TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A fintech startup, Prospa wants to change that and has begun to tap into this market. A f ew months past graduation, the startup, combining both worlds of banking and business management tools for micro and small businesses, has closed a $3.8 Then pricing depends on the business’ turnover.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Felix Rodriguez’s family is from the Dominican Republic, and he watched his aunts and uncles come to the United States and create their own businesses. However, he noticed that not all small businesses were on a level playing field when it came to bookkeeping and working capital.

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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. Small businesses are the real heroes of our economy.

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CIO

JULY 1, 2024

Many small business leaders are still trying to build out an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to drive efficiencies, supercharge automation and spark creative productivity among their people. Analysts expect small businesses to quickly grasp the nettle. Find out more about Dell Copilot+ PCs here.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Best hands-on and real world scenario based curriculum,” raves small business user Satvik V. another small business user. another small business user. in a recent 5-star review. About INE: INE is the premier provider of online technical training for the IT industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

For some of these products, we found that existing products on the markets were very expensive for what they offered. In the coming months, Bastion plans to build a network of partners that are already helping small and medium businesses and that can also start selling Bastion to their own customers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Small companies remain an underserved market and Nilos plans to take advantage of that. Nilos unifies crypto and fiat accounts for small businesses by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch. But it’s clear that crypto companies mostly focus on big enterprise customers and retail investors. Image Credits: Nilos.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

In the latest development, Viva Wallet , a Greek startup building banking services aimed at small and medium merchants, has picked up financing of $80 million, money that it will be using to expand its footprint and the services it offers to users, in particular expanding its Merchant Advance loans business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Aument is carving out a niche in marketing automation for e-commerce stores, raising $1.5 CEO Emilio Di Marco met his co-founders, Alan Helouani, Sacha Landesmann and Mario Leon Rojas, in Latin America while leading marketing efforts for WeWork. After talking to marketing leaders for a year, here’s my advice for CEOs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Tech investments in emerging markets have been in full swing over the past couple of years and their ecosystems have thrived as a result. Some of these markets like Africa, Latin America, and India, have comprehensive reports by publications and firms on trends and investments in their individual regions. Let’s dive in.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Tala , an emerging markets digital lender that offers loans between $10 to $500 to consumers and small business owners, has raised $145 million in Series E funding. She discovered that many people she talked to in emerging markets were creditworthy but lacked immediate access to credit and quick loans.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

“Slice has emerged as the leader in powering these types of small businesses that have been serving our communities for decades,” Bain said in a statement. “We Slice, an online ordering and marketing platform for pizzerias, raises $43M. Slice only charges those pizzerias a fixed $2.25

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen a wave of upstarts launching solutions geared toward digitizing small business operations. The company, which announced a $200,000 pre-seed last September , said it intends to use the investment to hire talent, build up its processes, structure, and scale into new African markets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Kippa , the Nigerian startup improving the lifecycle of small businesses across the country with its financial management and payments platform, has raised $8.4 Although the platform has grown to accommodate over 500,000 small businesses, Ekezie-Joseph didn’t say how many were active. . Nigeria’s Kippa gets $3.2M

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Today, the company is announcing $83 million in Series C funding to scale offline and online offerings and expand to new markets. South Africa’s Yoco raises $16 million to boost digital services to small businesses. Yoco currently serves 150,000 of these businesses and adds over 500 merchants per day.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

They typically hate being marketed to and are often short on time, which sets a particularly high bar for any content marketing aimed at them. ” Hughes and his agency were recommended multiple times in our growth marketer survey, which we launched to surface experts that startups can work with.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. The Los Angeles-based company was started in 2019 by a group of five Snap alums working in various roles within Snap’s revenue product strategy business. Trust dashboard.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Fundbox, a company that offers loans and financial products to small businesses, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series D round at a valuation of $1.1 It is particularly focused on B2B-focused small businesses. “We Fundbox Secures $50 Million More To Power Small Businesses.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

CEO Aahan Bhojani and Ashmin Varma founded Silkhaus last year after identifying a $13 billion market opportunity for asset owners across emerging markets, particularly MENA, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Frankly speaking, finding a good Airbnb in these markets is like pulling a needle out of a haystack.

