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B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups

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Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. The B2B e-commerce industry has broad reach, encompassing everything from commerce infrastructure and payments technology to procurement and supply-chain solutions. Even before the pandemic, B2B marketplaces were expected to generate $3.6

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Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia backs cross-border payments startup Tazapay

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He began as a product manager for the e-commerce vertical at Indian bank ICICI, before moving onto position at NETS, PayPal and Stripe. Shinghal said the service supports a wide range of customers, including B2B operations, e-commerce platforms selling directly to consumers and B2B2C.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

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Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. What it says it does : Venmo for B2B in Africa. pre-seed to build financial OS for B2B companies in Nigeria. Location : Lagos, Nigeria. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M Team size : 8.

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Daily Crunch: Silicon Valley Bank goes bust — regulators take control of $175B+ in deposits

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Building a lean B2B startup growth stack Image Credits: Jose Bernat Bacete (opens in a new window) / Getty Images (Image has been modified) Selecting the right tool for the job is easy when you already know exactly how to proceed. The current budget-constrained environment should be seen as a net positive by marketers,” he writes. “It

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Mobile security startup Oversecured launches after self-funding $1 million, thanks to bug bounty payouts

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Toshin netted more than $1 million in bug bounties in a year using his scanner, in large part thanks to Google’s security rewards program , which pays security researchers far more for security bugs found in Android apps with over 100 million installs. But how Toshin funded his startup was somewhat unconventional.

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A new cross-border VC firm is offering a sweetener to its founder LPs: Part of its own profits

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The most common answer was the desire to leverage their personal network, as all these founders — through partial secondaries — are very active angels,” Sorrentino told TechCrunch. It’s eyeing B2B, software, commerce, consumer and fintech startups.

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Psykhe secures seed funding to match consumer personalities to fashion products

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million in seed funding from a range of investors and is announcing new plans to scale its technology to other consumer verticals in the future in the B2B space. It also plans to expand into B2B for other consumer verticals in the future, providing a plug-in product that allows users to sort items by their personality.

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