Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

He saw a need for financial application development, but was hindered by a banking system “still stuck in the 20th century.” However, whenever a business tried to connect existing banking systems, fintechs and cryptocurrency innovators, as it built and scale, would always run into technology and compliance issues, Karkal said. “In

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 13, 2025

January 3, 2025) The New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology (CSIT) awarded over $2.7 The innovative ideas of New Jersey entrepreneurs are essential to helping the state achieve its clean energy goals, said CSIT Executive Director Judith Sheft. TRENTON, N.J.

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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 intends to use the new capital to continue technology development on those tools, to add to Rebag’s workforce of 150 people and expand its marketing.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups are innovation machines. They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world. Others want to innovate in every dimension and re-invent every discipline from pricing to marketing to support to customer success. That product innovation is novel and differentiated in the market.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 24, 2024

Open & closed ; small/medium/large ; models built for images or code or text ; all of these are in rapid development. The proliferation of different model types has created a cornucopia of choice. In addition, the underyling systems to manage AI applications have changed rapidly. Initially, an AI app meant wrapping the AI.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

In the latest development, U.K.-based Starling — which competes against incumbent banks, as well as other challengers like Monzo and Revolut — said it will be using the money to continue its growth. based Starling announced that is has closed £272 million ($376 million at current rates), at a pre-money valuation of £1.1

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

Let’s talk about the innovation and then the implications. A company with this architecture will map out the customer journey sufficiently well to develop proxy metrics , leading indicators of customer behavior. A data scientist might develop a churn prediction algorithm. This may be the next shift.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

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

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Right now I’m comfortable betting on innovation from small teams in the ‘approach,’ but if experimentation is gated by nine figures worth of licensing deals, we are doing a disservice to innovation. Model efficacy is roughly [ technical IP/approach ] * [ training data ] * [ training frequency/feedback loop ].

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. The funding will be used to develop Equatorial Space Systems’s Dorado commercial-sounding rocket family. The round was also joined by SEEDS Capital and Masik Enterprises.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

At GLC, he will address the rapid pace of change, innovation and disruption facing us all?and We’ll explore how organizations can harness the uncertainty they’re faced with and turn it into excitement, innovation and success. Reinvent your incumbent enterprise before you’re disrupted by another, or you risk becoming obsolete.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

In other words: Don’t spend half your development budget on making something easier to use, if you can’t find a business case for it. Especially if it turns out that you inadvertently end up developing the wrong featureset in the process. Will an incumbent copy us and destroy us? If they tend to acquire them, great.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Online pharmacy regulations have been launched in Nigeria and Ghana and are in development in Kenya and Uganda. 60% said theirs was on quality, while 43% of innovators claimed an effect in lowering pharmaceutical and drug prices. Women founders are disadvantaged,” the director said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. 2014 might have been the last year it was economically feasible to start such a business due to the soaring cost of acquiring customers and the strength of incumbents,” he said.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

What separates successful entrepreneurs from the failing masses is the use of innovation to reduce risk and decrease the odds of failure. Innovation is how new ideas, solutions, methods and products make it into the world; and innovation is most successful when it solves existing customer problems.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As Paul Uhrig, Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer of Bassett Healthcare Network and Executive Director of Bassett Innovation Center told us, “if we can get the ultimate user excited and to be champions about this, that I found to be very much the winning strategy.” The level of investment scales based on product development approach.

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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. Another company competing in the increasingly saturated segment is Sima.ai , which is developing a system-on-chip platform for AI applications — particularly computer vision applications.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Innovation continues to drive new developments in lending, payments, crypto and, in particular, infrastructure, showing that the industry still has lots of room for growth. Infrastructure providers can help connect fintech companies with incumbent banks so that they can both reap the benefits of the interest rate environment.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

While certain categories such as coworking, alternative accommodations, “ibuying”, brokerage, and construction (among others) have adorned the front pages of leading media outlets, we are still very much in the early innings of innovation in the space. The real estate trends have also shifted in parallel to accommodate these preferences.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Thousands if not tens of thousands of pages have been written about the marketer, sales developer, inside account executive and customer success play. This sea of SaaS startups have reshaped the market. The chart above shows them by buyer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Israeli startup provides software-based internet routing solutions to service providers to run them as virtualized services over “ white box ” generic architecture, and today it is announcing $262 million in equity funding to continue expanding its technology, its geographical footprint, and its business development.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Offensive bets typically deliver paybacks as business growth, product features, and developments that unlock new markets or consumer spend.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Austin-based Maev , developing human-grade raw dog food, is poised to take a share of the raw food category, announcing today it raised $9 million in a round of funding led by Springdale Ventures. She worked at a startup as a product development manager, but ultimately left that behind to find a different calling.

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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. billion ($1.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Navina , a company developing AI-powered assistant software for physicians, today announced that it raised $22 million in Series B funding led by ALIVE with participation from Grove Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel and Schusterman Family Investments.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Taking the love of the Asian food they grew up with, they wanted to develop one of those brands for the U.S. “We My dad still eats instant ramen each night, and it is such a massive market: 4 billion packets are sold per year, but it is also a product that has been dominated by the same three incumbents for years.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development. has been a first mover and innovator in the space.” “Kontent.ai

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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. Geopagos, in Riverwood’s view, powers such innovation — in turn, helping its clients “drive digital inclusion in payments all across the region.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

In countries like Chile, electronic invoicing innovation has enabled the factoring industry to grow, and in turn, companies like Marco tend to become leaders in supply chain financing and shrink the high interest rates spread between small businesses and large firms. International Development Finance Corp.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In another example of how startups in the region are working to boost inclusion as much as innovation, Open Co , a São Paulo-based consumer credit company, announced today that it has raised $115 million in a round led by SoftBank Latin America Fund. Existing backers Raiz Investimentos, IFC and LTS also put money in the round. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. See Expeto , which is developing a platform that allows corporate customers to extend their private networks via virtually any type of cellular connectivity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. billion by 2025. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips. And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

The firm says its intent is to go beyond term sheets to issuing bespoke “Strategy Sheets,” which outline how Vesey Ventures aims to leverage its network “to act as a company’s first business development team.” And that’s ultimately the insight that we built a thesis on,” said Fitzgerald. Want more fintech news in your inbox?

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Insurtech is picking up steam in a big way , but startup Parametrix thinks there is still plenty of room left to innovate. The first is that the company has developed a system that continuously monitors third-party IT services all over the world, giving the startup a direct view into service interruptions down to the millisecond.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There is product and branding innovation here, too,” she added. 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. There was so much lack of innovation, and we are taking a fresh look at the category.”.

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