or accelerate spending. Lee underscored the importance of involving a broader team in hard-financial decisions to build trust. The areas to trim cost depend on each business’s situation. Compensation.

startup 79

startup incumbents accelerator sustainability 79

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For Clarisse Lam , associate at New Alpha Asset Management , this makes sense: “The repricing represents a great opportunity for incumbents to make strategic acquisitions and accelerate their digital transformation. ” VC money is definitely drying up for some, such as neo-insurers whose unit economics are under scrutiny.

peer-to-peer 76

peer-to-peer incumbents pitching ventures 76

TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. Germany, and Australia. “We “We will use M&A strategically going forward, including in relation to product development.”

incumbents 99

incumbents construction health support 99

TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

May commented: “We are proud to have established Finoa as Europe’s leading gateway for institutional participation and incredibly excited to accelerate our growth even further. ” “Being in the European Union requires a fundamentally different organizational setup, and poses a very high entry to new incumbents and other players overseas.

capital 79

capital incumbents innovation accelerator 79

Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Consider whether your startup is differentiating on pricing to compete with an incumbent, or if you’re selling a superior product at a premium, in which case using the same pricing model with higher fees reinforces your brand positioning. Annual prepay generates cash flow to accelerate growth. What should my unit of pricing be?

SaaS 110

SaaS strategy enablement startup 110

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

That fall, the startup (short for Tomorrow’s Credit) was accepted into the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars. Unlike incumbent credit card issuers, we aren’t incentivized by slapping fees on borrowers for making late payments — we make money as our cardholders spend — so we grow as you grow,” Kim added.

incumbents 101

incumbents finance financing accelerator 101

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As credit card and payments firms eye BNPL as a new growth opportunity, incumbents like Klarna and Affirm are seeking ways to make their installment loans available to more consumers. The bigwigs enter the fray. “If they want an option from their banks, we’re helping offer those too.”

incumbents 95

incumbents accelerator opportunity enablement 95

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. Last year, it was part of Y Combinator’s winter batch as the first Algerian startup in the accelerator. After earning a Ph.D. Yassir has seen exponential growth since launching four years ago.

incumbents 99

incumbents transportation capital accelerator 99

TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

“Most of our customers are tier 1 and 2 service providers and we found that Asian operators are early adopter and open to new technologies that can accelerate growth and lower their cost,” said Susan this week. While it first made its name in the U.S., it’s in the last year expanded deeper into Asia and Europe, too.

networking 77

networking peer-to-peer incumbents innovation 77