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Business Strategy

GreenBox | August 03, 2021

Greenbox Capital, a FinTech in the alternative industry providing small businesses access to working capital, has announced the acquisition of Level Up Funding. The acquisition will help enhance Greenbox Capital’s existing leadership team and allow it to accelerate its long-term growth opportunity by rolling out a line of credit product, launching in additional international markets, and key enhancements of its proprietary software “The Box” to further differenti...

Small Business Trends

Novo | June 17, 2021

Novo, a simple small business banking platform, announced that the company raised $40.7M in Series A funding. Led by Valar Ventures and followed by other participants like Crosslink Capital, Rainfall Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, and BoxGroup. More than 100,000 small businesses have opened a Novo account since its launch in 2018. Novo surpassed $1 billion in lifetime transactions, opened a new office in Miami, announced several new features, and grew its leadership team. The company...

Business Strategy

BigCommerce | February 01, 2022

BigCommerce, a leading Open SaaS ecommerce platform for fast-growing and established brands, today announced it has extended its global presence into Germany, Mexico and Spain. With BigCommerce’s flexible enterprise-grade ecommerce platform and best-of-breed partner network, local merchants will be able to build, scale and grow their B2C and B2B businesses internationally and leverage industry-leading omnichannel capabilities for marketplace selling to drive revenue. The company’s la...

Technology

PRnewswire | April 18, 2023

Today, Constant Contact, a small-business-focused digital marketing and CRM platform that has helped millions of small businesses and nonprofits, launched the first multichannel AI content generator built specifically for small businesses and nonprofits. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Constant Contact's AI Content Generator allows customers to automate the copy drafting process for email, text and social media campaigns. This feature is currently free to all new Constant Contact c...