Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

And let’s say this – they use zero technology today and I have yet to meet a single person who loves their self-storage provider. Most customers won’t drive more than a few miles to a self storage unit making the incumbents essentially local retail businesses. What tech has our capital raised gone into?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Others may call this dichotomy digital versus physical, the disruptor mindset versus the incumbent mindset, start-up world versus Fortune 500, or tech culture versus industrial culture. Amid the insistent drumbeat of digital transformation, those traditional, old-fashioned competencies are easily overlooked and underappreciated.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index. Jake Jolis. Contributor. Contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

Are you raising an appropriate amount of capital relative to your progress, relative to your team size and relative to your needs? VCs want you to raise the “appropriate” amount of capital, which I would define as what is reasonable given your progress to date, your resources and your needs for an 18–24 month period.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2022

” Internet hegemons have decimated entire spaces: social networks, advertising technology, video streaming and rental, paid email, infrastructure. Crypto companies access pools of capital web2 companies cannot because the regulation doesn’t exist. Paying customers in “equity.” What’s a startup to do?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Rebag , which buys, sells and trades luxury items like handbags and accessories, raised a $33 million Series E round following a year of technology development and category expansion. Gorra cites the company’s ability to triple its sourcing capabilities after launching its Clair AI and Clair Trade technology in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. To learn more, we put questions to Arjun Kapur , a managing director at Comcast’s Forecast Labs; Andrés Saborido , a global director at Telefónica’s Wayra; and Serge Tanjga , a finance exec at MongoDB, a company that recently put together its own venture capital arm.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

This requires more sophisticated technology. The round was led by Balderton Capital, alongside existing investors Coparion, Venture Stars and Signature Ventures, as well as an undisclosed investor. Furthermore, being in the EU is going to be a key barrier to entry for many US or Asia-based operations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kontent, a platform designed to help companies manage business-related content in the cloud, today announced that it raised $40 million from Expedition Growth Capital as part of a growth capital infusion. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. region- or product-specific) content.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

million USD) led by Spark Capital, the investment firm whose portfolio also includes Twitter, Slack and Coinbase. The funding included participation from returning investors Square Peg, Apex Capital Partners and Addition, and brings Zeller’s total raised in under a year to $81 million AUD.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Similar to other insurance products, disability insurance was sold the same way for more than 20 years: using outdated technology, data science and underwriting that didn’t provide consumers an appropriate policy based on their occupation and health. These illnesses and injuries wreck families because they can be so financially devastating.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. We talk in technology that you are either arming the ‘rebels’ or the ‘empire,’ and in their case, they work with both.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies.

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Dream It

MAY 13, 2020

However, deals are still getting done and VCs still have a mandate to deploy capital. “ Paul Martino, General Partner at Bullpen Capital, gave founders good advice on this during a recent discussion with Dreamit. With this in mind, there isn’t much bandwidth to look at new deals right now. Terms are changing. . ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The latest capital infusion comes less than a year from a $60 million Series C round that happened in June 2021. It’s certainly not slowed down.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The round was also joined by SEEDS Capital and Masik Enterprises. The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. The rocket will provide low-cost space access for science experiments, technology demonstrators, and academic payloads.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Building a generational company from scratch is the hardest thing you can do in capitalism. After half a generation of overhyped trivialities, Large Language Models have reminded us what real technological breakthroughs look like. The only thing growing faster than GenAI adoption is the capital budgets of foundation model competitors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

David Friend is a serial entrepreneur, six-time founder, and the current co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company, Wasabi Technologies. Debt capital, which refers to capital raised by taking out a loan, is an alternative route that entrepreneurs should consider. David Friend. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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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. quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes. The connective thread here is the use of technology.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The products include access to capital, spend management, and savings tools. Backers include the Rounds lead N otable Capita l, with significant participation from Redpoint Ventures and existing investors Ribbit Capital, Thrive Capital, and GIC. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses.

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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. Neobanking, based on mobile technology too, falls somewhere in the middle of the two). . ” Going up against incumbents.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

New and existing investors, including Tarsadia Capital, Citius, Arago Capital, Foundation Capital and Quiet Capital also participated in the round to bring Jüsto’s total venture capital investment to date to over $250 million. Meanwhile, the online grocery industry in the U.S. is poised to be a $187.7

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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. He also was intrigued by the data-driven technology.

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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.”. His first startup was a successful casual, mostly mobile gaming outfit known as ELEX Technology.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu , a Berlin-based startup that describes itself as an SaaS banking platform — providing, by way of APIs, technology to banks and others to power lending, deposit and other banking products — has closed a round of €110 million (about $135 million at today’s rates). The funding gives Mambu a post-money valuation of €1.7

SaaS 126

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

As generative AI captivates Startupland, startups will do what they have always done: integrate new technology to build transformative businesses. Incumbents have seized the moment with Microsoft, Adobe, & others integrating generative AI into their products quickest. What are these moats?

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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. Founder and CEO Nash Ahmed wouldn’t go into too much detail about the technology that allows Undock to accomplish this. The startup recently closed a $1.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

For example, Brex announced last week that it provided $10 million in growth capital via venture debt to Zesty.ai, a leading provider of predictive data analytics in the climate risk space. Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. Capitolis valued at $1.6B

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

PV Boccasam is a partner at Cota Capital. It might be hard to remember in this age when companies like Facebook are subject to increasing government investigation, but for decades the technology industry generally existed and thrived outside the public eye. PV Boccasam. Contributor. fintech) software solutions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

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. Clocktower Technology Ventures makes $25M bet on Latin American fintechs. incumbents. “It This round caught our eye for a few other reasons. market with different dynamics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The market, dominated by incumbents like Toast and upcoming players such as MarginEdge and Brazil’s Zak , has its value pegged at over $70 billion globally and is expected to reach $116 billion in the next four years. As with most technologies, Africa is playing catch up in this food-tech segment. Last year, 80% of the U.S.

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incumbents capital collaboration media 118

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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peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 102

TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. The funding brings the total investment to date for Portland, Oregon-based Sila to $20 million. Investors, founders report hot market for API startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 The evolution of post-pandemic education will be complex, if not aggressively competitive among the growing cohort of well-capitalized edtech companies. billion in 2019.

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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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