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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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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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Orderbird will continue to operate as its own brand, becoming a central part of Nexi’s push into the SMB segment. We want to be at the heart of its SMB strategy.” Current management, which includes CEO Mark Schoen and CSO/founder Jakob Schreyer (pictured below), will also stay on board post-transaction.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2021

Ironically, Pilot says it aspires to the “AWS of SMB backoffice.” (In Pilot has also inked a number of co-marketing partnerships with companies such as American Express, Bill.com , Brex, Carta, Gusto, Rippling, Stripe, SVB, and Techstars. In fact, co-founder Waseem Daher started his career as an intern at Amazon).

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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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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

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ureeka , an SMB mentorship platform for next-wave entrepreneurs, has today announced the Kevin O’Leary Bootcamp , which will offer members access to an exclusive curriculum of his knowledge and advice. SMB mentorship platform Ureeka raises $8.6M, will facilitate grant programs for Facebook, Salesforce.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. One of the most interesting examples is Microsoft’s Office 365 SMB business. It’s the most successful SMB SaaS acquisition channel ever built. by Thomas Hansen.

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 12, 2021

Small business (SMB) owners must first decide who the ideal buyer for their product is—create an imagined buyer persona—before letting social media do the work. If an SMB owner has already been collecting data on the habits of their shoppers, it will be easier to create buyer personas. Create Buyer Personas.

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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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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, we struggled to capture SMB and mid-sized enterprises, leaving a gap for competitors using a Product-Led Growth (PLG) approach to chip away at our market. In my previous venture, a 100% sales-led growth (SLG) cybersecurity company, we regularly secured $250K annual deals with large enterprises.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

In turn, fintechs that serve SMBs rather than larger midmarket and enterprise customers are more likely to lose their SMB customers. This is why you already see businesses like Brex moving away from serving SMBs. Small businesses are more likely to shut shop during a recession. What’s hot.

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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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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. Since their SMB launch in April 2020, Monzo has organically scaled to over 100,000 businesses, outpacing every competitor. This did not happen by magic.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

If your startup or SMB has that aforementioned US$175,000 constraint, you essentially get to choose two professionals to keep on staff—and that hardly gives you enough to cover the costs of their tools and projects. Social Media Manager: $37,000–$81,000.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello, Crunchers! Wait, that’s kind of a weird nickname, as if you’re munching on granola. What should we call y’all? Never mind that.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 9, 2016

What are the attributes of the ideal SMB SaaS company, an entrepreneur asked me recently. I believe that the next wave of SaaS companies will be centered around workflows, Event Driven SaaS , and this extends to SMB SaaS. I don’t have the answer to building an amazing SMB SaaS company. It’s a good question.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 25, 2019

In the SMB the distribution is more uniform. Price points in the SMB can vary widely, as can the success effort. In the mid-market, where each account is worth in the mid-tens-of-thousands, 75% fewer CSMs manage $5-10M in ARR than in the enterprise. There is an upper limit to the number of relationships a CSM can manage.

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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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HPA

JUNE 7, 2023

We think there’s a huge opportunity to deliver simplified security for the SMB market , reducing reliance on people to complete manual security tasks to help companies achieve faster time to security,” said Blumira CEO Jim Simpson and former Director of Product Management, Duo Security.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

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. Customers include Snackpass, Ticketmaster and Re-Max, among others. “We’ve We’ve been beating every quarter expectation for the past 18 months,” he told TechCrunch.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

17, CRI used Survey Monkey to survey 400 SMB owners (margin of error of +/- 6%) and 1,059 U.S. More resources are available to help SMB owners manage the security challenges of a remote workforce. It is a recipe for cyber insecurity.”. What Social Media Applications Do Employees Use on Their Work Devices. During the week of Aug.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Less than six months after raising $55 million in a Series C round of funding, SMB 401(k) provider Human Interest today announced it has raised $200 million in a round that propels it to unicorn status. The 401(k) for SMB space is heating up as of late. Additional details around the IPO and revenue were added post-publication.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This should help add more names to a portfolio that includes several LatAm fintechs that recently raised new rounds, such as crypto exchange Bitso , SMB lender Cora , payment infra provider Hash and B2B credit card provider Tribal Credit. QED recently closed $1.05 the United Kingdom, Latin America and Southeast Asia.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Instead of an SMB hiring out a person or a department to handle the basics of IT, 90% of which is maintenance and compliance, Electric software handles distribution, maintenance and security for an organization. What Electric does for IT infrastructure is similar to what Justworks does for HR.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Fundera has been one of our partners for several years and their deep understanding of the SMB market, the long-standing, trusted relationships they’ve built with both lenders and business owners, and their commitment to putting the needs of small business owners first is really unique and impressive.”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 19, 2022

The recent Alibaba B2B SMB Survey highlights that many small businesses are still relatively new to selling online and the past 2 years have been their first serious forway into e-commerce. From the Alibaba B2B SMB Survey. Selling online is not new. However, the pandemic has forced them to move fast and with more purpose.

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FundersClub

AUGUST 6, 2021

Human Interest , an SMB 401(k) provider, announced a $55M Series C led by Glynn Capital. We invested at Seed, Series A, and Series B. Substack , a paid newsletter platform, raised $65M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz. We invested at Seed and Series B. We invested at Seed, Series A, and Series C.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Treinta plans on offering more services in time to its user base of SMB owners, including digital payments. By offering what is, for many users, their first digital tool, Trenita is helping many small companies stay afloat. Credit is another possibility that Cañadell mentioned to TechCrunch.

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