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B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups

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Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. The B2B e-commerce industry has broad reach, encompassing everything from commerce infrastructure and payments technology to procurement and supply-chain solutions. Even before the pandemic, B2B marketplaces were expected to generate $3.6

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Affirm spinout Resolve raises $25M in Insight Partners-led round to grow B2B buy now, pay later offering

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Resolve , which specializes in “buy now, pay later” capabilities for B2B transactions, announced today that it has raised $25 million in equity funding. Since launching as a spinout from Affirm in 2019, Resolve says it has seen “overwhelming” demand for its B2B buy now, pay later (BNPL) billing offering for business purchases. .

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Slope takes in first capital with visions of being ‘Stripe for global B2B payments’

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Prior to the global pandemic, suppliers were extending net terms of 30 days to pay, but at that scale, it is hard to build up credit for small businesses, Murata told TechCrunch. The global B2B payments market was valued at $870 billion in 2020, with projections of reaching $1.9 Our vision is to be Stripe for global B2B,” Deng said.

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Affirm spinout Resolve raises $60M for its B2B ‘buy now, pay later’ platform

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Resolve — a San Francisco-based startup in the space specializing in “buy now, pay later” capabilities for B2B transactions — announced today that it has raised $60 million in funding. Digital and e-commerce transformation is coming for B2B payments,” Tsai said. She views them as experienced and determined. “

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Lightspeed and Max Levchin bet on Balance to bring B2B payments into the digital world

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Then you head over to B2B payments … and you recoil in horror as you migrate away from a utopian future of promise to the ruins of an antiquated past. That full payment could be done on Balance, with net 30 payment terms using a bank wire all automatically synced against an invoice offered by the service to the customer.

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Kontempo lands fresh capital amid the boom for B2B BNPL

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Kontempo , a startup offering buy now, pay later (BNPL) and interest-free installment plans to business-to-business (B2B) customers, today announced that it raised a $30 million seed round in a mix of equity ($6.5 While most B2B purchases and procurements are spread out over time (e.g, million) and debt ($25 million).

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Coho AI, which uses AI to help B2B SaaS companies boost revenue, raises $8.5M

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.” Coho AI’s target audience is sales, customer success and product teams within business-to-business (B2B) SaaS companies. “[But] Coho AI truly helps companies improve metrics such as net revenue retention rate and sales efficiency, which have become more crucial in the current economic climate.”

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