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LegalZoom.com, Inc. | October 18, 2021

LegalZoom.com, Inc. , a leading online platform for legal and compliance services, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced a new multiyear partnership, which will tip off with the creation of “Fast Break for Small Business,” a community initiative that will award $6 million in grants and LegalZoom services to support thousands of small businesses throughout the country. This first-of-its-kind program provides capital and other critical resources small businesses...

PYMNTS.com | January 22, 2020

Qonto, a French startup Neobank that caters to B2B clients, has raised $115 million in a Series C funding round led by DST Global and Tencent, according to a report.Investors Valar and Alven also took part in the funding round, as well as TransferWise Co-founder Taavet Hinrikus and Adyen CFO Ingo Uytdehaage. The startup said this was the largest funding round ever for a French FinTech.Qonto focuses on a subset of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe. The startup has said that ...

IOL | February 28, 2020

Small business has welcomed the Budget, saying the marginal relief from tax increases and the changes to the electricity regulatory framework were positive. Pieter Bensch, the executive vice-president for Africa and the Middle East at Sage, said Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Budget speech offered small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) reason to feel both relief, due to the lack of growth-dampening tax increases, and cautious optimism about the prospects for economic recovery over the ...

Finance

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...