American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Its embedded infrastructure powers financial services for marketplaces, vertical SaaS, and payment platforms. The two co-founders leveraged their tech backgrounds to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses. and Canada.

financing 98

financing finance incumbents construction 98

Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

About $1B has been invested in early stage SaaS startups as of November 1. If we compare these trends to the total aggregate market capitalization of public SaaS companies by buyer, we observe a few interesting patterns. This operations category hints at the rising importance in the fundraising market of vertical SaaS companies.

SaaS 40

SaaS incumbents support investing 40

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

But, as we will explore, innovation in this field is also a corollary to broader trends, such as the rise of product-led growth among B2B SaaS companies, which have become both practitioners and consumers of usage-based pricing. There are also reasons to think that we haven’t seen all of it yet. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ].

incumbents 98

incumbents SaaS innovation opportunity 98

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. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”.

venture capital 92

venture capital VC capital ventures 92

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

TrustLayer , which provides insurance brokers with risk management services via a SaaS platform, has raised $6.6 Mort appreciates that TrustLayer is tackling the problem not by becoming the insurance broker, but by working with the incumbents as a software solution. million in a seed round.

data analysis 89

data analysis incumbents hospitality construction 89

Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

Should you price your SaaS per seat or per use? One of the most memorable parts of the session is when modified shared with us that the most common pricing mistake in a land and expand motion is to cede too much value in the free/lesser product, scuttling any expansion opportunity. A hybrid approach. Competition.

frameworks 111

frameworks strategy incumbents startup 111

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

In addition to the opportunity to work with Saiprasad, Hariharan said the driver for going after new funding — especially when its seed fund is still firmly in the bank — was seeing the $4.5 Incumbents are over 20 years old and built on aging infrastructure created before the smartphone and social media,” he added.

capital 89

capital startup enablement incumbents 89

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. . Melonn then takes care of the picking, packing and delivery, so that end-consumers receive their orders on the same or next day, also taking care of returns.

enablement 97

enablement startup incumbents transportation 97

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Meanwhile, SaaS Labs provides AI tools to automate certain sales and support processes. Then there’s incumbents like Automation Anywhere and UiPath, which occupy the enormous robotic process automation market. After all, Jiffy.ai ” There’s some truth to that.

incumbents 92

incumbents support SaaS ventures 92

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.

peer-to-peer 97

peer-to-peer capital innovation incumbents 97

Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

But where there is a gap, there is an opportunity. Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. The emergence of SaaS business models has further set the stage for companies like Gusto to transform SMB operations. Gusto saw an opportunity to upend the way payroll was done.

incumbents 92

incumbents peer-to-peer health opportunity 92

TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Vesta says its SaaS model expedites the lending process with a platform that is designed to eliminate redundancies, reduce compliance risk and help lenders better understand, measure and improve their origination processes. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

peer-to-peer 97

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 97

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The B2B SaaS startup thus aims to become a command center for the finance and executive teams to see how a business is doing in real time and to be able to make necessary operational changes faster. “If If you see a gap in an opportunity, you can immediately put resources toward that in days, not months,” she said.

financing 98

financing finance incumbents collaboration 98

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans.

capital 98

capital incumbents education health 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. We see this as a compelling window and opportunity to really help transform the market.”.

incumbents 78

incumbents financing finance SaaS 78

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

capital 79

capital incumbents frameworks development 79

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Well, that was fast! Guess we’ll see about that.

real estate 106

real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

And it’s here where there’s a meaningful opportunity to cut down on repetitive, manual programming work, according to Brad Menezes. Menezes says he thinks about the competitive landscape in three ways: build-it-yourself, legacy incumbents and low-code startups. billion valuation in July.

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incumbents development support accelerator 78

TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Today’s investment showcases, if anything, how important Axie’s precedent is to the development of the broader ecosystem – and how willing VCs and crypto incumbents are to bend over backward to make sure it succeeds.”. “We’re big believers of Bitcoin, so we’re just going to continue to buy whenever there’s an opportunity to.”

transportation 88

transportation venture capital incumbents hospitality 88

TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

“The only way to change this damaging trend is to radically increase the number of healthcare professionals with interest in and access to opportunities at hospitals and nursing homes. Growth opportunities. To do that, you can’t rely on old methods. Those are the tools that won’t fix the current problem.” invested $37.9

health 97

health hospitality incumbents opportunity 97

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

If it sounds frustrating as a salesperson, well, that’s what AcuityMD is here to resolve; to find opportunities for your sales process. “Instead, what ends up happening is the only path that a small company has to get their products to market is to go and get acquired by a big incumbent enterprise.

