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Mexarrend | January 31, 2022

Mexarrend and Zinobe announced an agreement to combine and become Tangelo, a new technology business focused on Latin America's credit market. Mexarrend is Mexico’s second-largest independent asset-based lender that offers financing solutions for small and medium businesses. While Zinobe is Colombia’s leading digital lender that offers alternative credit products for individuals and small businesses. Tangelo combines Mexarrend's more than 25 years of credit ris...

SMALL BUSINESS ADVICE

NerdWallet | November 03, 2020

Financial guidance company NerdWallet announced at the end of last week that it has acquired Fundera. New York City-based Fundera was co-founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht, who previously co-founded GroupMe. It created a marketplace where small businesses could find loans, subsequently expanding into other areas like legal services, while also (like NerdWallet) offering free financial content. “It can be the wild wild west out there for small business owners,” Hecht said in ...

NASA | July 01, 2020

NASA has selected 409 technology proposals for the first phase of funding from the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The contracts will provide approximately $51 million to 312 small businesses in 44 states and Washington, D.C. "NASA depends on America's small businesses for innovative technology development that helps us achieve our wide variety of missions," said Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NA...

INDUSTRY OUTLOOK

Decent | October 20, 2021

As Texas and the U.S. continue to navigate the tumultuous COVID-19 pandemic, Decent, a start-up already disrupting the health insurance industry with affordable benefit plans, is launching a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) to better support small businesses. Of the 458 PEOs in the U.S, Decent is the only one that is owned and operated by a TPA that designs and manages the health insurance plans that Decent offers. Basically, Decent cuts out the middleman to create more af...