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Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting

TechCrunch

Ironically, Pilot says it aspires to the “AWS of SMB backoffice.” (In We look forward to supporting Pilot in their vision to make back office services as easy-to-use, scalable, and ubiquitous as AWS has with the cloud,” he said. In fact, co-founder Waseem Daher started his career as an intern at Amazon).

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Why your business is never too small for an AI factory

CIO

For instance, 95% of SMB IT professionals feel confident in their generative AI (GenAI) skills, as compared to 81 percent of enterprise IT professionals. Not only do these lack the scalability and functionality of modern applications, they are also expensive to upkeep and update.

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Accel Partners heads down to Georgia to invest in DecisionLink, leading an $18.5 million round

TechCrunch

“In 2019, we invested in a SAFE round in DecisionLink because we believed in the market opportunity for scalable [value management]. Amex acquires SoftBank-backed Kabbage after tough 2020 for the SMB lender.

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It's 2022. Why do you keep using SMB?

Ivanti

During the last 25 years, companies have relied on SMB protocol to allow them to collaborate and centralize corporate documents. The history of SMB (and why it's no longer relevant). The latest iteration, SMB 3.1.1, also made secure negotiation mandatory when connecting to clients using SMB 2.x Server Message Block?(SMB)

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How Pilot charted a course of not raising too much money

TechCrunch

Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting. First off, San Francisco-based Pilot — which has a mission of affordably providing back-office services such as bookkeeping to startups and SMBs — apparently had term sheets that offered “2x the $40M” raised in its Series B.

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Egyptian startup Convertedin raises $3M, caters to e-commerce brands in MENA and Latin America

TechCrunch

As such, platforms like Convertedin become essential because it caters to brands and businesses with one, some, or all of these objectives: drive personalized and scalable campaigns, convert customers, achieve measurable results and grow revenue.

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Stenn banks $50M on a $900M valuation for a platform to finance SMBs that trade internationally

TechCrunch

The loans platforms and neobanks catering to domestic SMBs include Kabbage (now a part of Amex ), Finally , Brex , Rho , Juni , NorthOne , Lili , Mercury , Hatch (now rebranded as Nearside ), Anna , Tide , Viva Wallet , Open , Novo , MarketInvoice and many others. “They could be a barbershop.”

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