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Small business lending emerged as a common theme in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, and it’s no surprise, considering the role small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) play in supporting their local economies. Current investors from A91 Partners, MAJ Inevst, LGT Lightstone and Falcon Edge Capital also participated.

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JULY 1, 2016

Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. Startups are estimated to employ nearly 300,000 on the island nation. Singapore is poised to become the world’s first country to make the notion of a “Smart Nation” an actual reality.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Hong Kong-based digital payment platform Statrys has recently landed $5 million in funding through a closed-door funding deal with an angel investor with the expectation that the firm will get market share in the expanding remittance and digital payment arena, according to an announcement.

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JUNE 1, 2020

billion in venture capital funding in May, BostInno reported. BostInno reported that fundraising for new investments by venture capital and private equity firms was less but still evident. Below are the startups that raised capital in May, according to data compiled by BostInno. Boston’s biotech industry raised more than $1.5

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Other notable rounds included a $60 million investment in a logistics software firm, as well as several investments in the alternative small business (SMB) finance space. Asia and broader European markets. Working in the business management market is Scoro , an Estonia-based startup that just announced $5.2 SESAMi/Capital Match.

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MAY 3, 2020

Hans Swildens, CEO of Industry Ventures, told the news outlet that roughly 80 percent of venture capital (VC) funding will be at pricing that is “flat” or “down.”. Most of them are in the market looking for things today, but they’re not feeling like they have to do anything,” Swildens said.

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APRIL 28, 2017

venture capital sphere this week: VC funding for FinTech startups in Q1 alone hit $1.2 Analysts said the industry has seen its highest venture capital activity since Q1 of 2016, fueled by focus on late-stage investment rounds. This week’s B2B venture capital roundup is quite indicative of these trends. According to KPMG’s U.S.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Growth of FinTech funding seems unstoppable, with the latest analysis from Hampleton Partners finding enterprise financial services and integration, online financial services, enterprise financial software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) risk management as some of the hottest spots for investors this year.

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MAY 4, 2018

This week’s B2B venture capital roundup includes a strong showing from one uncommon market: Brazil. The nation secured significant funding for startups operating in the spaces of logistics and cybersecurity – the two B2B markets that landed the most investment this week. National Security Agency chief.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Singaporean Software-as-a-service company Anchanto took home S$16.6 That will include launching a data platform, expanding to three new markets, launching new products and hiring “skilled talents,” according to CEO and founder Vaibhav Dabhade. We are a capital-efficient company. million ($12.14

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MAY 30, 2017

Small business software startup Wave announced today (Tuesday, May 30) that it secured $24 million in new funding as it looks to integrate more financial solutions into its offering. The company revealed the funding from an array of backers including National Australia Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Portag3, and Exhibition Capital.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Hot embers continue to glow in the fintech market that GonzoBanker mothership Cornerstone Advisors serves. Some perspective on how fast this fintech market is moving: Fintech Labs tracks 269 $1B+ valued fintech unicorns that have been founded in just the past two decades. According to CB Insights, US fintechs raised $14.6B

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

HSBC Global Banking and Markets, Americas COO Matthew J. Flanigan said in a press release , “distributed ledger technology will clearly be important in modernizing the shared infrastructure of capital markets. Brazil and South Africa have seen the worst impacts of the software and that the malware originated from Russia.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Corporate demand for working capital similarly rose, according to some reports. 28 billion is wasted by businesses on enterprise software in the U.S. alone because companies will download software without actually using it. combined spent $34 billion on software never used by businesses, researchers added. and Canada.

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JULY 24, 2018

the developer of facial recognition system Face++ , is reportedly raising at least $600 million from investors including Alibaba and Boyu Capital. Megvii’s software utilizes facial scans held in a Ministry of Public Security database taken from legal identification files on about 1.3 Megvii Inc., and Ant Financial. billion Chinese.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Even so, the global construction management software market is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.2 The latest Workforce Spend Playbook explores new solutions that are enabling construction firms and other SMBs to maximize their capital, pinpoint cost-saving opportunities and improve their cash flows.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

backers focused on accounts payable (AP) technology, cannabis procurement and small business lending, to name a few – but it was a FinTech specializing in the high-growth market of on-demand payroll that secured the top spot in this week’s roundup. From Singapore to the U.K., Leaf Trade. Chicago’s Leaf Trade saw $4.5

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APRIL 30, 2018

South Korea’s Korea Credit Data, a FinTech startup that operates in the small- and medium-sized business accounting software market, said it is exploring an entrance into the world of blockchain. According to the publication, an estimated 70,000 customers use Korea Credit Data solutions’ CashNote mobile accounting software.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

This time, the industry saw modest gains — a couple million in funding here, another million there — with just three venture capital funding rounds. Software-as-a-Service earned some surprising investor attention, but it was small business financing that earned the biggest round of the week. million in venture capital.

