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. 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. “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

. “Our Tech Scouting program gives us unique insight about where opportunities for hyper-growth exist. But anticipating opportunity isn’t sufficient – we need to deploy capital to move at digital speed,” said Brian MacCarthy, vice president of tech scouting and ventures at Booz Allen.

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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.

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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 China opportunity. per package wholesale as of this year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

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? How has edtech’s boom impacted your dealmaking?

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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.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The two co-founders leveraged their tech backgrounds to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity. 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.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

UBP presented an opportunity to reinvent the account executive (AE) compensation model. AEs deliberately undersized the contract commitment to ensure customer happiness and create opportunities to re-engage the customer for expansion. Gross profit equals revenue minus COGS. Compensation. That’s important today.

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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?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Yet, the sector is very much alive, and the “correction” of these companies’ valuations presents an opportunity for those who have cash left on their balance sheets, investors told TechCrunch. This may actually be a great moment for insurtechs to nurture their relationship with incumbents to work on synergies and potential trade sales.”

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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?

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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. Pinduoduo is one of the first companies to successfully create a social shopping experience online, and has accelerated the transition of commerce from offline to online in China.

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But the landscape looks very different now that more companies recognize the opportunity and fight for a piece of the pie. 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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

These kinds of numbers have been hard to come by in a conservative investment environment, but the company is growing fast and investors saw an opportunity to grab a market leader, says Pinecone CEO and founder Edo Liberty. “We Today, the company announced a $100 million Series B investment on a $750 million post valuation.

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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.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If there are no concerns about a technology, then there may also not be a significant opportunity for that technology. Therefore, the possibility of regulation itself creates significant opportunities for companies. In other words, show me a business that should not be regulated, and I will show you a dying business.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The funding actually marked BTV’s first investment in a cohort member of its inaugural accelerator program. . Mort appreciates that TrustLayer is tackling the problem not by becoming the insurance broker, but by working with the incumbents as a software solution. and 11 “top-tier” insurance companies, also invested in TrustLayer.

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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, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. The market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added.

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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. We knew a relationship with TransUnion in particular had the capacity to significantly accelerate our business,” he said.

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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

For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”. Existing services are expensive and inefficient, creating opportunities for technology enabled service providers to offer better and cheaper services,” he said. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

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 That’s why he believes now is the time to accelerate CommerceIQ. trillion retail industry at a massive inflection point. Meanwhile, $1.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Companies that sell software that enables cost-cutting or additional lead-generation opportunities are seeing accelerating adoption as incumbent mortgage companies realize they need an edge to drive demand,” Zach Aarons, co-founder and general partner of MetaProp, pointed out. “If

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Although there are potential opportunities for DriveNets to work with the biggest enterprises that are building their own networking systems, today service providers account for the majority of DriveNets’ user base. While it first made its name in the U.S., it’s in the last year expanded deeper into Asia and Europe, too.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. In a shift from the last two decades, policymakers and regulators had already begun to scrutinize the private markets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

And it’s here where there’s a meaningful opportunity to cut down on repetitive, manual programming work, according to Brad Menezes. “Superblocks is an accelerant for building internal apps.” ” Certainly, expenses are a concern for companies with lots of internal tooling. billion valuation in July.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

. “In today’s economic environment, Teampay’s software-led approach has proven resilient — as we saw in late 2020 to 2021, when the economy rebounds, Teampay benefits disproportionately through accelerated growth … We increased our debt facility for additional flexibility in uncertain times.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos. The bootstrapped are coming, the bootstrapped are coming.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Of course, startups often manage to find a way to take down incumbents and a distraction for Carta, at least, in the form of a very public gender discrimination lawsuit by a former VP of marketing, could be the kind of opening that Pulley needs. YW: We think there are opportunities to white label the service for accountants and law firms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. . The beauty of Melonn is the potential to both accelerate a business and integrate into platforms that its clients are already using.”.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Then there’s incumbents like Automation Anywhere and UiPath, which occupy the enormous robotic process automation market. “The pandemic dramatically accelerated Ushur’s business. ” While Ushur doesn’t have any government contracts at the moment, it sees this as a growth opportunity, according to Sadasiva.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

“The valuation we received is great recognition of the value our employees and stakeholders have helped to create, as well as the exciting opportunities ahead for OneStream.”. Those using its software include the likes of Fruit of the Loom, McCain (the frozen fries king) and AAA, but also Takeaway.com, the Carlyle Group and many others.

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