CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

Thats why smart enterprise IT leaders are turning to AI-powered procurement platforms to streamline sourcing, optimize spending, and mitigate risk. Legacy Systems Complicate the Adoption of New Technology The Challenge: Many organizations still have outdated IT infrastructure, which makes integration complicated and costly.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 14, 2025

Gartner has generative AI slipping into the trough of disillusionmentand whatever you think of the technologys promise, remember that the disillusionment is a sociological phenomenon, not a technical one, and that it happens because new technologies are overhyped. But OpenAI and Anthropic are demonstrating important paths forward.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

A startup called Peeba has built a B2B wholesale online platform that connects independent retailers across Asia with unique brands around the world. The Hong Kong-headquartered company wants to help Asia-based B2B retailers reduce inventory risk and offer higher operational efficiency with lower costs via its platform. .

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

We’re in publishing, but it’s the accompanying services that differentiate us on the market; the technology component is what gives value to our business.” Much of this growth is driven by investments in AI technologies, and IDC also expects cloud infrastructure spend to increase 26% compared to 2023.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Today marks the beginning of the next payments revolution, making existing B2B payment processes obsolete, and redefining what billing, collections and payments should look like in the modern world. Cash flow problems are the greatest impediments to growth especially for small-medium enterprises world over.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Often the tech industry’s unsung heroes, B2B sales teams and the revenue they drive are even more important in times of economic instability. So how do sales teams make convincing cases on why their product or service is deserving of today’s trimmed enterprise IT budgets?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

The value to be gained in the B2B world is something that has been largely untapped. For Lindsay Tjepkema — who has been entrenched in the world of B2B marketing for more than 15 years — the opportunity was massive. So in 2019, she founded Casted , an audio and video podcast product aimed at B2B marketers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Accord launches B2B sales platform with $6M seed. The company’s target market is technology startups, but Ross Rich said Accord is now attracting interest from medical device companies and others where there is no software that bridges the gap between external parties. Before COVID, you could go onsite, but now you can’t do that.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Kilo , a Vietnam-based B2B e-commerce platform that connects wholesalers with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), wants to digitize the local retail value chain via technology. “In They will revolutionize the traditional retail industry in Vietnam with their maniacal focus on the customer and technology.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In an era where technology reshapes entire industries, I’ve had the privilege of leading Mastercard on an extraordinary journey. When I think about the technology we started working with early in my career and look at what we’ve been able to do since, it truly is amazing, a global transformation led by and driven through technology.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply side) by aggregating and rebalancing supply and demand via its automated calculation system for manufacturing costs and databases of fabrication facilities across Japan.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Merge, an integrations platform that focuses on B2B use cases, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Addition, with participation from existing investor NEA, which led the company’s $4.5 The company’s vision is to become the de facto standard for B2B integrations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Startups have sought to use technology to digitize processes in Africa’s B2B e-commerce and retail space over the past couple of years. Duplo , a Lagos-based fintech, is attempting to tackle these inefficiencies by digitizing payment flows for B2B companies, starting with those in this industry. 100 (~$0.20) to ?1,000

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Fashion e-commerce startup, The Folklore Group , has today announced a shift from direct-to-consumer to B2B wholesale against the backdrop of a $1.7 We are developing our technology and building a sales team. The Folklore Connect is a B2B wholesale platform that links African luxury brands to retailers in the US.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Stonehenge Technology Labs wants consumer packaged goods companies to gain meaningful use from all of the data they collect. This was not a consequence of them not being good marketers or connected to mom, but they didn’t have the technology to connect their back end with retailers like Amazon, Walmart or Hobby Lobby,” she told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Typewise won a spot in YC (and its standard $500,000 backing) after pivoting to fully focus on the B2B market — aiming to serve demand for typing productivity gains in areas like customer service and sales, per co-founder David Eberle. “Last year we realized where this makes most sense,” he tells TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

While buy now, pay later startups have largely focused on the consumer, a growing group of them are now focusing on the B2B space. For example, in December, Affirm spinout Resolve, which specializes in “buy now, pay later” capabilities for B2B transactions, announced that it had raised $25 million in equity funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Lookout’s long-running transition to becoming an enterprise security company is all but complete, revealing today that it’s selling its consumer mobile security business to Finland’s F-Secure in a deal valued at around $223 million. ” For F-Secure, the deal gives it a stronger foothold in the U.S.

