CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Coupled with the leanness and agility of SMBs, centering GenAI in their long-term strategy is an increasingly compelling move for many businesses. Driving innovation by easing content creation Yet even as GenAI is transforming the dynamics of business, not every SMB has seized this opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The startup’s API connects corporate data from internal SMB systems — QuickBooks, iZettle etc. Building the Plaid for SMB data is a big job, so it’s not surprising that Codat has been busy hiring. As does offering value-add services on top of its API if it keeps its SMB-focus. — to external providers.

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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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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

Starter made its first appearance in June when the company launched it specifically in India, targeting one of the largest SMB markets in the world before it made the new offering available for the other markets. “As Other CRM packages such as Keap also offer easy-to-use sales and marketing growth tools attracting, Miller added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ureeka , an SMB mentorship platform for next-wave entrepreneurs, has today announced the Kevin O’Leary Bootcamp , which will offer members access to an exclusive curriculum of his knowledge and advice. SMB mentorship platform Ureeka raises $8.6M, will facilitate grant programs for Facebook, Salesforce.

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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. But building an AI strategy is more than just deploying the newest GenAI tools.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

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. You can’t make an SMB business. Instead, we want to talk about just what an SMB is and how not all small accounts are the same.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The product will also see deeper use of technologies like AI & image processing to make the onboarding process for the less tech-savvy SMB owners in tier 2 and tier 3 cities of India a delightful first step to digital accounting,” the startup said. Small businesses are the real heroes of our economy.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The post SMB Technology Reliance Presents Huge Opportunities for MSPs appeared first on Kaseya. Given that 28% of IT leaders state that long-term support for a remote work force is a top priority, it’s clear that organizations are realizing not everyone will be back in the office anytime soon. Read the complete blog post at Channel Futures.

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

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

SMBs are growing faster. The SMB sector is showing slightly stronger growth than large enterprises. For vendors targeting the SMB market, now is an excellent time to increase marketing spend and fortify lead generation and content marketing. Smaller accounts may yield more sales in the near term.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

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. Let’s have some fun! How Expensify makes money. Let’s talk about Expensify’s business model first.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A new report by the Financial Times says X will now turn to small and medium-sized advertisers to shore up revenue after the company’s owner Elon Musk alienated big brands fleeing X over antisemitic content by telling them they could go f**k themselves during an interview at the New York Times DealBook Summit earlier this […] © 2023 TechCrunch. (..)

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

For the SMB list, companies needed at least 75 ratings to be considered. Through Glassdoor, employees rate companies based on things like their CEO, career opportunities, compensation and benefits, culture and values, and work-life balance. Without further ado, here are the top 10 tech companies to work for in the U.S.,

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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 two companies have seen rapid growth in recent quarters.

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Ivanti

MARCH 4, 2022

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

In turn, fintechs that serve SMBs rather than larger midmarket and enterprise customers are more likely to lose their SMB customers. This is why you already see businesses like Brex moving away from serving SMBs. Small businesses are more likely to shut shop during a recession. What’s hot.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Fundera has been one of our partners for several years and their deep understanding of the SMB market, the long-standing, trusted relationships they’ve built with both lenders and business owners, and their commitment to putting the needs of small business owners first is really unique and impressive.”

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Darktrace

AUGUST 7, 2022

Making 'the next investment' in your cyber security can be a daunting task for an SMB. Discover how that investment can be maximized with AI.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

The startup was founded on the premise that the need for “co-warehousing and SMB-centric logistics enablement solutions” has become a major problem for many new businesses that rely on online retail platforms to sell their goods, noted Scriven. Saltbox has locations slated to come online as large as 110,000 square feet, according to Scriven.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

Each SMB could potentially use a half dozen different low-cost AI tools, based on processes they want to automate. He sees the video streaming market as an apt analogy for how an AI SMB market might evolve. Marolda sees an AI market developing where vendors create tools for specific small-business needs, such as accounting.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Brex added a paid package of software at an SMB-friendly price point. Other competitors in its market have a greater SMB focus, it appears. Airbase, while perhaps less well-known than its rivals, was early to the decision to charge for its software in addition to deriving interchange revenues from its business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Novo, an SMB-focused neobank, raised $41 million in June. The same data source indicates that Chime has raised $1.5 Monzo has raised nearly $650 million. 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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

I would be talking with SMB owners who would be using fancy Square or PayPal point of sale devices, but when they had to pay, say, a coffee bean supplier, they stuffed checks in envelopes. “They are too overwhelming for SMBs,” he said. The SMB is underserved. “The space is way behind other payment areas.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

market, or 23 million businesses, to figure out larger trends in usage and SMB behavior, covering some 1,000 data points. ” One thing that it will continue to do is not move into providing services to consumers or larger businesses alongside its SMB focus.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Now, the company is not just seeing more SMB customers — a logical assumption considering that Ramp’s biggest competitor Brex recently announced it would largely stop serving businesses in that category. It also saw a more than 50% increase in mid-market customers, and about a 22% bump in SMB clients.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Tenable Research discovered an SMB force-authentication vulnerability in Open Policy Agent (OPA) that is now fixed in the latest release of OPA. This exploration led us to discover an SMB force-authentication vulnerability (CVSSv3 6.1) On Windows, this behavior triggers SMB authentication when a remote share is provided.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

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. Customers include Snackpass, Ticketmaster and Re-Max, among others. “We’ve We’ve been beating every quarter expectation for the past 18 months,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

While the spokesperson did not say it outright, the statement implies that it let go of people with more SMB experience and are looking to hire more enterprise-focused folks. The same spokesperson said that the company is still on track to double its workforce by the end of the year, hiring for more than 30 open positions.

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TechTalk

MARCH 17, 2021

The post Microsoft Exchange breach underscores need for SMB multi-layered security first appeared on GFI Blog. As reported by TechGenix, Microsoft hasn’t said how many corporate and government Exchange customers have been exploited, but security expert Brian Krebs said the number is “at least 30,000” in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Amex acquires SoftBank-backed Kabbage after tough 2020 for the SMB lender. Now, we have been so impressed by DecisionLink’s execution and its ability to drive this transformation on behalf of customers, that we are excited to lead its Series A round.”.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

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. We’ve assembled this list of the 30 Must-Read SMB IT blogs to provide a cross-section of the most influential thought leaders in SMB technology.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Mountains of capital were invested into dozens of global startups looking to reinvent or at least revamp consumer and SMB banking. There was a time when the neobank-for-x-market was amongst the most popular startup models, after all. It even led to some liquidity, including the massive Nubank IPO and its resulting 11-figure valuation.

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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. The company is pursuing a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE. It will trade under the ticker symbol “SQSP.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

If you think that the world of neobanks is very crowded — and that specifically neobanks focused on the SMB opportunity is also getting crowded (some of the other contenders include Finom , Wise out of the U.S.,

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