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Paystand banks $50M to make B2B payments cashless and with no fees

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The Scotts Valley, California-based company is using cloud technology and the Ethereum blockchain as the engine for its Paystand Bank Network that enables business-to-business payments with zero fees. Specifically, Almond would like to reboot digital finance, starting with B2B payments, and reimagine the entire CFO stack.

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Bielefeld survey highlights an emerging B2B, crypto, deep tech ecosystem

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Our survey respondents pointed out that the region is strong in sectors such as B2B because of the many old-school B2B companies in the manufacturing area. Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups. B2B, deep tech technologies. Louis Schulze, ecosystem development manager, Founders Foundation.

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

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Consumer payments is by no means a solved problem (I’ll trigger one hundred blockchain people if I say otherwise), but it sure as heck a pretty improved one. 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. market, also invested.

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Tribal Credit, which provides credit cards to startups in emerging markets, raises $34.3M

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The B2B payments space has seen an explosion in demand, and investor interest, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as businesses try to figure out how to pay each other digitally. Altman brothers lead B2B payment startup Routable’s $30M Series B. The challenges become even more complex when dealing with cross-border payments.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Layoffs and H1-B visas, SaaS growth levers, blockchain startup tips

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A slump in the public markets has dragged the entire sector down, but customer acquisition isn’t getting any cheaper. Now that we’re seeing some movement in the job market, we think we can probably finally compete for some top engineering talent in our budget. How can I hire people who were recently laid off on H-1B?

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Agreena, a regenerative farming carbon market, raises $4.7M seed from Giant Ventures

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The voluntary carbon market for agriculture includes U.S. & blockchain-focused) and U.K./France-based We also believe Agreena can become the dominant internet marketplace for facilitating online B2B commerce within farming, a nut which no one has yet cracked.”. The startup has some competition in the space.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Plaid’s staffing story, RevOps for B2B sales, demo day’s demise

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When Jean-Denis Greze accepted the CTO role at Plaid in 2017, the fintech company was still financing its Series A had “about 20 engineers who were still trying to feel their way to product-market fit,” writes enterprise reporter Ron Miller. Use RevOps to develop a customer-led approach to B2B sales. We call that RevOps.”.

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