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Salesforce launches Starter to ward off competition in the SMB segment

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Salesforce has made its customer relationship management (CRM) suite, dubbed Starter, generally available in an effort to garner more market share in the small and medium businesses (SMBs) segment as it faces stiff competition from rivals such as Zoho.

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Katana, an ERP for SMB manufacturers, raises $34M

TechCrunch

Katana , an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, has raised €35 million ($34 million) in a Series B round of funding. “As manufacturing moves closer to the ever-increasingly conscious consumer, brands that rely on local production and inventory are gaining market share.

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Ukrainian startup Zeely raises $1M for SMB growth app aimed at US, UK, Brazil, Mexico

TechCrunch

This is especially true in emerging markets like Latin America, where SMEs comprise 99.5% of businesses are micro-enterprises But although small businesses are generally considered to be the primary driver of new job growth, few have the technical capability to spin up decent branding and an online presence. of firms in the region.

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8 IT spending trends for the post-pandemic enterprise in 2022

TechCrunch

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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Justworks files to take its SMB-focused, HR-themed SaaS business public

TechCrunch

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. So, SMB-focused, HR-themed SaaS. In simpler terms, are SMB customers as churn-heavy as we’ve been historically warned by venture capitalists?). Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Does the company have churn under control?

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WizeHire lands fresh cash to expand its SMB-focused hiring platform

TechCrunch

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. “Many HR tech companies tend to focus on helping enterprise companies with unlimited resources at their fingertips.

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Novo, the SMB neobank, nabs $90M at a $700M valuation

TechCrunch

There are a number of fintechs, some that describe themselves as challenger banks, in the market today catering to SMBs. (We’ve They are the only ones we are concerned with because they own 99% of the market,” said Michel Rangel, CEO of Novo, in an interview earlier this month.

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