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Small Business Trends

Ocrolus | August 16, 2022

Ocrolus, the document and data analysis platform that helps financial services companies make high-quality decisions with trusted data, today announced it is working with Lendflow to quickly and accurately determine the viability of borrowers and provide critical access to capital. Lendflow, a leader in embedded SMB lending, is leveraging Ocrolus' document automation technology to analyze data from documents—such as bank statements, W-2s, and business tax returns—and provide crit...

The Business Journal | February 04, 2020

The market for small businesses rebounded in the last three months of 2019 after four straight quarterly declines caused in part by uncertainty about U.S. trade policy. That’s the finding of a report analyzing business sales released by BizBuySell.com, an online marketplace for companies. BizBuySell.com counted 2,340 small businesses sold during October-December, up nearly 2.3% from 2,288 sold in the same period of 2018. For all of 2019, sales fell 5.5% to 9,746 from 10,312 the previous ye...

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Hydr | May 25, 2021

Hydr, a UK FinTech, has announced the launch of its proprietary invoice finance platform to assist small businesses in optimizing their cash flow. Hydr assists small businesses with managing their cash flow by providing fully digital onboarding, real-time funding decisions, transparent terms, and fixed fees. It pays the full amount of an invoice within 24 hours, minus a competitively priced fixed fee. For seamless integration of its platform, FinTech has collaborated with global small business p...

PRNewswire | May 05, 2020

We are caught in a time of unprecedented events. The onslaught of COVID-19 has left many government officials around the world in a state of bewilderment. Many economies have collapsed, and local small businesses have shut down. While approximately 26 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the nation, businesses have been forced to close down or adapt to new realities. Many deem the SBA loan assistance as a disaster as small business relief is hardly helping companies. Even with...