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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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

There is something inherently exciting about this growth and the opportunities it implies. and by substantial amounts of invested capital in formal amenities required by incumbent brands that are frequently cost centers rather than profit centers (lobby restaurant, room service, etc.).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. Germany, and Australia. “We “We will use M&A strategically going forward, including in relation to product development.”

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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. This will likely have the effect of money funneling to the larger funds that present less perceived risk.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“We continue to see tremendous opportunity in the cloud management space given how early we are in the cloud adoption journey,” Battery Ventures venture investor Danel Dayan said. There are also reasons to think that we haven’t seen all of it yet. So what might be next? Let’s dive in.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

One advantage for Klar, according to Möller , is that its “cost to serve a user” is about 1/20 of what the incumbents pay. The cost base can be lowered just enough in order to make this a profitable business and that is what has us very optimistic about this opportunity,” he said. “We I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

UBP presented an opportunity to reinvent the account executive (AE) compensation model. AEs deliberately undersized the contract commitment to ensure customer happiness and create opportunities to re-engage the customer for expansion. Gross profit equals revenue minus COGS. That’s important today.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

No matter how cutting edge or sophisticated, from a technology perspective, your product might be, you’ll still need to present compelling metrics to get a deal signed. so that you can present your product as a solution to that problem. This is when the buyers ask “does this product really work?”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

to “scale given the market opportunity.” ” Several years ago, the market for cloud optimization software and “ FinOps ,” while nascent, was consolidating as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw the opportunities presented by cloud cost optimization. ” “H.I.G.

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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. For NorthOne, that only means opportunity. “A Presently, NorthOne has about 75 employees and doesn’t plan to go on a hiring spree with its new capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the other side is a proprietary data tool called The Machine that gathers over 15 million data points from places like Shopify, direct customer feedback, Amazon, retail point of sale and search engine trends, to unearth category opportunities for the company to pursue. He also was intrigued by the data-driven technology. “The

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 Presently, Skio has five employees but is planning to use its new capital toward product development and to “hire aggressively for world-class software engineers.”. “We’re

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Data privacy regulations like GDPR, the CCPA and HIPAA present a challenge to training AI systems on sensitive data, like financial transactions , patient health records and user device logs. Tech giants, including Nvidia (via Clara ), offer federated learning as a service.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

The current ecosystem excludes far too many, denying economic opportunity and a shot at the American Dream to all,” said Kate. 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. Because right now, it is anything but equitable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times? What are some overlooked opportunities right now? are at risk.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Kettle’s longer-term plan is to expand to more disaster types, and more states, in the coming years, but for now, fires in California present a particularly acute set of problems. This presents an opportunity to provide a different spin on how to provide this service. 2020 saw over 4% of the state burning.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

That presented an opportunity to Lunar to take on the risk: Bring people to the platform to trade, and get them to cash out with Lunar itself, making money off the exchange or service fees associated with the transactions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Reber knows a thing or two about software disrupting legacy productivity software — he is the co-founder and CEO of presentation software startup Pitch and the former CEO and founder of Microsoft-acquired Wunderlist — and notably he is joining Rows’ Advisory Board along with the investment. .”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The business opportunity for remittance is lucrative despite digital lenders vying for less than 20% of the international money market dominated by traditional offline players. Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. Whether that’ll happen remains to be seen.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

This presents a big change for Microsoft , who in a different era would’ve have looked so favorably toward open source — they will sunset internal repository Codeplex in an effort to bring Microsoft tooling to a new cadre of developers. They’re probably not far off from the truth. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

This includes long-established incumbents such as Unity, developed by tech powerhouse Unity Software, which is currently in the process of merging with IronSource. ” It’s an interesting parallel, for sure, and one that seems pretty obvious when presented with such a comparison. ” Support and services.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

There is a clear opportunity to upend the status quo, but its intricacies have made freight one of the toughest sectors in which to build an online marketplace. In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Also participating was New York-based FirstMark Capital and Frst , as well as angel investors including Paul Melchiorre, former CEO of business planning giant Anaplan, and David Clarke, the ex-CTO of Workday, another business planning incumbent.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Additionally, the IP around these opportunities will be far more defensible, as they will be new chemical entities (NCEs). Most ancillary services and technology will not take off until drugs commercialize, so we see few near-term opportunities in other verticals anyway. To a degree, yes.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Due diligence on a startup can be divided into the following two components: Industry due diligence , which refers to the big picture and involves understanding the industry, who are the incumbent players in the market, who are the competitors, what competitive advantage the startup has, what their chances of success might be, and similar research.

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Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There are two ways to size a market opportunity: top-down ( adding up the revenues of all the companies operating on that market today) and bottom-up ( coming up with an estimate for how many people would be willing to pay for the service, and at what price). How quickly can it grow to reach this minimum revenue scale, and beyond?

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One obvious solution to this list of issues and opportunities is to leverage technology to better serve the needs of the customer. This reality is already present in most service provider industries, so it should be no suprise when it arrives full throttle in healthcare. Service Level – Do your doctors ask you for feedback?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

“Nyshex was formed because [we] experienced firsthand the challenges associated with keeping track of contractual commitments, and [we] realized the incumbents could not solve these challenges.” Supply chains have changed for the long run and new market opportunities have emerged as a result,” Downes said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Whereas in the past a startup might have held on, raised more and used more time to grow their businesses (and valuations), these days the calculus might be leaning in favor of exits when they are presented. That makes the category extremely ripe for new players to come in and improve what incumbents first created years ago.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

In just liking to make fun of things, or liking to try and be funny and criticize things, it seemed like a good sort of opportunity to do that. But it was more that this opportunity came up that was not something that was in my purview, which was working at Patreon. Jarvis Johnson [00:02:14] – Because I was like, wow.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This particular feature comes at an opportune time. In a recent presentation to marketers, TikTok spoke of its plans to launch new online shopping tools that would allow brands to more directly reach TikTok’s younger audience. . Today, TikTok is only beginning to formalize its plans around e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

“ Their market opportunity is also huge; Egypt’s transformation to a cashless society is being enabled by the unique products Paymob has built.” Asides from Egypt, Paymob is also present in Kenya, Pakistan, and Palestine. Paymob was founded in 2015 by Alain El Hajj, Islam Shawky, and Mostafa El Menessy.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

There is a unique window of opportunity today for a new 3D Creation Engine (aka game engine) to revolutionize the way we create games, film, virtual worlds, and simulations. Ultimately, these engine unbundling approaches are market wedges to find soft spots where a new creation tool can provide 10x improvement over incumbents.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

And this gives Affirm an opportunity to generate more revenue as it makes money in part on interest fees. But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The B2B payment market in Mexico is a massive opportunity, the company believes, especially considering how few payments are made by cards. Presently, Mendel has 70 employees and it expects to end 2022 with 200. Currently, its payment volume is growing 2x week over week, according to Karpovsky. . Image Credits: Mendel.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Hear from its creator Anatoly Yakovenko about the opportunities and challenges ahead as Solana seeks to take web3 to mobile devices in a push for mass adoption. So how should startups that have incumbents to take on, other startups to best, or both, approach the balance between growth and spend this year? with Peter A.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? The input contains the topics I’m going to cover in a presentation at the conference. Please suggest a list of ideas for a fun and novel title for this presentation.

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