TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. In June 2020 it merged with French competitor Everoad, and acquired Uber Freight’s European business last September. The European logistics and freight sector has a market size of $427 billion.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It also displays an emissions rating for possible transport options, allowing companies to track carbon emissions. “Forto has proven to be essential in a sector which is under increasing pressure amidst a global pandemic and is dominated by fragmented, non-digital incumbents,” added Michiel Kotting, partner at Northzone.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. Incumbents in these industries are very large and entrenched, but they are legacy players, making them slow to adopt new technology.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

It’s a sizable amount, but creating an entirely new form of transportation is a capital-intensive business. SPACs are not a new instrument for going public, but they have gained a widespread presence in the transportation space, particularly amongst eVTOL startups looking to secure amounts of capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. And our main product is transport management software for shippers enables multi-enterprise collaboration.

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incumbents transportation collaboration consulting 80

TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. If you can map every oasis in a desert, you’ve created a transportation network. Gogoro’s public debut could supercharge EV battery swapping across the globe.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. The company started with ride-hailing services because the cities it targeted had dense populations and inefficient transportation services. After earning a Ph.D. He founded Yassir with Mahdi Yettou in 2017.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

OnTime is the ride-hailing service introduced by GAC in 2019 as one of the newcomers competing with incumbent Didi, many of which are either operated by auto OEMs or are close to one. WeRide has been known to be an ally of GAC, which infused it with an undisclosed amount of strategic investment last December.

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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.

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enablement startup incumbents transportation 97

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The platform provides various tools and apps for accomplishing different tasks across freight procurement, trade and transport management, freight audit and payment and document management, as well as dispatch planning and analytics. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

So he teamed up with former Lyft exec Andrew Woolf to found Coast , a company that is aiming to meet those needs with the mission of becoming “the financial platform for the future of transportation.”. It’s the perfect recipe for a startup to come in and disrupt it with a much better experience,” Mohnot told TechCrunch via e-mail.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

We have seen this play out across several business-to-consumer verticals over the past decade: Airbnb in hospitality, Instacart in grocery, DoorDash in food delivery, and Lyft in transportation. Domestic shippers like Unilever spend nearly $800 billion annually transporting raw materials and consumer goods by truck 1.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

In addition, founders have raised capital to transform many of the fundamental industries: transportation, hospitality, lending, health insurance, and banking. Others, like transportation and hospitality, fueled by Uber and AirBnB fundraising efforts, command more than 6% of the billions invested in the last 12 months.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

This is all happening, of course, to a region that doesn’t have a modern public transportation system. As an investor in startups, there is considerable conventional wisdom around the idea of investing only in the Bay Area.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Incumbents, despite all their resources have launched products which appear as another variant of an ICE product and lack the punch. The electric scooter offers a range of 121 kilometers (75 miles) on a complete charge. “Ola is the best product in the market currently with features significantly better than peers.

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peer-to-peer incumbents accelerator financing 99

TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. But t he used cars market isn’t only enormous in Egypt; it is in almost every country with a large population globally. Some include U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s hard to challenge such a dominant set of incumbents (which may well be termed a cartel at this point), and Fleetzero can’t make any claims to doing so as a fresh new startup, but their approach neatly avoids the most direct competition.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. Equally important to note, real estate and transportation are two industries startups historically haven’t upheaved. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B raised by Uber and $2.4B

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

With white collar workers settling into hybrid work arrangements — a legacy of the pandemic — companies are rethinking how they deliver corporate perks like transportation, cafeterias, and gyms (much to the chagrin of some ).

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incumbents transportation support financing 87

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

GoFreight, which currently has about 1,000 customers, helps manage transportation of goods through ocean, air and land routes. But it can certainly help provide additional valuable information to customers, importers and exporters,” Chen said, adding, “We try to empower incumbents to compete with Flexport.

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incumbents transportation capital enablement 70

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.” ” Downes founded Nyshex in 2014 after serving as director of shipping giant Maersk’s supply chain and key accounts team.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

“The new bus passenger is millennials and centennials who want a better service than the incumbents can provide. . “People are wanting more, they’re demanding more for the services,” Martínez told TechCrunch. It’s all about seeing what technology and data-driven optimization can do for the services.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry. There are so many efficiencies that come from the fleet model for transportation — we think this will be an increasingly important area in the coming years.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

YC Companies: Enode , Evoly , inBalance , Pelm Electric vehicle value chain Electric cars are winning personal transportation technology. These are big markets: just aviation and shipping, both of which are growing fast, represent 20% of all transportation emissions in the world.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

“It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry,” Ryan Lawler writes. “But lately, fintech upstarts are the ones doing the acquiring.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Hold my battery: Package-transporting drones are cool. Some affected founders are pushing the narrative that incumbent banks lobbied the RBI to reach a decision favorable to them. million deal. Manish reports that investors have questioned Zomato’s expansion into the space, given its punishingly high costs and low margins.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? Bill Gurley : Well, industries get more regulated and incumbents write the regulation. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S. Simply put, there is amble room for improvement. Why will that happen?

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