TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

How to communicate with your board in tough times. The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. Incumbents in these industries are very large and entrenched, but they are legacy players, making them slow to adopt new technology. Contributor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. She is currently serving a governor-appointed position on the Information Technology Advisory Board for the State of Nevada. We used this type of expert knowledge to power our semantic engines. Other people had struggled on this journey.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

For example, a financial analyst might use data from the CDW to project different scenarios for this year’s board plan. The architecture enables SaaS companies to reimagine the largest categories of software and rebuild them to challenge the incumbents. SaaS applications also write back to the CDW directly.

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SaaS incumbents board accelerator 145

Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

Incumbents have seized the moment with Microsoft, Adobe, & others integrating generative AI into their products quickest. My marketing professor in grad school wrote an equation on the board the first day of class : Innovation = Innovation + Distribution. In response, startups must develop moats to stake out their market.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

A typical series of Preferred Stock in a venture-backed startup carries a liquidation preference, anti-dilution rights, dividend preference, a separate vote to fill its own seat(s) on the Board of Directors, “protective provisions” requiring the company to obtain a separate vote of the Preferred to take certain corporate actions, and more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And this has investors, especially foreign ones, excited and looking to get on board. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents. Neobanking, based on mobile technology too, falls somewhere in the middle of the two).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

It will be interesting to see how newer entrants in the SaaS banking-platform space disrupt what are, effectively, becoming incumbents in their own right: Mambu is now approaching 10 years old (it was founded in 2011). That could lead to consolidation, too. Thought Machine nabs $83M for a cloud-based platform that powers banking services.

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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.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 13, 2025

Funding for Round 2 of the Pilot Clean Tech Demonstration Program is provided through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the NJEDA and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) to support early-stage, New Jersey-based clean tech companies. Coulomb Technology, Inc.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses. Hans Tung, Managing Partner at Notable Capital and a new board member of Parafi n , shares what made the startup an attractive investment. This has historically hindered small business growth. This is more flexible than fixed payment periods.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany). Next stop, Norway.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. Develop program-specific advisory boards from under-represented backgrounds. Board commitments to DEI. It’s not an afterthought. It is the whole thought. Team communication.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million.

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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. The typical customer is a young family.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In board meetings, we scrutinize the efficiency of sales and marketing (S&M) spend, costs of goods sold (COGS), and general and administrative costs (G&A). At the board level, it can be helpful to discuss the thinking behind your priorities as well as your expectations for the returns on your R&D spend.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

As part of the investment, Clara Sieg, partner at Revolution Ventures, is joining the company’s board. 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.”.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” If the first move on the chess board was free, it leads me to believe that for most, the second and even third moves will be costly.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meanwhile, FI senior leaders and board members are intrigued by new products like Microsoft 365 Copilot and how generative AI can automate their internal workflows (and improve their bottom lines). Taken as a whole, FIs are at an especially receptive time for greater software adoption.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The competition is the incumbent video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, but calls on these platforms have a set agenda, and are timeboxed – they’re rigid and repetitive. You choose an avatar, then meet up with their colleagues or friends inside a browser-based game.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Now of course, this is a well-formed market and the category has different players, and so incumbents and clouds and so on, and we’re clearly ahead. Peter Levine, who is leading today’s investment for Andreessen Horowitz and will be joining the Pinecone board, sees the vector database as a key piece of the AI stack.

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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. Markets at TransUnion, is taking a seat on Spring Labs’ board. As part of the funding, Steve Chaouki, president of U.S. Blockchain and taking the politics out of tech.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

ManageXR announced today it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Rally Ventures , with venture partner and previous lead angel investor Jay Borenstein joining the company’s board of directors. . Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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incumbents hospitality collaboration enablement 87

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Setting up a management board for success with Dave Easton. Viewed from the outside, board selection and corporate governance can seem like a bit of a black box — particularly at a startup.

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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?”. The company also said that president Tim Mayopoulos will step down from his role in the first quarter and remain as a board member.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Meanwhile, pet food incumbents are also putting a paw print in the healthier food space: Freshpet launched its Spring & Sprout vegetarian dog food in September and Hill’s Pet Nutrition announced a partnership with Bond Pet Foods last month to create meat proteins via fermentation for pet food applications.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The startup has a number of Microsoft veterans on its board of directors, including Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft’s former head of global channnel partners, and it’s regularly featured in the tech giant’s marketing materials.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The buses previously used were old and owned by the incumbent and have been moved out of the city. Last year, the SF District Board of Education adopted a resolution to modernize its transportation in a way that would create more efficiencies, help the district meet sustainability goals and increase transparency across the system.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Still, that partnership is a mark of how the hardware companies that are building connected appliances, and services around them, are knitting together more closely with incumbents to take their next scaling steps. Fiedler is joining the board with this round.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

With hundreds of billions of dry powder, plenty of healthy cash flows generated by SaaS publics, & the leverage of the inevitable shareholder lawsuit if a board rebuffs the 30% premium of a tender offer, private equity becomes the dominant M&A option in dollar terms for 2023. The ML stack folds into the classic data stack.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. Along with the financing, the company also announced the creation of an advisory board that includes the current or former CFOs from nine tech companies, including Palantir, Dropbox, and Shopify. Screenshot of Mosaic’s planning function.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But first up is Natasha’s dive into Mos , which founder Amira Yahyaoui says is gunnin’ to become “the incumbent bank in the U.S.” Today’s startup news has a few Tiger rounds, a toilet paper headline and more. The startup, which just raised $40 million, appears to link neobanking to the college student demographic and their peculiar needs.

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Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

As such, I see a distinct strategy and style available to investors in each of the three segments. I also don’t have lots of direct experience with Series A or B deals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. Kulkarni is joining Novo’s board with this round. “We are competing against big banks. They are the only ones we are concerned with because they own 99% of the market,” said Michel Rangel, CEO of Novo, in an interview earlier this month.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The funding is being led by Teachers’ Venture Growth, the rebranded venture fund the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (a prolific investor for years in tech), with previous backers Index Ventures, Valar Ventures, Creandum and Redalpine also participating. Index led its Series C in 2020 ; Valar led a round in 2018 ).

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. banks consumer checking offerings have become less favorable across the board. Regulation becomes the friend of the incumbent in highly regulated industries through a process known as regulatory capture. Checking Account Competition.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce Incumbents are over 20 years old and built on aging infrastructure created before the smartphone and social media,” he added. 4 trends that will define e-commerce in 2022.

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