TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Today a startup that is building tools to help incumbent address this challenge is announcing a round of funding on the back of a lot of demand for its services. Altogether Personetics’ technology interacts with some 120 million users across 30 countries. . Names that it can disclose include Metro Bank, Santander, U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

And let’s say this – they use zero technology today and I have yet to meet a single person who loves their self-storage provider. The stocks are managed as REITs (real estate investment trusts) and their tenants are you skis, bikes and winter clothes. And they have. Innovation. The value prop is pretty clear.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 3, 2025

In these cases we’re asking ourselves, can this individual/partnership execute a ‘known’ playbook better than incumbents, because it’s not very interesting to put people in business who are going to be Traditional But Average.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. ” Going up against incumbents. Wave , a U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.

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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. Dana Stalder. Contributor.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. So, about two years ago, as a Bay Area resident, living right off Sand Hill Road, started intentionally investing outside the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Magnetar contributed $111 million, with the remainder of the investment being split between Nvidia, Friedman and Gross. An Nvidia spokesperson said that the investment represents a “deepening” of its partnership with CoreWeave. Initially, CoreWeave was focused exclusively on cryptocurrency applications. billion and $26.28

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Today, the company announced a $100 million Series B investment on a $750 million post valuation. These kinds of numbers have been hard to come by in a conservative investment environment, but the company is growing fast and investors saw an opportunity to grab a market leader, says Pinecone CEO and founder Edo Liberty.

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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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Dream It

MAY 13, 2020

The group discussed different healthtech topics including venture investment, trends, reducing burn, enterprise sales, and market performance, highlighted below. Venture Investing | How will VCs adjust to the pandemic over the next two quarters? ” Venture Investing | How will VCs adjust to the pandemic over the next two quarters?

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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

AUGUST 10, 2021

Similar to other insurance products, disability insurance was sold the same way for more than 20 years: using outdated technology, data science and underwriting that didn’t provide consumers an appropriate policy based on their occupation and health.

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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.”. His first startup was a successful casual, mostly mobile gaming outfit known as ELEX Technology.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

However, where some more differentiation arguably comes into play is that Ikigai also offers “fully managed, globally diversified investment portfolios” under the wealth section of the app. On banking competitors, Ikigai’s founders argue that existing incumbents and challengers both have “significant” failings.

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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. The rocket will provide low-cost space access for science experiments, technology demonstrators, and academic payloads. The first launches of the Dorado rocket are slated for mid-2024.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

It will also use the investment to continue building out its technology, specifically to help build out better, AI-based techniques of processing and parsing pictures that are taken on smartphones — by their nature small in size. Insurtech is hot on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes. The connective thread here is the use of technology.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. We talk in technology that you are either arming the ‘rebels’ or the ‘empire,’ and in their case, they work with both.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu , a Berlin-based startup that describes itself as an SaaS banking platform — providing, by way of APIs, technology to banks and others to power lending, deposit and other banking products — has closed a round of €110 million (about $135 million at today’s rates). The funding gives Mambu a post-money valuation of €1.7

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

It’s not about technology and it’s not about business models, but it’s about us,” Brody continues. Reinvent your incumbent enterprise before you’re disrupted by another, or you risk becoming obsolete. What technologies are disrupting us, and which should we adopt? but how is it different?” Brody says.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Poddar previously was Head of Machine Learning Engineering at investment platform Robinhood following his position as Data Scientist at Meta. This funding is not just a milestone for Parafin but an investment in the future of small businesses. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

David Friend is a serial entrepreneur, six-time founder, and the current co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company, Wasabi Technologies. Discount airlines, cell phones (not smartphones) and integrated circuits are good examples of the “faster, cheaper, simpler” variety, because they simply displaced familiar incumbents. David Friend.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. In other notable news, Robinhood this week announced it was launching a new debit card that allows for spare-change investing. Robinhood expands into consumer finance while Apple steps up its fintech game. Well, that’s it for this week!

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo. Clocktower Technology Ventures makes $25M bet on Latin American fintechs. incumbents. “It This round caught our eye for a few other reasons. market with different dynamics.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. Monzo has also been able to move faster than incumbents because of its forward-looking approach to building banking infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The funding brings the total investment to date for Portland, Oregon-based Sila to $20 million. The company was founded in 2018 by Shamir Karkal, Angela Angelovska, Isaac Hines and Alex Lipton to simplify digital payments and storage in a regulatory compliant way and build on blockchain technology.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The debate about partnering with Snowflake went back and forth during the investment committee meeting. Here was a plucky group of founders with deep technical expertise seeking to take on the incumbents with a novel architecture. You can read more about the investment memo and diligence that supported the investment here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The technology industry is often thought of as being the domain of the young and the new. 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. Older adults are the most underserved demographic for the tech world.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Larger banks and other financial service providers are getting a lot more serious when it comes to competing with upstarts that are disrupting their businesses with fresher approaches and newer technologies. The funds — coming from a single investor, Motive Partners — values Backbase at €2.5 billion ($2.6 billion).

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It might be hard to remember in this age when companies like Facebook are subject to increasing government investigation, but for decades the technology industry generally existed and thrived outside the public eye. If there are no concerns about a technology, then there may also not be a significant opportunity for that technology.

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