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Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100M on a $640M valuation

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London’s D awn Capital, a specialist in B2B startups, led the round, with internet giant Tencent and Klarna also participating; previous backers Creandum, Speedinvest, Picus and GFC are also in the round. . However, the bigger growth opportunity right now is BNPL, so for the moment it is doubling down on that with this investment. .

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UK-based Playter closes $55M round for its BNPL platform aimed at SMEs

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million to expand its B2B BNPL solution. is launching BNPL to a B2B market with €4 million. The latest to enter the BNPL field attacking the B2B/SME market is Playter , a London-based BNPL platform aimed at SMEs. Right now, there are very few B2B purchases happening online. Tranch in the U.K.

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B2B social management platform Oktopost raises $20M growth round with Expedition

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And with that, the opportunity to reach audiences and push messaging. 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. With the pandemic forcing people online, social media use exploded, for obvious reasons.

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Sequence orders up $19M led by a16z for a new approach to B2B fintech

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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. The opportunity that Sequence is targeting is related to all of these but is taking target at a more specific gap in the market.

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15 Business Leaders Share Their Experiences and Insights on Getting Through COVID-19

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I’ve had the opportunity to help business owners strategize their plans using PR as a tool to help navigate through difficult times with clarity. Jerry DiMaso , CEO and co-founder, Knarr Analytics . “In Steve Houle , inventor and founder, Parkit360 . The opportunity is there, you just need to find it.

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Wire grabs fresh funding for secure messaging tech that’s big with G7 governments

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More funding for European end-to-end encrypted messaging app, Wire : The enterprise-focused messaging platform told TechCrunch it closed a €24 million Series C round of funding led by growth equity firm Cipio Partners and Iconical, the investment vehicle of Skype co-founder Janus Friis. “That’s the mission.”

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This early-stage marketing expert says ‘B2B SaaS is actually very, very cool now’

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Either way, it often involves educating the founders about the job to be done. “Too many people fail to realize that marketing is the process of understanding your customers, building appropriate channels to reach them and ultimately meeting their needs (profitability),” she wrote on her site, Oh, blimey. It’s tough.

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