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IDC

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

B2B commerce is evolving at an unprecedented pace. Rapid technological advancements, evolving customer expectations, and market dynamics are paving the way for increased adoption of digital commerce platforms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

A new company is looking to do for B2B hardware sales what a growing number of companies have been doing in the consumer sphere, by making it easier for businesses to pay for equipment in instalments through rentals and subscriptions. million in funding to do something similar for B2B transactions. Access over ownership.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sneaker fit startup Neatsy.ai has snagged $1 million in seed funding after a B2B pivot. Neasty’s approach relies on 3D scanning technology found in the iPhone X or later (aka, the TruthDepth camera for FaceID) — so (currently) it only works for a subset of iOS users. month per user). month per user).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CDO’s mandate extends beyond mere technology implementation; it encompasses the development of comprehensive digital strategies and the cultivation of a culture that embraces continuous innovation. Essential Skills for a Chief Digital Officer The role of a CDO demands a unique blend of strategic vision and technological expertise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And it now has some 1,700 customers using its tech in a range of B2B and B2C services in verticals like retail, transportation and travel, manufacturing and logistics, healthcare, and any use case where capturing an image of you or something else will spur another action. are currently customers. are currently customers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

They saw a direct-to-consumer market that was becoming huge thanks to technology and innovation, but a wholesale sector that wasn’t seeing the same kind of growth. ZAX’s addressable market for B2B transactions, just in Brazil, is estimated to be BRL 2.4 Ballardie also wants to hire additional technology and product development staff.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

. “It gives vendors new tools to close contracts and generate cash with prepaid deals while offering buyers various payment options and a simplified purchasing experience, ensuring buyers are able to purchase the best technology available to grow their business.” bringing its total raised to $19 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. of XR products would be enterprise customers, and it has stuck to it. To meet these expectations, both technology that is easy to use and accurate as well as high-quality software and content are needed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Fashinza’s B2B supply chain marketplace. The round brings Fashinza’s total raised to $135 million, which Gupta says is being used to refine the company’s supply chain technology and expand into new markets, including raw materials procurement. “ Business-to-business marketplaces are here to stay.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The company, now Singapore-based but shifting to the Bay Area, touted the investment as making it “the first B2B payments unicorn from Southeast Asia.”. The B2B payments sector is already hot, yet underpenetrated, according to some experts. Paystand banks $50M to make B2B payments cashless and with no fees. million in February.

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Ooda Loop

JANUARY 15, 2025

Synthesia, a London startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, says its a big hit with enterprises, with some 60,000 of them 1 million users […] The post Synthesia snaps up $180M at a $2.1B valuation for its B2B AI video platform appeared first on OODAloop.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Adobe said Agent Orchestrator leverages semantic understanding of enterprise data, content, and customer journeys to orchestrate AI agents that are purpose-built to deliver targeted and immersive experiences with built-in data governance and regulatory compliance. The multimodal agent supports text, voice, and image interactions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And to underscore that fact, Go1 — one of the rising stars in the world of enterprise learning, providing education and training to businesses in turn to offer to its employees or users — is announcing a significant round of $100 million, at over a $2 billion valuation, to fuel its growth. It would be quite a different product.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

We already have stories in the works about no-code software, the emergence of edtech, proptech and B2B marketplaces, to name just a few. B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups. In 2018, B2B marketplaces saw an estimated $680 billion in sales, but that figure is expected to reach $3.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Small and medium businesses, long overlooked in the building of innovative technology, have lately become a key focus in the world of B2B software. “In the end, they are offering a fully horizontal suite that in the past would have only been accessible to enterprises.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Apple’s and Google’s move into smart augmented reality several years ago, creating ways for people to use their smartphone cameras to identify everyday objects to interact with them, put the technology on the map with everyday consumers and gave a way for businesses to build new experiences to cater to them.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The startup says it is out to ”reimagine the B2B buying experience,” according to Cancel. Today 75% of Drift’s customers are mid-market enterprise, according to Cancel. . Basically, the company is trying to make the B2B buying/selling experience similar to that of a B2C one. So just what does the company do exactly?

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