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JULY 1, 2024

In a small agency, it’s already a busy day when the last-minute opportunity for a business pitch comes in. Using Copilot, the marketing team researches the market, prospect and its rivals and scopes the scale of the opportunity. The team then produces a PowerPoint deck, inserting suggested text based on prompts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2023

SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe, the Americas and Australia — has picked up some growth funding to navigate the choppy waters of the current fintech market, waters that have tipped and swayed SumUp itself.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

” BNPL can be particularly useful when flow-based underwriting or transaction-based underwriting is used to offer credit to small businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic also forced small businesses, which were earlier using physical means to procure goods and services, to try new and online models to conduct their affairs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

The bank, which is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, will offer business loan and deposit products, starting with underwriting, and originating business loans for Square Capital’s existing lending product. Jessica Jiang, Capital Markets and Investor Relations Lead. Samantha Ku, Chief Operating Officer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

OZÉ , a Ghanaian fintech startup that provides digital recordkeeping tools with embedded finance products to medium and small businesses, has raised a $3 million pre-Series A round. Working so closely with small business owners, I understood the problems they faced. And having seen how small businesses in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Abrams and O’Connor Hodgson founded Now in 2010 to provide small businesses a quicker method for getting invoices paid. When a business submits an invoice through NowAccount, the service pays 100% of the invoice, minus a 3% merchant fee. “We We got too big to meet the needs and didn’t have a solution.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Cash flow is a major pain point for small businesses in Africa. Long payment cycles, which can take 30-90 days after services or products have been rendered, and little or no capital, of which research says 85% of African small and medium businesses are subject to, are the main culprits of cash flow issues.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

The company says it enables small and micro businesses to bulk-pay bills, salaries and taxes using existing high street small business bank accounts, saving them a lot of time and money in administration. It occurred to me that larger businesses had corporate banking and systems that managed payments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founded by Eytan Bensoussan and Justin Adler in 2016, the startup was born to serve small business owners such as barbers, mechanics and local restaurant owners. When the pandemic hit, there was perhaps no other category of businesses impacted as greatly as small businesses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Next Insurance , a startup that competes in the small business (SMB) insurance market, announced this morning that it has acquired its first company. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Providing working capital to small businesses is somewhat of a personal mission for Youngstrom, who grew up around business owners in a small town and related to the need to support local businesses. If we can help the small business owner, we can make the world a better place,” he added. “If

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Initiatives like Open Banking and the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) were being proposed as a way to promote competition in the banking industry — allowing smaller challenger firms to break into a market that has long been dominated by corporate titans. Here’s why so many fintech startups are loaning to small businesses.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Cartona , one of the major players digitizing the traditional trade market, including mom-and-pop stores, FMCG producers, wholesalers, and distributors in Egypt, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. In a market like Egypt, retailers are not very okay with the concept of paying for BNPL with interest at the end of the month.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The two firms didn’t disclose the size of the investment, but the Sequoia Capital India-backed startup said the deal will “make an impactful contribution to the industry and drive adoption and financial growth for underserved small businesses in the next twelve months.” and several other developed markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. But in Germany, B2B Payments company Mondu has emerged as a significant entrant to the market. Mondu will have to expand quickly.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Two years ago, a group of entrepreneurs in Pakistan began surveying the market to understand why financial services weren’t reaching the majority of merchants in the world’s fifth most populous nation. This is also Firstminute Capital’s first investment in the South Asian market. “We Images Credits: CreditBook.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s a typical salary structure in markets such as the U.S. but rarely used in markets like Nigeria. “In Africa’s payroll and HR management market has witnessed the emergence of newer companies such as YC-backed Workpay and Bento. In Africa, the innovation that allows people to access credit from their jobs doesn’t happen.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

What’s the difference between a startup and a small business? Small Business Administration (SBA) could prove to be a powerful resource for capital, even if startups traditionally look for funds from other sources. Semantics, mostly. “They don’t have to give up any equity.

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