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JULY 18, 2017

That means accounting software for these professionals is big business, too, with investors placing about $43 million in new funding to one industry player, FreshBooks. In the North American market, he continued, adoption is especially lagging. “A But we still believe it’s early in the market, for North America at least.

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MARCH 27, 2019

The move to Australia is an effort to capitalize on the country’s thriving eCommerce industry, which is worth almost $30 billion and rising. We see growth opportunities to come into a market where there is rising employment and great population growth, and where the shift into eCommerce and mobile commerce is significant,” he said. “We

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JULY 6, 2018

That means Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics and robotics process automation — three areas that saw particularly high funding rounds in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup. Canada’s Flinks provides a platform for banks and FinTech firms to connect, a signal of the nation’s approach towards open banking.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

As part of the partnership , DATIS will attend and sponsor the upcoming Relias Impact Nation 2018 conference for the second year running to promote the complementary aspects of the Relias and DATIS platforms. Relias is also the leader in online training and compliance solutions for the Health and Human Services market.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

More than $150 million in venture capital bolstered the B2B FinTech market this week, and while investors made big steps into areas like human resources, fleet management and artificial intelligence (AI), it was an old favorite that saw the most, and largest, investment rounds: alternative lending. Capital Match.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

-educated entrepreneurs met while working abroad at Renaissance Capital and Deutsche Bank. And so, in 2012, with only a few hundred thousand of their own dollars to get up and running, ID Finance launched in one of those underserved markets — their home market of Russia. A New $200 Million Fund.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

By now, the alternative lending market is hardly new, and investor appetite for startups in the space seems to have waned. This week, alternative finance companies raised more than $77 million in venture capital funding, accounting for nearly 70 percent of total funds raised by B2B FinTech startups this week. Enterprise Security.

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MAY 18, 2018

Find out who raised the money, and other winners of this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, below. Endeavour Catalyst and Satya Capital also participated. This week, the firm revealed $27 million raised by Atlas Venture, Khosla Ventures and Top Tier Capital Partners. Small Business Banking. The company raised $47.5

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JANUARY 1, 2019

A robust supply of private capital reportedly is one of the main reasons for that, along with corporate cultures that are averse to public markets. But relatively high stock prices and access to more capital remain prime temptations, and there is little doubt that 2019 will bring more than few exciting — and telling — IPOs.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Unlike the broader VC market, early-stage FinTech companies have continued to attract a solid flow of capital in the U.S., national co-lead partner, venture capital practice. “At The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has said in the past week that it has invited FinTechs to seek national charters.

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MAY 6, 2019

Ireland’s FinTech Umba has notched funding from two venture capital firms, Malaysia’s Maybank has implemented a SWIFT global payments innovation (gpi) service, and Wing ( Cambodia ) Limited Specialized Bank has teamed with Western Union to offer mobile digital international money transfers.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Small business software firm Womply is rolling out its cybersecurity solution designed to safeguard companies’ online presence, the company announced on Wednesday (Aug. ” Womply raised $30 million in 2016 from Sageview Capital as it prepared to ramp up product development. Optimistic businesses are 3.5

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MARCH 10, 2017

Big Data and software as a service (SaaS) once again caught the attention of venture capitalists in the B2B FinTech space this week, but it was cross-border B2B payments that landed the most money. Currencycloud’s Series D funding also saw participation from Sapphire Ventures, Notion Capital and Anthemis, Rakuten’s investment fund.

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MAY 17, 2017

Fetchr seeks to address issues that arise when eCommerce buyers don’t have a traditional address — a problem encountered by many traditional delivery companies across emerging markets. To do this, the startup’s mobile solution captures smartphone geolocation information for package deliveries.

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