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Codecademy eyes the enterprise with $40 million in new capital

TechCrunch

The startup is the latest edtech business to bring on capital after years without it, a list that includes ClassDojo , CourseHero , Quizlet and Udacity. But founder Zach Sims , who began the company in 2011 as a Columbia student, says that Codecademy’s growth, and hunger for new capital, isn’t due to a pandemic bump. “A

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Factorial adds $120M and doubles valuation to $1B to build enterprise-quality HR for SMBs

TechCrunch

Small and medium businesses, long overlooked in the building of innovative technology, have lately become a key focus in the world of B2B software. But ironically, the world of employment has had another focus — as a problem for tech startups to tackle. While developed markets like the U.S.,

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How to Protect Your Small Business from a Hacker Attack

The Crazy Programmer

Data breaches and compromised websites frequently used to spread malware can be risky for your business; including small businesses. In fact, small or medium-sized businesses are likely to suffer more consequences of cyber-attacks than large enterprises. Why are Small Businesses a Target?

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Daily Crunch: Brex says DoorDash is ‘first of many’ new enterprise customers to come

TechCrunch

Duking it out over corporate spend management : The competition to help large enterprises be more efficient with their spending just gained another fighter. Ironically, on the same day, Mary Ann wrote about Emburse , a spend management company that started in enterprise that’s now going after Brex’s small business territory.

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With the new financial year looming, now is a good time to review your Microsoft 365 licenses

CIO

Having a trustworthy and proven location to source Microsoft licenses, such as the Lenovo Pro Small Business Store, SMBs can efficiently stay on top of their Microsoft licensing requirements, without risk of dealing with unlicensed copies of the software. This is what Lenovo Pro Small Business Store has been designed to help address.

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Flippa raises $11M to match online asset and business buyers, sellers

TechCrunch

He considers Flippa to be “the investment bank for the 99%,” of small businesses, providing an end-to end platform that includes a proprietary valuation product for businesses — processing over 4,000 valuations each month — and a matching algorithm to connect with qualified buyers.

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Fuzey takes in $4.5M to charge up its management tools for service-based businesses

TechCrunch

Fuzey , a London-based company providing what it calls a “digital one-stop shop” for small businesses and independent contractors, raised $4.5 CEO Lysgaard Jensen and COO Boyce met each other about two years ago and bonded over helping small businesses digitize. million in seed funding.

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