TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A team photo of crowdsourced B2B sales data startup Lusha. For many sales and marketing teams, finding leads is a time-consuming and tedious process. The Series B will be used on Lusha’s data infrastructure, new features, privacy compliance and expanding its market share in the United States.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

In March 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the company pivoted from B2C to B2B and used the technology rails it had built to create the e-commerce marketing platform that Givz is today. The company plans to use the new capital toward that hiring, and to do some marketing of its own. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In November, we reached out to marketers to learn how they would spend a $25,000 budget in Q1 2022. We followed up with a few marketers from our previous survey and reached out some more to see how they would spend a $75,000 budget in summer 2022. A B2B startup? But there’s been a lot of belt tightening since then.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Today, a startup that has built a similar kind of payments infrastructure — but specifically targeting small businesses and the payments they need to make — has raised a big round of funding to double down on its own slice of the market. “Every dollar in this round is going towards R&D and sales and marketing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When marketers Paul Benigeri and Geoffrey Woo were at their former companies, in food tech and e-commerce infrastructure, respectively, they experienced how manual and repetitive digital marketing workflows were, especially as the number of disparate and unintegrated marketing tools grew. Kwan Kim recently joined Archive.ai

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

MarketForce, a Kenyan B2B retail and financial services distribution startup, has expanded into five additional markets across Africa to grow RejaReja — its retailer ‘super app’ that makes it possible for informal merchants to order and pay for inventory digitally, accept payments for utility bills, and access financing for their businesses.

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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. ” An expanding market. billion by 2026, up from $19.58

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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. Edtech is no longer optional’: Investors’ deep dive into the future of the market. ‘Edtech is no longer optional’: Investors’ deep dive into the future of the market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Taptap Send believes that its unique place in the market is that it has built not just the easiest, but the most reliable system to initiate, manage and receive those transfers. Taptap Send has been steadily growing and adding more countries to its list of served markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

AgriAku , a Jakarta-based B2B marketplace for farmers, announced today it has raised a pre-Series A of $6 million. The round was led by Go-Ventures, with participation from MDI Arise, MDI Centauri, Mercy Corps Social Venture Fund and angel investors. The funding will be used on hiring and increasing AgriAku’s market penetration.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

If you are looking for a growth marketing playbook, stop reading now, because you won’t get one from Tuff. ” Instead, they are betting on transparency and experimentation, and it seems to be working well: The agency was warmly recommended to TechCrunch multiple times via our growth marketing survey. .” What is Tuff?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. But I’m not sure anyone expected it to be hovering at a share price that gave Better.com a market cap of just $19.14 To sum it up, digital mortgage lender Better.com made its public debut on August 24.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Sarah writes that the social media giant is seeing a spike in one-star reviews, which include calling for its removal. Shopify is working with B2B payments provider Melio to add direct bill payments so that they can consolidate invoices and pay their bills in a more automated way via Shopify’s platform. Ivan has more on that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

While the announcement follows India’s decision to ban Sea’s popular title “Free Fire” in the country last month, TechCrunch reports that the company is insisting the reason is “global market uncertainties.” Use RevOps to develop a customer-led approach to B2B sales. Use RevOps to develop a customer-led approach to B2B sales.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The company is focused on creating a vertically integrated supply chain with a B2B marketplace and a social commerce feature for group buying by consumers. TreeDots was founded in 2017 as a surplus food marketplace for F&B businesses, before it expanded its business to include social commerce, too.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

How quickly the startup valuations are changing : Sure, the 2021 venture capital market was richer than ever, but 2022 is turning out a little bit different. Bring on startup deals, I say, as they always teach us something about the market. What would the impact of those declines be on the country’s startup market ?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

