Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

According to Recovery Insights: Small Business Reset report prepared by Mastercard Economics Institute, the number of SMB offering online products/services tripled between the pre-pandemic era and 2021. Has the digital move paid off for SMB went online? The answer is a big resounding yes. increase in customer spending. Registered 4.5%

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Hatch, a neobank for SMBs, launches with $20M in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital and Plaid’s founders. Nearside offers business checking accounts with no monthly, overdraft or ATM fees, as well as a universal 1% cashback reward program that it says is a first in the SMB online banking space.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

FreshBooks , a Toronto-based cloud accounting software company focused on SMBs, announced today it has secured $80.75 million in a Series E round of funding, as well as $50 million in debt financing.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In fact, according to a recent Lenovo study , 60 percent of small to medium-sized business (SMB) employees prefer working from home some of the time. Therefore supporting them to work productively from various locations will be key for SMB success. However, this study also shows 46 percent of SMB employees choose their own devices.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

market, or 23 million businesses, to figure out larger trends in usage and SMB behavior, covering some 1,000 data points. ” One thing that it will continue to do is not move into providing services to consumers or larger businesses alongside its SMB focus.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

If you think that the world of neobanks is very crowded — and that specifically neobanks focused on the SMB opportunity is also getting crowded (some of the other contenders include Finom , Wise out of the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

“Despite the growth in services addressing the SMB sector, overall it still lacks innovation compared to consumer or enterprise services,” Ruddock said. “We thought there was some opportunity to bring new thinking to the space.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 18, 2022

In other words, there is a positive correlation between SMB customer service and business success. Why does Customer Support Matter for SMB? For example, suppose an SMB is engaged in software development. Small Business Customer Support from Behind the Scenes. Users’ standards have risen.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company plan to strengthen its capabilities in local commerce with Danggeun Pay, or Karrot Pay, which is set to launch this year, and Danggeun’s platform Karrot enables approximately 300,000 local SMB partners to go digitalized by offering offline to online (O2O) service.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The industry watchers he interviewed said the move signals Intuit’s interest in acquiring and serving more SMB customers with a variety of tools: Laurie McCabe, co-founder and partner, SMB Group. Brent Leary, founder and principal analyst, CRM Essentials. Holger Mueller, analyst, Constellation Research.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 25, 2022

Yet, that is exactly what too many SMBs do when it comes to their strategic planning process. For the SMB, the traditional annual strategic planning process often does not provide a positive ROI on the time and capital invested. They are stuck relying on an inert document that has no way to reflect the circumstances of the moment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, earlier this year, Marqeta announced plans to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in that publicly traded company’s 13-year history.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

all these companies are targeting the startups/SMB sector. -based corporate spend startup that in June closed a $60 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures and whose CEO is an investor. Our current solution is like ‘Ramp for Latin America for enterprises,’ ” Karpovsky told TechCrunch. “In In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

What it does: A vertical SaaS platform powering SMB trucking companies with workflow automation, smart data and embedded financial solutions. The pitch: BeyondTrucks is building a vertical SaaS platform for SMB trucking companies to make growing their businesses easier. BeyondTrucks. Founders: Hans Galland (CEO), Paul Xie (COO).

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

Investors are excited about TravelPerk’s hyper-growth business travel management platform that is unleashing the full monetization potential of SMB and mid-tier companies in Europe and the U.S. Within the enormous global business travel market, SMBs have remained a largely underserved segment.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Every year, we put together this list of top private companies, and we are blown away by the level of innovation, growth, and impact they are making on the SMB economy. Congratulations to all on making this year’s list.” Placement on the 2023 SMBTech 50 is the latest in a string of accolades Boulevard has garnered in recent months.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Finally raises $95M for its SMB finance suite : Everything is fintech, so it won’t surprise that you that Finally, which offers bookkeeping and other software products to SMBs, is working to roll out a lending product. Plotlogic wants to bring that concept to mining with “hyperspectral imagery.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Ultimately, the goal is to help SMB owners deal less with tedious tasks and more on generating revenues and profits for their businesses. Higo wants shake up the payments scene in the region by creating an alternative to traditional banking for businesses to pay each other. . “We

