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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incumbents VC sustainability technology 98

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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Harshet Lunani, Qoala’s Founder and CEO, said the recent funding would enable the firm to further simplify insurance ownership by advancing its product offerings and experience, strengthening its position for sustainable growth in the region. The post Indonesia’s Qoala scores $7.5m

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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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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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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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startup incumbents accelerator sustainability 79

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 88

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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incumbents sustainability ventures investing 98

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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opportunity venture capital mix-use incumbents 107

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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peer-to-peer incumbents accelerator economic growth 75

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

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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transportation mix-use incumbents energy 99

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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SaaS strategy enablement startup 110

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

In a perfect world, the answer is no, because realizations equal investments, so you are self-sustaining. You have large incumbents with very outdated systems, but a very loyal and a very high degree of trust customer base. And should we now expect to see Draper Esprit raise more capital per annum?

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VC venture capital incumbents capital 102

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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incumbents communities enablement strategy 91

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

APRIL 13, 2023

“We combined the best of visual generative AI technology and responsible AI practices to create a sustainable model that prioritizes these considerations.” ” Image Credits: Bria Adato co-founded Bria when the pandemic hit in 2020, and the company’s other co-founder, Assa Eldar, joined in 2022. .

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startup incumbents data collection construction 98

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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real estate energy incumbents sustainability 86

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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venture capital incumbents leadership SaaS 91

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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capital venture capital incumbents sustainability 92

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 financing finance 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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financing finance incumbents capital 88

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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mix-use communities incumbents collaboration 93

Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2012

Implicitly, these investment are bets that new, more lucrative and sustainable revenue streams or more cost effective distribution channels will develop in the next 1 to 3 years that will enable these startups to grow into their valuations with time. Invest much earlier and much more broadly, expecting a lower average outcome.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

“However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. Lambert served as Director at Google’s Area 120, where he led the division’s sustainability investments. We’re developing heat pumps that are better than any HVAC system of any kind.

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capital ventures investing investment 52

OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US. Sustainability and Transparency. Technology is the key to the transition to sustainability.

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sustainability incumbents technology strategy 51

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. To sustain these growth rates and reach the levels of market liquidity they have, startups like Uber and AirBnB require massive amounts of cash. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B raised by Uber and $2.4B

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real estate startup incumbents sustainability 40

A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Can you compete in a niche where incumbents don’t care or cannot move quickly? Can you hire someone you’ve worked with before, or build something sustainable without hiring? Can you convert some of those things into 100%? For example, can you pick a large and growing market?

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incumbents mix-use sustainability media 202

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Despite the ease of product building, sustainable growth has become increasingly challenging as many traditional channels no longer deliver the same results. In these challenging times, we explore the remaining growth opportunities. How can we achieve a balance between efficiency, profitability, and growth?

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