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

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. When traditional distributors move goods from manufacturers and suppliers to retailers, they collect cash through a network of agents. Here’s why this is a critical problem. 100 (~$0.20) to ?1,000

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

trillion B2B payments market in sub-Saharan Africa is one where merchants commonly use manual invoices and inefficient processes that burden merchants and make them struggle with their businesses. pre-seed to build financial OS for B2B companies in Nigeria. The process of sending and receiving payments in a $1.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Additionally, the four-year-old startup said it will expand its financing capabilities for small businesses and extend its supply chain network. Further reading : Inside Udaan’s push to digitize India’s B2B retail market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

This means that Sabi tries to complement the middlemen ( mainly distributors) in the B2B e-commerce retail chain rather than replace them, a model familiar with other prominent B2B e-commerce retail startups such as Sokowatch, MaxAB TradeDepot and Twiga. And more than 10,000 agents serve these merchants on Sabi’s network.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, Reachdesk — one of the companies that’s riding on the wave of that ever-expanding B2B gifting universe — is announcing that it has raised $43 million, a sign of the momentum in the space at the moment, with Reachdesk’s own business specifically growing 600% in the last year. And &Open raised $7.2

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Based on our services, e-commerce has flourished from providing payment guarantees, zero liability to consumers, APIs and services, and global acceptance to online commerce stores, ride-sharing apps, and streaming networks worldwide. Back then, Mastercard had around 3,500 employees and a $4 billion market cap.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A team photo of crowdsourced B2B sales data startup Lusha. Lusha , a sales intelligence platform for B2B sales, is helping with a crowdsourced database that helps companies narrow down their lists of potential customers to the most likely candidates. Once it started crowdsourcing data from salespeople, that generated a network effect.

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Perficient

JANUARY 14, 2025

The way businesses buy and sell is changing faster than ever, and B2B companies are at a tipping point. Recent research shows that the global B2B e-commerce market is expected to surge from $28.86 To stay competitive, its critical to understand the key trends shaping the future of B2B e-commerce. trillion in 2025 to $60.49

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Novi is a B2B marketplace for sustainable, innovative ingredients and packaging, helping its thousands of customers bring products to market with more sustainable materials. “At the most basic, we help brands find sustainable materials and build sustainable products. ” The company collects its data in a few different ways.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Grab a red Sharpie, circle September 20 on your calendar (ooh, how old-school) and get ready to jumpstart your TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 networking experience. We’re hosting a series of speed networking sessions to get your Disrupt kicked off on Monday, September 20. We love free swag, and we’re pretty sure you do, too.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Convoy, a digital freight network that connects shippers with carriers , has raised $260 million in fresh funding to scale up initiatives that will push the trucking tech industry into new ground. ” Having more brokers and truckers on the network can also lead to more stabilized trucking rates across the industry, says Lewis.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place on September 21-23, but why wait to get your network mojo working? Granted, networking can sometimes feel like a contact sport, especially at a global event with more than 10,000 attendees. The CrunchMatch networking platform is such a smart, useful tool. They’re hunting for great stories.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Instead, the company focuses exclusively on the B2B side of the industry, which is arguably the larger side of the industry. The company has built a network of 1,500 warehouses that are all connected to the same software orchestrating layer. We have built a sort of power adapter that connects with the entire network.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He knew that eventually the company would benefit from a network effect as customers attracted other partners to the network. Moore says that the network effect was what is attracting investors and it provides an easy way for the company and its investors to measure success by looking at the network graph.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

In short, the city appears to be strong in areas such as B2B, SaaS, marketplace, B2C, gaming and medtech. Most of our VCs, in my opinion, are focused on B2B, SaaS or marketplace-like startups. Definitely lack of capital, network and “how-to-scale” skillset. There are also GlucoActive, LiveChat, Optimatik.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing B2B e-commerce, enabling capabilities such as personalized product recommendations, dynamic pricing, and predictive analytics. As AI adoption grows, B2B companies must address data quality issues to leverage AI’s benefits fully.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

GoCardless says it will use the funding to accelerate its open banking strategy, which will see it combine open banking-enabled bank-to-bank payments with the global bank debit payments network it has already built out. That’s because, amongst other things, debit and credit cards expire, breaking any subsequent recurring payments.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

