CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

Salesforce has made its customer relationship management (CRM) suite, dubbed Starter, generally available in an effort to garner more market share in the small and medium businesses (SMBs) segment as it faces stiff competition from rivals such as Zoho.

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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. We are creating a new marketing category and generating the largest sustainable charitable giving platform in the process,” he told TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

WizeHire , a hiring service for small- and medium-sized (SMB) businesses, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global with participation from Amplo and Mercury. “Many HR tech companies tend to focus on helping enterprise companies with unlimited resources at their fingertips.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Mobiz , a South African startup integrating hyper-personalization into mobile marketing, has raised a pre-Series A round of $ 4 million from HAVAÍC, Futuregrowth, Launch Africa, Allan Gray E-Squared Ventures, CapaciTech and Endeavor’s Harvest Fund. and double down on marketing, sales and account management.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While developed markets like the U.S., and Western Europe are full of competition for SMB-focused startups building productivity and operational apps for SMBs, in developing countries Factorial has been a trailblazer in connecting with the small business segment to sell them products to handle human resources like their larger counterparts.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

But as software customers tend to buy more over time, landing enterprise-scale accounts has often been a way for startups to not only secure new revenue in large chunks but also durable, self-expanding top line. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. SMB-focused startups have, too, but they’re rarer.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

FloBiz, an Indian startup that is building a neobank for small- and medium-sized businesses in the South Asian market, said on Monday it has raised $31 million in a new financing round as it works to broaden its product offerings. India, the world’s second-largest internet market, is home to millions of small- and medium-sized businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Cowbell Cyber, a full-stack insurance company that provides cyber insurance to SMEs, has closed a Series B of $100 million, which it will be using to continue investing in its data science and “risk engineering”, as well as underwriting tech, claims management, its reinsurance business Cowbell Re, and expanding its go-to-market channels.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

The great news is that large enterprise and midmarket companies care more than ever about bottom-line impact. First, let’s take a look at the sectors likely to be most challenging: lenders, neobanks and fintechs that serve SMBs. Lenders have to manage three big tailwinds in today’s market: Rising delinquency rates and charge-offs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Upcoming topics include fintech, crypto/blockchain and growth marketing, but yesterday, TechCrunch reporter Ron Miller shared his predictions for enterprise companies this year. and his thoughts on a M&A market where table stakes are measured in the tens of billions. His boldest, spiciest take? Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

“Value Management [sic] as a practice is now a C-suite priority and increasingly considered an enterprise-critical function alongside software systems like CRM, marketing automation, and project management,” said Sameer Gandhi, partner, Accel, in a statement. “In

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As more companies lean into remote work, and a great many startups are founding themselves on multiple continents, the new capability could boost Airbase’s effective total addressable market. Brex added a paid package of software at an SMB-friendly price point. Other competitors in its market have a greater SMB focus, it appears.

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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. “They are too overwhelming for SMBs,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Despite a cooling market, corporate spend management startup Ramp reports that it has more than doubled its revenue run rate since the start of the year. But it’s even more notable for a startup — in an increasingly competitive space — to more than double revenue in a matter of months amid worsening market conditions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The company is live in 23 European markets and plans soon to expand to Croatia, Hungary and Sweden. We are confident that our investors’ extensive know-how and network of partnerships will accelerate Viva Wallet’s plan to unify the fragmented European payments market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

With a $120 trillion market size , it’s no surprise that an increasing number of fintechs focused on digitizing payments have been attracting investor interest. The company started out focused on the startup and SMB customer, but based on demand and feedback, is expanding into the enterprise space as well. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. We also want to understand how the company is profitable, and how its SMB focus has turned out to be more of a boon than a burr. The company mostly sells to SMBs, or smaller companies. It’s a great time to go public for tech companies with growth stories.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

While Flutterwave’s market share in enterprise payments has primarily been responsible for this growth, diversifying into fintech products for small and medium businesses, retail and consumers also played a part. “It The Flutterwave Store, launched in April 2020, was revamped last November to Flutterwave Market. and the U.K.