education 58

education incumbents innovation entrepreneurship 58

TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Weder planned on using the Series A funding to expand across Mexico and Latin America — a market he told me represents a $600 billion opportunity — and that’s just what the company did. The global pandemic helped a lot in terms of grocery adoption in Latin America,” he added. Before, it was 1% and now it is 3% and growing aggressively.”.

capital 92

capital venture capital incumbents sustainability 92

Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I’ve gone through this discovery process for dozens of startup ideas, potential features, and market opportunities.

frameworks 79

frameworks startup incumbents opportunity 79

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This is where Wynn believes Ascend is competing, though some incumbents are offering premium financing, but not in the digital way Ascend is. By moving digital payments over to insurance, Ascend and others will lead the market, which is so big that there will be many opportunities for companies to be successful.

financing 83

financing finance incumbents disruption 83

TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

We have an opportunity to create meaningful change in the financial lives of millions by becoming the investment rail on which wallets and fintechs can innovate. DriveWealth pioneered fractional investing (eg: I can buy $5 of Apple) and is the leading choice to power these apps. For too long, many people in the U.S.

financing 83

financing finance enablement ventures 83

Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Execution is a competitive advantage when the team is uniquely qualified to pursue and opportunity. David Duffield founded and ran PeopleSoft before starting Workday, a SaaS disruptor to an incumbent whose business he understood better than anybody else. Because after all he had built it.

startup 44

startup data analysis incumbents SaaS 44

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Many individual grocers offered their own delivery during the global pandemic, in addition to the delivery incumbents Instacart, PC Express, Inabuggy, DoorDash and Uber Eats. With the dark store model, there is more of an opportunity to stay capital efficient, though harder to launch your own fulfillment.

incumbents 86

incumbents disruption capital founder 86

Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. ETH killers, BTC killers and all kinds of other projects with lofty promises and ambitious roadmaps to build better blockchains than the incumbents. Take advantage of arbitrage opportunities.

real estate 82

real estate incumbents investing investment 82

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2017

Unlike the first wave of SaaS software, machine learning startups benefit from the data their customers share with them. Which is the viewpoint that will ultimately govern the customer/vendor relationships in SaaS? I believe that the SaaS ecosystem will evolve similarly. Should customers be compensated for their contribution?

SaaS 74

SaaS incumbents networking opportunity 74

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A fascinating example of this is SaaS marketplace Juggle. There’s an opportunity for a product to create this experience where professionals can thrive in their flexible working careers. But flexible working is critical to achieving gender parity. The issue is not really a female one it’s a human one.

SaaS 84

SaaS leadership incumbents energy 84

Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces) and verticals. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation).

incumbents 126

incumbents financing finance enablement 126

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. Stitch Health — Our most recent healthcare investment, Stitch is a Y-Combinator seeded SaaS company that serves as home base for healthcare teams that aim to deliver customer-first healthcare.

health 59

health hospitality networking mix-use 59

TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

This is unlike incumbent technology, which Deng said “misses minutes” during the transmission of the images. Incumbents are also relying on wearables or health bands, which have to be charged and can be cumbersome to use in a senior care or home health environment.

technology 107

technology real estate development incumbents 107

A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. There isn’t one most important SaaS metric. Being focussed on SaaS metrics is not incompatible with valuing employee fulfillment and customer happiness. Maximize opportunity rather than minimize down-side.

culture 161

culture strategy SaaS founder 161

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s the precise opportunity that former Tesla CIO, Jay Vijayan, concluded he was well-positioned to address while still in the employ of the electric vehicle giant. As Vijayan tells it, he knew nothing about cars until joining Tesla in 2011, following a dozen years of working in product development at Oracle, then VMware.

incumbents 102

incumbents ventures capital startup 102

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. Cloud native engines maximize customization Today’s engines are monolithic desktop applications originally designed before modern cloud architecture and the SaaS age.

incumbents 145

incumbents creativity development enablement 145

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Replicant provides agents with call summaries and measures trends like overall customer satisfaction, average handle time, competitor mentions, defective products and upsell opportunities. Customers can draw on a library of prebuilt components to design conversation flows using a visual editor.

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incumbents development culture ventures 94