TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And this despite challenging trading conditions, which have forced companies to face significant capacity constraints and rate volatility,” explained co-founder Michael Wax, who co-leads the firm alongside co-founder Erik Muttersbach and Dr. Michael Ardelt.

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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. VC is a Singapore-based early-stage VC fund investing in technologies of the future and founders that create emergent industries with a global impact.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

I caught up with Colin Walsh, the company’s chief executive and founder, to get an update. For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Harshet Lunani, Qoala’s Founder and CEO, said the recent funding would enable the firm to further simplify insurance ownership by advancing its product offerings and experience, strengthening its position for sustainable growth in the region. The post Indonesia’s Qoala scores $7.5m

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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.”. Finding a bigger wave to ride.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Forward Foods, Starday , a healthy and sustainable food products company, raised $4 million in seed funding to take on “big food” incumbents. Chaz Flexman, co-founder and CEO, started the remote first company in late 2020 after leaving Pattern Brands. “We The global food and beverages market is expected to reach $7.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

PostEx co-founder and CEO Omer Khan told TechCrunch that according to the World Bank, about 100 million adults in Pakistan don’t have a bank account. This is essential for smaller businesses that need every penny to sustain themselves.”. As a result, businesses have limited access to working capital and lack adequate cash flow.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

And given the current emphasis on achieving cost efficiency to extend runways in the broader startup ecosystem, it appears investors are open to insurtech startups that can build a sustainable business model, regardless of it including embedded insurance. There’s another reason why fundraising is harder for insurtech founders in 2023.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

As more consumers embrace plant-based diets and sustainable food practices, Rise Gardens is giving anyone the ability to have a green thumb from the comfort of their own home. The company has a total of $13 million in venture-backed investments since Rise was founded in 2017, founder and CEO Hank Adams told TechCrunch.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

It was also participated by AlphaTrio Sustainable Technology Fund, Skystar Capital, Sovereign’s Capital, Ozora, and Gobi Partners. Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

But if you focus and leave your preconceptions behind, you’ll find that beyond the skein of valuations and share prices, there is a world of spirited dealmaking, ripe with impetus for building a sustainable industry.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

At the growth stages in particular, founders need to be mindful of their unit economics and margins. We often hear these founders ask: how can I capture the value created by genAI? Some of this will be more art than science, since founders are still figuring out what value genAI delivers to customers and how much it costs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

To understand why Draper Esprit not only decided to stay public but doubled down on its structure by moving to the main boards in London and Dublin, we got on the horn with the firm’s co-founder, Stuart Chapman. In a perfect world, the answer is no, because realizations equal investments, so you are self-sustaining.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

. “Our goal is to empower both developers and creators while ensuring that our platform is legally and ethically sound,” Yair Adato, the co-founder of Bria, told TechCrunch in an email interview. How will Bria resolve complaints from creators who allege they’re being unfairly underpaid? Time will tell.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. Several high-profile angel investors were also involved, including Scott Banister, one of the co-founders of PayPal, and Jeff Hammerbacher, a Cloudera founding employee. According to one source, generative AI startups raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The round was led by investors Aegon Asset Management and the Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund. . I am passionate about energy loss; every time I see the radiator or a tailpipe on a car, I know that its singular purpose is to heat the environment,” explains Sridhar Deivasigamani, founder and CEO of Intellihot.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But China and the United States are far from the only technology markets with developed startup and incumbent cohorts, strong venture capital activity, and capital markets able to translate early-stage ideas into public companies. China issue. Rising totals. To start, a few caveats.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Fortunately, co-founders Steven Henderson and Mike Carter have backgrounds in shipping and shipbuilding and are excited to jump in. The feds will be looking into price fixing (and in fact just passed a law ), but supporting a sustainable American alternative is kind of a no-brainer as well.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

At the time, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Segun Adeyemi , said that he was taking a break and would “likely start another company” later. There’s an understanding of the space as founders and the core team building this. Nigerian fintech startup OneFi acquires payment company Amplify.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Heat pumps are now widely recognized as the solution to decarbonizing home heating,” said Quilt co-founder and CEO Paul Lambert. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. The Quilt team is led by two additional co-founders: CTO Matthew Knoll and COO Bill Kee.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

“Establishing a healthy and sustainable community has to do a lot with managing emotions, negativity in particular,” Daily.dev co-founder and CEO Nimrod Kramer explained to TechCrunch. Kramer reckons that most of the incumbents are either too general or too focused on specific problems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We Generation closes $1B growth fund targeting sustainable startups. We knew that to make a permanent dent in this country’s retirement crisis, we had to do something different.” .

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Since then the economy and capital markets have changed, and so it’s prudent that we adjust as well,” founder and CEO Chris Webb told TechCrunch via email. . “We, like every company, plan our annual budgets far ahead of the upcoming year. The budget we planned for 2022 was large and ambitious.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

” The Ginkgo Bioworks founders read this and got interested in applying to YC. But they were just on the cusp of figuring out a sustainable business model for their organism engineering platform and getting their first customers. Founder Reshma Shetty on YC S14 Demo Day.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Startups often overlook market research, specifically the market-in approach, but it is a crucial component of a successful, sustainable growth strategy. Too many founders, especially those who come from a technical background, take a product-out approach to building their offering and scaling their company. Direct competitors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech needs to reach beyond underfunded public school systems to become more sustainable, which is why more investors and founders are focusing on lifelong learning. Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education (a leading edtech seed fund in Europe with portfolio companies like Aula, Unibuddy and BibliU).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

I met Cruz Foam co-founder John Felts during the memorable Accelerator at Sea hosted by the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” ” In the Accelerator over the Sea. .”

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Some commentators have suggested this is the wave of the future, signifying a shift in the balance of power from investors to founders of the relatively small, elite group of growth companies that make it to public markets. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. Unfortunately, there are many companies that should not have raised as much as they did, or perhaps don’t have sustainable business models.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. In it, 65% of founders believe the fundraising market in 2020 will present more challenges than 2019. If a few of those IPOs do well, greed will sustain market valuations. Software M&A in 2019 reached about $170B up from $136B in 2018, up 25%.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Noteworthy, Gophr’s co-founder and CEO, Seb Robert, tells me the 2015-founded company reached monthly net profitability around 3 years ago and was net profitable for the whole of last year. I don’t see how the incumbent U.K. Leading the round is pan-European B2B investor Nauta Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. Basically, it’s Uber’s attempt to follow the Instacart model, which is working well for the incumbent grocery delivery company,” she reports. You can sign up here. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Each story is based on an interview with a founder or investor who addressed some of the most common startup dilemmas. TechCrunch reporter Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Kleiner Perkins partner Bucky Moore to get sector-agnostic advice for founders who are ready to raise a Series A. When should I hire a sales team?

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Successful companies will need founders that will be able to raise significant funding and will need successful strategies to maintain healthy margins in the early days and while scaling. We’ve seen founders become attracted to similar types of ideas – some of which are unintuitively difficult.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The reason that you build them is that they can grow the brand much faster as more people experience the product and allow you to (hopefully) displace incumbents who are charging for the same thing. He shared a ​post from other founders who were also burned by a free tier of their product.

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