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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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The extraordinary potential of generative AI (GenAI) has seen businesses scrambling to adopt the technology and realize untapped opportunities. A robust foundation, one founded on a digital workforce and an AI-optimized infrastructure, is necessary to reap the technology’s outsized rewards.

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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. We asked them about their technology evaluations and their spending intentions to learn what they have planned for their enterprise networks.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This is evident in how they are seemingly ahead of larger enterprises in implementing the technology, according to a recent survey. For instance, 95% of SMB IT professionals feel confident in their generative AI (GenAI) skills, as compared to 81 percent of enterprise IT professionals.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2023

Larger companies are more likely to cut back on internal innovation efforts and technology investments that are not core to the business. 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Expensify filed to go public late last Friday, adding its name to the growing roster of technology companies looking to list during this period of hot valuations and strong recent debuts. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The company mostly sells to SMBs, or smaller companies. million fundraise.

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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

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

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

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Their investment comes on the heels of billion-dollar valuations for Atlanta companies like Calendly , Greenlight Financial Technologies , OneTrust and the $800 million acquisition of Kabbage. In 2019, we invested in a SAFE round in DecisionLink because we believed in the market opportunity for scalable [value management].

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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

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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Small and medium businesses, long overlooked in the building of innovative technology, have lately become a key focus in the world of B2B software. While developed markets like the U.S., While developed markets like the U.S., Our market share is ridiculously small and it’s mostly greenfield.”

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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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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

MAY 26, 2021

Generally SMB landlords have been ignored in the market, and there’s 11 million of them,” Aaron said. The platform extracts a few data points from client responses, which its technology then combines with public and private data points such as the proximity of the landlord to the property. The demand appears to be there.

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It does things like help these firms with building a website, effective SEO, email marketing/automation, online scheduling and, of course, online payments and invoicing. Banta said he was inspired to start the company because his own father was a small business owner. ” Image Credits: B12.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Stenn has been around since 2015 and has since then financed some $6 billion in loans from 74 countries, with $1 billion of that loaned out in 2022 alone, with an approach that brings technology to an area that had previously been largely untouched by lenders, said Stenn’s founder and CEO Greg Karpovsky in an interview.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Barclays is a strategic investor: MarketFinance powers the bank’s online SMB loans service. ” He said the money will be “going into our reserves” and used for new product development, marketing and to continue building out its API connectivity. Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.

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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. “At the awareness stage, businesses are looking to solve a problem or challenge using technology,” writes Hogan.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

GlossGenius , a technology provider for the spa, studio and salon industry, announced today it has raised $16.4 The early focus on bootstrapping helped us be maniacally focused on product market fit and revenue generation and helped business have a strong start,” Cohen-Shohet told TechCrunch. GlossGenius had previously raised $2.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. If you go to any flea market in the main cities of the country, you will see that many of the sellers are using Bold to receive payments.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

SMB payroll startup Gusto raises $200M Series D, plans R&D expansion to NYC. Instead, it was something that was discussed over a multi-year period while Gusto waited for the right market timing. The company has raised hundreds of millions of dollars while private, including $200 million in 2019. Gusto was last valued at $3.8

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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 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 With Cora, the pair’s long-term goals is to “provide everything that a SMB will need in a bank.”. Looking ahead, the pair has the ambitious goal of being “the fastest growing neobank focused on SMBs in the world.”

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

In many cases, CDOs focus on business objectives, but in other cases, they have equal business and technology remits, according to the authors. There’s more and more focus on being data-driven,” says Mahajan, who leads the Amplitude data strategy efforts, in addition to her digital and technology roles. “It

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

The first quarter of 2021 was a busy season for technology exits. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The SMB-focused public cloud company likely felt like a somewhat obvious IPO candidate when you read its results. There were IPOs, there were direct listings , there were PE deals.

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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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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Currently, it’s serving “tens of thousands” of customers per month — with its largest markets being London, New York, and Paris — but by late summer it expects to have grown monthly users to “hundreds of thousands” That’s quite the change from two years ago.

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CIO

MAY 23, 2024

By 2028, 85% of enterprises using intelligent applications will have evolved to run as autonomous organizations, redefining the technology resource usage within the business.” The extension of the ERP into additional applications is quickly reshaping both the organization’s and the end user’s usage and reliance on technology.

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CIO

MAY 22, 2024

Finding the return on investment for AI remains elusive for many organizations, even as they rush to adopt the technology. Other top concerns include a lack of talent and skills among employees and a lack of confidence in AI technologies. Nearly half of respondents pointed to challenges with showing its value.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It is also continuing its expansion into more underserved niche markets. Automation and AI are critical Acumatica is a leader in the small and medium business (SMB) ERP market, and is unique in that it offers industry-specific platforms for general business, distribution, retail, manufacturing, and construction.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Tech talent flees Russia : As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds along, technology companies of all sizes are trying to figure out how to handle their business operations and staff. Ramp raises (again) : The startup battle for dominance in the corporate spend market is huge, expensive and rapidly growing. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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