Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The money fountain is sputtering just as the first real innovation in a decade roars into view. LLMs are compute and energy hogs, and renting state of the art bundles of compute and energy by the millisecond is what tech incumbents do best. Will selling AI tools to incumbents prove more valuable than “full-stack” competitive attacks?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. It allows him the opportunity to do what he does best, finding and motivating entrepreneurs then thinking through market strategy. One flaw could have been AOL acting like a big company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. I’m an equal opportunity funder but having a personal mission a few deals can be healthy, too. Startup Lessons'

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. The market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Challenger banks continue to see huge infusions of cash from investors bullish on the opportunity for smaller and faster-moving tech-based banking startups to woo customers from their larger rivals. That bigger market picture has also meant a surge of many neobanks, and so Starling competes with more than just the incumbents.

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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. Along with new competition comes new opportunity. and what to do about it.

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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. There is a massive opportunity to provide products and services that will make life better for today’s seniors and future generations of older adults to come.

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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. He soon set up his own investment fund, Challenjers Capital , convinced that the next big tech opportunity in China was in tech’s application to everyday consumer products.

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Dream It

JULY 24, 2020

This presents a huge opportunity for startups. This is your opportunity to highlight it for them. Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. To keep an organization safe, a CISO depends on as many as 50 to 100 different products. However, this means that a CISO sees a LOT of pitches in their role.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“We saw an opportunity to make a bigger impact by trying to build a better, much more affordable mobile money service than the telcos are building throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa,” Durbin told TechCrunch in an interview. ” Going up against incumbents. . ” Going up against incumbents.

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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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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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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Great company brings the most innovative products to the market and continuously evolves them to meet changing demand. A Great company has a strong, defensible business model that can win market share from incumbents. A Great company uses a tough market as an opportunity to break away from the pack and outrun its competitors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

On competition between these platforms, Adeseun said a few of these chain pharmacy incumbents, such as MedPlus and HealthPlus, are taking on a digital strategy by adding telemedicine capabilities, thus responding to the innovation that startups introduced. Women founders are disadvantaged,” the director said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

A lot of the “trying to fail” approaches involve looking at your business opportunities and contemplating where your business might fail in the future. Will an incumbent copy us and destroy us? If you have a number of incumbents in your space, do some research and see how they have reacted to other startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. The two co-founders leveraged their tech backgrounds to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

This time it’s $35 million with new investors, including Citi Ventures and MUFG Innovation Partners, bringing the company’s total raised so far to $95 million. Co-founder and chairman Samuel Rhee told TechCrunch that Endowus is now “multiple times the size of the next player and now competing with large banks and incumbent players.”

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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. In short, the SEC’s actions could slow one of our greatest engines of innovation.

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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 have a unique opportunity to be a bright spot amidst all the doom and gloom. But fintech is resilient.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

There is something inherently exciting about this growth and the opportunities it implies. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? A great amount of talent is cultivated in the military, which has spawned innovative cyber, AI and machine-learning companies. How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Mort appreciates that TrustLayer is tackling the problem not by becoming the insurance broker, but by working with the incumbents as a software solution. Mort acknowledges that much of the innovation in fintech has historically focused on the banking industry while the insurance industry has been slower to innovate.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“There’s a big wave of innovation in managing cloud costs,” Team8 co-founder and managing partner Liran Grinberg told TechCrunch as part of our latest cloud investor survey. There are also reasons to think that we haven’t seen all of it yet. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ].

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. has created a software-centric, purpose-built … platform that exclusively targets this large market opportunity. “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Yet, the sector is very much alive, and the “correction” of these companies’ valuations presents an opportunity for those who have cash left on their balance sheets, investors told TechCrunch. This may actually be a great moment for insurtechs to nurture their relationship with incumbents to work on synergies and potential trade sales.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Vignesh Chandramouli , a partner at Oak HC/FT, focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in healthcare. For an industry that constantly innovates, evolves and adapts, the reticence to embrace automation is frustrating, but ultimately, unsurprising. However, healthcare, a $4.1 trillion industry, has fallen behind.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Today, one of the companies helping those larger banks with that task is announcing a big round of funding to double down on that opportunity. ” There are a number of other companies that have identified these same problems faced by incumbents in the financial services industry.

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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. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.” Yahyaoui said, starting with students.

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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. This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos. The bootstrapped are coming, the bootstrapped are coming.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

With a large population, Pakistan is geographically smaller, well-connected with fewer provinces, has lower regulatory barriers and doesn’t have strong incumbents,” Khurshid, who is originally from Pakistan, said via email. Paul Sawers covered Cathay Innovation ’s third fund, with $1.05 billion in capital commitments.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Costanoa Ventures led Seed Round with participation from South Park Commons and FJ Labs Innovation and entrepreneurship is about filling a gap or solving a pain point. Comun observed that no incumbent bank offers a full Spanish language banking experience. said Mark Selcow, Partner at Costanoa Ventures.

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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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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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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There is product and branding innovation here, too,” she added. It has been a fun opportunity to disrupt everything.”. 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.

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