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Human Interest raises $200M at a $1B valuation, plans for an IPO

TechCrunch

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. Additional details around the IPO and revenue were added post-publication.

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How Bounce beat pandemic disruption and bagged a16z to lead its Series A

TechCrunch

The upshot was Bounce was able to grow revenue 38x in 2021, per Candee — reaching “millions” in revenue, and expanding its partner network to 40 countries. The 2020 global freeze on leisure travel put a temporary pause on demand for short term luggage storage. It was a gamble and not easy but now we can say it paid off!

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Greece’s Viva Wallet raises $80M for its neobank targeting small business merchants

TechCrunch

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. The funding will be used in part to build out its loans program but also to expand areas where Viva Wallet is already strong.

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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

Tenable

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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A look at the nine teams that just presented at Pear’s latest demo day

TechCrunch

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. Pear lets the founders choose the check size.

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Introducing the Dell Expert Network Program

Kaseya

The new Dell Expert Network program is a rewards and incentives program designed for service-focused MSPs that are supporting the Small Business market. This program is designed to deliver value and save time for MSPs that are recommending their end users purchase Dell hardware. Being

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Why Ransoms Are Soaring

Kaseya

Although the majority of criminal money is still made at the expense of the SMB sector (as always), brazen “big game” attacks on giant corporations, government, healthcare, education and transport have never been in the news as much as they have been in recent years, with some U.S. Today’s ransomware criminals are incredibly professional.

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