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Same goes for SMB investment sites like Honeycomb Credit , The SMBX , and Worthy Bonds (business owners often fund others) and Prosper or Sofi (many funders have borrowed themselves).”. Rob Leclerc, Founding Partner, AgFunder , said, “We think of ourselves as a media company with VC as a business model.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

JPMorgan acquired a stake in the Athens-based SMB-focused fintech in early 2022. Stake , a digital real estate investment platform in MENA that raised $8 million last August, has 13 current positions to fill between Dubai and Cairo. More details can be found on its careers page. Viva Wallet has a total of 188 openings across Europe.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2022

RevSetter is an end-to-end Customer Platform for B2B companies of all sizes, from SMB to Enterprise. The company also offers?—?as as the only company in the Customer Success space?—?a

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Because you sell in the enterprise in a very different way than you sell in SMB. And in our case, our SMB customers didn’t need any help to get it implemented. It’s also about how you sell that product. But with our enterprise customers, we were probably part of $100M digital transformation project run by Accenture.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

According to Setpoint, they currently manage in excess of $18 billion in debt facilities and annual transactions across asset-backed securities (ABS) and asset-based lending (ABL) asset classes, including consumer loans, residential mortgages and properties, SMB, factoring, supply chain finance, and equipment finance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2022

That company said it is making a big push into the SMB space and going head-to-head with fast-growing startups like Brex and Ramp. Coincidentally, the same day, Emburse — a nearly $200 million-in-ARR expense software company — announced it was doing the exact opposite.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Ukrainian startup Zeely raises $1M for SMB growth app aimed at US, UK, Brazil, Mexico by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch It’s a great product and already has very convincing traction.”

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

They''re consumer, SMB and enterprise revenues--maybe not enough to justify their valuation, but much much further from zero than companies in the past. Because companies today have way more revenues than the companies that went public or had huge up rounds back then. And, they aren''t necessarily revenues from other dot coms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Novo now has 150,000 SMB customers in the U.S., The company has seen truly accelerated growth in the last year, and specifically the last six months, both in terms of customer numbers and in terms of how much its app is getting used. up by 50,000 on last June’s figures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

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. Comparing candidates in WizeHire’s dashboard. ” WizeHire was founded in 2014 by Upadhyay and Jay Niblick.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2015

There’s a familiar path now to SaaS companies that start in the SMB (small-to-medium business) part of the market. In short, new startups leverage a distribution advantage to acquire SMB customers at scale. SMB 3-7% 31%-58%. SMB customers tend to go out of business more frequently than bigger businesses.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The product will also see deeper use of technologies like AI & image processing to make the onboarding process for the less tech-savvy SMB owners in tier 2 and tier 3 cities of India a delightful first step to digital accounting,” the startup said. Small businesses are the real heroes of our economy.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 23, 2023

SMB revenues decreased 13% Education declined 9% with a 68% drop in hardware sales Government grew 13.5% CDW, a $20b distributor of software & hardware, announced earnings last week & their results echoed these. CDW has a significant government & education business.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Technology companies have an opportunity to provide value to small and medium businesses, but in order to serve the SMB sector effectively, tech companies have to consider SMB needs in their approach to delivery. Here are three tips for companies looking to better serve the SMB sector: 1. Understand SMB complexity.

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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.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 7, 2017

The strategic question might be catalyzed by increasing cost of customer acquisition in the core SMB segment. In addition, enterprise sales often requires more staff than SMB sales. Field marketing and sales engineering are two essential roles in enterprise sales that have no counterpart in SMB.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

SMBs are growing faster. The SMB sector is showing slightly stronger growth than large enterprises. For vendors targeting the SMB market, now is an excellent time to increase marketing spend and fortify lead generation and content marketing. Smaller accounts may yield more sales in the near term.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Both of you sell into SMBs, which is a notoriously difficult segment. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers? Immad: I find it funny that everyone complains about the difficulty of SMB and consumer customer acquisition, but ironically, SMB and consumer companies are some of the most valuable.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Foster detailed to TechCrunch how small businesses have become increasingly reliant on his company’s service in the post-COVID world, with Zapier seeing strong SMB adoption after the pandemic hit. The two companies have seen rapid growth in recent quarters.

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