Appirio, the cloud services consultancy that last year raised $60 million from General Atlantic and Sequoia, is putting some of that investment into acquisitions to build out its business competing against legacy systems integrators like Accenture and Deloitte.
In its current form, Eliademy is a free, cloud-based VLE initially competing with legacy players like Blackboard, but CBTec's broader plan is for it to become a leading MOOC (Massively Open Online Course), pitting it against Kleiner-backed Coursera and many others in the fast-growing MOOC space.
Competing with legacy therapy scheduling and CRM companies, whose offerings are often clunky and designed to work in older browsers without the usability that modern web standards provide, YellowSchedule enables therapists and other related industries to manage customer scheduling, records and relationships, as well as providing business analytics.
Blue Origin is competing against legacy Sacramento manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne to develop an engine for United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket.
Already, 19 states have bent to the lobbying influence of established players and raised barriers to the public-private partnerships that would compete with legacy companies.
In 2009 the Pulitzers, now in their 96th year, expanded to include online-only news sites, and the awards to Politico and The Huffington Post reflect the emerging power of Web-based journalism as it competes with legacy newspapers.
Time Domain has no plans to compete in legacy markets.
Both Workday and Okta compete with legacy providers such as Oracle and IBM.
ClearTax not only competes with legacy desktop software, like CompuTax, but also the government's own online tax filing system.
Making acquisitions will help TNL compete with legacy media companies, but Chung says it doesn't view them as "villains" it needs to fight against.
