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 round was also joined by SEEDS Capital and Masik Enterprises. The funding will be used to develop Equatorial Space Systems’s Dorado commercial-sounding rocket family.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There TC: Was it worth it for you to get a charter as a company? And if so, why?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany). Next stop, Norway.

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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.”. The tech revolution hasn’t yet affected the bottled beverage industry quite as much as it has others.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. If a few of those IPOs do well, greed will sustain market valuations. Startups begin to siphon off important but underserved segments of SaaS incumbent's customer bases. Software M&A in 2019 reached about $170B up from $136B in 2018, up 25%. wrong and 3.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Forward Foods, Starday , a healthy and sustainable food products company, raised $4 million in seed funding to take on “big food” incumbents. trillion by 2023, with growing demand for foods that are more clean and sustainable, according to market research firm Research and Markets.

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incumbents sustainability venture capital ventures 101

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When it comes to purchasing AI solutions specifically, some organizations have a predisposition to buying from larger incumbents, so be sure to have a crisp value proposition for why they should partner with a startup over a larger incumbent with whom they’re already working.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

This is essential for smaller businesses that need every penny to sustain themselves.”. This acquisition makes PostEx the largest e-commerce service provider in the market, showing the potential of startups for challenging incumbents. In terms of competition, Khan says PostEx’s novelty factor is its hybrid of fintech and logistics.

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incumbents sustainability collaboration finance 99

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

At one startup with product-market fit, Lee and the team paused product and engineering hiring, and instead funneled those funds into the sales and marketing teams to sustain the company’s acceleration. Lee shared a counterpoint to the reflex to cut GTM spend. Compensation. That’s important today.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

As more consumers embrace plant-based diets and sustainable food practices, Rise Gardens is giving anyone the ability to have a green thumb from the comfort of their own home. Incumbents include AeroGarden, AeroGrow, which was acquired by Scotts-Miracle Gro last November, and Click & Grow. The concept of an indoor farm is not new.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

Market : how to compete with incumbents? Usage & distribution, like in classical SaaS, are likely the most sustainable & repeatable. In the cloud, AWS, Azure, & GCP have created about as much market cap as all the top 100 B2B & B2C publics built on cloud (Netflix, ServiceNow, AirBnb, etc).

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incumbents startup SaaS sustainability 87

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

And given the current emphasis on achieving cost efficiency to extend runways in the broader startup ecosystem, it appears investors are open to insurtech startups that can build a sustainable business model, regardless of it including embedded insurance. And their huge customer base could be a competitive edge.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

It was also participated by AlphaTrio Sustainable Technology Fund, Skystar Capital, Sovereign’s Capital, Ozora, and Gobi Partners. Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But the total addressable market is certainly large enough to sustain more than one vendor — Grand View Research estimated its size at $15.9 The challenge, though, will be maintaining momentum in the face of stiff competition like Brex , Bill.com-owned Divvy , Airbase and incumbents such as Concur and Expensify. billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

I met Cruz Foam co-founder John Felts during the memorable Accelerator at Sea hosted by the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” ” In the Accelerator over the Sea. .”

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

There are also many anti-takeover devices available to companies when they go public that put the initial Board at great advantage in terms of preserving control going forward. With all that governance out of the way, let’s take a look at Facebook as the most recent, and most extreme, example of the dual-class voting structure.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The buses previously used were old and owned by the incumbent and have been moved out of the city. Last year, the SF District Board of Education adopted a resolution to modernize its transportation in a way that would create more efficiencies, help the district meet sustainability goals and increase transparency across the system.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Inside sales teams selling $5-30K products can sustain a deal velocity of 3-8 transactions per month, depending on quota. Higher price points decrease sales velocity, the number of deals closed per sales rep per unit time, and increase sales volatility, the chances a deal closes. What should my unit of pricing be?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We Payments and infrastructure, oh my . For example, for every £1 or $1.50

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. ” He has a point — insofar as incumbents are feeling the pressure, at least. So we made it our mission to build and steward a self-sustaining, open ecosystem that produces the best AI systems for humanity.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Tech startups have great app experiences and big brand budgets, but they don’t know how to deliver sustainably so they burn through VC cash waiting for robots, drones, autonomous vehicles and bionic duckweed to shore up the bottom line”. I don’t see how the incumbent U.K.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The round was led by investors Aegon Asset Management and the Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund. . ” Of course, the incumbents are also starting to produce tankless heaters, but Intellihot believes it has an edge in the approach it takes.

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hospitality sustainability energy incumbents 71

Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

A recent essay covered the ‘AI gold rush’ and as it related to startups operating in this area, very much ‘caution ahead’ in terms of building a sustainable, differentiated business. Are there specific paths/opportunities in AI that you believe startups are actually better qualified to take advantage of than incumbents?

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

But if you focus and leave your preconceptions behind, you’ll find that beyond the skein of valuations and share prices, there is a world of spirited dealmaking, ripe with impetus for building a sustainable industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

“I set out to answer that problem and defeat the incumbent solution — the clipboard — and that’s the seed that became Infogrid today.” “There is a major transformation underway in real estate as people reduce their footprint and are forced to take sustainability seriously,” De Gruchy said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. Unfortunately, there are many companies that should not have raised as much as they did, or perhaps don’t have sustainable business models.

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peer-to-peer sustainability ventures technology 92

TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Basically, it’s Uber’s attempt to follow the Instacart model, which is working well for the incumbent grocery delivery company,” she reports. To learn more about the opportunities they’re chasing and to discover how climate change is shaping their investment thesis, he surveyed: Daniela V.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit. LG’s exit from the smartphone market comes as no surprise.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

. “[But a major challenge] is that the tax industry is often forced to play catch-up to the realities of a rapidly expanding tax code, with changes from remote work, recent global regulations, tax incentives for climate, and sustainability and new assets like crypto and NFTs.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

In the wake of the pandemic, more and more companies are relying on independent contractors to sustain and grow their businesses — and more people are turning to freelancing. And of course incumbent payroll providers like Square offer their own solutions. And Fiverr rival Upwork found that 39% of the U.S.

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incumbents consulting sustainability ventures 89

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

Since we’re in the “land grab” phase of generative AI adoption, including your generative AI feature in your core offering can also make your product more appealing than offerings from incumbents and other startups. Packaging as an add-on can: Monetize your innovation directly, which leads to more sustainable margins over the short term. (If

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

It is also developing its relationships with small and medium farmers to buy from them directly as the company continues its focus on sustainability and reducing waste. Delivery is dominated by incumbents like Walmart , Instacart and DoorDash, and delivery startups around the world are seeing success as well as in raising venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

The feds will be looking into price fixing (and in fact just passed a law ), but supporting a sustainable American alternative is kind of a no-brainer as well. .” And when they say almost all, they mean it: We’re talking 95% of some critical trade lines.

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incumbents energy sustainability pitching 94

TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

These platforms have become popular with neobanks or upstarts in different segments trying to embed financial services into their offerings because large, incumbent banks have been relatively slow to bring their services up to speed with the pace of change in the world of tech and banking.

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startup incumbents finance financing 93

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We Generation closes $1B growth fund targeting sustainable startups. We knew that to make a permanent dent in this country’s retirement crisis, we had to do something different.” . ” .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

“Establishing a healthy and sustainable community has to do a lot with managing emotions, negativity in particular,” Daily.dev co-founder and CEO Nimrod Kramer explained to TechCrunch. Kramer reckons that most of the incumbents are either too general or too focused on specific problems.

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