TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Given companies can often use both manual processing and sometimes even more than one external tool to manage B2B payments, this is an obvious area in which to improve efficiency. A good example of this trend is Toast , which historically started as a POS for restaurants, but later realized it could incorporate other kinds of B2B payments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The media is abuzz with articles telling us how to improve B2B sales, but at the same time, we also see headlines like “The end of B2B sales.” What’s clear is that there’s no more room for traditional B2B sales. In a recent survey, 43% of B2B buyers said they would prefer a buying experience that had no reps involved at all.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Mexico City-based B2B software and payments company provides three products, VendorPlace , P-Card and PorCobrar , for managing cash flow, optimizing access to smart liquidity, and connecting small, midsize and large businesses to an ecosystem of digital tools. All B2B startups are in the payments business.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

That said, a specific vertical of BNPL products is gaining traction — one targeted toward small and medium enterprises (SMEs). B2B commerce in India is moving online. India’s B2B e-commerce space has developed rapidly since 2020. This new vertical is known as “SME BNPL.” Image Credits: Redseer.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Often the tech industry’s unsung heroes, B2B sales teams and the revenue they drive are even more important in times of economic instability. So how do sales teams make convincing cases on why their product or service is deserving of today’s trimmed enterprise IT budgets?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Our B2B BNPL is currently operating at some of the category-leading B2B marketplaces in India across sectors such as FMCG, pharma, fashion, electronics, agriculture and food,” he said. The goal is now to move to B2B payments and checkout.”. “We understand that globally B2B payments are broken and largely manual. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

A startup called Peeba has built a B2B wholesale online platform that connects independent retailers across Asia with unique brands around the world. The Hong Kong-headquartered company wants to help Asia-based B2B retailers reduce inventory risk and offer higher operational efficiency with lower costs via its platform. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

More brand-oriented platforms such as Sprinkler, Sprout Social and Hootsuite have obviously risen in use, but so did traffic to Oktopost, a much more B2B-oriented proposition. The ability to manage, track and analyse social activities is increasingly a must-have for B2B sales and marketing organisations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Within financial services, there are few spaces hotter than B2B payments. All B2B startups are in the payments business. 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. As mentioned above, the B2B payments space is white-hot.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Organizing information about prospective deals is a challenging task for B2B sales teams, since salespeople usually rely on multiple tools (email, Zoom, WhatsApp, etc) to talk with buyer committees. team will continue their strong momentum on the path to becoming the industry-leading tool for enterprise sales productivity.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

The value to be gained in the B2B world is something that has been largely untapped. For Lindsay Tjepkema — who has been entrenched in the world of B2B marketing for more than 15 years — the opportunity was massive. So in 2019, she founded Casted , an audio and video podcast product aimed at B2B marketers.

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CIO

AUGUST 7, 2023

Watch our newest Multi-Cloud Briefing, The Frontiers of Generative AI for the Enterprise , which explores how the convergence of generative AI and multi-cloud technologies is driving the next wave of business innovation. The most profound impact of generative AI will be in the enterprise. AI research priorities for VMware.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The global B2B payments market was valued at $870 billion in 2020, with projections of reaching $1.9 At the same time, it was estimated that $127 trillion of payment flows are attributed to B2B payments , and this is expected to rise to $200 trillion, also by 2028. Our vision is to be Stripe for global B2B,” Deng said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

For starters, B2B startups typically have longer funnels than their counterparts because their offerings often include freemium options and free trials. That’s not to say there won’t be more conversions — B2B startups following a product-led growth model simply need more time.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

Oracle is adding more AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX that provides software for sales, marketing, and service teams across an enterprise, the company announced on Thursday. Last year in July, Salesforce updated its Commerce Cloud with digital commerce capabilities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Patrick Salyer, a Mayfield partner and a Vartana investor, added via email: “In business-to-business enterprise software, time kills all deals. ” B2B sales closing and financing platform Vartana raises $12M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Templafy , a Denmark-born B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation, has raised a $60 million D round of funding led by Blue Cloud Ventures. However, founder Christian Lund, told me: “The platform that we’ve built is very enterprise focused, so it is agnostic to use case.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

