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Katana, an ERP for SMB manufacturers, raises $34M

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Integrations are pivotal to any ERP software, as it typically involves taking data from different systems such as HR, CRM, accounting, and order management to generate insights and analysis — at its core, ERP is all about identifying potential problems and improving efficiency. Shopify and WooCommerce), accounting (e.g.,

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Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting

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The company combines its software with accountants to do things such as provide “CFO Services” to SMBs without a full-stack finance team. It also provides monthly variance analysis for all its bookkeeping customers, essentially serving as a controller for those companies, so they can make better budgeting and spending decisions.

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WizeHire lands fresh cash to expand its SMB-focused hiring platform

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WizeHire , a hiring service for small- and medium-sized (SMB) businesses, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global with participation from Amplo and Mercury. Comparing candidates in WizeHire’s dashboard. ” WizeHire was founded in 2014 by Upadhyay and Jay Niblick.

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Daily Crunch: Meta backs SMB e-commerce app launched by former Facebook engineering manager

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More news and analysis from your friendly neighborhood team of tech reporters: Boxed shrimp in your lunch box : Christine reports that your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology.

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At risk of being left behind on AI, SMBs focus on the art of the possible

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Each SMB could potentially use a half dozen different low-cost AI tools, based on processes they want to automate. He sees the video streaming market as an apt analogy for how an AI SMB market might evolve. A recent survey from BILL , a financial operations platform for SMBs, found that 85% of SMBs are enthusiastic about using AI.

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Cowbell raises $100M to build out its AI-based cyber insurance platform for SMBs

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market, or 23 million businesses, to figure out larger trends in usage and SMB behavior, covering some 1,000 data points. Alongside this, it provides monitoring analysis of its individual customers to assess their individual risk profiles. “The market is so big, and we don’t want to de-focus ourselves,” he said.

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Insurtech startup Obie raises $10.7M Series A led by Battery Ventures

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Generally SMB landlords have been ignored in the market, and there’s 11 million of them,” Aaron said. Once Obie runs its analysis, the platform uses a “proprietary” algorithm to match an application to carriers based on what they describe as “risk-appetite” profiles. this group of landlords “is significantly underserved.”.

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