TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. 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. Other investors noticed as well. Image Credits: VCG.

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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. Are there groups your product serves that might benefit from a closed network communication center?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents. ” The Dakar-based platform is akin to PayPal (with mobile money accounts, not bank accounts) runs an agent network that uses their cash on hand to service Wave users. .”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He acknowledges that trust and accuracy elements could get tricky as social networks have found out. He said he learned from working with Marc Benioff at Salesforce that you can make money and still build trust with the people buying your product.

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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 5, 2022

50B) due to the network effects it has created with its unique merchant loyalty program.”. And that really provided us with this advantage to quickly innovate and drive a ton of product velocity.”. At the same time, the incumbent banks are stuck with their mainframes, IBM contracts, and software written in COBOL,” he wrote via email.”

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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. We are here to ‘arm the rebels’ and help those innovators build applications to give all end users a much better financial experience.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

And save from mPharma, which has a network of Mutti pharmacies and recently raised $35 million to build out its telehealth and e-commerce offerings, funding has been few and far between for B2B distribution healthtech startups. However, a direct path to multi-national telemedicine scale through these chains is not clear, the report contended.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This is a two-way relationship, as we regularly share ideas and innovative companies with FIs in our network, including Goldman Sachs, PNC, Morgan Stanley, American Express, and more. If you are working at an incumbent financial institution and interested in the bleeding edge of technology, we’d love to include you in our network.

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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

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. The startup also hasn’t detailed its proprietary networking protocol, a protocol that it has previously claimed is more performant than existing solutions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Mos’ initial debit card has a few key features, including zero overdraft fees, late fees, or in-network ATM fees. That’s the goal.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. And the scale of the SEC’s proposed reforms should alarm entrepreneurs, investors and employees in the innovation economy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If the items are further afield, Tile taps into its broader finding network consisting of everyone who has the app installed on their phone and other access points. Through this network, Tile is able to automatically and anonymously communicate the lost item’s location back to its owner through their own Tile app.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Caulfield co-founded Oort after stints at Citi, Lockheed Martin and Cisco (hence Cisco’s involvement in the Series A), where he led their Boston-based product innovation team. Gone are the days of pervasive endpoint and network security,” Caulfield told TechCrunch in an email interview. Image Credits: Oort.

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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.

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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. “In Want more fintech news in your inbox?

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And, especially when you’re considering integrating a new technology platform into your business—like AI today, or cloud a decade ago—how do you invest in innovation without losing control of your runway and budget? And then how do you figure out where, exactly, those dollars go within R&D?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

What does it say about us when we don’t allow certain groups of motivated, innovative, and optimistic people access to the resources they need to start up and scale up? It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. “If

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

3/ “Value Is In The Eye Of The Network” Bean-counters may scoff at acquisitions like GitHub as poorly run businesses that aren’t (yet) profitable, but in the world of 10-figure M&A, the exits seem to be largely a function of network defensibility and uniqueness. And yesterday, another feather in the cap — GitHub.

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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. Same as VC funds are deeply acquainted with Silicon Valley, tech investors cannot ignore this hub of innovation that has produced global market leading companies and serial entrepreneurs.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. At Nest we reimagined the lowly thermostat to make homes smarter, more comfortable, and more efficient – Quilt brings that same innovative vision to heat pumps,” said Rogers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

“We integrate with hundreds of tech providers, including 30-40 payment providers, all of the essential logistics networks,” Lokschin said. Spryker’s argument is that by being a newer company (founded in 2018) it has a more up-to-date stack that puts it ahead of older startups and more incumbent players like SAP and Oracle.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Barclays had applied for the contract through its network of Eagle Labs incubators , some of which have physical locations, but most do not. We can’t hand the support to the tech ecosystem to an incumbent bank! We need to shout this into oblivion. Everyone needs to know how mad this is,” he said.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2016

Facebook’s network effects of it social network, in combination with its strategic acquisitions of other fast-growing social networks like Instagram and WhatsApp, reinforce its natural monopoly. It’s not that we won’t see innovation in the consumer world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win. The investors, in turn, see a future where the Cofactr team can put a dent in how electronics are manufactured. We’ve never seen anything similar to the integrated software and logistics system they’ve built.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

As a nation we know the benefits of encouraging entrepreneurship across backgrounds: Entrepreneurs create jobs, spark innovation and allow us to maintain our position as the most competitive nation on the planet. It doesn’t need to be a zero-sum game where more people of color will push out the incumbents.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? The rest of the list controverts the notion that startups and investors pursue only incremental innovations.

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Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This made sense in the age of the printed newspaper and the telephone network of yesteryear. The second trap is misunderstanding network effects. But each of these three separate networks would still be ridiculously powerful in its own right and so would be Twitter and whatever new networks are yet to come.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Though logistics and supply chain economics certainly have their share of innovation on the data and services side, the ships and shipping companies themselves have stagnated. Carter noted that Fleetzero is one of relatively few companies attempting to really move the needle in shipping.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2012

Many of the promising marketing and media innovations of the past six years, daily deals, subscription ecommerce, social gaming and social media, have been struggling. It depends on the incumbents successfully developing new revenue models that can be either syndicated to or replicated by new startups.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma. incumbents simply did not have the right teams to adapt to the changing environment.

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Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Both approaches complement each other, especially for innovative tech companies which typically disrupt an existing market by undercutting the incumbents on the one hand ( and hence shrinking the market), while creating a new use case attracting a larger number of new users on the other hand.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Via email, he told me: “Over the last 7 years running Fintech, Crypto and Loyalty at Visa, we have been focused on how Fintech companies innovate on Visa’s global payment rails. He initially ended up at Visa through the acquisition of a company he co-founded called TrialPay. For too long, many people in the U.S. Ali Heron, Petal CTO.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 19, 2013

It’s hard to innovate in ad tech. These exchanges, like most market places, exert huge network effects because advertisers are attracted to the exchanges with the most inventory selection/liquidity. and a few others. The exchanges see every transaction and have unparalleled visibility and data access into their respective ecosystems.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

ARK’s innovation fund had stated that they believed Bitcoin could hit $500k in the next five years. ETH killers, BTC killers and all kinds of other projects with lofty promises and ambitious roadmaps to build better blockchains than the incumbents. Which means they have paid gas fees and used the Ethereum network.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Quick thoughts : Innovation in Africa’s B2B e-commerce and retail space has been around the digitization of processes and BNPL services, but not much around cash overdependence and fraud.

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