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How Tech Leaders Are Using AI to Solve 10 Procurement Challenges

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And yet, three to six months or more of deliberation to finalize a software purchasing decision. No wonder 90% of IT Executives in North America see software sourcing and vendor selection as a pain point. Ready to Transform the Way You Make Software Decisions?

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YC-backed Namibian startup JABU gets $3.2M for its B2B e-commerce and retail play

TechCrunch

One of the earliest in the space, Nigerian B2B e-commerce platform TradeDepot , raised a combined $110 million in debt and equity. Due to the pandemic, Akinin’s construction company embarked on a COVID relief program to donate food supplies in Namibia. Then, he stumbled on the country’s B2B e-commerce retail opportunity. “We

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B2B sales platform Accord adds $1M to seed round

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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.

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No-code business intelligence service y42 raises $2.9M seed round

TechCrunch

The service, which was founded in 2020, integrates with over 100 data sources , covering all the standard B2B SaaS tools from Airtable to Shopify and Zendesk, as well as database services like Google’s BigQuery. “We’re taking the best of breed open-source software. Image Credits: y42.

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Orb, which helps B2B companies price their products, raises $19.1M

TechCrunch

The initiatives were painful for both the engineering and finance departments, they say — which is when the pair realized that they wanted more flexibility over how software-as-a-service (SaaS) products were billed and monetized. The speed with which software businesses can evolve monetization will differentiate the winners.

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Bosch picks up Five.ai after the self-driving startup pivoted to B2B and then put itself up for sale

TechCrunch

Today, Bosch announced that it would be acquiring Five.ai , the autonomous driving startup that started with big ambitions to build and operate its own fleet of robotaxis but ultimately pivoted to focusing on technology development as a B2B play. ” It will be picking up not just IP from Five, but also some 140 employees in the U.K.

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Taking consumer subscription software to the great outdoors

TechCrunch

The app sits at the confluence of two trends: An increased interest in outdoor recreation and travel, and an explosion in consumer subscription software (CSS). I believe CSS is still in the early stages of its growth — perhaps where B2B SaaS was a decade ago. So what sets apart the great CSS businesses from the good ones?