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Infinidat

APRIL 26, 2022

Software Driven Business Advantages in the Enterprise Storage Market. Not too many years ago, enterprise storage solutions were all about hardware-based innovation, delivering performance and functionality by adding dedicated and proprietary hardware components. Adriana Andronescu. Tue, 04/26/2022 - 22:00.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We were built — by definition — to serve the smaller part of the small business market,” COO Adler added. A lot of folks are moving really aggressively toward that top side of the market — like a Fortune 500 company or a VC-backed startup, but the fact of the matter is that both of those markets are really niche,” said COO Adler.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

“To ensure that we’ve defined and implemented a five-step process into our platform, covering the whole life-cycle of SaaS applications within enterprises. It is early days but Sastrify could create an SAP Arriba with a payment solution for SMB – a massive market just in Europe.”.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The small to mid-sized market includes all firms under 2000 people in size, which is 90% of the businesses in the U.S. Those businesses need and use technology just as much as larger enterprises. These are the blogs that can help SMBs stay on top of the key tech trends affecting the market now and in the years ahead.".

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The company, based in Bogotá, Colombia and currently sporting a team of 13, is working to bring digital transformation to the smallest of enterprises: namely single-operator small stores. Treinta plans on offering more services in time to its user base of SMB owners, including digital payments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

“When we think about the market we think there are two categories that have dominated,” Hölzl said in an interview. “The first is component manufacturers, and the other is a fragmented market of system integrators building costly and craftsman-like robots where you pay $250,000 per solution. .”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In an analysis accompanying the new report, they point out data showing that some companies see their enterprise value increase much faster than the competition. Nowhere is this more apparent, the authors claim, than when you look at public B2B SaaS companies. “Investors have forgotten all about the Rule of 40.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Beyond the mobile app creation aspect to its business, Tapcart also helps merchants automate their marketing. The marketing campaigns can be automated, as well, which helps merchants schedule their upcoming launches and product drops ahead of time. Image Credits: Tapcart.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“And while much of the oxygen has been soaked up by large legacy companies hitting the public market, there have been smaller deals that indicate a hunger for better creative adtech.” More simply, the startup market is excellent at creating unicorns but somewhat poor at taking them public.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Ideally – as short as possible, with specific ballparks depending on your industry and business model.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. But what’s the end game?

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Capgemini

OCTOBER 23, 2020

It may seem rudimentary, but to understand why Mucic’s comments were not an “exit from” or “concession of” the CRM market, one must first understand the concept of the CRM system. First, there are different types of CRM: sales-related CRM solutions, service-related (post-sales) CRM solutions, and marketing-related CRM solutions.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) platforms are critical to today’s modern businesses. It is also continuing its expansion into more underserved niche markets. Ultimately, enterprises of all sizes should automate processes, Herbert noted, “especially any routine or quasi-routine tasks.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Instead of an SMB hiring out a person or a department to handle the basics of IT, 90% of which is maintenance and compliance, Electric software handles distribution, maintenance and security for an organization. Many startups saw an accelerating digital transformation create a warm market for their products.).

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

In exchange for 14 weeks of help with everything from product-market fit to the go-to-market strategy a team should employ, the startups in Pear’s accelerator program give Pear the right to invest from $500,000 to $750,000 in each team at a valuation that it caps at $10 million. Founders: Joann de Zegher (CEO), JK Metwalli (CTO).

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Kaseya

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Every year Kaseya surveys IT professionals from midsize companies to get a feel for what’s happening in the market and gain insight into the issues and priorities of these corporations. Asking an overtaxed internal IT department to keep up with the multi-front battle against security threats isn’t reasonable for most SMBs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Despite the quickening pace of layoffs, there is some good news for SaaS startups: 70% of SMBs plan to increase IT spending in 2023, and the procurement process is getting faster. ” For example, Gartner found that 41% of SMB customers rely on customer ratings and reviews before making a purchase.

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CIO

MAY 23, 2024

In its latest MarketScape on worldwide SaaS and cloud-enabled large enterprise ERP, IDC says, “The pace of innovation is increasing, and ERP vendors focused on AI, ML, natural language processing (NLP), chatbots, robotics process automation (RPA), and genAI are critical partners to consider for the digital future.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Brex is also placing greater emphasis on moving upmarket to serve larger customers, as evidenced by its landing DoorDash — a company with more than $36 billion in market capitalization and 9,000 distributed employees — as one of its first clients. There’s Ramp, which in March announced a $200 million equity raise at an $8.1

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