For suppliers, this means they can see consolidated demand from Zaraye’s network of buyers. Zaraye, on the other hand, gives more autonomy to manufacturers by allowing them to post their requirements and wait for quotes from suppliers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Fashinza’s B2B supply chain marketplace. Prior to starting Fashinza, Gupta co-founded Curofy, a social networking app for doctors, while Sharma previously helped to found ecommerce retailer OfferBean. But the solutions … need to be vertical and very customized to … industries.” ” An expanding market.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Today’s news is from Alerzo , a little-known B2B e-commerce retail startup based in Ibadan, Nigeria. Early investors include the Baobab Network, an Africa-focused accelerator based in London, and Signal Hill, a Singapore-based fund manager that participated in its $5.5 The company is announcing a $10.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The round was led by DNX Ventures, an investment firm that focuses on United States and Japanese B2B startups, with participation from Cota Capital. DNX Ventures launches $315 million fund for US and Japanese B2B startups. Existing investors Incubate Fund, Vela Partners and 468 Capital also contributed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

billion new endpoints to Visa Direct ’s digital payments network. He cited research that shows half of the world’s population will use mobile wallets by 2025, but says Thunes believe adoption will happen faster than that, with its network connected to 2.7 billion mobile wallet users by 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Shin told me the company’s “Farm Morning” app aggregates farm data, then artificial intelligence gives insights into crop lifecycle and also provides a network through which farmers can connect and share insights. It has thousands of B2B partners, according to Shin.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The models of these B2B companies mirror their retail e-commerce counterparts such as Wasoko and TradeDepot, as they use tech-enabled solutions to digitize medicine distribution to underserved pharmacies, drug shops, clinics, and hospitals. Companies like Wasoko and other companies in B2B e commerce involved in FMCG are raising larger sums.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

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. All B2B startups are in the payments business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

SentinelOne buys Attivo Networks : A $616.5 Well, we have data on Series A, B, and C rounds in the United States – how big they are, and their valuation marks. Things are getting smaller, and cheaper, but not that much, it appears. million deal will see the public SentinelOne snapping up Attivo.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2024

Cairn did not develop the technology in-house, nor procure it from an established B2B provider. Whenever the company encounters a business problem or needs a new technology, Gupta says Cairn will distribute a one-page challenge to startups in their network that invites them to address it. Cairn has over 2,000 startups in its network.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Since its launch, it has processed more than 150,000 items like clothing, consumer electronics and household appliances that are either resold through Thrift, its Shopee storefront, or passed onto B2B recyclers and resellers. Then it decides whether to list items on Thrift, or sell them in bulk to its B2B network.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

The new funding will go on doubling its network of spin class instructors across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, expanding its tech team and upping its marketing. “On the B2B side (Momentum), we have over 25,000 users and, over the last year, we passed 100,000 downloads.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Like LinkedIn, the app also invites users who aren’t necessarily on the cusp of changing jobs to expand their network by connecting to their pharmacy peers. According to the company, SwipeRX will use the fresh capital to scale its growth across Southeast Asia, expand its logistics network for B2B e-commerce and increase its team.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

However, Tariq Musa, founder and CEO of Miferia, notes that despite that growth, over 90% of retail in Mexico still takes place in just 2 million physical stores, and less than 1% of B2B transactions have moved online and are largely still dependent on cash transactions, which often requires retailers to pay upfront for merchandise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

TruePay’s mission is to build a B2B “buy now, pay later” network where sellers (industries) can grant credit without being exposed to default risk and where buyers (merchants) access credit to buy inventory from their suppliers seamlessly and costlessly. It comes just three months after Kaszek and Monashees co-led an $8.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Logisly , a Jakarta-based startup that describes itself as a “B2B tech-enabled logistics platform,” announced today it has raised $6 million in Series A funding to help streamline logistics in Indonesia. This means shippers often have to work with a variety of carriers, driving up costs and making supply chains harder to manage.

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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. Buy now, pay later offerings are the latest trend for B2B retail and e-commerce companies. Since launching in 2016, Wasoko has delivered 2.5

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