Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to spend time getting to know their future VCs early because getting a feel for your chemistry is far more important than how the VC is ranked in some survey. Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else.

entrepreneurs 330

entrepreneurs incumbents VC disruption 330

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?

culture 343

culture incumbents enablement sustainability 343

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As is often said if you don’t get at least a few fellow VCs (and entrepreneurs) scratching their heads you may not be funding ideas with enough upside. This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion.

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funders culture incumbents technology 362

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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incumbents education investing investment 192

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. Public Storage does about $2.4 Little old us.

strategy 282

strategy peer-to-peer incumbents real estate 282

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

We led a $4 million investment along with Thrive Capital, GLG and Sound Ventures. Incumbents launch products, VCs throw cash at other competitors, team members quit, the economy dips — whatever. But only truly talented entrepreneurs show the grit required to respond rapidly to a changing environment.

incumbents 270

incumbents entrepreneurs education pitching 270

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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venture capital VC capital ventures 92

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. ADT invested in a startup called Zonoff, which was to be acquired by Honeywell for a modest sum. The first instinct is fear, then dread, then panic. with the cloud of a lawsuit hanging over you.

funders 254

funders innovation disruption incumbents 254

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.

incumbents 106

incumbents consulting SaaS disruption 106

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.

incumbents 98

incumbents VC sustainability technology 98

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

” Despite the VC flurries of 2020 creating an ecosystem of seemingly endless equity, it’s important for entrepreneurs and founders to understand that there is no one-size-fits-all model for raising capital. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption.

strategy 95

strategy incumbents VC disruption 95

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million Series A investment in June from a group of investors that includes Archer-Daniels-Midland Company’s venture arm ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Genoa Ventures, Lever VC, Thia Ventures, iSelect Fund, Stage 1 Fund, Lifely VC and Satori Capital. The move is buoyed by a $17.5 The move is buoyed by a $17.5

incumbents 99

incumbents collaboration VC ventures 99

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.

real estate 98

real estate incumbents VC innovation 98

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Namely, the business of VC and startups. That should be good news for payments processors incumbent and startup, as well as other ecommerce businesses, again large, small, and even platform-focused. These broader tensions are changing where VCs are investing their money , notably.

VC 77

VC incumbents venture capital capital 77

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.”. He soon began to invest in everything from ramen and hotpots to bottled beverages.

incumbents 129

incumbents networking entrepreneurs opportunity 129

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.

incumbents 98

incumbents VC venture capital advice 98

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. VC funding into private fintech companies crossed $134 billion in 2021, rising by 177% from a year earlier, according to Crunchbase.

incumbents 107

incumbents VC accelerator investing 107

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. could become even more attractive regions for investment.

opportunity 76

opportunity incumbents VC culture 76

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

But these disclosures carry significant financial costs for small, private companies — and they carry the extra risk of exposing sensitive financial information to competitors and large corporate incumbents. Consequently, they are seen as riskier than investing in real estate or the public markets.

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startup frameworks real estate innovation 102

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

I started off with several introductions that one of my friends from college and a former VC made for me to several of his previous colleagues. But when going to pitch meetings and VC events, I got the same feeling that I would get when you go to a high-end country club or a luxury store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.

entrepreneurship 113

entrepreneurship capital venture capital VC 113

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.

startup 98

startup incumbents energy advice 98

Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

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. This approach has selected entrepreneurs to evaluate one another on key due diligence criteria (team, product market fit, etc) to determine overall investability.

peer-to-peer 105

peer-to-peer entrepreneurial ecosystem entrepreneurship board 105

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

startup 141

startup SaaS mix-use opportunity 141

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

ventures 76

ventures incumbents startup VC 76

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The last three investments that we made were all relationships that [date back] a year to 18 months before we started engaging in the actual financing process with them. I think we’re going to actually do more investments this year than we maybe have ever done in the history of the firm, which is amazing to me [considering] COVID.

education 113

education frameworks SaaS incumbents 113

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Additional investors in the newest seed round and expanded credit facility include Village Global VC, Flexport Ventures, Tresalia Capital, 342 Capital, Struck Capital, Antler LLC, Antler Elevate, Florida Funders and Fox Ventures. Miami-based Marco Financial is launching a revenue-based lending service for Latin American SMEs.

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support financing finance funders 100

Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

More often than not, I believe it is largely impossible to predict the shape of an outcome when making an initial venture investment. The insight and data venture investors have to work with increases as a company matures — the earlier the investment, the more unknown the outcome is. Seed is what I know.

incumbents 83

incumbents VC ventures investing 83

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

406 Ventures and Energy Impact Partners with participation from Cisco Investments. Investing in identity security is a must-have for enterprise security teams.” VC firms poured $2.3 Oort , an identity threat detection and response platform, today announced that it raised $11.5 million in a Series A round co-led by.406

incumbents 86

incumbents energy networking VC 86

TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7

incumbents 96

incumbents capital financing finance 96

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Founded initially back in 2015, Santa Barbara, California-based Bitwarden operates in a space that includes well-known incumbents such as 1Password, which recently hit a $6.8 Moreover, people can contribute back to the codebase and expedite development of new features. Password hygiene.

incumbents 99

incumbents VC investing investment 99

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. China issue. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. To start, a few caveats.

venture capital 91

venture capital incumbents leadership SaaS 91

TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

incumbents 87

incumbents financing finance technology 87

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

While reporting delays could change this total, VC dollars have more than doubled since the pandemic began. Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multi-stage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever, and Outschool). billion last year, compared to $4.7 billion in 2019.

education 134

education venture capital ventures opportunity 134

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. an investment that it says has paid off. Battery Ventures led NorthOne’s $21 million Series A in March of 2020 and is doubling down on its investment with the new raise.

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capital incumbents education financing 98

Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

What kinds of moves are the incumbents making and how they change the market? At this point, I’m really interested and I’m trying to understand the investment risks better. Market Size Validation : The first thing is to verify market size and whether it foots with the data the company presented. How concentrated is the market?

VC 49

VC startup pitching incumbents 49

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

“Insurtech startups that do not offer embedded insurance, and rather provide other innovative solutions will still attract VC funding this year, especially if they can show cost-efficient and sustainable growth,” said Nina Mayer, a principal at Earlybird. And the current market is rather reinforcing our investment thesis.

opportunity 107

opportunity venture capital mix-use incumbents 107

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

-based last-mile delivery provider, has raised £4 million in funding, as it looks to invest in its product off the back of 300% revenue growth during the last 12 months. The company had previously raised £1 million in two rounds, including £500,000 from publicly-listed Auctus Alternative Investments. I don’t see how the incumbent U.K.

incumbents 89

incumbents VC enablement sustainability 89