B2B retail and e-commerce platforms have primarily tried to fix these inefficient supply chains over the last couple of years and have received substantial investor backing since the pandemic. “In And what started in Kenya soon scaled into neighboring East African markets Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda in 2018.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, Loship offered one-hour deliveries for a large range of products and services, including food, ride-hailing, medicine and B2B supplies. Loship’s new funding will be used to expand into new cities and grow verticals like B2B deliveries for small food and beverage businesses and retail stores.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Other participants in the round included OfBusiness , a B2B e-commerce platform, and serial entrepreneur Shreesha Ramdas. Founded in January 2022 by Sophia Solanki, an Australian serial entrepreneur whose previous startup was content marketing and social media management SaaS platform DrumUp. Narrato founder Sophia Solanki.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Fresha’s current range of services include a free-to-use platform for booking appointments; free software for managing accounts; a payments service that includes both a physical point of sale and digital interface; and a wider marketplace both to provide goods to the businesses (B2B); and for the businesses to sell goods to customers (B2C).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The continent’s retail markets are highly fragmented and mostly made up of small and informal retailers and intermediaries, which is why a ton of tomatoes that costs around $100 in the U.S., After that, Twiga will look at other markets — Cote d’Ivoire, DRC Congo, Ghana and Nigeria. for instance, costs about $400 in Kenya. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Lore has taken on the roles of co-founder, chairman of the board and investor in Wizard, a B2B startup in the “conversational commerce” space which believes the future of mobile commerce will take place over text. There was also a B2B component to Stylust, which promised brands a “one-text checkout” experience.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The idea for the b2b product is to automate the time-consuming and expensive process of sales outreach, including locating and pitching leads, as well as to offer tools to streamline and enhance initial sales meetings. . The adjacent markets for such a technology could also be recruiting, job search, etc.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Today, a startup that’s building tools for businesses to help with that lead generation specifically in B2B sales is announcing a big round of funding on the back of strong growth in the last year. “That market alone is hundreds of thousands of B2B customers and allows us to speak their language.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

We’ve all seen a product on social media that looks interesting, so you click the “shop now” button and are taken over to a new site. But wait, you weren’t finished on the social media site, and when you go back, everything has refreshed. Checkout is the key to frictionless B2B e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In October 2022, after completing the acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk asked his team to work toward bringing Vine back to market. This article uses my own experience working on high-throughput B2B and B2C stacks during a similar time period that Vine was around, and I’m making some assumptions. Revive or reboot?

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Openxcell

MARCH 30, 2023

With precarious market scenarios and escalating growth recession, very few industries have been able to manage healthy revenues and growth. What is B2B SaaS? B2B SaaS stands for business-to-business software-as-a-service. B2B SaaS market size is projected to grow from $251 billion to 883$ billion by 2029 with a CAGR of 19.7%.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

That’s one of the reasons we launched AltSchool because if a lot of people can have marketable skills, then I think we can solve a massive problem in the market.”. It intends to launch the product modules, including product management, marketing and design, by Q2 this year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

The NFT market was worth $41 billion at the end of last year — nearly as large as the conventional art market by some estimates — and it’s expected to nearly double in size by the end of 2022, according to a report released this week by blockchain analytics firm Nansen.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In an interview, Franta and Rastouil said they wanted to create a startup that combined social and entrepreneurial impact. Back Market reaches $5.7B Partner vendors range from small shops to B2B players with much larger volumes of devices. Novi is building a B2B marketplace for brands that care about sustainability.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

For the past year, everyone’s been predicting that the muted exit environment and bone-dry funding market would bring a reckoning for many late-stage companies. But in a market where everything seems to be heading downward, they shouldn’t imply a company or its founders made a mistake — you often simply can’t help it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Or put even more simply, it wants to be a one-stop shop for all B2B spend. The startup, which is focused on the Mexican market for now, has started strong — onboarding more than 150 clients (such as Mercado Libre, PetCo and Telcel) in the first months since it launched earlier this year. Image Credits: Mendel.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

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. Checkout is the key to frictionless B2B e-commerce. End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 13, 2025

Engineers (21%), software engineers (17%) and product managers (14%) round out the most-common background roles a clear pattern showing that leadership, technology and marketing skills form the foundation of unicorn founder success. Another 22% had already led companies as CEOs, while 9% served as CTOs before launching their unicorns.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Since the coronavirus outbreak, e-payments via TrueMoney Wallet have grown exponentially because of social distancing measures and growing public awareness of contactless transactions across the region, Tanyapong Thamavaranukupt, co-President of Ascend Money told TechCrunch.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 13, 2025

While its not a founder’s job to be a publicist or marketer they already wear 10 other hats having the story down is the starting point to being successful in every single other area (recruiting, fundraising, customer targeting, etc.). but public relations and marketing are rarely given the spotlight thats warranted.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

There is no authoritative playbook for marketing these days. Every company must find its own voice, and as it grows and evolves, its marketing needs to evolve as well. A growth marketing agency based in Amsterdam, this company focuses on LinkedIn marketing, content marketing, marketing automation and email marketing.

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