Kaseya

DECEMBER 8, 2020

One thing we’ve learned during 2020 is that SMBs are more reliant than ever on their IT systems to conduct their day-to-day business. In addition, the investments SMBs have made in cloud technologies, remote access and monitoring, and endpoint management are paying dividends they could have never imagined.

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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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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

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

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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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. Focus on how technology can solve hard problems, and don’t worry as much about finding what’s cutting edge in fintech. Higher cost of capital for the debt they lend. What’s hot.

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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. 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.

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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. Five VCs discuss how no-code is going horizontal across the world’s industries.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

More news and analysis from your friendly neighborhood team of tech reporters: Boxed shrimp in your lunch box : Christine reports that your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology. The company raised a $3.9 million in Series A. Hello, how may I help you? :

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

Acrisure is using AI technologies in several ways, including matching potential clients with insurance carriers, searching for potential new customers, and helping employees find experts within its 17,000-strong workforce. Each SMB could potentially use a half dozen different low-cost AI tools, based on processes they want to automate.

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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. Let’s take a look back at this technology for some good background. The history of SMB (and why it's no longer relevant). The latest iteration, SMB 3.1.1, Server Message Block?(SMB) Windows 10?and?Windows

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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. Amex acquires SoftBank-backed Kabbage after tough 2020 for the SMB lender. Atlanta startups are on fire.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Last week, The Exchange delved into fintech investment from a global investment pool powering a host of Latin American financial technology companies, including QED portfolio company Pomelo. Latin America has a large, young population that is adopting technology at some of the fastest rates in the world. QED recently closed $1.05

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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. These sell the product alongside a channel network of 14,000 brokers.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Those businesses need and use technology just as much as larger enterprises. 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. That’s where BizTech is coming to the rescue.

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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. Givz was founded in 2017 to make charitable giving more accessible and convenient for the masses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It was deliberate from us because we saw the opportunity in the SMB space, and how they require the same technology pie the Ubers and Netflixes of this world use,” Agboola told TechCrunch. In the future, Flutterwave will look at acquisitions that will further consolidate its authority in the fintech space.

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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. No one had digitized that lower end of the SMB market, especially in some of these countries.” This latter group also represents Factorial’s biggest engine for growth.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Barclays is a strategic investor: MarketFinance powers the bank’s online SMB loans service. MarketFinance began life several years ago as MarketInvoice, with its basic business model focused on providing short-term loans to a given SMB against the value of its unpaid invoices — a practice typically described as invoice finance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

No company yet has crossed the chasm to [provide] great, delightful technology that could be deployed in days or months. “Robco’s approach is unique [in the SMB manufacturing space] because what they are doing is a little like Lego. We are not selling robots nor software.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

Convertedin says SMB e-commerce marketers that use its platform increase their return on ad spend (ROAS) by 2x and reduce customer acquisition costs (CAC) by 40%. Convertedin’s revenues from these businesses have been growing in “double-digits” month-over-month, Fergany said.

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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

JUNE 30, 2021

SMB payroll startup Gusto raises $200M Series D, plans R&D expansion to NYC. Gusto is not a young company in startup terms, but the adaptation of its service tracks with what we’re seeing from other technology upstarts. The company has raised hundreds of millions of dollars while private, including $200 million in 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

“We believe small firms deserve to succeed online,” the executive told TechCrunch. “It’s a trend I’ve seen more broadly and we think professional services is the next category that needs an SMB enabler, and that’s really what we’re trying to do.” ” Image Credits: B12.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

GlossGenius , a technology provider for the spa, studio and salon industry, announced today it has raised $16.4 Small businesses have specific needs and need technology built just for them to be successful,” she said. “It I think we’re in the middle of a renaissance for SMB tech.”. It isn’t one size fits all.

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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. The company’s self-proclaimed mission is to promote financial inclusion by expanding the digital payments ecosystem in Colombia. .

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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. pre-seed .

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Capgemini

OCTOBER 23, 2020

According to the industry commentators who believe SAP is exiting this space, mainstream CRM is purely for the SMB segment. The intentional complexity and modularity of SAP’s best-of-breed on-premises solutions naturally priced it out of the SMB space, which was intentional, as this is where SAP wins. The new mainstream.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company plan to strengthen its capabilities in local commerce with Danggeun Pay, or Karrot Pay, which is set to launch this year, and Danggeun’s platform Karrot enables approximately 300,000 local SMB partners to go digitalized by offering offline to online (O2O) service.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

This was 2010 through 2020 and as technology grew, the engineering and product teams got all sorts of new tools every six months or so, whereas the finance team was just stuck in Excel,” he said. . FreshBooks reaches $1B+ valuation with $130.75M for its SMB-focused accounting platform.

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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 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. DigitalOcean went public via a traditional IPO , raising a slug of capital in the process.

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Kaseya

AUGUST 2, 2022

The survey results shed light on how IT professionals run their businesses, what technologies they are interested in, where they are investing and what trends they hope to capitalize on in 2022. SMB priorities present opportunities for MSPs. Most SMBs walk the tightrope between cost and productivity. Why an SMB needs an MSP.

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