TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Novo, an SMB-focused neobank, raised $41 million in June. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. And the list goes on: E-commerce-focused neobank Juni raised $21.5 million last month. Nubank has raised $2.3 And FairMoney has locked down more than $50 million. On and on and on.

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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. So, what is Salesforce Starter?

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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. Comparing candidates in WizeHire’s dashboard. ” WizeHire was founded in 2014 by Upadhyay and Jay Niblick.

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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

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

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

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

JUNE 22, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. SMBs, in contrast, have more limited upside when it comes to account expansion. SMB-focused startups have, too, but they’re rarer. Expense management provider Expensify is one such SMB-focused startup that went public, but getting there wasn’t easy. They churn fast.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

These include: Automating manual tasks, such as transcriptions, emails, and proofreading for high quality work Generating new images and art with ease Developing SEO-friendly digital marketing content Deploying personal assistants for succinct responses to queries such as internal resources, meetings, and projects Find out more about building a strong (..)

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Erik Bradley brings more than two decades of experience in creating research platforms to his role as chief strategist at ETR, a market research firm specializing in enterprise technology data. The lack of experienced professionals is an issue that enterprises of all sizes in all markets will have to deal with for some time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. If you have growth marketing agencies or freelancers to recommend, please fill out our survey !). Why do you think that performance marketing is the right fit for DTC?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Foster detailed to TechCrunch how small businesses have become increasingly reliant on his company’s service in the post-COVID world, with Zapier seeing strong SMB adoption after the pandemic hit. The no-code space has been active in recent months, as has its sibling niche, the low-code market. That’s a no.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The goal is to help NerdWallet expand into the small- and medium-business market with both content and actual financing. “Although we offer free tools and content, we’ve never been able to fully support small business owners — that changes today,” said NerdWallet co-founder and CEO Tim Chen.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For instance, 95% of SMB IT professionals feel confident in their generative AI (GenAI) skills, as compared to 81 percent of enterprise IT professionals. As a result, these will lead to increased operational costs for SMBs—expenses that these businesses could not afford.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

The company plans to end 2021 with eight locations, in particular eyeing the Denver, Seattle and Los Angeles markets. We became aware of the lack of physical workspace for SMBs engaged in commerce,” Scriven told TechCrunch. “If The company plans to use its new capital primarily to expand into new markets.

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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

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

AUGUST 4, 2021

Less than six months after raising $55 million in a Series C round of funding, SMB 401(k) provider Human Interest today announced it has raised $200 million in a round that propels it to unicorn status. The 401(k) for SMB space is heating up as of late. Investors don’t expect the US startup funding market to slow down.

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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. Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

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. This is why you already see businesses like Brex moving away from serving SMBs. Online lenders.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

It also automates some marketing functions, purchasing, and KPI management. There’s so many developers trying to find niches in the market,” he adds. “We Marolda sees an AI market developing where vendors create tools for specific small-business needs, such as accounting. The cost, Stuart says, was less than $1 million.

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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

MARCH 6, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Despite some recent market volatility , the valuations that software companies have generally been able to command in recent quarters have been impressive. Next Insurance, and its changing market. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning?

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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 Amex acquires SoftBank-backed Kabbage after tough 2020 for the SMB lender.

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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 26, 2023

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. There was a time when the neobank-for-x-market was amongst the most popular startup models, after all. Mountains of capital were invested into dozens of global startups looking to reinvent or at least revamp consumer and SMB banking.

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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. ” he said (exclamation his!).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Convertedin , an Egyptian startup that operates a marketing operating system for e-commerce brands, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Saudi Arabia-headquartered Merak Capital. The South American market is enormous, with e-commerce revenues reaching $160 billion by 2025 from over 200 million users. or Europe markets.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Nubank’s IPO is coming into closer focus after the Brazilian neobank filed privately to list its shares in both the United States and its home market, later releasing a public IPO filing. QED partner Lauren Morton is dedicated to the Latin American market for the investor, so we reached out to get her take on recent results from the region.

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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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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

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.

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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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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. Amid all of this, SMB owners and IT leaders are busy running their businesses, and don’t often have time to stay on top of the key technologies and IT trends affecting the SMB market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

Next Insurance recently announced that it has raised a $250 million round, valuing the SMB-focused insurance provider at $4 billion. And there’s reason to believe that their enthusiasm is not misplaced, despite some chop in Next’s broader market. for different classes of workers. That’s a no.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Today Squarespace, a well-known software-and-hosting provider for SMB websites, released its S-1 filing. Public market investors will have to vet how much they like having zero say in the company’s future direction. The company is pursuing a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE. More shortly.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Generally SMB landlords have been ignored in the market, and there’s 11 million of them,” Aaron said. In other words, Obie believes it has validated its brokerage model in the market and is now planning to use the data it’s been able to gather to become its own carrier. And we beat target premiums, on average, by 31.7%.”.

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