Jacobs & Clevenger (J&C)

TECHNOLOGY

WEX | April 27, 2022

WEX, the global commerce platform that simplifies the business of running a business, announced the launch today of Flume, a digital payment platform designed to enable fast, transparent payments for small and medium businesses (SMBs). The brainchild of the company’s incubator WEX Ventures, Flume is a unique digital wallet specifically designed to support the 30 million U.S. businesses currently relying primarily on slow, analog payment methods. Unlike most payment platforms focused on dig...

MANAGEMENT

Pendella Technologies | May 27, 2022

Pendella Technologies, a fast-growing technology company on a mission to take the bias out of life insurance, announced a partnership with AdvanStaff HR, a professional employer organization (PEO) currently serving 400 small and medium-sized businesses. Through Pendella's AI-powered, white-labeled technology, AdvanStaff HR clients will be able to expand their employee offerings to include individual life insurance. Employees of AdvanStaff HR clients can now choo...

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 ...

MARKETING AND NETWORKING

Picsart | January 20, 2022

Picsart announced “Unboring Boring,” its first national brand marketing campaign. Picsart is the world’s leading digital creation platform and a top 20 most downloaded app worldwide. This campaign demonstrates the transformative power of creativity in mundane marketing to reach the creator economy and small business owners. The Nutz-n-Boltz Theatre Company, Boring Bean Coffee, and The North American Bigfoot Center collaborated with the Picsart creative team to de...