Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

Let’s talk about the innovation and then the implications. The architecture enables SaaS companies to reimagine the largest categories of software and rebuild them to challenge the incumbents. This may be the next shift. Data arrives from various systems, is transformed, and stored in Snowflake.

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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. These advances will play an important role in developing other space technologies in Singapore and add to the vibrancy of Singapore’s innovation ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The models of these B2B companies mirror their retail e-commerce counterparts such as Wasoko and TradeDepot, as they use tech-enabled solutions to digitize medicine distribution to underserved pharmacies, drug shops, clinics, and hospitals. As such, their growth has been rapid, Salient says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. The technology industry is often thought of as being the domain of the young and the new.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Marco’s factoring product enables new companies to get started without having to put up the significant amount of collateral that banks are asking.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

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. Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. Demonstrating that there’s investor appetite for upstarts in the market, Expeto this week closed a $13 million Series B round led by Sorenson Capital with participation from 5G Open Innovation Lab, Samsung Next and Mistral Venture Partners.

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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. Over the years, infrastructure has enabled fintech companies and non-financial services companies alike to seamlessly integrate financial products into their platforms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While many lament government regulation as an infringement on innovation, I believe increased scrutiny is a net positive for the future of the software industry. anti-competitive practices that stifled innovation, as was the case with AT&T, IBM, Microsoft and today’s tech titans) rather than how their software operated.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

. “We sell more policies to first-time insurance buyers in Germany than incumbents like Allianz, Axa, Zurich, etc,” he says. Asked why Getsafe is moving to its own insurance license, Wiens says it will enable the insurtech to innovate with new products faster.

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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.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

While other solution providers are facing challenging headwinds, DriveNets continues to innovate and execute on its vision to change the future of the networking market.”. “We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

It was very fulfilling to see how digitalization has helped our rural bank partners to thrive during the pandemic recovery period and enabled our loyal users to access attractive deposit and loan products digitally. Moreover, Komunal also recorded positive EBITDA since October 2022 while experiencing growth and profitability at the same time.

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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. Indeed, customers include large financial institutions, fintechs, retailers and software companies, among others.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

For an industry that constantly innovates, evolves and adapts, the reticence to embrace automation is frustrating, but ultimately, unsurprising. As incumbent banks embraced startups, investors leaned into novel ways to reduce friction and improve accuracy, increasing annual mortgage origination by nearly 40% compared to the last decade.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The direct listing enables them to go public without raising capital. And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. The ecosystem continues to innovate but the second killer app (currency being the first), hasn't yet been found. The M&A market continues to surge. BTC/USD prices are down 30% at least.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For example, a sense of needing to keep up with these technology advancements from leadership can be translated down to a VP of Consumer Finance who needs to grow a consumer banking app while battling fintech upstarts and who may be thinking about using AI products to do so–which your product could help enable.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

“The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

But ClearBank’s existence underscores one of the untold truths amid all of that innovation: many of these new services have been built on top of legacy infrastructure. faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

The platform fee establishes a stable relationship and the usage pricing enables the customer to scale up or down as a function of their traffic which might vary throughout the year. Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. Segment is a good example of this. Competition.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“Enterprises crave control and visibility over the finances, and this not only helps the IT department, but [also] enables all departments to make better aligned business decisions,” he added. “With education and innovation, we look forward to bringing best-in-class ‘consumerized’ tools to the finance department.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

A great amount of talent is cultivated in the military, which has spawned innovative cyber, AI and machine-learning companies. SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. Unit.co, meshpayments.com.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

. “With the capital, we will continue to focus on engagement and adoption, collaboration, governance, lineage, and on APIs and SDKs to enable us to be open and extensible,” Sangani said via email. ” According to IDC, the data integration and intelligence software market is valued at more than $7.9

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“As many businesses are coming out of the pandemic with a new affinity for hybrid and remote work, modern technologies that can best enable the secure and efficient delivery and management of digital workspaces are in high demand.” . “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

With their new capital, the duo hopes to advance on their mission “to enable a seamless, transparent experience for financial institutions and their customers through an intelligent, opinionated and intuitive workflow platform.” ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In other words, it wants to invest in early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies “where opportunities for early partnerships with financial incumbents exist.” And that’s ultimately the insight that we built a thesis on,” said Fitzgerald. It aims to help startups there partner, expand and commercialize in the U.S.

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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. Akeyless has customers across the retail, fintech, insurance and gaming sectors, among others, including Wix and Outbrain.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

has been a first mover and innovator in the space.” On the developer side, customers can integrate Kontent with other apps and technologies through APIs and “flexible content models,” enabling control over the structure of content and how it’s delivered to websites and apps. . “Kontent.ai

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources. After all, Jiffy.ai

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. We’ve launched five products in recent months and have a strong pipeline planned as we continue to innovate to better serve our merchants. How many employees do you have?

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Businesses that operate fleets need to enable their drivers to pay for vehicle-related expenses when they’re on the road, such as maintenance, roadside assistance and gas. But Simon argues that the companies that sell such cards were founded decades ago with very little innovation since. Coast co-founders Daniel Simon and Andrew Woolf.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

That said, we are seeing more enterprise companies reallocate genAI spend from innovation lines to standard software lines , which indicates that genAI is evolving into a key part of many enterprises.) Packaging as an add-on can: Monetize your innovation directly, which leads to more sustainable margins over the short term. (If

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. Root started off with the premise that many barriers, including compliance and capital, prevented software developers and businesses from building and innovating around insurance.

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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?”. Some of the large banks have already been active, and the others need to ask themselves whether they are serious about innovation and digital transformation.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Fintech startups are convinced that banks have lobbied the RBI to reach this decision, employing the age-old tactic where incumbents cry foul and rely on the regulator to rescue the day. You’re saying now that NBFCs can’t give credit lines to merchants and their money should only be routed to bank accounts of customers.”

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