TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

million of Series A investment, led by Integrated Capital, to continue developing its line of healthier food brands. Joining Integrated Capital in the round are Great Oaks Venture Capital, Pacific Tiger Group, Sope Creek Capital and Clearco. Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption. ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents. This morning Clutter.io

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This works for some, but too often founders find themselves diluting their equity to unrecoverable portions rather than considering other financing options that allow them to hold on to their company — options like debt capital. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. Once you have the assets, all the disruptive things that Silicon Valley types want to do will be easy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there were lofty claims that everything about the industry was about to change. ” Venture capitalists noticed, and startups closed large rounds of capital. With tech’s embrace, people were about to soon “love their insurance!”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. It’s worth noting that these end-to-end models typically require more capital to reach scale, as greater upfront investment is necessary to get them off the ground than other, more narrowly focused marketplaces.

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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. Access to capital through overdrafts and Monzo credit products. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. expectations. Social features to pay your friends (e.g., Splitwise).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. What tech has our capital raised gone into? The value prop is pretty clear.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The funding was led by QED Investors with participation from returning investors Geodesic Capital, Allegis Capital, Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. Investor confidence in Kin continues to climb due to its unique business strategy and market focus, which have produced systematic, capital efficient growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

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. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. it characterizes the space in which we live, the environment in which we work, and the places where we socialize.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Prosus Ventures, Quona Capital, Mouro, IFC, Acrew and Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the round. Also, there are comparable institutions that are publicly traded with very generous market capitalizations, so that shows we have a clear path to exit.”. I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents. he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

The round is being led by TCV, with Tiger Global and Arena Holdings, along with past investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Runa Capital and Acton Capital Partners, also participating. That could lead to consolidation, too. Thought Machine nabs $83M for a cloud-based platform that powers banking services.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

CEO and founder Nitin Jayakrishnan says that the new capital will be put toward expanding Pando’s global sales, marketing and delivery capabilities. This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It has been a fun opportunity to disrupt everything.”. The Naked Market flashes some new capital to create better-for-you food brands. Goodles is going after the two oldest incumbents in the space, Kraft and Annie’s, to provide a healthy alternative that tackles both better taste and nutrition.

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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

APRIL 20, 2022

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. We have many more Disrupt recaps to come in the next few days, so stay tuned. There is no level playing field in capitalism, but it is easier than ever for a scrappy startup to go head-to-head with industry leaders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Besides Tiger, a slew of venture capital firms also participated in the Series A, including Insight Partners, Index Ventures, monashees, SciFi, QED Investors, BoxGroup, Greyhound, Gilgamesh Ventures and Clocktower. The company also plans to use its new capital to accelerate its product road map and toward business development efforts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Is there a creed in venture capital? Unfortunately this is all too common among the leadership of incumbent corporations. At a practical level, street level data means that corporations should meet lots of potentially disruptive startups, and startups should meet with potentially complementary or competitive corporations.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. And the giant gets disrupted precisely because its cost structure to serve its customers and its cash cow, high-priced offering makes it nearly impossible for it to try compete. And what prompted this lawsuit?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

With auto-scaling, “license optimization,” security and compliance, and monitoring and reporting features beyond what Microsoft offers natively, Vladimirskiy claims that Nerdio can deliver significant cost savings while “non-disruptively” layering on top of existing Azure Virtual Desktop deployments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Other backers include Global Founders Capital and a number of high-profile angel investors, such as GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung, ALLVP Partner Antonia Rojas and LaHaus founders Jeronimo Uribe and Tomas Uribe, among others.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

A number of fintechs have popped up as of late aiming to disrupt the traditional model of evaluating an individual’s creditworthiness. 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. Spring Labs is one of them.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Startups like Ascend aiming to disrupt the insurance industry are also attracting venture capital, with recent examples including Vouch and Marshmallow , which raised close to $100 million, while Insurify raised $100 million. Bill Trenchard, partner at First Round Capital, met Wynn while he was still with Sheltr. Ascend app.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. Public Storage does about $2.4 Little old us.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad. PitchBook notes that as of the end of December, ClearBank’s valuation was just under £274 million, which likely puts the current valuation at $590 million at its most conservative estimate.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Acrew Capital is leading the round, with Homebrew, True Ventures, Anthemis, Valor, DCVC, and LowerCarbon Capital also participating. This is a huge business, typified by incumbent behemoths like Lloyd’s of London, who in theory mitigate the risk insurance companies face when they get the formula wrong.

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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 expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

funds, including J&T Ventures, Credo Ventures, Mxv Capital, and Plug & Play Tech Center. ” But Talkbase says that it’s moving beyond the incumbents by pulling together all the various elements that constitute a community manager’s toolset.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Colle, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, and Max Levchin’s SciFi VC — as well as more than a dozen angels including founders of Plaid, Flexport, Marqeta, Bread, Albert, Addi, Lithic, and other fintech and logistics startups — also put money in the round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Goodwater Capital, Kairos Angels and Bridge Partners also participated in the Series A round in addition to angels such as Joe Schmidt IV , vice president of business development at insurtech Ethos and former investor at Accel and Kyle Nakatsuji , founder and CEO of auto insurance startup Clearcover (and also a former VC).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ghildiyal sees Devtron competing against formidable incumbent vendors like GitLab and Harness in a DevOps market that was worth an estimated $4 billion in 2020, according to Global Market Insights. That’s not to mention startups like Render , which raised $20 million last November after winning our Disrupt SF 2019 Startup Battlefield.)

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