A new company is looking to do for B2B hardware sales what a growing number of companies have been doing in the consumer sphere, by making it easier for businesses to pay for equipment in instalments through rentals and subscriptions. million in funding to do something similar for B2B transactions. Access over ownership.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Fashion e-commerce startup, The Folklore Group , has today announced a shift from direct-to-consumer to B2B wholesale against the backdrop of a $1.7 The Folklore Connect is a B2B wholesale platform that links African luxury brands to retailers in the US. Image Credits : The Folklore Group. managing partner, Ajay Relan.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Startups have sought to use technology to digitize processes in Africa’s B2B e-commerce and retail space over the past couple of years. Duplo , a Lagos-based fintech, is attempting to tackle these inefficiencies by digitizing payment flows for B2B companies, starting with those in this industry. Here’s why this is a critical problem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

While buy now, pay later startups have largely focused on the consumer, a growing group of them are now focusing on the B2B space. For example, in December, Affirm spinout Resolve, which specializes in “buy now, pay later” capabilities for B2B transactions, announced that it had raised $25 million in equity funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Since then, it has expanded the number of municipalities it serves from 100 to 220, and now has a customer base of 100,000 micro, small and mid-sized enterprise (MSME) store owners. . GrowSari, a B2B platform for small stores in the Philippines, adds investors like Temasek’s Pavilion Capital and Tencent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Tillit , a fintech startup that is building something akin to buy now, pay later for B2B purchases , looks set to become Sequoia’s next European investment, TechCrunch has learned. In addition, Tillit offers expenses management, with a range features to make it easier for employees to make B2B purchases.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Accord launches B2B sales platform with $6M seed. The average sales deal can involve 14 people, just on the buyer side, which means teams do a lot of “herding cats” in order to drive consensus on sales, he said. He added that Accord made it easy for Ada’s sales teams to offer a collaborative buying process.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2024

Salesforce’s negotiations to acquire enterprise data management software provider Informatica have fallen through as both couldn’t agree on the terms of the deal. That the talks about the deal had come to a close was reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Reuters , citing an anonymous source. billion with the inclusion of debt.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Kilo , a Vietnam-based B2B e-commerce platform that connects wholesalers with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), wants to digitize the local retail value chain via technology. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

When Jean-Denis Greze accepted the CTO role at Plaid in 2017, the fintech company was still financing its Series A had “about 20 engineers who were still trying to feel their way to product-market fit,” writes enterprise reporter Ron Miller. Use RevOps to develop a customer-led approach to B2B sales. We call that RevOps.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply side) by aggregating and rebalancing supply and demand via its automated calculation system for manufacturing costs and databases of fabrication facilities across Japan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Lookout’s long-running transition to becoming an enterprise security company is all but complete, revealing today that it’s selling its consumer mobile security business to Finland’s F-Secure in a deal valued at around $223 million. ” For F-Secure, the deal gives it a stronger foothold in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

But at the same time, there’s been a growing trend for building more for the B2B market, and today one of the newer hopefuls in that space is announcing funding ahead of a public launch in Q4 this year. Sequence orders up $19M led by a16z for a new approach to B2B fintech by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

GrowSari was founded in 2016, and says its B2B platform is currently used by more than 50,000 stores in over 100 municipalities on Luzon, the Philippines’ largest and most populated island. Its ultimate goal is to serve one million sari-sari stores.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Launched in 2020, the core focus of Merge is to give B2B companies a unified API to access data from what is currently about 40 HR, payroll, recruiting and accounting platforms, with plans for expanding to additional areas soon. Unsurprisingly, the company also offers customized enterprise plans for its larger customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Balance , a payments platform aimed at B2B merchants and marketplaces, has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Ribbit Capital. The motivation for starting the company was simple, said CEO and co-founder Bar Geron: “We wanted to create an online B2B experience that doesn’t suck.”

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Perficient

APRIL 19, 2024

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a financial estimate that helps consumers and enterprise managers determine direct and indirect costs of a product or system. In the B2B market, understanding TCO is crucial as it impacts the return on investment and ultimately the bottom line.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This Series A financing is important in that it marks the company’s entrance into the B2B market. Van Court explained that the decision to move into B2B literally came to her in the middle of the night. The platform even recently introduced a feature called Goalsetter Invest, which allows users to buy and sell stocks.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sneaker fit startup Neatsy.ai has snagged $1 million in seed funding after a B2B pivot. For its B2B mode l, Neatsy is monetizing SDK usage based on the number of users — setting a price per Monthly Active User. Investors in the round include Cabra VC, Flyer One VC and some unnamed business angels. month per user).

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