TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 The latest funding officially makes Danggeun Market a unicorn, with $205 million total raised. Danggeun Market launched Karrot in Canada and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Morgan, Gaingels, BMO Technology & Innovation Banking Group and Manulife also participated in the equity investment, along with platform partner and new backer Barclays. FreshBooks plans to use its new capital toward sales and marketing, research and development and additional strategic acquisitions. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

FloBiz, an Indian startup that is building a neobank for small- and medium-sized businesses in the South Asian market, said on Monday it has raised $31 million in a new financing round as it works to broaden its product offerings. India, the world’s second-largest internet market, is home to millions of small- and medium-sized businesses.

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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. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The company mostly sells to SMBs, or smaller companies. million fundraise.

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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. Lenders have to manage three big tailwinds in today’s market: Rising delinquency rates and charge-offs. This is why you already see businesses like Brex moving away from serving SMBs.

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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. While developed markets like the U.S., While developed markets like the U.S., Our market share is ridiculously small and it’s mostly greenfield.”

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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. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Cowbell Cyber, a full-stack insurance company that provides cyber insurance to SMEs, has closed a Series B of $100 million, which it will be using to continue investing in its data science and “risk engineering”, as well as underwriting tech, claims management, its reinsurance business Cowbell Re, and expanding its go-to-market channels.

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CIO

MAY 25, 2023

Microsoft 365 is the productivity engine at the heart of many SMB businesses across Australia. Licensing can sometimes be complex to understand, however, which is why SMBs should make sure they’re sourcing their licenses from the right places. Having the right licenses for the applications the business needs are critical.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Convertedin , an Egyptian startup that operates a marketing operating system for e-commerce brands, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Saudi Arabia-headquartered Merak Capital. The South American market is enormous, with e-commerce revenues reaching $160 billion by 2025 from over 200 million users. or Europe markets.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

“When we think about the market we think there are two categories that have dominated,” Hölzl said in an interview. “The first is component manufacturers, and the other is a fragmented market of system integrators building costly and craftsman-like robots where you pay $250,000 per solution. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

While Flutterwave’s market share in enterprise payments has primarily been responsible for this growth, diversifying into fintech products for small and medium businesses, retail and consumers also played a part. “It The Flutterwave Store, launched in April 2020, was revamped last November to Flutterwave Market. and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Despite the quickening pace of layoffs, there is some good news for SaaS startups: 70% of SMBs plan to increase IT spending in 2023, and the procurement process is getting faster. “At the awareness stage, businesses are looking to solve a problem or challenge using technology,” writes Hogan.

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Infinidat

APRIL 26, 2022

InfiniOps Technology: Exploit AIOps, Expedite DevOps, and Execute Confidently. Today, Infinidat introduces InfiniOps™ Technologies, a collection of extensive software capabilities that exploit world-class AIOps functionality and expedite DevOps activities. Manage persistent volumes backed by iSCSI, NFS, SMB, or Fibre Channel protocols.

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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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Capgemini

OCTOBER 23, 2020

It may seem rudimentary, but to understand why Mucic’s comments were not an “exit from” or “concession of” the CRM market, one must first understand the concept of the CRM system. First, there are different types of CRM: sales-related CRM solutions, service-related (post-sales) CRM solutions, and marketing-related CRM solutions.

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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. In 2019, we invested in a SAFE round in DecisionLink because we believed in the market opportunity for scalable [value management].

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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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Barclays is a strategic investor: MarketFinance powers the bank’s online SMB loans service. ” He said the money will be “going into our reserves” and used for new product development, marketing and to continue building out its API connectivity. Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“And while much of the oxygen has been soaked up by large legacy companies hitting the public market, there have been smaller deals that indicate a hunger for better creative adtech.” More simply, the startup market is excellent at creating unicorns but somewhat poor at taking them public.”.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The small to mid-sized market includes all firms under 2000 people in size, which is 90% of the businesses in the U.S. Those businesses need and use technology just as much as larger enterprises. These are the blogs that can help SMBs stay on top of the key tech trends affecting the market now and in the years ahead.".

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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 The early focus on bootstrapping helped us be maniacally focused on product market fit and revenue generation and helped business have a strong start,” Cohen-Shohet told TechCrunch. GlossGenius had previously raised $2.8

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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. If you go to any flea market in the main cities of the country, you will see that many of the sellers are using Bold to receive payments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It does things like help these firms with building a website, effective SEO, email marketing/automation, online scheduling and, of course, online payments and invoicing. Banta said he was inspired to start the company because his own father was a small business owner. ” Image Credits: B12.

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CableLabs

MAY 23, 2023

What should SMBs under attack do immediately, what decisions should they make and who should be part of the solution? The fifth and sixth sections explore the people (both internal and external to the organization) and the technologies at play in the recovery activities.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

SMB payroll startup Gusto raises $200M Series D, plans R&D expansion to NYC. Instead, it was something that was discussed over a multi-year period while Gusto waited for the right market timing. The company has raised hundreds of millions of dollars while private, including $200 million in 2019. Gusto was last valued at $3.8

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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

APRIL 2, 2021

The first quarter of 2021 was a busy season for technology exits. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

For context, he also included GDR and NDR benchmarks for enterprise and SMB. Depending on the market, landing a new customer can be 5-25 times more expensive than retaining an existing one. I planned to visit the United States for the first time next month to check out the market and applied for a visitor visa.

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Kaseya

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

IoT not only helps advance SMB digital capabilities, but also improves their productivity and profitability. As an MSP, you are in the best position to convey these capabilities to help your SMB customers benefit from IoT’s tremendous potential and the real-time actionable business insights it generates.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Neasty’s approach relies on 3D scanning technology found in the iPhone X or later (aka, the TruthDepth camera for FaceID) — so (currently) it only works for a subset of iOS users. As well as thousands of SMB shops and brands for whom we are developing an entry-tier product,” says Semyanov.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 26, 2022

My dear friends and co-hosts on the Equity Podcast , Alex and Natasha, last week discussed the fintech funding market not once, but twice — here and here. For the record, Crunchbase defines fintech as companies that integrate technology in the financial services sector. Until then, we took a look at some recent numbers. Weekly News.

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Battery Ventures

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Just like your business can’t run without cash, your product won’t succeed unless it genuinely fits your target market. Product-market fit is particularly essential for enterprise-software companies transitioning from an idea to a minimum viable product (MVP) and beyond. Who determines product-market fit? Take the quiz.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

“So, as we saw investable opportunities starting to come to us and as we started to be avalanched by inbound from Africa, it became really clear that there was enormous amounts of demand in those markets like what we had seen across other geographies, particularly in other developing countries.”. But QED decided not to take this approach.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Airwallex will be using the funding both to continue investing in its product and technology as well as to continue its geographical expansion and to focus on some larger business targets. The SMB business is growing faster in terms of customers, he said.). The company has started to make some headway into Europe and the U.K.

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Sunflower Lab

JUNE 16, 2023

Keeping up with the trends With new technology both new problems and new solutions arise. Thus, keeping track of the current trends is essential for being relevant in the market. Continuous Improvement An iterative approach is kept in mind so that there is room for improvement based on the customer feedback and market insights. 4.

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Sunflower Lab

JUNE 16, 2023

Keeping up with the trends With new technology both new problems and new solutions arise. Thus, keeping track of the current trends is essential for being relevant in the market. Continuous Improvement An iterative approach is kept in mind so that there is room for improvement based on the customer feedback and market insights. 4.

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