propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Before committing to an investment, it is important to understand what you are buying and what you are getting into. On the angel investing platform, this component is called Broker Review. What is due diligence?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a minimum delightful product in fintech, doing the spreadsheet math on unit economics early on, and how to compete in a category already filled with incumbents. And does anyone care?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

However, the segment is yet to record the type of investments that have poured into B2B retail e-commerce in the previous two years. But he contends that since most of these startups haven’t scratched the surface of a vast FMCG space, it’ll take a long while before they invest in B2B medicine distribution.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Register Singapore-based eyewear house Neso Brands announced raising $100 million that will be used to partner and invest in consumer eyewear brands around the world. Eyewear has to date been a very traditional industry with large incumbents, but is now ripe for a tech-enabled global transformation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market. For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population have the ability to invest in the capital markets just didn’t seem right. Here in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

has closed a $6 million investment round led by RTP Global, along with participation from JamJar Investments. Cuckoo Internet, which is aiming to be an insurgent startup in the broadband provider space in the U.K., It will also launch on price-comparison site uSwitch. RTP Global was an early backer of Yandex, Delivery Hero and Datadog.

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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. Lambert served as Director at Google’s Area 120, where he led the division’s sustainability investments. We’re developing heat pumps that are better than any HVAC system of any kind.

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500

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. But the rate of change has accelerated and with it, the balance of internal versus external investment. We believe the new corporate landscape calls for new strategies.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 23, 2023

I sent a very specific note that outlined the issues that I thought VCs have with many business models in this industry with the subject line “Travel startups suck” and then positioned the company has not falling prey to any of those reasons why someone wouldn’t want to invest in travel. Is it too hard to unseat entrenched incumbents?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a sign that national security tech is a safe bet even during troubled economic times, defense- and security-focused VC firm Razor’s Edge Ventures today announced the closing of its third startup investment fund at just under $340 million. For example, Razor’s Edge recently invested in Corsha , a Washington, D.C.-based

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 11, 2021

I like to think of investing in new things a bit like a football running play. So the existing incumbents are the defensive line. And they are not taking on any of the incumbents directly. Imagine you are the running back. You’ve been handed the football and you are looking for a hole to open up and run through.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the last year we’ve seen billions of dollars invested in AI companies. .” Simultaneously our government could make massive amounts of data available to US startups. Incorporate here, pay taxes, create jobs? Here’s access to troves of medical, financial, legislative data.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. More posts by this contributor. 4-year founder vesting is dead.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We have made the decision to invest in entrepreneurs without slides, whose ambition, passion, depth of understanding of an opportunity and compelling vision come through crystal-clear in conversation,” states Sarah Guo from Greylock Partners. As all investors know from the case of Uber, you cannot size a market based on an incumbent.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In the last 10 years, investments in big data have become increasingly expensive & focused on very large data volumes. We discussed some of the potential reasons : the lack of immediate cost cutting, the desire of the incumbents to retain that data for their own revenue. Here are some of the themes & predictions from the group.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 22, 2020

The “incumbent provider” of English proficiency tests, Test Of English As A Foreign Language (aka TOEFL), has had all of the companies and universities who accept it locked up for many years. But in some markets, incumbency matters more than better. It is two sides of the same coin. It costs less ($49 vs $205).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps. 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.” million in follow-on funding.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 24, 2024

Google is on a trajectory to invest $50 billion this year. Customers & startups will benefit from this intense competition with better models, cheaper inference costs, & faster innovation as the incumbents spend their massive balance sheets to exert the greatest AI gravity. Within AI, the switching costs today are modest.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Conventional wisdom says I shouldn’t tell you this because I invested in their main competitor, MakeSpace. Clutter is LA based and many of my friends invested. And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9% ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Brian MacCarthy, Booz Allen’s VP of ventures, said that the new fund will invest primarily in early-stage (seed, Series A, and Series B) companies and build on Booz Allen’s existing Tech Scouting program, which connects with entrepreneurs to vet emerging security technologies. . In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

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. That bigger market picture has also meant a surge of many neobanks, and so Starling competes with more than just the incumbents. billion) post-money.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. Khurshid said that he expects to close by the end of the second quarter and start investing in the third quarter.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She focuses on early-stage investments in fintech and enterprise software investments in the U.S. 6 investment trends that could emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. But incumbents like Stripe and Adyen already dominate distribution channels, and they can easily extend a one-click solution. Contributor.

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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. Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Breeze raised $10 million in Series A funding in a round led by Link Ventures that Nabity boasts is the “largest first round of institutional capital ever invested in a Nebraska-based software startup.” Northwestern Mutual Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, M25, Fiat Ventures and Invest Nebraska also participated in the financing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Justin Da Rosa.

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Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Jean de la Rochebrochard ( @jlr ), a partner at TheFamily , recently published a very good piece on Medium titled “ Here’s my investment thesis. When thinking about investment thesis, one has to ask oneself: what is the outcome I am aiming at for the companies I invest in? What’s yours? ”?—?below We are hunting “unicorns”.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2012

I’ve been asked a few times whether there is consumer investment fatigue as a result. It would be foolish for any investor to write off consumer investing as a category because of the massive opportunity consumer internet companies offer. Invest much earlier and much more broadly, expecting a lower average outcome.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. Does any fund that invested in Uber fear not being able to raise their next fund because their underlying companies might not perform well around these other criteria?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

It’s rarer still that companies built on a feature make for VC-investable companies with the potential for VC-scale returns. Startups often fall into the trap of writing off incumbents as too big to act, too clueless to know what customers want and too incompetent to deliver good products.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

The trio had made early investments in more than 50 fintech companies, including the likes of Stripe, Plaid, Melio and Trulioo. In other words, it wants to invest in early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies “where opportunities for early partnerships with financial incumbents exist.” It plans to invest $1.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

It chose to take a turn away from that path for the same reason that many others that have been bootstrapped do: they want to strike while the iron is hot and invest to grow at a time when its services are in demand. The funds — coming from a single investor, Motive Partners — values Backbase at €2.5 billion ($2.6 billion).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

But it also could be the worst of times for founders thinking about launching an AI startup, especially one that can grow and be defensible against incumbents in a fast-changing environment. CB Insights compiled data from 2021 and 2022 to understand where VC investment money has been going when it comes to generative AI startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

With corporate venture fund creation rebounding to near record levels and the value of deals that CVCs participated in soaring, we wanted to look more deeply into why companies are building their own investing arms. We wanted to learn more: How do active CVC investors view what their investment type is for? But that’s just data.

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